you become part of the swarm at the instant you make the connection
This is what I'm wondering about. Assuming that you merely stood by and watched, does being in the middle of a group that looted a store make you a participant in the crime or merely an accessory (I know, a bad analogy since copying is not stealing)?
I guess all the folk that want the Amazon experience already bought in. Now its time to sell to the rest of us.
That, and the fact that the Amazon experience appears to be limited to North America. (UK etc resident please correct me if I'm wrong.) Again, 7" tablets with better features (except for the IPS screen and multicore xPU) than the Fire or Nexus tab can be acquired in Asia for little over half the announced prices of these devices. These cheap Android no-names come with HDMI and SDHC support, and even internal 3G. The typical user scenario for these devices appear to be playing free games, social networking, and watching unoffical movie releases
but we just haven't made it fast enough, shrunk it into a form factor that can fit in our pockets, or integrated it into a multifunctional device that can talk, walk, feed us, and entertain us in kinky ways. (Apologies to William Gibson, who famously said, "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed.")
For the price of the trip several dozen well-heeled millionaires can pool their resources to send a low-flying satellite that would send back hi-res photos and images of, say, the Apollo landing site or the poles of the moon. Because that is all that a trip AROUND the moon is going to get you, tourist photos and videos with no hard rock souvenirs you can hang around your neck to prove you're were a lunar explorer.
But now a days, you got these kids sitting at home, browsing sites, looking for software that is outside their financial reach so they can learn it to get a good job.
If you sit at home the only thing within reach would be the keyboard. Seriously, I thought the two M's (including some P) was the stuff most kids got off the Net. That's why you get all these BT lawsuits from the entertainment industry, but few from the BSA, which prefers to target people who don't just sit at home all day.
Look at the recently announced Nexus 7. It has an IPS display, similar pixel density as the iPad3, 8hr battery life, Tegra3 CPU, and is priced at an extremely competitive $200. And it runs Android 4.1 Jellybean which is quite slick based on initial reviews.
The only thing really nice about the Nexus tab is its screen and probably the multicore processors. To be sure, that's enough for it to extinguish the Kindle Fire. Even if it's far from being the iPad killer, the Nexus has a good shot at being the most successful Android tablet in the US. Outside the US, especially in south-eastern Asia, you can buy no-name tablets by weird-sounding Chinese manufacturers for half the price in equivalent local currency. A similarly priced Android tablet would contain other stuff like HDMI out and internal 3G.
A question for those more knowlegeable with current BitTorrent technologies. Does being in a swarm mean you have at least one piece of a given file? Can you actually distinguish between seeders and leechers who have yet to download a single piece of the file? How valid is the argument that I smoked but didn't inhale with regard to connecting to BitTorrent swarms?
Natural ally only in so far as the two parties (Assange and Ecuador) have the same "enemy". As for Castro, the Castro now sitting in power in Cuba appears to be more conciliatory to the US.
Or we could be waiting for the Hurd to be officially released, since the GNU folks appear to have finished all the other pieces that would make for a pure GNU sans (rather than slash) Linux OS.
If you don't understand the reason for jurisdiction, you really shouldn't be commenting. Laws vary so widely that you're bound to be a criminal somewhere no matter how you behave. Without some limits and barriers everyone who ever went overseas would risk jail.
I suspect that with the humongous number of laws, we're bound to be criminals even without leaving the house.
They got the megaupload servers offline, with much publicity, even if the whole thing is overturned there's no way it's returning in its old form. I'm sure the US authorities are thinking, 'job done'.
That, or the US law en-forcers were actually attempting to follow the old thinking of how when the US asks something of a country it's on "friendly" terms with (e.g. allies), the US gets it. But maybe the world has changed. With things like social networking and Wikileaks-inspired news reporting, countries that would once "willingly" oblige might now be more fearful of the local backlash likely to be spawned by bending over a little for a "friend".
The Minitel looks more like a wide-area BBS system and not like the horrendous Flash-infested "web" sites we have today. Like a BBS, Minitel was a closed network with a text-based interface. Of course the first incarnation of the Web wasn't that much different, and there are still text-mode browsers around.
Assembly in minor gravity--such as on the moon--makes more sense.
