Unless you have a monopoly of that technology and don't use it to predict if your population will revolt, it would not give accurate predictions, as if he predicts something dangerous you will take measures to avoid it. That puts that kind of technology in a gray-to-dark area. Are them instruments of opression for your population or of allied countries? Or to attack/unstabilize another countries if they don't warn about that upcoming events?
If you guess the future and do nothing about it you are somewhat safe, but if know the future and can affect it, weird things like killer blue butterflies happens.
there millon-to-one chances happens 9 of 10 times. But as this is world maybe 1 in 21 trillions is the right spot that turns it into something certain.
The one that keep having children forcing them into a life of suffering, poverty, slavery, or famine?, or the ones having the means, but doing nothing to prevent that (i wonder for how many centuries would be eradicated famine from the planet with the banks bailout money), or the ones that or the ones that even know how much will suffer the childs born in certain conditions, still ban abortion, or the ones with the best intentions that ends making things worse for most, or...
Is debatable if running windows in critical servers is something that sane administrators would do. sane administrators shouldt need to run antivirus in their servers, either because run something safer or know enough to avoid running into that risks.
See it from the other point of view. People that will pay for that games anyway, but now could choose the operating system they will run.
Anyway, this is about freedom. That don't ensure to be right, just to be able to choose. Giving more options don't take away the "right" ones, and people that think different from you can pick whatever they prefer, not just what you think they should. And if they choose to be lemmings and
The N900 had very high crackability, and still failed in the big market. Its proper successor (not the N9, the N950), was just for developers, and very few were made, even where it would have been a dream for the ones wanting an even more crackable phone.
There are people that want something that just work, and the ones that want to push the limits of what their devices can do, but the last group is a small minority compared with what companies seek as a market.
If ever somewhere in the world someone died because climate related issues after doing things, fingers will point to whoever "knowing" did some change. At least now you can say that you weren't aware of the consequences. But once you say that know the consequences, and did it with the intention of changing climate conditions, you will be seen as responsible.
Unless we come out with some way to break or dodge the light speed limit, in practical terms it is as unreachable as the rest of the stars of the universe.
So what matters over other desktop distributions is installation, administration, and how it look. There is a tour to show the big headlines, differences with previous versions, and screenshots of the main components, but you can just download it, put it in a pendrive and test it to see if you like it.
Tablets have its own attractive. Touchscreens, aware of how you move, or where are you, easy to hold and use. But being keyboardless is a big disadvantage. I still don't understand why the netvertibles didnt take off. Something that could be used as tablet or as notebook should have been the best of both worlds.
If he thinks that patents are stupid, and have one key patents on which depends the almighty credit system, could be used as a tool to really invalidate all those trivial and not so trivial patents hanging around that are screwing innovation worldwide. Or just make a metric ton of cash of it, anyway that alone won't solve the deeper problem.
Something is between lines. HP recently bought Palm for a lot of cash, announced new webos&devices and now they are ditching those devices. So why they were so confident on buying palm in the 1st place? Im afraid that the patent fight around mobile/portable devices will scale up a lot in the next few months.
Once more software is steps ahead of hardware. The game is ready for hologram projectors, if you can't see those layers of water is because you are using a 2D display.
Having a monopoly worths more than something with a lot of suppliers. Put that monopoly in worldwide basis, and with enough weight put in patenting whatever looks like built in the same planet as the ipad and you have a formula for success.
When the bubble on imaginary things (like patents and money) blows up, probably oil won't worth a lot neither.
The topic here is android, that is opensource, is given for free to phone manufacturers. But because of all the patents helds by all those companies whatever that tries to install that open source in their hardware gets sued and have to pay extra a lot for that opensource technology. And considering how much broken is the patent system now, those 250k patents could not let you stay within a mile of a cellphone without breaking a bunch of them for things like breathing or just existing.
Regarding PageRank, why it in particular should be? Is basically an internal app with a public api. Some public apps from google got open sourced, like Wave (even before the launch, when everyone thought that it could be a major player in social networks). And they didnt sued Microsoft for using the "search" word in the same planet where Google is as basically the patents attacking android are doing regarding cellphones.
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Is not that machines are smarter, just that humans became dumber.
Unless you have a monopoly of that technology and don't use it to predict if your population will revolt, it would not give accurate predictions, as if he predicts something dangerous you will take measures to avoid it. That puts that kind of technology in a gray-to-dark area. Are them instruments of opression for your population or of allied countries? Or to attack/unstabilize another countries if they don't warn about that upcoming events?
