Is not exactly how green. In fact, is a data design flaw. Laws are coded using the personal data, and wealth is stored in a 24 bit integer. When the wealth field overflows, laws agrees on everything.
Maybe not kill, but limit current grow. No energy (renewable or not), physical space, food production and so on be able to cope with our needs if we keep growing at this rate. And keeping being dependant on non renewable energies will make far worse the problem when/if they fail.
They want kids to learn that things happen but they won't be ever able to know how or why. That if something works, is a miracle. That the seven plages included bugs, virus, worms, and even trojan horses. That when computers die they go directly to the blue heaven. If they install unauthorized software, they could venture into the dll Hell. And that they should donate to the church and pray to Bill Almighty, that lives in the sky or at least in a skycraper high enough.
Computer Science in the other hand, is about knowing how and why everything works, experimenting and being able to do changes or create new things. That is there is no magic, all is written waiting for them to discover it, or for them to create entirely new things. And there is freedom, no boundaries or limits, more than the ones that impose themselves.
The problem is not about preparing brillant foreign students. Is not preparing brillant local ones because they can't pay for education, or prefer not to risk owing money for the rest of their lives getting it. Or even worse, preparing dumb, or not motivated enough because they have already their economic life ensured.
Worse than using it in someone brillant from some other place (you probably are enjoying something designed or invented at least in part by someone from other country), is giving it to just a few. Give it for free, if you want just to local students, but in both cases that is not wasting money, is investing it, even if the person go somewhere else.
Anyway, there is no future in education, at least in most constructive areas. Working in the financial or legal sectors is the sure way to be in the top 5-10%.
Is losing 6% today, the previous BB10 announcements/leaks raised hopes, but somewhat the presentation didnt manage to catch enough attention. Anyway, maybe is soon to say how it will end.
Runs QNX, and uses the QT libraries. Not linux, not open, but at least not as far away as other mobile OSs. In fact could be close enough to simplify porting apps to or from it from other OSs.
Not just QT/QML, a more complete API sharing is what they should embrace, something like are trying to normalize Plasma Active, Sailfish and Ubuntu Mobile. You could have all the apps in all platforms, and choosing the right one based on your needs (they seem to have different targets), not a particular app you want.
In just few hours we will get the full announce, and then decide if they need to improve or not. The user interface looks pretty nice (a step forward the one in the N9), if they add to that android app compatibility and ability to run apps from other QT based mobile OSs (no matter so much now, but probably will do in 6-12 months) and dont get crazy with prices (i.e. not 3+ x times the Nexus 4), they should be ok.
You could live in a oppresive regime without being the target... for a time. Being free mean being able to do the good things, the bad, and the gray ones, without looking over your shoulder because what you did could be seen in another way by someone else. Internet is becoming a mined field, where a private joke could mean being deported, where warning people that have insecure sites could put you in jail, where sharing your daughter fotos with your family could have very bad consequences, or giving less fortunate others with censored internet access could be punished, or even expressing your opinion could mean being targetted by the justice using any excuse to sue you for thousands or put you in jail for years.
But maybe more important, specially related to the "keep in mind", is recognizing what are us, specially facing any communication media. Imitation, sharing, and showing what are us or what we like is part of our nature. Is the way we got here, without it we would be still in caves wondering what happened to the only person that managed to fire a torch. We got here because people stood over the shoulders of giants. Now we get a media that enables us to do it even better than before, and specifically that is not free, not just music, or movies, but ideas. And worse, they forbid you to have ideas, if are remotely similar in a small part to a section of an idea that "own" a corporation. The problem is bigger than just internet, but is the main battlefield today.
"We need resources because the war is against us". In real terms, is US the one that is attacking all the others, putting things like they are the victims is intentionally deceptive. The cyberweapons named in the summary (flame/stuxnet) were done and used by US and allies. There are other kinds of cyberattacks going on, like surveillance on everyone no matter of country, and pushing laws limiting other countries population (like SOPA, PIPA or derivatives like spain's Sinde law). The motto of this one should be "the war against freedom"
The main attackers so far mostly are people, not countries, that right or wrong say that fight for their (or our) freedom, and odds are badly against them (unless you are anonymous, you will probably get caught despite international laws, no matter where you are). Is a war, and we all are in the hopeless side of it.
Instead of cyber-pearlharbour or cyber-9/11, the right expression should be cyber-normandy. So far the main cyber attacking force comes from US in a lot of fronts, stuxnet/flame (is a nice point to show destructive weapons to scare population without naming that you are the one creating/using them), massive spying on private communications from all the world is being done by US agencies, and intrusive legal initatives are pushed to all governments of the world (SOPA/PIPA/derivates like Spain's Sinde/etc). So far has been a war against freedom, and some of the forces "attacking" US seem to be trying (in a good or bad way) to not lose that freedom.
Is a war of US against the World, and they put the world in front to make you believe that they are the victims.
