So, the trial could not have BS results? Are trials infallible? Besides there is more to it than rounded corners. What about the pinch-to-zoom and tap-to-zoom patents? Both would be completely obvious to anyone thinking about the best option for zooming. It wouldn't take any technical expertise or heavy thought to even think of them. The bounce-back patent is also stupid but it isn't a huge deal since there is not a whole lot of important functionality attached to it.
I was thinking about alternative zoom options yesterday and spiral-to-zoom was one of the thoughts that popped into my head. It seems needlessly complex though. I didn't even know any device already implemented it. Apple's multi-touch gesture related patents need to be invalidated.
You don't see Apple suing Amazon over the Kindle Fire, or Nokia over the Lumia.
Samsung is their biggest competitor on the mobile front and therefore the biggest threat. I will be pleasantly surprised if Apple doesn't start suing all the other Android manufactures and Google. Given their track record, I would say that it is a fair assumption that they will continue suing. On a side note, Kindle Fire's UI sucks if you plan to use it like a tablet and not a ereader.
Wake me up when anonymous actually produced something non-trivial.
I would venture a guess that most Anonymous members do not do much beyond running canned scripts. You have to wonder what they could do if a majority of their members had real skill.
I actually hate timeline. I removes my ability to quickly scan through a news feed. Everything is ordered in multiple directions and forces you to scan in multiple directions. Left -> Right -> Left -> Down is a lot more complicated than just Down. It is the reason I never use Facebook from an actual computer anymore. I always use my phone or tablet.
Grades would probably be focused on projects that require an understanding of the materials and real problem solving skills rather than on tests that usually just require that you regurgitate a bunch of facts. In other words, learning by doing. Of course, with 200 people in a class that would be hard to grade. I think in the future we will be using computers to learn the facts and concepts and then go into learning centers to interact with others intellectually and complete projects that are actually graded.
Of course, we could also fix all of this by simply changing the way hospitals work. No shirt, no shoes, no insurance, no cash...eh...turn around and take a hike.
I can agree with that. The hospitals should not be forced to pay for people. They can if they choose to but they should not be forced to.
It is kind of ridiculous some of the regulation governments create. I was talking to a friend in Arizona who works in a hospital. He said that it was illegal for them to report illegal immigrants to immigration when they come to the hospital. Apparently, the government doesn't want illegals to be discourage from getting the care they need. Of course, the hospital does not get paid for the expense of treating them so the hospital has to push the cost on those that pay through increased prices.
If you convert this back to software, it would be like if there was a company that shipped out software with known security holes. In which case, I can understand suing them. That said, do you pay-as-you-go type lease or a contracted term? If you have a pay-as-you-go or decide to renew the contract (without putting in that the door must be fixed) and you do not bother to find a new apartment, I say it is your own fault if you get robbed over a open door.
Keep in mind that no one is going to give you a free ride if they think there is any chance of you suing them. FOSS would completely disappear if there was a fairly decent chance that the developers were going to get sued.
That is what I was thinking. If a developer is being paid a standard wage rather than a major percentage of sales, why should said developer have to assume the responsibility of the product rather than the company that is actually reaping the profits of the product..
Well, some of the thing you mentioned can be done privately. My point was that by not accepting the public services you are putting yourself at an even greater economic disadvantage than if the public services did not exist at all because you pay at least partially for them even if you don't use them. Even if you did not pay into them, if everyone else is taking advantage of them, the baseline changes. Rather being economically level with everyone else in the same situation, you would instead be economically lower than everyone else in the same situation.
The real problem with services becoming publicly run rather than privately run is that it implicitly gives the government the right to dictate all your actions that deal with the offered services. For example, if the government pays for everyone's healthcare, it gives the government the right to decided what you are allowed to eat, how much you are allowed to eat, how much you exercise, the kind of exercise you do, where you spend you time, and what medications and treatments you will take. If a company does something you are against, you go to a competing company. If the government does something you are against, what immediate options do you have? Sure you can vote but even if the vote is successful, you are being forced for the time being. I prefer to have more freedom over a bigger safety net. The problem is that the government seems to be getting steadily bigger.
If people hate the 'socialism' of medicine, then I hope they're not driving on the interstates, sending their kids to public school, and won't be accepting social security and medicare, neither of which you 'paid for', but which are paid to you by others as your tax dollars paid for your elders as you worked.
If they are going to be forced to pay taxes anyway, why not? The government isn't going to give you back what you did pay in (through taxes) if you don't use it. Also, I doubt any private business is going to build a fee-based, nation-wide interstate when everyone is just going to use the interstate their taxes are already paying for.
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Actually, patents and copyright are a form of government regulation.
You mean "infringing" on pinch-to-zoom and tap-to-zoom patents? How is it a good thing that Apple was able to win a lawsuit over things like that?
So, the trial could not have BS results? Are trials infallible? Besides there is more to it than rounded corners. What about the pinch-to-zoom and tap-to-zoom patents? Both would be completely obvious to anyone thinking about the best option for zooming. It wouldn't take any technical expertise or heavy thought to even think of them. The bounce-back patent is also stupid but it isn't a huge deal since there is not a whole lot of important functionality attached to it.
