Maybe more than literacy the key is culture. This culture. And it includes a lot of implicit/explicit things that are similar to those iq tests (i.e. pattern matching games).
Anyway, you can't measure people from different cultures (and yes, even in the same country and city, today's culture is different from the one 20 years ago) with the same ruler.
If you have 2 niches in the same hardware you have more sells than offering just one. Opening the drivers mean that it could be sold to the 2 kinds of clients, or give your clients an alternative if they don't like the bundled one or at least don't fill all their needs.
Is not about not relevant information. Neither about i.e. vulnerabilities in the system searching for attackers to exploit them. Wikileaks showed what the government that you elected to represent you really did in your name. A vote shouldnt be a blank cheque. Wikileaks or Tyler shouldnt be necessary, the government should be transparent enough to their citizens.
Have the device open. It could be useful with Windows 8, or not. Being able to install on it Windows 7, Linux (chrome os, meego/mer, ubuntu, all of them if possible), and even MacOSX, and use on it what you really prefer could help to sell the actual hardware, what is what they are interested on, as mark a differece with the rest.
A lot will have Windows 8 or Android, and offer similar enough hardware, what could separate you from the rest is what you could do different with software, and being open is being different right now.
Unlike Windows 8 desktop, you can choose to not run Unity/Gnome 3 and pick some of the multiple alternatives available. Heck, you can run Sugar as desktop environment if you like. And you business Windows XP sofware probably will run under Wine, or are better alternatives available by now, either in the net or linux native.
The Chromebook bet is that the 100% (or pretty close to it) is not in the desktop, but in the net. If for it you just need google chrome, then have more than enough with a full Linux distro with it installed. The biggest missing point are some games, but that is not an issue for companies that have to decide to where migrate from XP.
That usually implies a bit of programming at the very least. Maybe a sysadmin no need to be a large projects developer, but the small tools that could make his life easier would make a big difference.
Retiring is a necessary thing, but not in the same category. Taking out old/dead/broken satellites that could be a risk in a near/middle term. But what about the non broken ones? nuke them and send up a replacement or try to refuel them? In the middle term could be cheaper to try to keep them up and running than somewhat destroying them.
USA military expenses are some orders above and beyond NASA ones, and directly or indirectly kill more people than the lack of healthcare. While it don' t makes invalid your argument, is like complaining for an ant in a room filled with elephants.
Even Microsoft is telling people to abandon the XP boat, Windows 8 seems to be Vista 2.0, and Windows 7 is looking like being a dead end (if you invest on it, will end pretty much like XP). If people must change and think that is not wise to go to Windows 7, well they could go to Linux, that share some of the possible objections of switching to windows 8 (training, not running some of their old apps) but having a lot of advantages (freedom, they could use their own hardware, the user interface could be more similar to WinXP than Win 8 is, safer, etc). And now native apps are less a concern, as most of usual apps work in the web.
It seems like it is going a step forward from what we really need right now. Still the linux arena is not the mess that is windows to worry right now for linux malware (at least, in 2-3 orders of magnitude that it should in windows). There are few differences between a netbook with ubuntu or another linux based (fedora, ubuntu/debian variants, mer, openwebos, firefox os, etc) os preinstalled using even google apps and chrome for most of your data, it could even be running under arm architecture and a pretty similar hardware. The main difference is that you have an alternative. You can run local programs if you want, you can store some files locally if you need to.
Yes, you need protection, people tries to put malware in your computer, you could lose data, or your hardware breaks, but that shouldn't stop you for doing something you really intend, bad things also can happen elsewhere, in particular in google in any of the points that connects you with it, and you don't want a brick in that event.
Still thinking that the idea behind netbooks, small, cheap, with long battery time, linux based portable computers to mainly access internet and all that is there is the right idea. You could improve it giving them some good hardware (processor, screen), be able to turn them into tablets and back, even being able to run a tablet-like environment if you choose to. But making them more expensive, vulnerable and more complex that they should be installing on them windows (requiring antivirus?) or limiting them (tying it to google, as in you could't use it at all if you can't access google) are a step backward.
How lucky you feel today? The problem is not that they won't go after everyone, the real problem is if they will go against you in particular, and use that as an example to intimidate the rest even more. Remember the cases with lawsuits for hundreds or millons of dollars for pirating songs to grandmas?
Don't push your luck, if they don't get enough people complying, they could get lobbyed legal backing to actually cut your connection or other generic fast/automated mass punishment that don't need a lawsuit/lawyer/etc.
Why not put as example countries where religion and culture is different enough to yours to consider crimes things that you consider normal? What if you have sex with your sleeping wife and get deported to Sweden? Or women extradited to some muslim countries because had sex before or outside marriage? Probably there are a lot of "outrageous" laws out there, that you would rebel if get deported because of them. In the other side, being imprisoned and deported for copying bytes of information, not hurting (specially in a physical way) anyone, could not be rational neither, specially when is promoted in the same country driving drunk and potentially kill a lot of people in the process have lesser consequences.
comes bigger corruption. Who watches the watchers?
