It still means that more people is using open source. Maybe more important, is what is underneath, you can easily switch propietary "front" apps for open alternatives, but not so easily change whats running below them. And the advantages that give you that basement (probably more secure, auditable, even you could modify it, etc) will increase trust in open source to the ones still reticent to use it.
Could be nice that all Android apps to be open source, but buiding a mixed ecosystem around it brings more people to the party anyway.
Put it this way. I have a big fat complex math formula that say that you will reply this message. I announce here that you will, and you are aware that i said so. You will answer it? you are forced to do that or can choose knowing that "prediction" to not do it?
As with psycohistory, it works with big enough numbers, not with individuals. You can choose to refuse to buy something advertised because you know what is it, but take a lot of people and some will buy. Also matters to understand what is predicted, not just a "numbers can predict what i will do".
The ones organizing those attacks are somewhat a small group of people, and if they get aware of this they could change behaviour.
Time matters in this, for several reasons: - How much time in advance we have to do something effective if an incoming asteroid is detected? If building the technology/weapons/whatever takes a year, and it is detected to come in 3 months, we will be in trouble. - Is pretty unlikely that a big enough asteroid hit us today, but give enough time and will be a sure thing. We already been witness of that happening to i.e. Jupiter - Global warming is a process, something that happens over (hopely) long time. Asteroid happens in a moment, no time to react/adapt after it strikes.
IF we develop the resources to detect those asteroids for sure with enough time to build defenses, yes, we can focus in more urgent things. Detecting that kind of things with enough margin, more than deploying a fleet of nuclear weapon space ships right now, should be one of the priorities
When i had to choose a career, was seeing computing more as a medium than as an end, a tool for whatever else i could pick. But also was the easiest path choice, and one that in that moment had good odds of get a job after finishing it (other things i liked back then, related to chemistry or physics, looked back then with low odds of getting a job, at least in my country). It turned to be not only a medium for other things, but an end by itself, but i saw that after starting. Now, if mostly getting a job is what decides what you choose at that age, women just had more options than men, at least in the short term view that i had back then, specially in the "tool" (as in computing as a tool) career field, either picking a harder/longer/exotic career or go for a short training to get a profitable job fast.
If moonlight is GPL, then redistributors are the ones that use them under that license probably. The problem is what if you want to do something under the scope of GPL that is not specially redistributing it, like i.e. modifying it.
Will microsoft package include a "medicine" to prevent it to become viral?
... welcome our new monkeys welding patents of mass destruction overlords.
The more they come, the closest we are to the point that is evident for really everyone that software patents (and probably not so software ones) are technology's suicide pill.
Probably terraforming another rock will be harder, and will take far more time and resources, than building a self-sustained IIS. Not all needed technology is done yet, but odds that it happens should be bigger.
If this blows, we should run instead. Taking a van with John Cusack as driver will be safe enough, even if we are in right in front of the supervolcano when it explodes.
Definately will be the end of the world as we know it, and at a far much larger scale that it happens every second. If you thought that Katrina, 9/11, WWII, black plage or most (all?) events in the written history changed everything, just wait till this happens.
Good part of the power of a database(/programming language/operating system/etc) is the people behind it, the community, the ecosystem, the odds of finding someone that knows it already, and how widely deployed and tested is. And if over that it works, better yet.
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The alternate name, "Xen and the art of (something)" had even more hits.
You could not use any of their services (mail, picasa, maps, docs, etc), and block their ip range at your firewall, and use alternative search engines. But you want that?
Not only you throw away some good services, for alternatives that could be inferior. They could care even less about your privacy (to put a couple of examples, noone complained a lot about how Yahoo could violate their privacy, till their price list was published, and even in their latest version Windows 7 phones home, something that is not even internet based to be forced to do so).
In the other hand, your "privacy" could be the line that separates a world of noise and spam to the real info you need. And Google services, specially when used in integrated form, could be pretty practical
Maybe something that should Google do is to clean all pages from their index that have that author name and song title, as they don't know a priory if it is linking to a rapidshare-like server or forum that enables to illegally download that song. In fact, they should do that with anyone that complains. Avoiding piracy is more important than having any opportunity to be known.
Maybe more than lowest account number (mine isnt that high, but surely won't be the lowest one) what really matter is to be in this community all this years, since 1997.
Is a good question. You dont know if google counts as "good hands". In fact, you can put that in doubt for every search engine. But what you definately know is that Microsoft have "dirty hands" basically since it was funded.
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What it need is apps. Just wait till Duke Nukem Forever for GNU Hurd gets released, and from there to total world domination is just matter of time.
