Sounds like your jealous of a degree someone got. You can't just throw some money at one. You still have to work to earn one. And I don't see a reason why that shouldn't be a source of pride for someone.
The ship is listing on its side and the breach is above the water and easily accessible. Get some welders in there and patch it up? Then just pump the water out and right it up. It should hold at least long enough to get it to a ship yard for disassembly.
But it's disclosed to you, and based on that you can make a decision on whether to give a certain datacenter your business. (not sure if there's as much choice in the medical field, but that's a topic for another time)
Certainly, the point of technology is to leave all 4 displays at your desk on at night and on weekends while you leave for home. The point of technology is to have n+2 backups for everything we do, "used-ladies-undergarments-depot.com," copycat-social-network-no-one-uses.com" and "me-too-resume-site.net" inclusive. Yes, some critical infrastructure that is using much of this energy.
That's not going to happen, unfortunately. China, for example, is becoming the largest consumer of cars. I'm sure with the economic developments in India, same will happen there, they will need to build up their infrastructure, etc. There will be great pressure on energy even if everyone started being energy thrifty.
But I would trust the government to be a lot more cautious, to perform more studies, and take less risks overall, because they don't have the same strict economical pressures that public companies have from shareholders. Would it retard "progress?" Likely. But at least we won't be drinking flammable water.
They could use salt water. Desalinating water is still fairly expensive, as far as I know, so that might not take away from the availability of drinkable water. Though what effect the salt would have on the process would have to be studied.
I wouldn't want a profit driven corporation in charge of something like this. They'll have an interest in making it work no matter if there are warning signs or risks.
I use '1' and '2' in Opera to move between tabs, and Google's interface keeps taking focus and putting whatever I type in the search box, even if I removed focus from it. I disabled javascript for google. Their interface is really irritating, and thankfully I can use the 'g' shortcut in the address bar of Opera to search, and don't go through Google's page directly.
Ah, so the other 20 seconds, he was only subject to anywhere from 10 to 30 times the force of gravity. Yeah, that's nothing. I do that every time I get on the NYC subway.
VNC is a lot slower than RDP, even on a gigabit ethernet connection. Might be the protocol, I don't know, but I get a better response to my laptop at work via OpenVPN and wireless than my desktop 10 feet away over ethernet.
Yes, that's right. Because Romney, Ron Paul, Gingrich, et al were all sentenced to 16 years in prison for running against Obama in the next elections. Don't be silly.
The summary and the article itself are both misleading.
I think what's happening here is that they are going after businesses to enforce this, versus pushing this onto everyone with a national "firewall" that China supposedly uses.
So businesses are restricted to the Belarus TLD. And any businesses providing access need to restrict that access to Belarus TLDs. If you're on your home connection, it seems like you might still be able to go anywhere you want.
But these distinctions are very confusing, and differentiating between a cyber cafe, which is mentioned in the article, and a regular ISP, is pretty hard..
Things you own? I'd bet that any software or game that you "buy" spells out all the limitations. If you don't know that you're pretty much buying a license, then that's your own ignorance. Just be thankful that there are still physical copies that you can resell. Soon, all you'll have are subscription based licenses.
Aquafina didn't create water. But they filtered it, bottled it, and made it available in a convenient location. Now if you were to steal a bottle of that water, you should face punishment, because it is water they added value to.
Software companies (for the most part) didn't come up with computing as a whole, or the compiler (the water of software), but the software they made with those tools is theirs.
You have access to the same resources and you can make your own software. Just as you can go and collect water (spring, rain, etc) and bottle it yourself for sale.
So you can't be certain a download would have resulted in a loss of a sale. So let's then assume that no one would have bought the software. Therefore the company attempting to sell the software is committing a crime by asking money for something that is pretty much free.
If you wouldn't have bought the frigging license, don't use the software. Is it shoved onto your computer? Are you forced to? Someone came up with the program. It isn't just bits and bytes. The ones and zeros are simply the representation of hard work.
You don't think the software is worth the money? Write your own you free loading hippie.
How is this different than $300 desktops/laptops that you've been able to buy for the past 15 years? I think that the author is trying to make a valid point, but attaching the buzzword of "ereader" and "kindle" to make the article get more attention.
I wouldn't call it stupid. They can always go the route of making ebooks half the price, or trying other promotional things, so the first thing they do is try to emulate the physical book model. Because if they don't, they won't be able to get that option back.
So they are trying options that will not be available to them if they ignore them. It's rational. Can you imagine the stink in 10 years if they started requiring that ebooks to be replaced after 10 years of libraries not having to do so?
With companies like Amazon, you already can do that. They have apps for Android, iOS, the PC, they have a tablet, so what you buy from them can be read on many portable and non-portable devices. The issue is that if Amazon goes out of business, or something else happens in 10 or 20 years, what will happen with your purchases. There was recently a story of one guy's account having been disabled and his $1k collection being inaccessible to him, with Amazon not giving him any sort of an answer or a fix. So your purchased (or rather licensed) books can disappear in an instant. But people aren't thinking about that, so I don't think there's enough problem with DRM in ebooks for people to raise too big of a stink.
> the loss of free advertising will hurt more than the loss of revenue from sales of imaginary books
I'm not so sure. All the libraries around me are open for just a few hours per day, and close before most people can get off work. I don't think too many people go there any more. They had to resort to lending out movies because of diminishing patronage.
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Sounds like your jealous of a degree someone got. You can't just throw some money at one. You still have to work to earn one. And I don't see a reason why that shouldn't be a source of pride for someone.
The ship is listing on its side and the breach is above the water and easily accessible. Get some welders in there and patch it up? Then just pump the water out and right it up. It should hold at least long enough to get it to a ship yard for disassembly.