It probably won't waste that much more fuel to get from LEO to the moon, the one place with any significant gravity consistently nearest the Earth. But the equation changes greatly when you have to land stuff then hurl it back into space (the reason perhaps why the Russians are bold enough to offer cow jumps over the moon but not visits to the Apollo landing site). A cost-effective moon-based manufacturing requires the development of a mining industry or in situ resource utilization. Magnets and robotic arms can solve much of the floating all over the place problem.
I know I'm in the minority here in that I have no problems with patents (copyrights, on the other hand, are out of control...).
While the typical FLOSS advocate likes to differentiate (after the fashion of RMS and others) between patents and copyrights, I see a convergence between the two. If we disregard the case of software patents, which most people here are probably against, the main difference between patents and copyrights is that patents are for hardware and copyrights are for software that includes stuff normally classed as pure data (music, books) by people in the IT industry.
But this difference is likely to disappear in the future once personal 3D printing is perfected either via the evolution of devices like the RepRap or via the development of more sci-fi-ish technologies like molecular assemblers. When that time comes, copyrights and patents will be virtually indistinguishable.
To most people, copyright is a concept that applies mostly to the faithful reproduction of certain pieces of information, such that the copy resembles the original in as close a manner as the medium allows.
Thus, it would be considered as copyright "infringement" if you distributed a movie ripped from a 25 GB Blu-Ray disc and re-encoded to, say, a more download-friendly 700 MB. As pure digital data, there's a vast difference between the original and copy. But ask any teenager, lawyer, or judge, and everybody would agree that the copy is the "same" movie as the original.
However, copyright has a broader definition to those deeply involved in the so-called "creative" industries. There, you could be sued for copyright infringement for producing and distributing a big-budget movie about students at a wizard academy forced to battle an evil warlock with a Nazi-like obsession for wizard purity. (You can probably get away with small-time fan-fiction though.) If copyright is merely about mechanical copying, why would Hollywood studios even bother negotiating with the authors or publishers of popular novels and comic books except purely for trademark purposes?
It could be a technology demonstrator, with or without the backing of the miliitary. It's easy to imagine using the same technology to recover more precious materials from pirate ships and what else. Who knows, maybe even NASA would be interested in knowing something they can send to the bottom of the presumably liquid Europa.
Maybe in the future, you'll have ordinary citizens posting their short (tweet-like) reports, photos or videos of a breaking or continuing event to a refereed news site.
It will be the job of designated editors to filter the truth from the trolls and propagandists. The editors will be helped by simple algorithms. Posters who have already proved reliable both in terms of information and timeliness will receive the equivalent of a karma bonus, making them a more attractive "source" for the editors.
This Is different from Wikinews, which doesn't differentiate between reporters and editors. Everybody can report and edit.
With gaming, people (mass-market) don't want "grander and more immersive." They want interactive fun.
Anecdotal: seeing some anonymous young kid in an elevator having fun with an Android game (not even an iPad/Phone!) is proof enough for me that there's no future in pure handheld consoles. Oh sure, the Nintendo is a better gaming platform for that kid. But how will he know if an smartphone is shoved into his hands first? I'm using the old "Windows is crap but I don't have a Mac/Linux box argument".
In this case, are you counting the iPod touch as an iPod or as the 3.5" Wi-Fi tablet that it is?
Missed that one. I meant the (original) iPod as a synonym for mp3 players. So maybe the iPod has evolved into a low-end iPad..
As for not feeling your thumbs, most games playable on a handheld don't require the ultrafast reflexes necessary for a full console game as handheld games tend to be largely visual affairs. Also the controls of a console aren't really that great either when compared to something like the humble mouse. I'm sure playing Angry Birds is a much more pleasant experience on a tablet than on a handheld console armed with just a thumb pad. On a tablet you can point your fingers directly at the object you want to move.
Handheld consoles will survive only by becoming extinct, like the iPod becoming more like a SIM-less iPhone, like dinosaurs evolving into pig-killing feathered fiends.
Portable game systems are generally aimed at younger audiences and are built for immersion.
And that is the problem. Mommies or daddies who have already bought an iDevice for their little brats or darlings are less likely to buy them an additional gadget just to play Pokemon and fat plumber. To a 'tween or teen, the difference between a dedicated handheld gaming device and a tablet or a smartphone is great, but to Mom and Pop it's just another "time waster" to Junior who's already too busy texting or network-socializing to do his homework.
