Yes. It will just need to download some large dependency frameworks. For convenience, these will be packaged in a bundle called "free Windows 10 upgrade":)
"...medical industry is replete with new software these days. Poor code here can legitimately mess up somebody's life..."
What a ridiculous summary, and a complete insult to the entire industry revolving around medical software regulatory compliance.
Sure you are free to write medical software. But I guarantee no-one's life will be depending on it until it has been certified by FDA or equivalent. There are going to be lots of checks and documentation between a script kiddie and someone's life.
If the end content needs to be presented to a human at any point, it can be copied. It is just a case of time, effort and quality. No matter how much they lock down the operating system, we can take a photo of the monitor. MS knows this, I don't expect them to push that hard for it.
Until they start connecting directly into our brains (with channel only being unencrypted "in-brain"), DRM is nothing but an inconvenience.
I never understood this selective use of efforts comparable to other initiative: one launch of satellite costing billions, mainly to pay salaries for the thousands of engineers and technicians, could also be used to provide electricity and internet (even if it is a wireless internet) to the millions and millions of people in Africa who would really benefit from it.
Satellite launches and space industry produce indirect benefits to society (R&D into industries, scientific breakthroughs, increase productivity through increase communication capacity).
If you are going to guilt trip about first world spending at least choose a better cause (one with smaller indirect benefits and more pointless wealth redistribution). World poverty could be solved if we stopped making billion dollar Hollywood movies and everyone instead donated that ticket price to poor countries. Or what about professional sports?
But guess what... ain't going to happen. Humans are by nature tribal and selfish.
we can notice that and do something then. We don't have to catch it preemptively.
That is probably exactly what every regime was thinking right before it ended (that's even without the "never before seen" element complicating things).
Sometimes you don't get enough warning to react to a new situation in time.
Depending on your beliefs climate change could fall into that category (I don't think we have gone there yet). "We have never screwed the planet beyond repair before, lets just wait until we have and then react to it."
Standing in the way of that at all for any reason is opposition to the most efficient means of producing something in the economy.
Your argument about "most efficient" does not account for the sunk cost of human capital. If you have work that requires 10 people, and 10 people are available to do it, investing extra resources to automate it (assuming those 10 cannot find work elsewhere, and you are not allowed to kick them out of your economy or kill them) means an overall INCREASE in resources needed to produce those goods (even if it is a decrease in cost to the producer of the good) so it it less efficient overall to the economy.
The critical point of this argument is it must be impossible to redeploy the human capital. So far in history we have never reached that point. That doesn't mean we never will. This was the point the GP was making. We shouldn't oppose new tech for now, but that situation might have to change.
I don't understand how your comment addresses my argument at all. How does shooting people save them from themselves? You're just going to encourage heard voting.
If their life is at stake, they will pay attention to political matters - doesn't mean the best candidate would get in (as you highlighted), but it does stop people being ignorant of the situation which was your comment.
Speaking as someone in a compulsory voting country, I do believe it increases awareness of politics compared to voluntary voting. It ensures politicians pander to the majority (which they should do in a democracy) rather than just to the voting community. The unfortunate side is they pander to them in the lowest common denominator sense.
Yes not every voter will be an expert, but restricting voting to experts results in a government who best suits the needs of political experts, not needs of the majority. Political experts are humanly selfish, just like everyone else.
Overall mandatory participation systems are a better way i think (short of having mythical benevolent experts select candidates).
So we need a programmer for laws. I shall call this profession.... Lawyer.
And like a programmer... whoever is paying their salary determines if they are fixing bugs, or creating malware. There are a lot of malware writers in the legal profession.
And because we all love stretching analogies: pro bono = volunteer coders, precedents/rulings = open source (can be reused freely by other programmers),...
Sorry but evil empire of this decade is definitely Apple, they just need to finish locking everyone in to their services on every industry (including financial), before they really turn the screws. They are like Google in the early 00's where they are only showing hints of their future evils.
According to TPP pushed by Obama and supported by GOP
BTW, Obama is a Democrat.
He is but both parties are pro-"taking multinational companies $$$". The TPP will pass (barring some kind of major and continued public backlash).
Everyone in every country signed up to this TPP should be asking how much lube they need to be applying to cope with the "benefits" of this agreement passing.
Not to mention the issue of "H1B visas" pales in comparison to some of the clauses, example: If you are in Australia and work in a trade, you are about to have to compete against chinese "qualified" tradespeople (electricians, carpenters, etc), who can freely come into Australia and start work without having to have their skills checked in any way.