There are some futures that can't be avoided, even if predicted (i.e. if a big enough asteroid is coming right into our way, not even trying with all our resources could avoid it), some that could, but won't because social forces and/or inertia (i.e. global warming), but what about maybe undesirable futures that we know what actions in our side could cause them and is cheap to not take them?
The problem with predictions is that if they are known enough, become part of the input data that could shape the real future, if it depends on human actions at least. Could your predictions (and maybe the ones of more people) have avoided that future?
Going up and down is pretty expensive, usually more of what it cost down here those minerals. But in the other hand, there are a lot of uses for them up there for them, bringing down processed goods that only can be built in orbit should be the profitable way to bring down something.
And yes, it could make some science fiction dreams reality, like space habitats, or deeper space exploration. Regarding nightmares, we are getting fast into dystopias to worry about improbable mistakes done in space.
dbase, wordstar, turbo pascal, etc If well all were "normal" apps, pretty much groundbreaking each one, but normal (btw would add pkarc to that collection),
Sidekick was something different, in a single tasking OS you could had a hint of what was mean to run more than a program at once, in a non intrusive way, something surprising back at that time, at least for me.
Missed the part where it should run GNU/Linux? There are already cheap tablets for less than $100 (and not as cheap, but pretty close, and powerful, for less than $200). Add a keyboard and some base to use it as a notebook and you are mostly there.
This. Unless is a bluff trying to make the government to reveal themselves trying to stop this, showing the info in plain form and without so much theater should not give them time to react. And if they can hide the evidence after being published, they could hide the decrypt key as well..
Not so different from the others that are doing the same shaping on all of us behind piles of cash and paid puppets. But at least this anonymous do it directly without hiding that they are feeding opinion.
Maybe by now are more used the lot of extras than the core, but it is still is the core. Phones has evolved from just for calls to what are now piling up features over them.
Anyway, that don't explain why the N900 was called a smartphone if was something that evolved from a tablet/pocket computer by adding phone capabilities to it. Is like calling fish a dolphin.
I have worse news. That movie comes from the propaganda factory of the powers that be, exactly the ones that want to imprint into public opinion that Wikileaks is something evil that only spread lies. Not exactly surprised about what Assagne said about it.
Dont forget Ubuntu, that have an paid app store right in the distribution (and is very friendly with FOSS apps), and even if they use "app store" in the cellphone/tablet realm you will have it with the incoming ubuntu mobile.
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Is not exactly how green. In fact, is a data design flaw. Laws are coded using the personal data, and wealth is stored in a 24 bit integer. When the wealth field overflows, laws agrees on everything.
Within a few hundred years we will need a planet of the size of jupiter to all fit in, with that grow rate.
Is not the next world war the one that worries me, but the weapons we will use in the one after.
Maybe not kill, but limit current grow. No energy (renewable or not), physical space, food production and so on be able to cope with our needs if we keep growing at this rate. And keeping being dependant on non renewable energies will make far worse the problem when/if they fail.
They want kids to learn that things happen but they won't be ever able to know how or why. That if something works, is a miracle. That the seven plages included bugs, virus, worms, and even trojan horses. That when computers die they go directly to the blue heaven. If they install unauthorized software, they could venture into the dll Hell. And that they should donate to the church and pray to Bill Almighty, that lives in the sky or at least in a skycraper high enough.
Computer Science in the other hand, is about knowing how and why everything works, experimenting and being able to do changes or create new things. That is there is no magic, all is written waiting for them to discover it, or for them to create entirely new things. And there is freedom, no boundaries or limits, more than the ones that impose themselves.
The problem is not about preparing brillant foreign students. Is not preparing brillant local ones because they can't pay for education, or prefer not to risk owing money for the rest of their lives getting it. Or even worse, preparing dumb, or not motivated enough because they have already their economic life ensured.
Worse than using it in someone brillant from some other place (you probably are enjoying something designed or invented at least in part by someone from other country), is giving it to just a few. Give it for free, if you want just to local students, but in both cases that is not wasting money, is investing it, even if the person go somewhere else.
Anyway, there is no future in education, at least in most constructive areas. Working in the financial or legal sectors is the sure way to be in the top 5-10%.
The point was about normalization of i.e. UI components, as those other 3 are trying to do.
Is losing 6% today, the previous BB10 announcements/leaks raised hopes, but somewhat the presentation didnt manage to catch enough attention. Anyway, maybe is soon to say how it will end.
Runs QNX, and uses the QT libraries. Not linux, not open, but at least not as far away as other mobile OSs. In fact could be close enough to simplify porting apps to or from it from other OSs.
Not just QT/QML, a more complete API sharing is what they should embrace, something like are trying to normalize Plasma Active, Sailfish and Ubuntu Mobile. You could have all the apps in all platforms, and choosing the right one based on your needs (they seem to have different targets), not a particular app you want.
In just few hours we will get the full announce, and then decide if they need to improve or not. The user interface looks pretty nice (a step forward the one in the N9), if they add to that android app compatibility and ability to run apps from other QT based mobile OSs (no matter so much now, but probably will do in 6-12 months) and dont get crazy with prices (i.e. not 3+ x times the Nexus 4), they should be ok.
