All this enhancement sounds great, but I wish they would concentrate on compatibility with web sites first. There are too many sites that don't work well with Chrome and I am tired of getting warnings from popular sites that warn me about running an unsupported browser.
I am not sure the information on Wikileaks is all that meaningful. Sure people have been embarrassed, but I don't see the world grinding to a halt because of it. It will not change the political bickering in the U.S. and I doubt it will greatly shift policy. It may create more transparency in diplomatic negotiations, but that is not such a bad thing.
Now that the cat is out of the bag and Wikileaks has its moment in the spotlight, it will likely become increasingly difficult for them to discern between truly "leaked" information and information that is planted by the worlds probaganda machines. I suspect that Wikileaks could become a tool for the governments and corporations in the same way that they use the trade press. How do you determine the difference between planted and stolen information?
As for Assange "insurance" policy of secret information on world leaders. I doubt (or hope not) that someone who promotes an agenda of transparency would stoop to extortion to protect themselves. This would be too hypocritical for even the blind believers. I suspect that Assange is protected by the policies he uses to "sanitize" information before it is released. If he were doing real damage to society, none of us would be having this conversation. We would all be after his head. It is one thing to create grand drama on the worlds' stage and another to directly affect the safety and survival of our lives and families.
I am not exactly sure of the point of this article. IMHO financial accounting is an art and it is more about company appearance and image than concise financial reporting. IRS and accounting rules allow companies to manipulate the data to "hide" details that would otherwise disclose details about proprietary internal operations. If you look closely, you can usually find accounting trickery. This does not make the company "evil" or dishonest, it just allows them to both present honest financial information to share holders without disclosing proprietary information to competitors.
The important information to determine from publicly released financial data is 1) did the company increase revenues? 2) did they really turn a profit from revenue and costs, or is there unsustainable write offs involved, and 3) is the increase of revenue from growth or from accounting trickery. I am not sure it really matters if Microsoft is moving revenue around to bolster their windows sales figures, the question is sustainability.
Seems like an incredibly dubious argument to me. Faith and Science are mutually exclusive and have nothing to do with atheists. It has to do with separation of scientific process and leaps of faith that can't be proven. Your arguments are typical of what the grandparent is trying to say. Faith assumes that observation is causality and science recognizes that observation can be related but not the cause. Tying observation to causality my be a natural defense in animals. We assume that the last thing we ate is the cause of our stomach ailments. This might be life saving, but it also makes us avoid things that don't make us sick. Science doesn't have this luxury. We need to root out causality to efficiently make scientific discovery. The beauty of science sometimes leads scientists to have faith is a high power, but it doesn't lead them to apply faith to the discovery process.
What is also hurting our institutions is the changes made during the Reagan era to reduce funding to higher education and place taxes on graduate student stipends. This was driven by your same argument, "Gosh we should stop funding universities because they are turning out to many liberal arts degrees." The government stopped funding universities and forced them into a quasi for profit position. Universities started drawing from the foreign pool of students whose governments had the foresight to fund the education of future leaders of arts and sciences. It is not surprising that our universities have a disproportionate number of foreign students, and they are returning to their homelands with the knowledge to succeed in science and engineering.
I think it is great that China and India have the wherewithal to see what is required to be a dominant economic and political power. They aren't sitting on slashdot arguing over faith versus science. They are just working hard at discovery knowing it will pay off.
Steven Vaughn-Nichols did his review based on an install in VirtualBox. This is not very useful as most desktop distros need some tweaking before they run well in a virtual environment. I am running Fedora 13 and Ubuntu 10.04 and they both required work to get them working well in VirtualBox. It is also not clear whether he tested the Beta or the Final RC1 release. Of course, then naming scheme is incredibly difficult to follow, so I am not surprised he may have gotten that wrong.
The problem of dealing with failures is completely independent of the protocol. NCFTP will continue from where it left off if the ftp fails. Browsers could have this kind of error recovery if someone took the time to add it in. One wonders why this kind of error recovery isn't built into the download process.
Bit torrent is useful if the download source site is unable to handle the bandwidth requirements. Companies that use distributed services such as Akamai usually provide fairly good download speeds, that are comparable or better than bit torrent.
I realize you were being sarcastic. However, I just want to make a few points:
1) given Google's recent battles with Oracle, it is probably not a good idea to focus on Java Besides,
2) Google's implementation is so far removed from the Oracle JVM, that it is not really the same platform.