I do not intend to re-write the same code twice. My personal time is finite.
If my employer says I am not allowed to use it, that is not a choice.
and the argument "It's helpful for the community if people's useful modifications to your program are made public"... well if I am forced to use another solution then this potentially helpful code will not be written for your project in the first place, so there is 0% chance of it being made public because it will not exist.
Remember: Sometimes allowing more people to play has benefits, even if they do take their bat and ball and go home at the end.
I hope you are not serious... if you are: Plenty (and i mean literally hundreds) of generic android phones from asian brands (including reputable ones like Lenovo or Xiaomi) that fulfill this criteria. You just need to stop drinking the Apple/Samsung/... et al. Kool-aid.
Just go to chinavasion, dx.com, etc etc and look at their phone sections.
Maybe the BBC act of relisting these new articles means the source URL changed, hence google turns up a 'new' result distinct to the previously censored result.
The law and a (nominally small) fine for non compliance, or at least that's how it works in my country.
Oh... and also actually giving a shit about the future of my country and wanting to make a difference. And don't say "but my vote won't change anything", because if you take a large enough perspective your entire life is meaningless. If everyone (100% of adults) actually voted for who they cared about (rather than voting to obstruct who they hated) in the USA, then the race is wide open.
They aren't going to be collecting any data from me...... except in an emergency. So their baseline data for me will be huge levels of adrenaline and a heart rate close to 200. Hmm... that's probably not ideal either.
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She says she doesn't trust Microsoft with her information, but Google? She...
btw here is a picture of "her" profile pic (seriously). Lauren, the author, really likes motorcycles.
Lots of women like motorcycles. For those too lazy/paranoid to click on the link, the guy is a very male looking guy.
The solution is to get rid of idiots that cannot/will not enforce policies.
Can you still call it a government if there aren't any people in it?
Yes. It will just need to download some large dependency frameworks. For convenience, these will be packaged in a bundle called "free Windows 10 upgrade" :)
"...medical industry is replete with new software these days. Poor code here can legitimately mess up somebody's life..."
What a ridiculous summary, and a complete insult to the entire industry revolving around medical software regulatory compliance.
Sure you are free to write medical software. But I guarantee no-one's life will be depending on it until it has been certified by FDA or equivalent. There are going to be lots of checks and documentation between a script kiddie and someone's life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Your google-fu is weak. It was the SECOND link when you search "Interstitial"
If the end content needs to be presented to a human at any point, it can be copied. It is just a case of time, effort and quality. No matter how much they lock down the operating system, we can take a photo of the monitor. MS knows this, I don't expect them to push that hard for it.
Until they start connecting directly into our brains (with channel only being unencrypted "in-brain"), DRM is nothing but an inconvenience.
I never understood this selective use of efforts comparable to other initiative: one launch of satellite costing billions, mainly to pay salaries for the thousands of engineers and technicians, could also be used to provide electricity and internet (even if it is a wireless internet) to the millions and millions of people in Africa who would really benefit from it.
Satellite launches and space industry produce indirect benefits to society (R&D into industries, scientific breakthroughs, increase productivity through increase communication capacity).
If you are going to guilt trip about first world spending at least choose a better cause (one with smaller indirect benefits and more pointless wealth redistribution). World poverty could be solved if we stopped making billion dollar Hollywood movies and everyone instead donated that ticket price to poor countries. Or what about professional sports?
But guess what... ain't going to happen. Humans are by nature tribal and selfish.
we can notice that and do something then. We don't have to catch it preemptively.
That is probably exactly what every regime was thinking right before it ended (that's even without the "never before seen" element complicating things).
Sometimes you don't get enough warning to react to a new situation in time.
Depending on your beliefs climate change could fall into that category (I don't think we have gone there yet). "We have never screwed the planet beyond repair before, lets just wait until we have and then react to it."
Standing in the way of that at all for any reason is opposition to the most efficient means of producing something in the economy.
Your argument about "most efficient" does not account for the sunk cost of human capital. If you have work that requires 10 people, and 10 people are available to do it, investing extra resources to automate it (assuming those 10 cannot find work elsewhere, and you are not allowed to kick them out of your economy or kill them) means an overall INCREASE in resources needed to produce those goods (even if it is a decrease in cost to the producer of the good) so it it less efficient overall to the economy.