It still means that more people is using open source. Maybe more important, is what is underneath, you can easily switch propietary "front" apps for open alternatives, but not so easily change whats running below them. And the advantages that give you that basement (probably more secure, auditable, even you could modify it, etc) will increase trust in open source to the ones still reticent to use it.
Could be nice that all Android apps to be open source, but buiding a mixed ecosystem around it brings more people to the party anyway.
At least it could find a few sirens.
Put it this way. I have a big fat complex math formula that say that you will reply this message. I announce here that you will, and you are aware that i said so. You will answer it? you are forced to do that or can choose knowing that "prediction" to not do it?
As with psycohistory, it works with big enough numbers, not with individuals. You can choose to refuse to buy something advertised because you know what is it, but take a lot of people and some will buy. Also matters to understand what is predicted, not just a "numbers can predict what i will do".
The ones organizing those attacks are somewhat a small group of people, and if they get aware of this they could change behaviour.
dont work when they know the predictions too. Even if is just to prove that they have free will.
Time matters in this, for several reasons:
- How much time in advance we have to do something effective if an incoming asteroid is detected? If building the technology/weapons/whatever takes a year, and it is detected to come in 3 months, we will be in trouble.
- Is pretty unlikely that a big enough asteroid hit us today, but give enough time and will be a sure thing. We already been witness of that happening to i.e. Jupiter
- Global warming is a process, something that happens over (hopely) long time. Asteroid happens in a moment, no time to react/adapt after it strikes.
IF we develop the resources to detect those asteroids for sure with enough time to build defenses, yes, we can focus in more urgent things. Detecting that kind of things with enough margin, more than deploying a fleet of nuclear weapon space ships right now, should be one of the priorities
When i had to choose a career, was seeing computing more as a medium than as an end, a tool for whatever else i could pick. But also was the easiest path choice, and one that in that moment had good odds of get a job after finishing it (other things i liked back then, related to chemistry or physics, looked back then with low odds of getting a job, at least in my country). It turned to be not only a medium for other things, but an end by itself, but i saw that after starting.
Now, if mostly getting a job is what decides what you choose at that age, women just had more options than men, at least in the short term view that i had back then, specially in the "tool" (as in computing as a tool) career field, either picking a harder/longer/exotic career or go for a short training to get a profitable job fast.
If moonlight is GPL, then redistributors are the ones that use them under that license probably. The problem is what if you want to do something under the scope of GPL that is not specially redistributing it, like i.e. modifying it. Will microsoft package include a "medicine" to prevent it to become viral?
... welcome our new monkeys welding patents of mass destruction overlords. The more they come, the closest we are to the point that is evident for really everyone that software patents (and probably not so software ones) are technology's suicide pill.
Probably terraforming another rock will be harder, and will take far more time and resources, than building a self-sustained IIS. Not all needed technology is done yet, but odds that it happens should be bigger.
If this blows, we should run instead. Taking a van with John Cusack as driver will be safe enough, even if we are in right in front of the supervolcano when it explodes.
Definately will be the end of the world as we know it, and at a far much larger scale that it happens every second. If you thought that Katrina, 9/11, WWII, black plage or most (all?) events in the written history changed everything, just wait till this happens.
Good part of the power of a database(/programming language/operating system/etc) is the people behind it, the community, the ecosystem, the odds of finding someone that knows it already, and how widely deployed and tested is. And if over that it works, better yet.
The alternate name, "Xen and the art of (something)" had even more hits.
put in jail those that already taken the obvious "cyberpol" name for their own purposes.
oh, wait, just got slashdotted
In the other hand, your "privacy" could be the line that separates a world of noise and spam to the real info you need. And Google services, specially when used in integrated form, could be pretty practical
That isn't exactly what I would consider high-quality journalism
I would. You are talking about journalism (where what matters over all is to sell), not about scientific papers.
Maybe something that should Google do is to clean all pages from their index that have that author name and song title, as they don't know a priory if it is linking to a rapidshare-like server or forum that enables to illegally download that song. In fact, they should do that with anyone that complains. Avoiding piracy is more important than having any opportunity to be known.
A pretty close one: having the option to disable slashdot ads based on user karma.
Maybe more than lowest account number (mine isnt that high, but surely won't be the lowest one) what really matter is to be in this community all this years, since 1997.
Made me remember natural parenting. Hope it dont applies to this case too.
Is a good question. You dont know if google counts as "good hands". In fact, you can put that in doubt for every search engine. But what you definately know is that Microsoft have "dirty hands" basically since it was funded.
Farenheit 451 is what patents need by now. Or the civilization, because one will end burning the other to the roots, you choose.