But it's disclosed to you, and based on that you can make a decision on whether to give a certain datacenter your business. (not sure if there's as much choice in the medical field, but that's a topic for another time)
Certainly, the point of technology is to leave all 4 displays at your desk on at night and on weekends while you leave for home. The point of technology is to have n+2 backups for everything we do, "used-ladies-undergarments-depot.com," copycat-social-network-no-one-uses.com" and "me-too-resume-site.net" inclusive. Yes, some critical infrastructure that is using much of this energy.
That's not going to happen, unfortunately. China, for example, is becoming the largest consumer of cars. I'm sure with the economic developments in India, same will happen there, they will need to build up their infrastructure, etc. There will be great pressure on energy even if everyone started being energy thrifty.
I think a lot of it would be melted by the heat, so who knows what it would do then and what effect it would have.
But I would trust the government to be a lot more cautious, to perform more studies, and take less risks overall, because they don't have the same strict economical pressures that public companies have from shareholders. Would it retard "progress?" Likely. But at least we won't be drinking flammable water.
They could use salt water. Desalinating water is still fairly expensive, as far as I know, so that might not take away from the availability of drinkable water. Though what effect the salt would have on the process would have to be studied.
I wouldn't want a profit driven corporation in charge of something like this. They'll have an interest in making it work no matter if there are warning signs or risks.
I use '1' and '2' in Opera to move between tabs, and Google's interface keeps taking focus and putting whatever I type in the search box, even if I removed focus from it. I disabled javascript for google. Their interface is really irritating, and thankfully I can use the 'g' shortcut in the address bar of Opera to search, and don't go through Google's page directly.
And no punishment for lying to investigators. And why should citizens be fully forthcoming with cops, again?
Ah, so the other 20 seconds, he was only subject to anywhere from 10 to 30 times the force of gravity. Yeah, that's nothing. I do that every time I get on the NYC subway.
If only they gave a crap or had the desire to do anything about any of it :P
VNC is a lot slower than RDP, even on a gigabit ethernet connection. Might be the protocol, I don't know, but I get a better response to my laptop at work via OpenVPN and wireless than my desktop 10 feet away over ethernet.
Not including RDP in Home is a letdown.
Yes, that's right. Because Romney, Ron Paul, Gingrich, et al were all sentenced to 16 years in prison for running against Obama in the next elections.
Don't be silly.
The summary and the article itself are both misleading.
I think what's happening here is that they are going after businesses to enforce this, versus pushing this onto everyone with a national "firewall" that China supposedly uses.
So businesses are restricted to the Belarus TLD. And any businesses providing access need to restrict that access to Belarus TLDs. If you're on your home connection, it seems like you might still be able to go anywhere you want.
But these distinctions are very confusing, and differentiating between a cyber cafe, which is mentioned in the article, and a regular ISP, is pretty hard..
> Studies done on the actual effect on sales indicate it's free marketing that benefits the companies being stolen from, rather than a "loss" at all.
So businesses should now be forced to conduct their business in accordance with studies? Who are you to tell them what course to take?
Things you own? I'd bet that any software or game that you "buy" spells out all the limitations. If you don't know that you're pretty much buying a license, then that's your own ignorance. Just be thankful that there are still physical copies that you can resell. Soon, all you'll have are subscription based licenses.
Aquafina didn't create water. But they filtered it, bottled it, and made it available in a convenient location. Now if you were to steal a bottle of that water, you should face punishment, because it is water they added value to.
Software companies (for the most part) didn't come up with computing as a whole, or the compiler (the water of software), but the software they made with those tools is theirs.
You have access to the same resources and you can make your own software. Just as you can go and collect water (spring, rain, etc) and bottle it yourself for sale.
How does this even need explaining?
So you can't be certain a download would have resulted in a loss of a sale. So let's then assume that no one would have bought the software. Therefore the company attempting to sell the software is committing a crime by asking money for something that is pretty much free.
If you wouldn't have bought the frigging license, don't use the software. Is it shoved onto your computer? Are you forced to? Someone came up with the program. It isn't just bits and bytes. The ones and zeros are simply the representation of hard work.
You don't think the software is worth the money? Write your own you free loading hippie.
How is this different than $300 desktops/laptops that you've been able to buy for the past 15 years? I think that the author is trying to make a valid point, but attaching the buzzword of "ereader" and "kindle" to make the article get more attention.
I wouldn't call it stupid. They can always go the route of making ebooks half the price, or trying other promotional things, so the first thing they do is try to emulate the physical book model. Because if they don't, they won't be able to get that option back.
So they are trying options that will not be available to them if they ignore them. It's rational. Can you imagine the stink in 10 years if they started requiring that ebooks to be replaced after 10 years of libraries not having to do so?
With companies like Amazon, you already can do that. They have apps for Android, iOS, the PC, they have a tablet, so what you buy from them can be read on many portable and non-portable devices. The issue is that if Amazon goes out of business, or something else happens in 10 or 20 years, what will happen with your purchases. There was recently a story of one guy's account having been disabled and his $1k collection being inaccessible to him, with Amazon not giving him any sort of an answer or a fix. So your purchased (or rather licensed) books can disappear in an instant. But people aren't thinking about that, so I don't think there's enough problem with DRM in ebooks for people to raise too big of a stink.
> the loss of free advertising will hurt more than the loss of revenue from sales of imaginary books
I'm not so sure. All the libraries around me are open for just a few hours per day, and close before most people can get off work. I don't think too many people go there any more. They had to resort to lending out movies because of diminishing patronage.
Because they want to sustain it? Because that's how they make a living?