3) There are thousands of Qt programmers in the world and the Qt curve is accelerating quickly. For native apps, it is a very popular platform. I think Nokia looks at the growing interest in Qt and said "How can we leverage this knowledge given there is no standard UI platform for phone?"
Android is a very nice platform, but it is not in Nokia's interest to adopt something that will drive them into the commodity hardware business. Java has licensing issues, while Qt does not. Qt is also the heart of Meego which has the support of Intel AND Nokia.
Gartner predicts that Symbian and Android will each have 30% market share by 2014. That doesn't take into account anything that Nokia does in the Meego space. The Nokia strategy seems very prudent.
Actually, this isn't so far fetched, except you should be saying: "write Nokia Qt, Qt Mobilitiy, and QtQuick" because it runs on Symbian, Meego, and Maemo. With 160 million devices in the market capable of Qt and QtQuick, it wouldn't been a bad plan to learn it. It will also run on tablets and desktops.
Gosh, maybe if you did a little research you could find better interpretation of the facts. Tetracycline and penicillin are rapidly excreted by the body. This means that you must consume lots of the drugs to be effective. This actually confirms that the Nubians knew more about the process then one might think.
As a side note, we don't have this issue because the discovery of probenecid increased the time penicillin remained in the body making it much more effective.
Wasn't the discover of penicillin similar to this empirical discovery? Someone (Fleming) accidentally noticed that bacteria didn't grow around penicillin mold decided that this could work inside the body. As the time penicillin was discovered, we had little knowledge of how it actually worked.
The difference between the Nubians and modern researchers is peer review. Fleming originally thought that penicillin was not useful to treat illness because it was quickly secreted by the body and thus reducing its effectiveness. Based on his published work, other scientists were able to advance the science and increase its effectiveness as a treatment.
Yes, but how do you prove it is the public domain? If code is floating around without any license and I include it in my proprietary software, on what grounds can you sue me? If there is nothing that says I have to attribute the copyright to the original author, then what stops me from absorbing the code into my code base. If I start changing the code, then is the modified code still in the public domain?
On the other hand, if you force a public license on the code with agreements to attribute and disclose its use, and contribute modifications back to the public then the code and its modifications stay public.
I find it ironic that western industry is wasting resources over such useless crap, while China and India investing heavily in technology, manufacturing, and environmental science.
My brother bought a laptop from Best Buy that didn't include a recovery disk. Best Buy was more than happy to reload the image for $150. Fortunately, the manufacturer was willing to send a recovery CD upon request. .
The FCC, via congress, is already capable of something like the iChip. Such things do not come from net neutrality, they come from a special interest from the far right religious lobby. Independent of Net Neutrality, the FCC is being lobbied for parental controls and anti pornography policies. The religious freaks in Massachusetts are trying to get a bill passed that would make internet pornography illegal. But that is another story.
There is still this conflict between limiting liability of common carriers and giving the carries the right to control content. If carriers had give up limited liability then they would like move towards neutrality. Let Comcast deal with a few 100,000 law suits over content and they would quickly rethink their strategy.
If you think the net neutrality is is about regulating the Internet then you should rethink your position. Net neutrality is about who controls the content. Is it you, or Comcast and AT&T?
on the other hand, Windows users seem like average people who own an appliance, and Apple users seem like brainwashed religious cult members. Granted that I bought my wife a Macbook for Christmas and it is so much easier to use than her old PC, but she isn't about to follow the other lemmings of the side of a cliff in the name of Apple.
I had 10 years with Sprint and almost no dropped calls. In fact, I spend 50% of my time on the road within the U.S. and lost very few calls.
I've had my iPhone for about a year (in addition to my Sprint phone). About 40% of my calls are dropped. I can't fully blame this on AT&T. It seems that my iPhone drops way more calls then my Nokia N900, on the same network.
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All this enhancement sounds great, but I wish they would concentrate on compatibility with web sites first. There are too many sites that don't work well with Chrome and I am tired of getting warnings from popular sites that warn me about running an unsupported browser.
I am not sure the information on Wikileaks is all that meaningful. Sure people have been embarrassed, but I don't see the world grinding to a halt because of it. It will not change the political bickering in the U.S. and I doubt it will greatly shift policy. It may create more transparency in diplomatic negotiations, but that is not such a bad thing.