You could live in a oppresive regime without being the target... for a time. Being free mean being able to do the good things, the bad, and the gray ones, without looking over your shoulder because what you did could be seen in another way by someone else. Internet is becoming a mined field, where a private joke could mean being deported, where warning people that have insecure sites could put you in jail, where sharing your daughter fotos with your family could have very bad consequences, or giving less fortunate others with censored internet access could be punished, or even expressing your opinion could mean being targetted by the justice using any excuse to sue you for thousands or put you in jail for years.
But maybe more important, specially related to the "keep in mind", is recognizing what are us, specially facing any communication media. Imitation, sharing, and showing what are us or what we like is part of our nature. Is the way we got here, without it we would be still in caves wondering what happened to the only person that managed to fire a torch. We got here because people stood over the shoulders of giants. Now we get a media that enables us to do it even better than before, and specifically that is not free, not just music, or movies, but ideas. And worse, they forbid you to have ideas, if are remotely similar in a small part to a section of an idea that "own" a corporation. The problem is bigger than just internet, but is the main battlefield today.
"We need resources because the war is against us". In real terms, is US the one that is attacking all the others, putting things like they are the victims is intentionally deceptive. The cyberweapons named in the summary (flame/stuxnet) were done and used by US and allies. There are other kinds of cyberattacks going on, like surveillance on everyone no matter of country, and pushing laws limiting other countries population (like SOPA, PIPA or derivatives like spain's Sinde law). The motto of this one should be "the war against freedom"
The main attackers so far mostly are people, not countries, that right or wrong say that fight for their (or our) freedom, and odds are badly against them (unless you are anonymous, you will probably get caught despite international laws, no matter where you are). Is a war, and we all are in the hopeless side of it.
Instead of cyber-pearlharbour or cyber-9/11, the right expression should be cyber-normandy. So far the main cyber attacking force comes from US in a lot of fronts, stuxnet/flame (is a nice point to show destructive weapons to scare population without naming that you are the one creating/using them), massive spying on private communications from all the world is being done by US agencies, and intrusive legal initatives are pushed to all governments of the world (SOPA/PIPA/derivates like Spain's Sinde/etc). So far has been a war against freedom, and some of the forces "attacking" US seem to be trying (in a good or bad way) to not lose that freedom.
Is a war of US against the World, and they put the world in front to make you believe that they are the victims.
Is rational to penalize people for sharing some of the digits of an irrational number? It could even be a known one, like e or pi.
There are some futures that can't be avoided, even if predicted (i.e. if a big enough asteroid is coming right into our way, not even trying with all our resources could avoid it), some that could, but won't because social forces and/or inertia (i.e. global warming), but what about maybe undesirable futures that we know what actions in our side could cause them and is cheap to not take them?
The problem with predictions is that if they are known enough, become part of the input data that could shape the real future, if it depends on human actions at least. Could your predictions (and maybe the ones of more people) have avoided that future?
Going up and down is pretty expensive, usually more of what it cost down here those minerals. But in the other hand, there are a lot of uses for them up there for them, bringing down processed goods that only can be built in orbit should be the profitable way to bring down something.
And yes, it could make some science fiction dreams reality, like space habitats, or deeper space exploration. Regarding nightmares, we are getting fast into dystopias to worry about improbable mistakes done in space.
dbase, wordstar, turbo pascal, etc If well all were "normal" apps, pretty much groundbreaking each one, but normal (btw would add pkarc to that collection),
Sidekick was something different, in a single tasking OS you could had a hint of what was mean to run more than a program at once, in a non intrusive way, something surprising back at that time, at least for me.
Missed the part where it should run GNU/Linux? There are already cheap tablets for less than $100 (and not as cheap, but pretty close, and powerful, for less than $200). Add a keyboard and some base to use it as a notebook and you are mostly there.
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!
This. Unless is a bluff trying to make the government to reveal themselves trying to stop this, showing the info in plain form and without so much theater should not give them time to react. And if they can hide the evidence after being published, they could hide the decrypt key as well..
Not so different from the others that are doing the same shaping on all of us behind piles of cash and paid puppets. But at least this anonymous do it directly without hiding that they are feeding opinion.
Maybe by now are more used the lot of extras than the core, but it is still is the core. Phones has evolved from just for calls to what are now piling up features over them.
Anyway, that don't explain why the N900 was called a smartphone if was something that evolved from a tablet/pocket computer by adding phone capabilities to it. Is like calling fish a dolphin.
I have worse news. That movie comes from the propaganda factory of the powers that be, exactly the ones that want to imprint into public opinion that Wikileaks is something evil that only spread lies. Not exactly surprised about what Assagne said about it.
Dont forget Ubuntu, that have an paid app store right in the distribution (and is very friendly with FOSS apps), and even if they use "app store" in the cellphone/tablet realm you will have it with the incoming ubuntu mobile.