Makers of handheld consoles should also look at the collapse in the market for dedicated Mp3 players. Just as the iPhone cannibalized the sales of the iPod, smartphones will eat into the market for handheld consoles. Full consoles like the XBox have a much better chance of weathering this gadget convergence since they offer the potential for a grander and more immersive experience.
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This is what I'm wondering about. Assuming that you merely stood by and watched, does being in the middle of a group that looted a store make you a participant in the crime or merely an accessory (I know, a bad analogy since copying is not stealing)?
That, and the fact that the Amazon experience appears to be limited to North America. (UK etc resident please correct me if I'm wrong.) Again, 7" tablets with better features (except for the IPS screen and multicore xPU) than the Fire or Nexus tab can be acquired in Asia for little over half the announced prices of these devices. These cheap Android no-names come with HDMI and SDHC support, and even internal 3G. The typical user scenario for these devices appear to be playing free games, social networking, and watching unoffical movie releases
but we just haven't made it fast enough, shrunk it into a form factor that can fit in our pockets, or integrated it into a multifunctional device that can talk, walk, feed us, and entertain us in kinky ways. (Apologies to William Gibson, who famously said, "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed.")
For the price of the trip several dozen well-heeled millionaires can pool their resources to send a low-flying satellite that would send back hi-res photos and images of, say, the Apollo landing site or the poles of the moon. Because that is all that a trip AROUND the moon is going to get you, tourist photos and videos with no hard rock souvenirs you can hang around your neck to prove you're were a lunar explorer.
If you sit at home the only thing within reach would be the keyboard. Seriously, I thought the two M's (including some P) was the stuff most kids got off the Net. That's why you get all these BT lawsuits from the entertainment industry, but few from the BSA, which prefers to target people who don't just sit at home all day.
The only thing really nice about the Nexus tab is its screen and probably the multicore processors. To be sure, that's enough for it to extinguish the Kindle Fire. Even if it's far from being the iPad killer, the Nexus has a good shot at being the most successful Android tablet in the US. Outside the US, especially in south-eastern Asia, you can buy no-name tablets by weird-sounding Chinese manufacturers for half the price in equivalent local currency. A similarly priced Android tablet would contain other stuff like HDMI out and internal 3G.
A question for those more knowlegeable with current BitTorrent technologies. Does being in a swarm mean you have at least one piece of a given file? Can you actually distinguish between seeders and leechers who have yet to download a single piece of the file? How valid is the argument that I smoked but didn't inhale with regard to connecting to BitTorrent swarms?
Or Will Smith, who's starred in a couple of alien infestation movies (MIB, ID4).
Since it's not my money that's on the line: may I suggest replacing the engine with something that doesn't eat dinosaurs for lunch?
Natural ally only in so far as the two parties (Assange and Ecuador) have the same "enemy". As for Castro, the Castro now sitting in power in Cuba appears to be more conciliatory to the US.
Or we could be waiting for the Hurd to be officially released, since the GNU folks appear to have finished all the other pieces that would make for a pure GNU sans (rather than slash) Linux OS.
It would be (even) more helpful if you quoted the part where the (supposed) grammatical error occured.
I suspect that with the humongous number of laws, we're bound to be criminals even without leaving the house.
That, or the US law en-forcers were actually attempting to follow the old thinking of how when the US asks something of a country it's on "friendly" terms with (e.g. allies), the US gets it. But maybe the world has changed. With things like social networking and Wikileaks-inspired news reporting, countries that would once "willingly" oblige might now be more fearful of the local backlash likely to be spawned by bending over a little for a "friend".
The Minitel looks more like a wide-area BBS system and not like the horrendous Flash-infested "web" sites we have today. Like a BBS, Minitel was a closed network with a text-based interface. Of course the first incarnation of the Web wasn't that much different, and there are still text-mode browsers around.
... Silicon Valley either would not exist or would have morphed into a university town or some non-academic research center.
It probably won't waste that much more fuel to get from LEO to the moon, the one place with any significant gravity consistently nearest the Earth. But the equation changes greatly when you have to land stuff then hurl it back into space (the reason perhaps why the Russians are bold enough to offer cow jumps over the moon but not visits to the Apollo landing site). A cost-effective moon-based manufacturing requires the development of a mining industry or in situ resource utilization. Magnets and robotic arms can solve much of the floating all over the place problem.
