This is another stage in the long decline of the United States.
If they let the US default, let me tell you that the decline will be a heck of a lot faster. Instantaneous actually. Even the US will never be able to recover from a default in less than a hundred years. Pooof, noone to help you there folks.
You most certainly can judge Cloud solutions as one evil entity. Data is not in your hands. Even if you find a good vendor, he might get hacked, he might sell to some evil counterpart, etc...
What is in your home is under your responsibility. For the rest, you have to trust someone.
you may skip the prevention and, if lucky enough, you may succeed;
That sure worked out well for BP
Because BP is all about software. *context*, it's all about context ! People are talking about software here.
Really, is there any difference between writing code and building an oil rig? When you have the capacity to Royally F*$& things up you had better not cut corners.
I'm not sure what your point is. I do agree with everything you wrote. I just think that we shouldn't spend too much time trying to find another explanation than the law of gravity to an apple falling off a tree.
Now, when we'll notice something that the law of gravity fails to explain exactly, then we'll theorize on another law, and I'm perfectly fine with it.
This is going ahead in my view. Trying to reinvent an existing theory based on nothing other than the will to reinvent it is fine. I just think we shouldn't spend too much time on that.
You should know that science fiction is not science at all. You can theorize all you want, but is there a point when a good old phenomenon based on physics laws that we know is enough to explain the phenomenon?
If were about "doing more," people would still just be using email (and email lists) over twitter. It's all the restrictions of twitter that prevent it from being a nuisance that made it stick.
Are you saying you can send an email to EVERYONE? I mean, to the whole intarweb ?
Don't forget that most sites use Google Analytics and/or Google Adsense. And don't say you have Adblock, because 99% of the people out there don't. So while you may be safe, Google will still know your friend's internet usage.
What are you talking about? There are tests out there that virtually no one are able to ABX. These are the tests we are talking about. What are YOU talking about?
"I can't hear it" isn't an argument.
But if nobody can hear it, does that make it inaudible?
They tell you the app tracks your every move already. What is important is what they are doing with the data. An open soure app will not change anything.
How can you prove (or infer) that "Apple refuses to license the patent technology"? They may have tried to license those patents and HTC may have refused.
You know, this whole thing is going to end up like this: For every Android phone produced, there are going to be "licensing fees" to the following:
$5 for Microsoft $5 for Apple $5 for RIM $5 for Nokia $5 for HP (Palm)
When that's done, if Android continues to have a success in the marketplace, those fees are going to go up. Until Android dies. Because the other mobile OS producers (HP, Apple and Microsoft) sit on so many patents that they are going to eat Android alive. And they can do nothing against each other, since they all have huge patent chests.
They most likely didn't pay anyone. The problem is that Android DOES infringe on those patents. Now, are the patents legal and should they be is another question altogether. And is the patent system completely and utterly stupid is yet another question.
What puzzles me in this is that Google cannot do a thing to help their manufacturers because they have so few patents. Why they didn't buy Nortel's portfolio is well beyond me. This would have been over in a snap.
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If you can't raise taxes how are you supposed to pay down the debt?
By borrowi... Oh wait.
It seems as if the only way out is for both parties to give a little ground. But nobody not religiously involved ever doubted that.
If Ireland defaults, you do realize what that means for Ireland, right? (And for the Euro zone, but you probably couldn't care less.)
This is another stage in the long decline of the United States.
If they let the US default, let me tell you that the decline will be a heck of a lot faster. Instantaneous actually. Even the US will never be able to recover from a default in less than a hundred years. Pooof, noone to help you there folks.
You most certainly can judge Cloud solutions as one evil entity. Data is not in your hands. Even if you find a good vendor, he might get hacked, he might sell to some evil counterpart, etc...
What is in your home is under your responsibility. For the rest, you have to trust someone.
you may skip the prevention and, if lucky enough, you may succeed;
That sure worked out well for BP
Because BP is all about software.
