The company I used to work for had a similar concept more than 5 years ago. The media companies thought it was a great idea, unless they had to actually pay for the service. They also balked at the idea of paying for mining bittorrent data for real time popularity analytics.
Its the same place that developed the peer to peer video streaming technology that the guy from Bittorrent is now ripping off and patenting (even reusing some of the diagrams from the original patent).
The only thing that needs to change for an iPad to use a mouse is to render the pointer over the current app. It works perfectly for everything except multi point gestures.
I like physical keyboards. My Samsung galaxy S Relay has one good enough for texting and light email/browsing. My Asus Transformer Infinity has one good enough for modest writing, it also attaches to a usb mouse. My desktop has a really nice one with real mechanical keys.
There is literally no reason an Iphone or Ipad couldn't use a bluetooth keyboard or mouse.
You can change that by paying people to develop open source software to fit the criteria that you need. Redhat does it, Canonical does, a few others do it as well.
If you can't contribute skill and time, you can contribute money. Make a kickstarter project or something like it where you and your pool of artist friends get together and offer a reward for the implementation of features you desire. Spread out over a large enough group and it could cost less than a copy of photoshop on average.
My point is, no one is obligated to give you what you want. Sometimes, you have to put in some kind of effort, as did the thousands of people who have already contributed to making gimp what it already is.
Yea, it isn't a professional grade graphics tool unless you paid an obscene amount of money for it. That is why every graphic designer I know uses Photoshop on a mac while chugging starbucks.
Maybe those creative professionals should contribute to the development of gimp by coding and contributing the features that they want? Every feature gimp has is a feature that someone decided they wanted and then wrote and shared. That is how it works. The graphic designers are just to lazy to do it themselves, instead they demand that you do it for them for free.
They have more than enough power to perform speech recognition on every phone call in the use against a half dozen languages. It won't be 100% reliable, it is enough to flag conversations for review by humans, who can then elevate it to pull previous conversations. they also have more than enough power to do a similar keyword search on every email and text message.
That is idiotic. The right to copy is a natural right. The law known as copyright is a restriction of that right. It is force exerted by one to control the harmless action of many. This is blindingly obvious to anyone who has any concept of what natural rights are.
Wait... you promote Ron Paul while promoting the government regulation of markets and infringements of natural rights by enforcing the copyright monopoly?
You can get a pcie angle/ribbon adapter and mount your video card parallel to your motherboard. You will of course need to hack your own case, but that is child's play.
Thats mostly because we got really good multi-monitor support a few years ago. we can already get 4, 6 or even 9 times the resolution of 1080p. And if you are willing to blow enough money or cut apart an LCD you can do it with almost no bezel.
You don't have to build homes out of wood. Water is a solved problem with enough power via desalination.
You can create the entire energy usage (including industrial and transportation) of the US with a 100 mile wide patch of solar thermal plants in the Mojave with room for a century of growth. You can do the same thing in the gobi, middle east, north africa and outback for the rest of the worlds population. This requires no revolutionary new technology or exotic rare materials.
I am not talking about money. I am talking about resources. Stuff of actual value and use that are controlled by the plutocrats to continue the illusion of the money game. Food, water, power, shelter, network connectivity. All these things could be given to the whole world for nearly free if certain investments in the future of humanity were made, but that does not serve the short term interests of those who seek a larger slice of an ever shrinking pie.
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The company I used to work for had a similar concept more than 5 years ago. The media companies thought it was a great idea, unless they had to actually pay for the service. They also balked at the idea of paying for mining bittorrent data for real time popularity analytics.
Its the same place that developed the peer to peer video streaming technology that the guy from Bittorrent is now ripping off and patenting (even reusing some of the diagrams from the original patent).
James Cameron is the dude most likely to build a film studio on mars so he could produce an authentic looking set.
Yea, I mean, seriously 4.4 billion years old? It could just as easily be 4.5 or 4.3 billion years old.
The only thing that needs to change for an iPad to use a mouse is to render the pointer over the current app. It works perfectly for everything except multi point gestures.
I like physical keyboards.
My Samsung galaxy S Relay has one good enough for texting and light email/browsing.
My Asus Transformer Infinity has one good enough for modest writing, it also attaches to a usb mouse.
My desktop has a really nice one with real mechanical keys.
There is literally no reason an Iphone or Ipad couldn't use a bluetooth keyboard or mouse.
Adobe has design patents on the UI of photoshop... There are limits to how close you can make something before you risk getting sued.
Or a lot of somebodies with normal pockets. Crowd sourced funding is a thing that exists.
You can change that by paying people to develop open source software to fit the criteria that you need. Redhat does it, Canonical does, a few others do it as well.
If you can't contribute skill and time, you can contribute money. Make a kickstarter project or something like it where you and your pool of artist friends get together and offer a reward for the implementation of features you desire. Spread out over a large enough group and it could cost less than a copy of photoshop on average.
My point is, no one is obligated to give you what you want. Sometimes, you have to put in some kind of effort, as did the thousands of people who have already contributed to making gimp what it already is.
PS: gimp isn't written in c#.
They don't contribute money either as far as I can tell.
Yea, it isn't a professional grade graphics tool unless you paid an obscene amount of money for it. That is why every graphic designer I know uses Photoshop on a mac while chugging starbucks.
Maybe those creative professionals should contribute to the development of gimp by coding and contributing the features that they want? Every feature gimp has is a feature that someone decided they wanted and then wrote and shared. That is how it works. The graphic designers are just to lazy to do it themselves, instead they demand that you do it for them for free.
They have more than enough power to perform speech recognition on every phone call in the use against a half dozen languages. It won't be 100% reliable, it is enough to flag conversations for review by humans, who can then elevate it to pull previous conversations. they also have more than enough power to do a similar keyword search on every email and text message.
The ever extending copyright term is not limited. Limited copyright in the modern age would be 7 years, possibly up to 14. No more.
The existing copyright laws are a theft of culture that impoverishes us all.
That is idiotic. The right to copy is a natural right. The law known as copyright is a restriction of that right. It is force exerted by one to control the harmless action of many. This is blindingly obvious to anyone who has any concept of what natural rights are.
Do they each get 16 weeks?
Wait... you promote Ron Paul while promoting the government regulation of markets and infringements of natural rights by enforcing the copyright monopoly?
Hypocrisy much?
There will be games with algorithmically detailed models and textures of arbitrary resolution. You could have a display accurate to the Planck length.
You can get a pcie angle/ribbon adapter and mount your video card parallel to your motherboard. You will of course need to hack your own case, but that is child's play.
Some of the hobbyists I know are among the horsiest people I have seen. So the shoe fits.
Smellovision.
Thats mostly because we got really good multi-monitor support a few years ago. we can already get 4, 6 or even 9 times the resolution of 1080p. And if you are willing to blow enough money or cut apart an LCD you can do it with almost no bezel.
Wait, can't siri read the text back to you before sending it?
You don't have to build homes out of wood.
Water is a solved problem with enough power via desalination.
You can create the entire energy usage (including industrial and transportation) of the US with a 100 mile wide patch of solar thermal plants in the Mojave with room for a century of growth. You can do the same thing in the gobi, middle east, north africa and outback for the rest of the worlds population. This requires no revolutionary new technology or exotic rare materials.
I am not talking about money. I am talking about resources. Stuff of actual value and use that are controlled by the plutocrats to continue the illusion of the money game. Food, water, power, shelter, network connectivity. All these things could be given to the whole world for nearly free if certain investments in the future of humanity were made, but that does not serve the short term interests of those who seek a larger slice of an ever shrinking pie.