Now that the cat is out of the bag and Wikileaks has its moment in the spotlight, it will likely become increasingly difficult for them to discern between truly "leaked" information and information that is planted by the worlds probaganda machines. I suspect that Wikileaks could become a tool for the governments and corporations in the same way that they use the trade press. How do you determine the difference between planted and stolen information?
As for Assange "insurance" policy of secret information on world leaders. I doubt (or hope not) that someone who promotes an agenda of transparency would stoop to extortion to protect themselves. This would be too hypocritical for even the blind believers. I suspect that Assange is protected by the policies he uses to "sanitize" information before it is released. If he were doing real damage to society, none of us would be having this conversation. We would all be after his head. It is one thing to create grand drama on the worlds' stage and another to directly affect the safety and survival of our lives and families.
I think someone's been smoking a little too much medicinal pot if they think this is a good deal.
Besides:
1) The price
2) The OS / Software
3) The Weight
4) The Reputation of the Manufacturer
I'd say it is a pretty good product.
I dunno. I'm not a libertarian and I think the TSA search policy is misguided, intrusive, and fucked up.
I hope they don't require a genital pat down to use the Internet.
I am not exactly sure of the point of this article. IMHO financial accounting is an art and it is more about company appearance and image than concise financial reporting. IRS and accounting rules allow companies to manipulate the data to "hide" details that would otherwise disclose details about proprietary internal operations. If you look closely, you can usually find accounting trickery. This does not make the company "evil" or dishonest, it just allows them to both present honest financial information to share holders without disclosing proprietary information to competitors.
The important information to determine from publicly released financial data is 1) did the company increase revenues? 2) did they really turn a profit from revenue and costs, or is there unsustainable write offs involved, and 3) is the increase of revenue from growth or from accounting trickery. I am not sure it really matters if Microsoft is moving revenue around to bolster their windows sales figures, the question is sustainability.
Seems like an incredibly dubious argument to me. Faith and Science are mutually exclusive and have nothing to do with atheists. It has to do with separation of scientific process and leaps of faith that can't be proven. Your arguments are typical of what the grandparent is trying to say. Faith assumes that observation is causality and science recognizes that observation can be related but not the cause. Tying observation to causality my be a natural defense in animals. We assume that the last thing we ate is the cause of our stomach ailments. This might be life saving, but it also makes us avoid things that don't make us sick. Science doesn't have this luxury. We need to root out causality to efficiently make scientific discovery. The beauty of science sometimes leads scientists to have faith is a high power, but it doesn't lead them to apply faith to the discovery process.
What is also hurting our institutions is the changes made during the Reagan era to reduce funding to higher education and place taxes on graduate student stipends. This was driven by your same argument, "Gosh we should stop funding universities because they are turning out to many liberal arts degrees." The government stopped funding universities and forced them into a quasi for profit position. Universities started drawing from the foreign pool of students whose governments had the foresight to fund the education of future leaders of arts and sciences. It is not surprising that our universities have a disproportionate number of foreign students, and they are returning to their homelands with the knowledge to succeed in science and engineering.
I think it is great that China and India have the wherewithal to see what is required to be a dominant economic and political power. They aren't sitting on slashdot arguing over faith versus science. They are just working hard at discovery knowing it will pay off.
If I were a hot asian female, I would be totally insulted by your comment, But I'm not, so ... cool where can I get one too.
Steven Vaughn-Nichols did his review based on an install in VirtualBox. This is not very useful as most desktop distros need some tweaking before they run well in a virtual environment. I am running Fedora 13 and Ubuntu 10.04 and they both required work to get them working well in VirtualBox. It is also not clear whether he tested the Beta or the Final RC1 release. Of course, then naming scheme is incredibly difficult to follow, so I am not surprised he may have gotten that wrong.
The problem of dealing with failures is completely independent of the protocol. NCFTP will continue from where it left off if the ftp fails. Browsers could have this kind of error recovery if someone took the time to add it in. One wonders why this kind of error recovery isn't built into the download process.
Bit torrent is useful if the download source site is unable to handle the bandwidth requirements. Companies that use distributed services such as Akamai usually provide fairly good download speeds, that are comparable or better than bit torrent.