If you guess the future and do nothing about it you are somewhat safe, but if know the future and can affect it, weird things like killer blue butterflies happens.
there millon-to-one chances happens 9 of 10 times. But as this is world maybe 1 in 21 trillions is the right spot that turns it into something certain.
The one that keep having children forcing them into a life of suffering, poverty, slavery, or famine?, or the ones having the means, but doing nothing to prevent that (i wonder for how many centuries would be eradicated famine from the planet with the banks bailout money), or the ones that or the ones that even know how much will suffer the childs born in certain conditions, still ban abortion, or the ones with the best intentions that ends making things worse for most, or...
Is debatable if running windows in critical servers is something that sane administrators would do. sane administrators shouldt need to run antivirus in their servers, either because run something safer or know enough to avoid running into that risks.
See it from the other point of view. People that will pay for that games anyway, but now could choose the operating system they will run.
Anyway, this is about freedom. That don't ensure to be right, just to be able to choose. Giving more options don't take away the "right" ones, and people that think different from you can pick whatever they prefer, not just what you think they should. And if they choose to be lemmings and
Looks like the typical April 1st google joke. In fact, if is true, could be pushed to 11 to make the next year's one.
The N900 had very high crackability, and still failed in the big market. Its proper successor (not the N9, the N950), was just for developers, and very few were made, even where it would have been a dream for the ones wanting an even more crackable phone.
There are people that want something that just work, and the ones that want to push the limits of what their devices can do, but the last group is a small minority compared with what companies seek as a market.
If ever somewhere in the world someone died because climate related issues after doing things, fingers will point to whoever "knowing" did some change. At least now you can say that you weren't aware of the consequences. But once you say that know the consequences, and did it with the intention of changing climate conditions, you will be seen as responsible.
Unless we come out with some way to break or dodge the light speed limit, in practical terms it is as unreachable as the rest of the stars of the universe.
So what matters over other desktop distributions is installation, administration, and how it look. There is a tour to show the big headlines, differences with previous versions, and screenshots of the main components, but you can just download it, put it in a pendrive and test it to see if you like it.
.. then Iraq, the next target will be South Africa. The war on terror will take good care of those damn butterflies.
Tablets have its own attractive. Touchscreens, aware of how you move, or where are you, easy to hold and use. But being keyboardless is a big disadvantage. I still don't understand why the netvertibles didnt take off. Something that could be used as tablet or as notebook should have been the best of both worlds.
If he thinks that patents are stupid, and have one key patents on which depends the almighty credit system, could be used as a tool to really invalidate all those trivial and not so trivial patents hanging around that are screwing innovation worldwide. Or just make a metric ton of cash of it, anyway that alone won't solve the deeper problem.
Or not
Something is between lines. HP recently bought Palm for a lot of cash, announced new webos&devices and now they are ditching those devices. So why they were so confident on buying palm in the 1st place? Im afraid that the patent fight around mobile/portable devices will scale up a lot in the next few months.
Once more software is steps ahead of hardware. The game is ready for hologram projectors, if you can't see those layers of water is because you are using a 2D display.
Too late? Something else is in the future? Missing the train?
You can't please everyone, you release early and thats what you get.
will that give us flying cars by 2015? Marty will be surprised if we dont make them on time, and history depends on that.
Having a monopoly worths more than something with a lot of suppliers. Put that monopoly in worldwide basis, and with enough weight put in patenting whatever looks like built in the same planet as the ipad and you have a formula for success.
When the bubble on imaginary things (like patents and money) blows up, probably oil won't worth a lot neither.
is not to play it. Too bad US, the country most vulnerable to its potential effects, already did their first moves (i.e. stuxnet).
... sometimes is malice, not stupidity, the right explanation.
The topic here is android, that is opensource, is given for free to phone manufacturers. But because of all the patents helds by all those companies whatever that tries to install that open source in their hardware gets sued and have to pay extra a lot for that opensource technology. And considering how much broken is the patent system now, those 250k patents could not let you stay within a mile of a cellphone without breaking a bunch of them for things like breathing or just existing.
Regarding PageRank, why it in particular should be? Is basically an internal app with a public api. Some public apps from google got open sourced, like Wave (even before the launch, when everyone thought that it could be a major player in social networks). And they didnt sued Microsoft for using the "search" word in the same planet where Google is as basically the patents attacking android are doing regarding cellphones.
that should have been a big bang
What if you don't have an infinite loop, but your random input data make you look like one?