Stop using US located hosting companies. Server Beach is a symptom, not the disease, those are the laws. And the US people is about to give their seal of approval to the government that pushed that laws.
Is not a bad approach. How changed things (and answers) since last interview. 13 years is a lot of time in computing and even cultural terms, what changed? What not? And what was the most surprising one of those changes or not of answers?
The reference to western cultures was mostly to point to the things accepted by probably most of the readers today, some of them even were accepted 50 or more years ago in western cultures. Not sure how else to name today's almost global culture without dismissing the other valid cultures that are around today, local or not.
More than religion, culture. Some things seen as unappropiate by a culture, be a religion behind or not, are censored, banned, or even the infractors are in some ways punished, The difference is not so evident when you form part of that culture, and that culture is somewhat successfully pushed over a good amount of countries. There maybe some i.e. biological backing for some cultural opinion, but that most accepts the ban is mostly a cultural thing, not knowledge (and are accepted some things that should be banned by the same kind of biological backing). Between the examples in western cultures you have nudity, "soft" drugs, less than 18yo sex, political positions and a lot more.
If you ask a fish if is not disturbed by all that water, it would ask: what water?
If just Nokia had a single mind, either for failure or success. But they build something great and then destroy it in the next breath as a norm. They had something maybe not perfect, but with full of potential, with the N900. Then they crippled it (making it with a lot of closed parts, not giving it enough main memory, etc), not going after all markets, and then called it a failure and killed it. They had Symbian, the next generation, they got Meego with the very innovative user interface of the N9, and when they got both ready to take over the world, basically declared both platform dead. Announced Meltemi, and killed it before releasing any product with it. Those where their own winning cards, along with their hardware what could put them forward than the rest.
Even those efforts, with mostly open software, could had leveraged their hardware offer, if they published enough specification on their hardware to have drivers to enabling them for alternate operating systems (nitdroid, cyanogen mod port, webos, meego, etc), or even push forward the groups trying to giving new uses to their phones giving them the specs, help and support to do so.
And they closed the door to Android, that have a very healthy ecosystem, because they would lose the control, and instead they gave that control to Microsoft, a company with a lengthy record of stabbing partners in the back (and exactly that, unsurprisely, did with Nokia declaring that the windows 8 won't run in any of the then just released Nokia windows phones.
Some kind of devices and activities are better suited for some kinds of interactionl. Screen size, to have or not touchscreen, keyboard, mouse, that you must hold it or use it on a surface, are between the factors that make one user interface better suited than others. In Linux you have a lot of different user interfaces, is not the same playing with Meego, Unity, KDE, Android or Sugar, but is all the same OS (or at very least, kernel and basic toolchain) with different user interfaces that are meant to fit to certain range of hardware.
Their new maps already have the corrections for non accurate GPS data in the case of a really big solar storm, maybe of the "turning into nova" class. You just need to use them only in that event.
Considering how much the government care about and respect privacy and rights, for 99% of US people and 100% of people of other countries, i would say that the next big thing will be a new food. I propose to call it Soylent Green.
Forgot the patent troll part. And the way they play extortion on android device makers (selling "protection" to avoid lawsuits) should qualify them as criminal organization too.
This have the same problems than speech recognition, you say/do something that is not meant for the computer/program, and it does something that you don't mean to do. At least in Star Trek they had the "Computer" prefix in phrases meant for the computer, but adding a prefix for gestures could make their use more complex.
And, of course, doing it in public will have the problem when people is not the intended target for the gesture/speech, and if well you could use low volume (or subvocalization?) in voice, gestures should be broad enough to be able to tell them apart from i.e. casual changes of position. And innocent gestures for one culture could be very offensive for others.
This have been present since forever, so if that measure is taken now in particular hopely was for the current cyberwar climate (and not, i.e. because lobbyist complained about unfair price competition). And admitting that something could be a weapon means that it could be used by you too, so even if Huawei wasn't putting any backdoor in their products, future (or present) US products could have now, specifically to be used as weapons, control, information gathering, etc. And that have implications for US users too.
Now all the other governments of the world should ban Microsoft for being a security threat and things could become far better for most of the people. Even could be considered "a national security threat", played a major role in Stuxnet/Flame/etc targetted attacks, where US agencies could had been involved.
In fact, with that argument most US based software companies could be banned outside, unless by licence (i.e. open source ones) you can get all the source, recompile and deploy it yourself. And that includes embedded software devices
IF what we already know about universe, in particular about speed limit, is true, they should not need to hide. The danger from inside their own solar system is far greater than the danger of invasion from outside it, in practice forever, unless you are talking about natural processes (i.e. a big asteroid/rogue star/whatever in collision course or a supernova close enough)
IF there is one out there, then instead of hiding they probably will make it very evident, at the very least to tell us all "we did it, bitches"
For once even this should be moderated informative, it has been in slashdot discussions a good part of those 15 years, along with first posts and very few more almost always present memes.