The critical point of this argument is it must be impossible to redeploy the human capital. So far in history we have never reached that point. That doesn't mean we never will. This was the point the GP was making. We shouldn't oppose new tech for now, but that situation might have to change.
I don't understand how your comment addresses my argument at all. How does shooting people save them from themselves? You're just going to encourage heard voting.
If their life is at stake, they will pay attention to political matters - doesn't mean the best candidate would get in (as you highlighted), but it does stop people being ignorant of the situation which was your comment.
Speaking as someone in a compulsory voting country, I do believe it increases awareness of politics compared to voluntary voting. It ensures politicians pander to the majority (which they should do in a democracy) rather than just to the voting community. The unfortunate side is they pander to them in the lowest common denominator sense.
Yes not every voter will be an expert, but restricting voting to experts results in a government who best suits the needs of political experts, not needs of the majority. Political experts are humanly selfish, just like everyone else.
Overall mandatory participation systems are a better way i think (short of having mythical benevolent experts select candidates).
So we need a programmer for laws. I shall call this profession .... Lawyer.
And like a programmer... whoever is paying their salary determines if they are fixing bugs, or creating malware.
There are a lot of malware writers in the legal profession.
And because we all love stretching analogies: pro bono = volunteer coders, precedents/rulings = open source (can be reused freely by other programmers), ...
Sorry but evil empire of this decade is definitely Apple, they just need to finish locking everyone in to their services on every industry (including financial), before they really turn the screws. They are like Google in the early 00's where they are only showing hints of their future evils.
or use excel under wine
and then you aren't locked into Apple's ecosystem
What happens when you run it against itself over and over?
Or is this the first non-trivial bug-free piece of software ever written?
According to TPP pushed by Obama and supported by GOP
BTW, Obama is a Democrat.
He is but both parties are pro-"taking multinational companies $$$". The TPP will pass (barring some kind of major and continued public backlash).
Everyone in every country signed up to this TPP should be asking how much lube they need to be applying to cope with the "benefits" of this agreement passing.
Not to mention the issue of "H1B visas" pales in comparison to some of the clauses, example:
If you are in Australia and work in a trade, you are about to have to compete against chinese "qualified" tradespeople (electricians, carpenters, etc), who can freely come into Australia and start work without having to have their skills checked in any way.
You are allowed to use it. You choose not to.
I do not intend to re-write the same code twice. My personal time is finite.
If my employer says I am not allowed to use it, that is not a choice.
and the argument "It's helpful for the community if people's useful modifications to your program are made public" ... well if I am forced to use another solution then this potentially helpful code will not be written for your project in the first place, so there is 0% chance of it being made public because it will not exist.
Remember: Sometimes allowing more people to play has benefits, even if they do take their bat and ball and go home at the end.
If I am sitting at my computer it means that I am there to accomplish a specific task. I do not welcome interruptions on my computer ...
So how did you come to be posting on slashdot then? Or are you the one user who wasn't sidetracked and found themselves here writing comments
I hope you are not serious... if you are:
Plenty (and i mean literally hundreds) of generic android phones from asian brands (including reputable ones like Lenovo or Xiaomi) that fulfill this criteria. You just need to stop drinking the Apple/Samsung/... et al. Kool-aid.
Just go to chinavasion, dx.com, etc etc and look at their phone sections.
"BBC - lest we forget..."
Maybe the BBC act of relisting these new articles means the source URL changed, hence google turns up a 'new' result distinct to the previously censored result.
That's my best guess at an explanation
Can we at least learn all about the planet in detail before we go destroyi... i mean "modifying" it?
They will get your location data. They can leverage that to work out values for physical advertising in meat space.
You will give them information whether you like it or not. ...and if I put on my tinfoil hat, someone is already snooping your "secure" VPN connection
No, we should "pole" the politicians. As in, beat them with a heavy metal pole, and then hoist them up on one.
Or shove it up their...
But politicians have been "pole-ing" the lower and middle classes for years. They are the experts in the field.
The law and a (nominally small) fine for non compliance, or at least that's how it works in my country.
Oh... and also actually giving a shit about the future of my country and wanting to make a difference. And don't say "but my vote won't change anything", because if you take a large enough perspective your entire life is meaningless. If everyone (100% of adults) actually voted for who they cared about (rather than voting to obstruct who they hated) in the USA, then the race is wide open.
They aren't going to be collecting any data from me... ... except in an emergency. So their baseline data for me will be huge levels of adrenaline and a heart rate close to 200. Hmm... that's probably not ideal either.