*context*, it's all about context ! People are talking about software here.
Really, is there any difference between writing code and building an oil rig? When you have the capacity to Royally F*$& things up you had better not cut corners.
Yes there is. Plenty actually.
Apple is a patent troll because they're patenting things that, if it weren't for legalese and unethical laws, shouldn't be patent-able.
Aaaaand, congratulations. However, that's not what we call a patent troll.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll
Apple, by definition, cannot be a patent troll. Because they attack another company over patents for which they actually produced a product.
So no, Apple is not the next patent troll. And no, 235 patents aren't going to help HTC against the hundreds of thousands that Apple holds.
If only they'd make patents valid for one year (in software and in technology in general), all this would go away a lot sooner.
I'm not sure what your point is. I do agree with everything you wrote. I just think that we shouldn't spend too much time trying to find another explanation than the law of gravity to an apple falling off a tree.
Now, when we'll notice something that the law of gravity fails to explain exactly, then we'll theorize on another law, and I'm perfectly fine with it.
This is going ahead in my view. Trying to reinvent an existing theory based on nothing other than the will to reinvent it is fine. I just think we shouldn't spend too much time on that.
Science fiction is based on science - check
Science fiction isn't science - check
Ok, we are in agreement here.
You should know that science fiction is not science at all. You can theorize all you want, but is there a point when a good old phenomenon based on physics laws that we know is enough to explain the phenomenon?
Science classes might have been optional for some...
They walked in, unplugged a USB key, pocketed it and walked out.
Does that count as theft ? ;-)
Wait, you're saying twitter could be more of a nuisance?
It can always be worse. The "worse" scale has a zero, but it can go down to negative values down to infinity.
If were about "doing more," people would still just be using email (and email lists) over twitter. It's all the restrictions of twitter that prevent it from being a nuisance that made it stick.
Are you saying you can send an email to EVERYONE? I mean, to the whole intarweb ?
Because that's all that Twitter does, really
Everything else?
Which is ... ?
Don't forget that most sites use Google Analytics and/or Google Adsense. And don't say you have Adblock, because 99% of the people out there don't. So while you may be safe, Google will still know your friend's internet usage.
There needs a capital T. It's "There" not "there".
but only when it's the first word of a sentence, right?
you may skip the prevention and, if lucky enough, you may succeed;
That sure worked out well for BP
Because BP is all about software.
*context*, it's all about context ! People are talking about software here.
*Woooooooosh*
What are you talking about? There are tests out there that virtually no one are able to ABX. These are the tests we are talking about. What are YOU talking about?
"I can't hear it" isn't an argument.
But if nobody can hear it, does that make it inaudible?
Not that FLAC sounds any different
You were THAT close to make a fool of yourself ;-)
Open source? Seriously?
They tell you the app tracks your every move already. What is important is what they are doing with the data. An open soure app will not change anything.
How can you prove (or infer) that "Apple refuses to license the patent technology"? They may have tried to license those patents and HTC may have refused.
You know, this whole thing is going to end up like this: For every Android phone produced, there are going to be "licensing fees" to the following:
$5 for Microsoft
$5 for Apple
$5 for RIM
$5 for Nokia
$5 for HP (Palm)
When that's done, if Android continues to have a success in the marketplace, those fees are going to go up. Until Android dies. Because the other mobile OS producers (HP, Apple and Microsoft) sit on so many patents that they are going to eat Android alive. And they can do nothing against each other, since they all have huge patent chests.
They most likely didn't pay anyone. The problem is that Android DOES infringe on those patents. Now, are the patents legal and should they be is another question altogether. And is the patent system completely and utterly stupid is yet another question.
What puzzles me in this is that Google cannot do a thing to help their manufacturers because they have so few patents. Why they didn't buy Nortel's portfolio is well beyond me. This would have been over in a snap.
There's a word here that describe what you're missing: Context.
You can change it, but only between the limited ringtones made available by Apple. You cannot personalize it with your own.