Maybe some way to express yourself is still available, if enough people actually vote, but for noone, they could get a hint. Voting with your wallet still gives your approval to whatever i.e. freedom stripping that will do next government (if keeps current government trend, both alternatives probably will keep it).
Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett is one of my prefered science fiction short stories, pretty close to the top if not the top one. The Hollywood adaptation teached me to not assume anything about movies based on good books, specially now.
Calling them piracy, and intellectual property are the firsts problems.
Copying and evolving information is in our very nature, in fact, what makes us humans and not weird looking monkeys living in the wild is that we copied, and kept doing so. Civilization, religions, language, cultures, etc, all is copying, and we teach our children to do that since they born.
Digital media and internet just enhanced our ability to copy, is the natural thing for us to do. It can only be improved letting us to evolve that information, to enhance, adapt, specialize or customize that copy. Probably one of the biggest strengths of open source software is that enables that, and shows clearly the potential of it
And this is not about rewarding or not authors or recognizing their work. Probably most if not all of us would be glad at the very least to pay a beer to i.e. the author of a song/book/software we enjoyed, if not a lot more. Maybe would be nice to have a system to donate to the people, group, or even companies that did something you liked or used, for everyone that creates something. That system could have the problem of people falsely claiming owner/authorship of something they didnt, but with the actual system happen the same, a lot of times from the very people/corporations what lobby for laws for "protecting" intelectual property.
What are the alternatives? Stopping evolution of society? Virtual slavery? Oligarchy?
2 parties, 1 set of bosses. No matter which one of the 2 options you pick, both have the same set of people giving orders behind, at the very least in this particular topic. US constitution should be edited putting "We the lobbyist" at the start of it to describe reality.
Is not about supporting (ok, i was the one using that word above, HP said that it won't run, not that will be or not supported), is about leaving the door open. Is a way to increase their potential user base, and get some feedback (and apps buyers). Remember, Sailfish is an OS, don't need to be tied to a particular phone or company.
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Stop using US located hosting companies. Server Beach is a symptom, not the disease, those are the laws. And the US people is about to give their seal of approval to the government that pushed that laws.
Is not a bad approach. How changed things (and answers) since last interview. 13 years is a lot of time in computing and even cultural terms, what changed? What not? And what was the most surprising one of those changes or not of answers?
The real problems are always inside, probably near to the top. Making you watching outside is a good way to hide.
The reference to western cultures was mostly to point to the things accepted by probably most of the readers today, some of them even were accepted 50 or more years ago in western cultures. Not sure how else to name today's almost global culture without dismissing the other valid cultures that are around today, local or not.
More than religion, culture. Some things seen as unappropiate by a culture, be a religion behind or not, are censored, banned, or even the infractors are in some ways punished, The difference is not so evident when you form part of that culture, and that culture is somewhat successfully pushed over a good amount of countries. There maybe some i.e. biological backing for some cultural opinion, but that most accepts the ban is mostly a cultural thing, not knowledge (and are accepted some things that should be banned by the same kind of biological backing). Between the examples in western cultures you have nudity, "soft" drugs, less than 18yo sex, political positions and a lot more.
If you ask a fish if is not disturbed by all that water, it would ask: what water?
If just Nokia had a single mind, either for failure or success. But they build something great and then destroy it in the next breath as a norm. They had something maybe not perfect, but with full of potential, with the N900. Then they crippled it (making it with a lot of closed parts, not giving it enough main memory, etc), not going after all markets, and then called it a failure and killed it. They had Symbian, the next generation, they got Meego with the very innovative user interface of the N9, and when they got both ready to take over the world, basically declared both platform dead. Announced Meltemi, and killed it before releasing any product with it. Those where their own winning cards, along with their hardware what could put them forward than the rest.
Even those efforts, with mostly open software, could had leveraged their hardware offer, if they published enough specification on their hardware to have drivers to enabling them for alternate operating systems (nitdroid, cyanogen mod port, webos, meego, etc), or even push forward the groups trying to giving new uses to their phones giving them the specs, help and support to do so.
And they closed the door to Android, that have a very healthy ecosystem, because they would lose the control, and instead they gave that control to Microsoft, a company with a lengthy record of stabbing partners in the back (and exactly that, unsurprisely, did with Nokia declaring that the windows 8 won't run in any of the then just released Nokia windows phones.
Some kind of devices and activities are better suited for some kinds of interactionl. Screen size, to have or not touchscreen, keyboard, mouse, that you must hold it or use it on a surface, are between the factors that make one user interface better suited than others. In Linux you have a lot of different user interfaces, is not the same playing with Meego, Unity, KDE, Android or Sugar, but is all the same OS (or at very least, kernel and basic toolchain) with different user interfaces that are meant to fit to certain range of hardware.
