They weren't worried about their jobs. They worried that now movies will be stored in physical mediums that last a lot less than 100 years. I know that digital information isn't bound to the physical medium - you can copy it to newer mediums, but there's still a valid concern.
If the computers are really not connected to the Internet as I had read from the earlier articles, the virus can't send any information it captures nor can it receive commands. At most it could format their hard drive.
Just upgraded from Natty. I didn't expect much in the way of change, but Ocelot is better in every way. It's more evolution than revolution, but nearly every change is for the better.
So far I've liked:
The new Alt+Tab. The audio is fixed (it was buggy in Natty, with popping sounds whenever audio was stopped or started) The animations are smoother, I had needed to disable 'sync to vblank' on Natty. When menus were changed in Natty there was a brief white shadow that was annoying but not any more. VLC had a bug in Natty that made the audio and video out of sync, this seems fixed too.
I think there were some more things but I can't remember them. Best of all of course is the Win7 style taskbar and the start menu with search, finally something to match the best feature of Win7, but that came with Natty.
When Facebook started they were exclusive to a single university - Harvard, so they had only a few thousand users. But they were a viable network because all those users knew each other and were interested in communicating each other. When all of your fellow students are on the same network, it doesn't matter if you're the only people in the world using it - because nearly all the people you're interacting with daily are on the same network. Facebook was thus like a club, like a village, where everyone on the network knows everyone else, and they probably made announcements about campus events and such, and everyone logged in to find out what's going on today in campus.
How did Google+ start? They started as a network of random people all across the world, where each had 5-6 friends he might be interested in on the same network.
Facebook was a community right from the start, and is built on the idea of densely connected sub-communities of people who know each other. Google+ is a sparsely connected network of random people who decided to try it out, found 5-6 friends they might want to talk to, posted 1-2 posts, saw nobody's replying, and stopped posting.
Facebook's network was more viable even when they were a few thousand strong that the network of Google+ is right now, because a single community of 1000 people is worth more than 10000 communities of 6 people each.
Ebooks have lowered the barrier to entry by removing the middleman. This has lead to a lot more authors than they used to be, but people don't spend more on books. If there's double the authors but not double the spending on books, authors receive half the money they used to.
I think of google as a search engine that happens to have a web page which you can use if you don't have a search bar in your browser. But when I go to yahoo's page, it looks more like a news site than a search portal. To me it looks like an ordinary website, not much different from cnn.com.
Not so. Oil was created by the decomposing bodies of dinosaurs. What we must do now is find their ancestors - birds in this case, and pay them for the rights to use their ancestors' work!
Seriously though, you could have used an even better example - land. Obviously no man creates it, but people own it. But precisely because no one created them natural resources don't need to be paid for. They are seized instead - by force. It's not good, but that's how it is.
I am sure that the farmer paid for his tractor. And the tractor didn't come from thin air, it had to be built - by someone's labor. And the factory where the tractor was built had to be built - and that again was done by someone's labor, and the tools the builders used had to be built - again by someone - they didn't come out of thin air, and so on. Ultimately everything has been created by someone's labor.
My point is the farmer didn't get his tractor for free - he bought it. He either paid with cash he saved upfront, or took a loan which he paid with the future production. And the factory owner didn't get his factory for free - he paid for it. And the firms that built the factory had to purchase their equipment.
So the end producer doesn't owe anyone anything, unless he took a loan and hasn't paid it yet. Nobody gets his inputs and machinery for free.
Is it ethical to expect to be fed if you will not work in exchange? The food you eat, the clothes you wear, everything you have is created by someone's labor. Money blinds us all to the fact that what is exchanged really are goods and services, if someone gives you money for nothing it really means that you have received the fruits of others' labors -- the things you will buy with that money. If you haven't worked it means those people have performed unpaid labor for you.
It's quicker to type a 3 or 4 letters than sift through all the icons. When you use the search function you're letting the computer do the searching for you. May be it's just the way I use a computer but usually my hands are on the keyboard and when I want to start a program I tap WinKey and enter some letters and press Enter. It's very quick.
The MP3 player is smaller, but a phone is the thing almost anyone carries almost all the time in their pockets. So it's not a small MP3 player vs. a phone, it's a small MP3 player + a phone vs. a phone only. And if your phone is playing music anyway, most people wouldn't carry a yet another device in their pockets.
I still don't understand why they didn't choose Android. Nokia is known as a phone maker, not as an OS maker, so using a third-party commoditized OS wouldn't have hurt their brand. A Nokia phone would still have been a Nokia phone.
Software makers will still make mistakes, even if they know they're liable. They'll just hope that their code is secure and nothing bad will happen, and ship it. And besides, what does the grunt programmer care about the firm's liability if it's a big one? And when would those things be prosecuted - probably just in a few high profile cases. And this wouldn't do a thing about users clicking on links from emails which is the way security is compromised most often.
The music industry needs to make people afraid to download songs, and afraid to NOT SETTLE when they send them nastygrams asking for several thounsand. The point here is to make an example.
"This guy downloaded 30 songs. See what happened to him? It could have been you."
Inasmuch as it shows that there are ethical people in China. We need reminding that good people can be found in China - not all of them are evil, which is the impression you get from news.
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They weren't worried about their jobs. They worried that now movies will be stored in physical mediums that last a lot less than 100 years. I know that digital information isn't bound to the physical medium - you can copy it to newer mediums, but there's still a valid concern.
It has a few fundamental problems. Think entering passwords.