I was thinking about alternative zoom options yesterday and spiral-to-zoom was one of the thoughts that popped into my head. It seems needlessly complex though. I didn't even know any device already implemented it. Apple's multi-touch gesture related patents need to be invalidated.
These patents are BS provided you (or enter favority third-party here) aren't the one holding them.
Who owns them does not change the fact that these patents are BS.
You don't see Apple suing Amazon over the Kindle Fire, or Nokia over the Lumia.
Samsung is their biggest competitor on the mobile front and therefore the biggest threat. I will be pleasantly surprised if Apple doesn't start suing all the other Android manufactures and Google. Given their track record, I would say that it is a fair assumption that they will continue suing. On a side note, Kindle Fire's UI sucks if you plan to use it like a tablet and not a ereader.
Don't hate the players, hate the game.
Why can't we hate both the players and the game? While the patent (and copyright) system is currently a mess, Apple chose to get all sue-happy.
Wake me up when anonymous actually produced something non-trivial.
I would venture a guess that most Anonymous members do not do much beyond running canned scripts. You have to wonder what they could do if a majority of their members had real skill.
Wouldn't their peers be other corporations?
Probably because of legal reasons. Any change is uncharted territory and therefore a potential legal nightmare.
I actually hate timeline. I removes my ability to quickly scan through a news feed. Everything is ordered in multiple directions and forces you to scan in multiple directions. Left -> Right -> Left -> Down is a lot more complicated than just Down. It is the reason I never use Facebook from an actual computer anymore. I always use my phone or tablet.
Grades would probably be focused on projects that require an understanding of the materials and real problem solving skills rather than on tests that usually just require that you regurgitate a bunch of facts. In other words, learning by doing. Of course, with 200 people in a class that would be hard to grade. I think in the future we will be using computers to learn the facts and concepts and then go into learning centers to interact with others intellectually and complete projects that are actually graded.
I was curious about just downloading the whole repository so that you don't have to worry about it. Apparently, Ubuntu's repository is only 47GB.
You can use alternative software repositories. Also, I doubt mirrors report back who installed what to the main servers.
Maybe they just want to be the only organization that can spy on you. The information is worth more money that way.
It gains the owner prestige in his/her social circle.
Considering how rare it is, I doubt it.
Of course, we could also fix all of this by simply changing the way hospitals work. No shirt, no shoes, no insurance, no cash...eh...turn around and take a hike.
I can agree with that. The hospitals should not be forced to pay for people. They can if they choose to but they should not be forced to.
It is kind of ridiculous some of the regulation governments create. I was talking to a friend in Arizona who works in a hospital. He said that it was illegal for them to report illegal immigrants to immigration when they come to the hospital. Apparently, the government doesn't want illegals to be discourage from getting the care they need. Of course, the hospital does not get paid for the expense of treating them so the hospital has to push the cost on those that pay through increased prices.
If you convert this back to software, it would be like if there was a company that shipped out software with known security holes. In which case, I can understand suing them. That said, do you pay-as-you-go type lease or a contracted term? If you have a pay-as-you-go or decide to renew the contract (without putting in that the door must be fixed) and you do not bother to find a new apartment, I say it is your own fault if you get robbed over a open door.
Keep in mind that no one is going to give you a free ride if they think there is any chance of you suing them. FOSS would completely disappear if there was a fairly decent chance that the developers were going to get sued.
That is what I was thinking. If a developer is being paid a standard wage rather than a major percentage of sales, why should said developer have to assume the responsibility of the product rather than the company that is actually reaping the profits of the product..
Well, some of the thing you mentioned can be done privately. My point was that by not accepting the public services you are putting yourself at an even greater economic disadvantage than if the public services did not exist at all because you pay at least partially for them even if you don't use them. Even if you did not pay into them, if everyone else is taking advantage of them, the baseline changes. Rather being economically level with everyone else in the same situation, you would instead be economically lower than everyone else in the same situation.
The real problem with services becoming publicly run rather than privately run is that it implicitly gives the government the right to dictate all your actions that deal with the offered services. For example, if the government pays for everyone's healthcare, it gives the government the right to decided what you are allowed to eat, how much you are allowed to eat, how much you exercise, the kind of exercise you do, where you spend you time, and what medications and treatments you will take. If a company does something you are against, you go to a competing company. If the government does something you are against, what immediate options do you have? Sure you can vote but even if the vote is successful, you are being forced for the time being. I prefer to have more freedom over a bigger safety net. The problem is that the government seems to be getting steadily bigger.
If people hate the 'socialism' of medicine, then I hope they're not driving on the interstates, sending their kids to public school, and won't be accepting social security and medicare, neither of which you 'paid for', but which are paid to you by others as your tax dollars paid for your elders as you worked.
If they are going to be forced to pay taxes anyway, why not? The government isn't going to give you back what you did pay in (through taxes) if you don't use it. Also, I doubt any private business is going to build a fee-based, nation-wide interstate when everyone is just going to use the interstate their taxes are already paying for.
Power users are not going to forgo the mouse and keyboard for non-mobile use until brain-to-computer interfaces are created.
They have already been testing complete autonomous cars.