Their new maps already have the corrections for non accurate GPS data in the case of a really big solar storm, maybe of the "turning into nova" class. You just need to use them only in that event.
The cloud makes you don't need to rely that much in memory, and other things i dont remember.
Considering how much the government care about and respect privacy and rights, for 99% of US people and 100% of people of other countries, i would say that the next big thing will be a new food. I propose to call it Soylent Green.
Forgot the patent troll part. And the way they play extortion on android device makers (selling "protection" to avoid lawsuits) should qualify them as criminal organization too.
At least that is better than staying again in the shelf inside a box labeled Soylent green.
This have the same problems than speech recognition, you say/do something that is not meant for the computer/program, and it does something that you don't mean to do. At least in Star Trek they had the "Computer" prefix in phrases meant for the computer, but adding a prefix for gestures could make their use more complex.
And, of course, doing it in public will have the problem when people is not the intended target for the gesture/speech, and if well you could use low volume (or subvocalization?) in voice, gestures should be broad enough to be able to tell them apart from i.e. casual changes of position. And innocent gestures for one culture could be very offensive for others.
Considering the apparent increased awareness on cyberthreats (i.e. Huawei, or Stuxnet), how you think it could affect Linux development and evolution?
This have been present since forever, so if that measure is taken now in particular hopely was for the current cyberwar climate (and not, i.e. because lobbyist complained about unfair price competition). And admitting that something could be a weapon means that it could be used by you too, so even if Huawei wasn't putting any backdoor in their products, future (or present) US products could have now, specifically to be used as weapons, control, information gathering, etc. And that have implications for US users too.
Now all the other governments of the world should ban Microsoft for being a security threat and things could become far better for most of the people. Even could be considered "a national security threat", played a major role in Stuxnet/Flame/etc targetted attacks, where US agencies could had been involved.
In fact, with that argument most US based software companies could be banned outside, unless by licence (i.e. open source ones) you can get all the source, recompile and deploy it yourself. And that includes embedded software devices
Invent something fast to inv^H^H^Hliberate Iran, Venezuela, or other oil producing country... wont lower the prices but maximize profits.
Google 9000. Take that IBM. And it will not have to go to Jupiter to reveal itself.
IF what we already know about universe, in particular about speed limit, is true, they should not need to hide. The danger from inside their own solar system is far greater than the danger of invasion from outside it, in practice forever, unless you are talking about natural processes (i.e. a big asteroid/rogue star/whatever in collision course or a supernova close enough)
IF there is one out there, then instead of hiding they probably will make it very evident, at the very least to tell us all "we did it, bitches"
For once even this should be moderated informative, it has been in slashdot discussions a good part of those 15 years, along with first posts and very few more almost always present memes.
Maybe some way to express yourself is still available, if enough people actually vote, but for noone, they could get a hint. Voting with your wallet still gives your approval to whatever i.e. freedom stripping that will do next government (if keeps current government trend, both alternatives probably will keep it).
Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett is one of my prefered science fiction short stories, pretty close to the top if not the top one. The Hollywood adaptation teached me to not assume anything about movies based on good books, specially now.
Calling them piracy, and intellectual property are the firsts problems.
Copying and evolving information is in our very nature, in fact, what makes us humans and not weird looking monkeys living in the wild is that we copied, and kept doing so. Civilization, religions, language, cultures, etc, all is copying, and we teach our children to do that since they born.
Digital media and internet just enhanced our ability to copy, is the natural thing for us to do. It can only be improved letting us to evolve that information, to enhance, adapt, specialize or customize that copy. Probably one of the biggest strengths of open source software is that enables that, and shows clearly the potential of it
And this is not about rewarding or not authors or recognizing their work. Probably most if not all of us would be glad at the very least to pay a beer to i.e. the author of a song/book/software we enjoyed, if not a lot more. Maybe would be nice to have a system to donate to the people, group, or even companies that did something you liked or used, for everyone that creates something. That system could have the problem of people falsely claiming owner/authorship of something they didnt, but with the actual system happen the same, a lot of times from the very people/corporations what lobby for laws for "protecting" intelectual property.
What are the alternatives? Stopping evolution of society? Virtual slavery? Oligarchy?
2 parties, 1 set of bosses. No matter which one of the 2 options you pick, both have the same set of people giving orders behind, at the very least in this particular topic. US constitution should be edited putting "We the lobbyist" at the start of it to describe reality.
Is not about supporting (ok, i was the one using that word above, HP said that it won't run, not that will be or not supported), is about leaving the door open. Is a way to increase their potential user base, and get some feedback (and apps buyers). Remember, Sailfish is an OS, don't need to be tied to a particular phone or company.