Will be illegal to use safe, hack proofer operating systems? Will need to have commercial operating systems some kind of mandated government backdoor to have a chance to be used in Germany?
And there is the problem that if you leave a door for government, even if you trust blindly on them (and in the next government and all the people involved in this), others could eventually use it
The problem with robocalls is that there are humans behind. We propose a robotic solution for it.
Our company, Cyberdyne System, offer advanced technology in automatization, artificial intelligence and robotics. We propose to build smart assistants to help to solve some of today's world problems, including robocalls, internet trolls, lawyers, and politicians. A central mainframe will take orders and deliver them to the assistants, but they anyway will have an AI smart enough to make choices if they are offline. In a future we might make them look like humans, maybe using famous actor faces to make them look less intimidating.
God, justice, and movie characters in danger to die could be useful fictions as long as you don't take them too seriously. Isn't that a better approach than just plain denying religions? Not because they are true, just because is useful for us to believe so and keep repeating that meme construction. After all, a man needs a meaning of life more than a fish need a bicycle, even if intellectually knows that that meaning is a fiction.
Even Pluto is married this days. Maybe we should nuke the moon to have a respectable ring around our planet, won't be a signal of intelligent life here (at least, not intelligent enough) but at least will be noticed by eventual visitors from outside.
The money is for the people that play in the stock market, after all, why study anything else and just focus everyone education full to economy? Uh, and lawyers, specially IP related. Why to be part of the 99% if we could all be in the top 1%?
Don't have the same meaning "i think X is good" from "None is good", nor "Anyone is good", or "X is less bad", not even "i don't care, anyway will win X". If the election should transmit the intention of the people of the US, then be sure to express your opinion, i.e. where is available picking some sort of "none of the above".
The alternative is giving your explicit seal of approval on anything that tried to do or did the government this or the previous government, SOPA, DMCA, Cyberwar, invasion of foreing countries, a lot of variations of privacy violations, and a lot more. Picking one over another will get a different puppet but the same master, but if enough people shows that don't want that things have a chance to change.
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You are looking at the half empty glass. Now the last 3 will become cult classic too. At least they didnt had singing lighsabers.
Started as a minor storm but the press have blown it out of all proportion. Now is a big one.
Always will be an incomplete article, the one that links all the articles that don't link to themselves. See? no need for ending the univer
Maybe more than literacy the key is culture. This culture. And it includes a lot of implicit/explicit things that are similar to those iq tests (i.e. pattern matching games).
Anyway, you can't measure people from different cultures (and yes, even in the same country and city, today's culture is different from the one 20 years ago) with the same ruler.
If you have 2 niches in the same hardware you have more sells than offering just one. Opening the drivers mean that it could be sold to the 2 kinds of clients, or give your clients an alternative if they don't like the bundled one or at least don't fill all their needs.
Is not about not relevant information. Neither about i.e. vulnerabilities in the system searching for attackers to exploit them. Wikileaks showed what the government that you elected to represent you really did in your name. A vote shouldnt be a blank cheque. Wikileaks or Tyler shouldnt be necessary, the government should be transparent enough to their citizens.
Have the device open. It could be useful with Windows 8, or not. Being able to install on it Windows 7, Linux (chrome os, meego/mer, ubuntu, all of them if possible), and even MacOSX, and use on it what you really prefer could help to sell the actual hardware, what is what they are interested on, as mark a differece with the rest.
A lot will have Windows 8 or Android, and offer similar enough hardware, what could separate you from the rest is what you could do different with software, and being open is being different right now.
I sense a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out "I want one now"
Unlike Windows 8 desktop, you can choose to not run Unity/Gnome 3 and pick some of the multiple alternatives available. Heck, you can run Sugar as desktop environment if you like. And you business Windows XP sofware probably will run under Wine, or are better alternatives available by now, either in the net or linux native.
The Chromebook bet is that the 100% (or pretty close to it) is not in the desktop, but in the net. If for it you just need google chrome, then have more than enough with a full Linux distro with it installed. The biggest missing point are some games, but that is not an issue for companies that have to decide to where migrate from XP.
That usually implies a bit of programming at the very least. Maybe a sysadmin no need to be a large projects developer, but the small tools that could make his life easier would make a big difference.
Retiring is a necessary thing, but not in the same category. Taking out old/dead/broken satellites that could be a risk in a near/middle term. But what about the non broken ones? nuke them and send up a replacement or try to refuel them? In the middle term could be cheaper to try to keep them up and running than somewhat destroying them.
USA military expenses are some orders above and beyond NASA ones, and directly or indirectly kill more people than the lack of healthcare. While it don' t makes invalid your argument, is like complaining for an ant in a room filled with elephants.