If the computers are really not connected to the Internet as I had read from the earlier articles, the virus can't send any information it captures nor can it receive commands. At most it could format their hard drive.
Hate to disappoint you, but they're using DNA for the self-replication part, so no mechanical viruses, only organic.
Just upgraded from Natty. I didn't expect much in the way of change, but Ocelot is better in every way. It's more evolution than revolution, but nearly every change is for the better.
So far I've liked:
The new Alt+Tab.
The audio is fixed (it was buggy in Natty, with popping sounds whenever audio was stopped or started)
The animations are smoother, I had needed to disable 'sync to vblank' on Natty.
When menus were changed in Natty there was a brief white shadow that was annoying but not any more.
VLC had a bug in Natty that made the audio and video out of sync, this seems fixed too.
I think there were some more things but I can't remember them. Best of all of course is the Win7 style taskbar and the start menu with search, finally something to match the best feature of Win7, but that came with Natty.
It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Pepperman
When Facebook started they were exclusive to a single university - Harvard, so they had only a few thousand users. But they were a viable network because all those users knew each other and were interested in communicating each other. When all of your fellow students are on the same network, it doesn't matter if you're the only people in the world using it - because nearly all the people you're interacting with daily are on the same network. Facebook was thus like a club, like a village, where everyone on the network knows everyone else, and they probably made announcements about campus events and such, and everyone logged in to find out what's going on today in campus.
How did Google+ start? They started as a network of random people all across the world, where each had 5-6 friends he might be interested in on the same network.
Facebook was a community right from the start, and is built on the idea of densely connected sub-communities of people who know each other. Google+ is a sparsely connected network of random people who decided to try it out, found 5-6 friends they might want to talk to, posted 1-2 posts, saw nobody's replying, and stopped posting.
Facebook's network was more viable even when they were a few thousand strong that the network of Google+ is right now, because a single community of 1000 people is worth more than 10000 communities of 6 people each.
Ebooks have lowered the barrier to entry by removing the middleman. This has lead to a lot more authors than they used to be, but people don't spend more on books. If there's double the authors but not double the spending on books, authors receive half the money they used to.
I think of google as a search engine that happens to have a web page which you can use if you don't have a search bar in your browser. But when I go to yahoo's page, it looks more like a news site than a search portal. To me it looks like an ordinary website, not much different from cnn.com.
They can always buy land. They just can't have it for free. The unpleasant thing about property rights is that you can't have other people's stuff.
Not so. Oil was created by the decomposing bodies of dinosaurs. What we must do now is find their ancestors - birds in this case, and pay them for the rights to use their ancestors' work!
Seriously though, you could have used an even better example - land. Obviously no man creates it, but people own it. But precisely because no one created them natural resources don't need to be paid for. They are seized instead - by force. It's not good, but that's how it is.
I am sure that the farmer paid for his tractor. And the tractor didn't come from thin air, it had to be built - by someone's labor. And the factory where the tractor was built had to be built - and that again was done by someone's labor, and the tools the builders used had to be built - again by someone - they didn't come out of thin air, and so on. Ultimately everything has been created by someone's labor.
My point is the farmer didn't get his tractor for free - he bought it. He either paid with cash he saved upfront, or took a loan which he paid with the future production. And the factory owner didn't get his factory for free - he paid for it. And the firms that built the factory had to purchase their equipment.
So the end producer doesn't owe anyone anything, unless he took a loan and hasn't paid it yet. Nobody gets his inputs and machinery for free.
Is it ethical to expect to be fed if you will not work in exchange? The food you eat, the clothes you wear, everything you have is created by someone's labor. Money blinds us all to the fact that what is exchanged really are goods and services, if someone gives you money for nothing it really means that you have received the fruits of others' labors -- the things you will buy with that money. If you haven't worked it means those people have performed unpaid labor for you.
That's why I'm glad I'm using gmail.
I've heard that Yahoo owns 40% of Alibaba.
That actually sounds like a very good idea - a wholesalers' ebay so to speak.
It's quicker to type a 3 or 4 letters than sift through all the icons. When you use the search function you're letting the computer do the searching for you. May be it's just the way I use a computer but usually my hands are on the keyboard and when I want to start a program I tap WinKey and enter some letters and press Enter. It's very quick.
The MP3 player is smaller, but a phone is the thing almost anyone carries almost all the time in their pockets. So it's not a small MP3 player vs. a phone, it's a small MP3 player + a phone vs. a phone only. And if your phone is playing music anyway, most people wouldn't carry a yet another device in their pockets.
It would be great if they used Qt for embedded Linux for the GUI. It's a great development environment.
It depends on which manufacturer you buy it from. There are still some who don't pay protection.
I still don't understand why they didn't choose Android. Nokia is known as a phone maker, not as an OS maker, so using a third-party commoditized OS wouldn't have hurt their brand. A Nokia phone would still have been a Nokia phone.
Software makers will still make mistakes, even if they know they're liable. They'll just hope that their code is secure and nothing bad will happen, and ship it. And besides, what does the grunt programmer care about the firm's liability if it's a big one? And when would those things be prosecuted - probably just in a few high profile cases. And this wouldn't do a thing about users clicking on links from emails which is the way security is compromised most often.
I think statcounter uses real-world web sites too.
The music industry needs to make people afraid to download songs, and afraid to NOT SETTLE when they send them nastygrams asking for several thounsand. The point here is to make an example.
"This guy downloaded 30 songs. See what happened to him? It could have been you."
Inasmuch as it shows that there are ethical people in China. We need reminding that good people can be found in China - not all of them are evil, which is the impression you get from news.