While the typical FLOSS advocate likes to differentiate (after the fashion of RMS and others) between patents and copyrights, I see a convergence between the two. If we disregard the case of software patents, which most people here are probably against, the main difference between patents and copyrights is that patents are for hardware and copyrights are for software that includes stuff normally classed as pure data (music, books) by people in the IT industry.
But this difference is likely to disappear in the future once personal 3D printing is perfected either via the evolution of devices like the RepRap or via the development of more sci-fi-ish technologies like molecular assemblers. When that time comes, copyrights and patents will be virtually indistinguishable.
To most people, copyright is a concept that applies mostly to the faithful reproduction of certain pieces of information, such that the copy resembles the original in as close a manner as the medium allows.
Thus, it would be considered as copyright "infringement" if you distributed a movie ripped from a 25 GB Blu-Ray disc and re-encoded to, say, a more download-friendly 700 MB. As pure digital data, there's a vast difference between the original and copy. But ask any teenager, lawyer, or judge, and everybody would agree that the copy is the "same" movie as the original.
However, copyright has a broader definition to those deeply involved in the so-called "creative" industries. There, you could be sued for copyright infringement for producing and distributing a big-budget movie about students at a wizard academy forced to battle an evil warlock with a Nazi-like obsession for wizard purity. (You can probably get away with small-time fan-fiction though.) If copyright is merely about mechanical copying, why would Hollywood studios even bother negotiating with the authors or publishers of popular novels and comic books except purely for trademark purposes?
It's another small step, but definitely not the first step. Unless you don't consider the ISS as space craft and a fairly big thing in orbit.
It could be a technology demonstrator, with or without the backing of the miliitary. It's easy to imagine using the same technology to recover more precious materials from pirate ships and what else. Who knows, maybe even NASA would be interested in knowing something they can send to the bottom of the presumably liquid Europa.
Maybe in the future, you'll have ordinary citizens posting their short (tweet-like) reports, photos or videos of a breaking or continuing event to a refereed news site.
It will be the job of designated editors to filter the truth from the trolls and propagandists. The editors will be helped by simple algorithms. Posters who have already proved reliable both in terms of information and timeliness will receive the equivalent of a karma bonus, making them a more attractive "source" for the editors.
This Is different from Wikinews, which doesn't differentiate between reporters and editors. Everybody can report and edit.
Anecdotal: seeing some anonymous young kid in an elevator having fun with an Android game (not even an iPad/Phone!) is proof enough for me that there's no future in pure handheld consoles. Oh sure, the Nintendo is a better gaming platform for that kid. But how will he know if an smartphone is shoved into his hands first? I'm using the old "Windows is crap but I don't have a Mac/Linux box argument".
Missed that one. I meant the (original) iPod as a synonym for mp3 players. So maybe the iPod has evolved into a low-end iPad..
As for not feeling your thumbs, most games playable on a handheld don't require the ultrafast reflexes necessary for a full console game as handheld games tend to be largely visual affairs. Also the controls of a console aren't really that great either when compared to something like the humble mouse. I'm sure playing Angry Birds is a much more pleasant experience on a tablet than on a handheld console armed with just a thumb pad. On a tablet you can point your fingers directly at the object you want to move.
Handheld consoles will survive only by becoming extinct, like the iPod becoming more like a SIM-less iPhone, like dinosaurs evolving into pig-killing feathered fiends.
And that is the problem. Mommies or daddies who have already bought an iDevice for their little brats or darlings are less likely to buy them an additional gadget just to play Pokemon and fat plumber. To a 'tween or teen, the difference between a dedicated handheld gaming device and a tablet or a smartphone is great, but to Mom and Pop it's just another "time waster" to Junior who's already too busy texting or network-socializing to do his homework.
Makers of handheld consoles should also look at the collapse in the market for dedicated Mp3 players. Just as the iPhone cannibalized the sales of the iPod, smartphones will eat into the market for handheld consoles. Full consoles like the XBox have a much better chance of weathering this gadget convergence since they offer the potential for a grander and more immersive experience.