I realize you were being sarcastic. However, I just want to make a few points:
1) given Google's recent battles with Oracle, it is probably not a good idea to focus on Java Besides,
2) Google's implementation is so far removed from the Oracle JVM, that it is not really the same platform.
3) There are thousands of Qt programmers in the world and the Qt curve is accelerating quickly. For native apps, it is a very popular platform. I think Nokia looks at the growing interest in Qt and said "How can we leverage this knowledge given there is no standard UI platform for phone?"
Android is a very nice platform, but it is not in Nokia's interest to adopt something that will drive them into the commodity hardware business. Java has licensing issues, while Qt does not. Qt is also the heart of Meego which has the support of Intel AND Nokia.
Gartner predicts that Symbian and Android will each have 30% market share by 2014. That doesn't take into account anything that Nokia does in the Meego space. The Nokia strategy seems very prudent.
Actually, this isn't so far fetched, except you should be saying: "write Nokia Qt, Qt Mobilitiy, and QtQuick" because it runs on Symbian, Meego, and Maemo. With 160 million devices in the market capable of Qt and QtQuick, it wouldn't been a bad plan to learn it. It will also run on tablets and desktops.
more like buying a dead man's porn collection.
Gosh, maybe if you did a little research you could find better interpretation of the facts. Tetracycline and penicillin are rapidly excreted by the body. This means that you must consume lots of the drugs to be effective. This actually confirms that the Nubians knew more about the process then one might think.
As a side note, we don't have this issue because the discovery of probenecid increased the time penicillin remained in the body making it much more effective.
Wasn't the discover of penicillin similar to this empirical discovery? Someone (Fleming) accidentally noticed that bacteria didn't grow around penicillin mold decided that this could work inside the body. As the time penicillin was discovered, we had little knowledge of how it actually worked.
The difference between the Nubians and modern researchers is peer review. Fleming originally thought that penicillin was not useful to treat illness because it was quickly secreted by the body and thus reducing its effectiveness. Based on his published work, other scientists were able to advance the science and increase its effectiveness as a treatment.
I wanted to make this joke too, but I was totally absorbed with drinking anti-biotic laced beer. Who'da thunk.
Yes, but how do you prove it is the public domain? If code is floating around without any license and I include it in my proprietary software, on what grounds can you sue me? If there is nothing that says I have to attribute the copyright to the original author, then what stops me from absorbing the code into my code base. If I start changing the code, then is the modified code still in the public domain?
On the other hand, if you force a public license on the code with agreements to attribute and disclose its use, and contribute modifications back to the public then the code and its modifications stay public.
Be careful what you say, we are GPS tracking you.
I find it ironic that western industry is wasting resources over such useless crap, while China and India investing heavily in technology, manufacturing, and environmental science.
My brother bought a laptop from Best Buy that didn't include a recovery disk. Best Buy was more than happy to reload the image for $150. Fortunately, the manufacturer was willing to send a recovery CD upon request.
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you are really confusing your agendas.
The FCC, via congress, is already capable of something like the iChip. Such things do not come from net neutrality, they come from a special interest from the far right religious lobby. Independent of Net Neutrality, the FCC is being lobbied for parental controls and anti pornography policies. The religious freaks in Massachusetts are trying to get a bill passed that would make internet pornography illegal. But that is another story.
There is still this conflict between limiting liability of common carriers and giving the carries the right to control content. If carriers had give up limited liability then they would like move towards neutrality. Let Comcast deal with a few 100,000 law suits over content and they would quickly rethink their strategy.
If you think the net neutrality is is about regulating the Internet then you should rethink your position. Net neutrality is about who controls the content. Is it you, or Comcast and AT&T?
on the other hand, Windows users seem like average people who own an appliance, and Apple users seem like brainwashed religious cult members. Granted that I bought my wife a Macbook for Christmas and it is so much easier to use than her old PC, but she isn't about to follow the other lemmings of the side of a cliff in the name of Apple.
wow philly must really suck.
I had 10 years with Sprint and almost no dropped calls. In fact, I spend 50% of my time on the road within the U.S. and lost very few calls.
I've had my iPhone for about a year (in addition to my Sprint phone). About 40% of my calls are dropped. I can't fully blame this on AT&T. It seems that my iPhone drops way more calls then my Nokia N900, on the same network.
This doesn't bode well for the fight against cyber crime.