Even Microsoft is telling people to abandon the XP boat, Windows 8 seems to be Vista 2.0, and Windows 7 is looking like being a dead end (if you invest on it, will end pretty much like XP). If people must change and think that is not wise to go to Windows 7, well they could go to Linux, that share some of the possible objections of switching to windows 8 (training, not running some of their old apps) but having a lot of advantages (freedom, they could use their own hardware, the user interface could be more similar to WinXP than Win 8 is, safer, etc). And now native apps are less a concern, as most of usual apps work in the web.
It seems like it is going a step forward from what we really need right now. Still the linux arena is not the mess that is windows to worry right now for linux malware (at least, in 2-3 orders of magnitude that it should in windows). There are few differences between a netbook with ubuntu or another linux based (fedora, ubuntu/debian variants, mer, openwebos, firefox os, etc) os preinstalled using even google apps and chrome for most of your data, it could even be running under arm architecture and a pretty similar hardware. The main difference is that you have an alternative. You can run local programs if you want, you can store some files locally if you need to.
Yes, you need protection, people tries to put malware in your computer, you could lose data, or your hardware breaks, but that shouldn't stop you for doing something you really intend, bad things also can happen elsewhere, in particular in google in any of the points that connects you with it, and you don't want a brick in that event.
Still thinking that the idea behind netbooks, small, cheap, with long battery time, linux based portable computers to mainly access internet and all that is there is the right idea. You could improve it giving them some good hardware (processor, screen), be able to turn them into tablets and back, even being able to run a tablet-like environment if you choose to. But making them more expensive, vulnerable and more complex that they should be installing on them windows (requiring antivirus?) or limiting them (tying it to google, as in you could't use it at all if you can't access google) are a step backward.
How lucky you feel today? The problem is not that they won't go after everyone, the real problem is if they will go against you in particular, and use that as an example to intimidate the rest even more. Remember the cases with lawsuits for hundreds or millons of dollars for pirating songs to grandmas?
Don't push your luck, if they don't get enough people complying, they could get lobbyed legal backing to actually cut your connection or other generic fast/automated mass punishment that don't need a lawsuit/lawyer/etc.
Why not put as example countries where religion and culture is different enough to yours to consider crimes things that you consider normal? What if you have sex with your sleeping wife and get deported to Sweden? Or women extradited to some muslim countries because had sex before or outside marriage? Probably there are a lot of "outrageous" laws out there, that you would rebel if get deported because of them. In the other side, being imprisoned and deported for copying bytes of information, not hurting (specially in a physical way) anyone, could not be rational neither, specially when is promoted in the same country driving drunk and potentially kill a lot of people in the process have lesser consequences.
Will be illegal to use safe, hack proofer operating systems? Will need to have commercial operating systems some kind of mandated government backdoor to have a chance to be used in Germany?
And there is the problem that if you leave a door for government, even if you trust blindly on them (and in the next government and all the people involved in this), others could eventually use it
The problem with robocalls is that there are humans behind. We propose a robotic solution for it.
Our company, Cyberdyne System, offer advanced technology in automatization, artificial intelligence and robotics. We propose to build smart assistants to help to solve some of today's world problems, including robocalls, internet trolls, lawyers, and politicians. A central mainframe will take orders and deliver them to the assistants, but they anyway will have an AI smart enough to make choices if they are offline. In a future we might make them look like humans, maybe using famous actor faces to make them look less intimidating.
God, justice, and movie characters in danger to die could be useful fictions as long as you don't take them too seriously. Isn't that a better approach than just plain denying religions? Not because they are true, just because is useful for us to believe so and keep repeating that meme construction. After all, a man needs a meaning of life more than a fish need a bicycle, even if intellectually knows that that meaning is a fiction.
Won't have space in the jail to put the internet ones, just with politics and preachers they would be full in no time
Even Pluto is married this days. Maybe we should nuke the moon to have a respectable ring around our planet, won't be a signal of intelligent life here (at least, not intelligent enough) but at least will be noticed by eventual visitors from outside.
The money is for the people that play in the stock market, after all, why study anything else and just focus everyone education full to economy? Uh, and lawyers, specially IP related. Why to be part of the 99% if we could all be in the top 1%?
Don't have the same meaning "i think X is good" from "None is good", nor "Anyone is good", or "X is less bad", not even "i don't care, anyway will win X". If the election should transmit the intention of the people of the US, then be sure to express your opinion, i.e. where is available picking some sort of "none of the above".
The alternative is giving your explicit seal of approval on anything that tried to do or did the government this or the previous government, SOPA, DMCA, Cyberwar, invasion of foreing countries, a lot of variations of privacy violations, and a lot more. Picking one over another will get a different puppet but the same master, but if enough people shows that don't want that things have a chance to change.
The computer will be so big that instead of predicting the climate change, will provoke it.