Depend what you call "economy", if it is money from everywhere somewhat dissapear inside the ivory tower of a corporation, maybe it won't help a lot of people. In the other hand, free software mean more services built around that software popping everywhere, or more available cash for the user of that software to use it in other places.
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Why on Earth are we still implementing tax cuts and deficit spending?!
Because the ones that financed the campaign of the current (and past, for many years) government said so. That's the problem with using math, ab absurdum proofs always go wrong in politics.
Maybe the models didn't took into account the influence of China's coal power plants. But if they ever fix the enviromental impact of those plants, global warming could start to be closer to the models.
is when that future don't come as expected. We see a pattern, figure how it could continue, and if it don't, worries us, or at least call our attention. If that is what explains the uncanny valley, makes some sense. But what about things that surprises or marvels us? What about, i.e. moonwalking? Some extra factor must be taken into account.
Why the only way to do time travel have to be going FTL? Couldnt be shortcuts or side approachs? Proving that one possible path won't work don't rules out any other unknown yet way to do it.
Of course, still there is that little trouble with causality, paradoxes, and blue butterflies. But being ruled out just because that speed limit maybe isnt necessary
Is the basic idea what matters. We got real lessons from Asimov, Clarke and several others scifi authors in a lot of areas.
Anyway, for me Diamond Age was more a combo of internet, wikipedia and the XO, than a intelligence enhancer game. Ender's Game was a bit more on the topic, but for me the goal shold be something in the line of Padgett's Mimsy were the borogoves.
Some games are already creating smarter people, not because were created with that goal, but because make people think, solve problems, even using different than normal approachs. Even Angry Birds fall into that category.Being more intelligent also improves for information outside any game or from different games, so its not limited as somethimg exclusively related to some game designers.
As the field is shaped by actual legislation, the only winning move in software development is being patent troll or big lobbyist. For anything else big success is probably followed by bigger setbacks by that kind of players.
Writable firmware/BIOS, can turn vulnerabilities into nightmares. You don't have to write complex replacement firmware, just be able to write garbage there and turn millons of computers,cellphones network/gfx cards and so on into paperweights.
People that consume certain media have more odds to buy it than people that is not interested in it. If you saw, even pirated, all Harry Potter series, and liked it, probably would bought a ticket last weekend. But if you don't care about it, pirated or not, you won't be a potential future customer. That applies not just for movie sequels, but for directors, actors, genres and whole media categories.
What about following the link to read those news from some other place, even owned by google, like the search engine itself, mail, google reader or even google+ ?
Even if this have any kind of meaning (except the obvious promoting one of their experiments/projects/profit sources/whatever that is lowering the amount of visitors), they should be consistent and integrated along all their platform.
By now is a MUST for any ebook reader owner, or people that read ebooks in general, even in their computer.
But califying it as "unknown", well, lets say that in the line that goes from linux, vlc or php in known projects to open source projects not even known by their own authors (don't know any example, but that is part of their definition), is pretty high in the scale.
You can use gray/blacklists/rbls to get rid most of the noise caused by botnets and similar, but you shouldnt block gmail/yahoo/hotmail or other big mail servers.
I would be surprised if they not. Google+ is something that feels incomplete yet, and some of the missing bits and ways of interaction could perfectly be provided by their other services, including orkut. And if they design this well (in the "dont do evil" sense) will be able to be as much integrated with services from other parties. Won't be surprised if more bits from Wave lands there, too.
I wonder how far they could go in that interaction. And how far they will end going thanks to regulations, security/privacy concerns, abuses of the system and goverrnments influence.
You asking to review legislation around the major lobbyists? It probably will change legislation, but in their own good, probably will end making harder to create new big labels, giving them even more in power than now, not less.
Compare that with the uptime that typically have in any windows installation running the old office, for which you pay the full price, at least, if you access the new online version from a non-ms browser/operating system.
Thats cruel, evil, even (or maybe, specially) inhuman. Where is PETA? Greenpeace? Is that humanity will never stop finding new ways to torture animals?
If it had that roughtly that diameter, was made of rock and was inside the orbit of our moon, its proper name should have been Earth. And if it wasnt we will be screwed up, no matter if hits or miss, and not just for the tides, the messing with our orbit around the sun and the messing with the orbits of most of the solar system probably, but because if we didnt noticed it till 3 days ago we shouldnt trust in anything that we know about the universe, if we cant see something so big until is so close.
You mean stupidity like tying your company to the "safe" IE6 that even Microsoft acknowlegde that is insecure, and yet refused to keep fixing it? Stupidity like falling again in the same mistake, same company, same browser? Yes, that kind of stupidity should be punished
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Depend what you call "economy", if it is money from everywhere somewhat dissapear inside the ivory tower of a corporation, maybe it won't help a lot of people. In the other hand, free software mean more services built around that software popping everywhere, or more available cash for the user of that software to use it in other places.
Why on Earth are we still implementing tax cuts and deficit spending?!
Because the ones that financed the campaign of the current (and past, for many years) government said so. That's the problem with using math, ab absurdum proofs always go wrong in politics.
Maybe the models didn't took into account the influence of China's coal power plants. But if they ever fix the enviromental impact of those plants, global warming could start to be closer to the models.
is when that future don't come as expected. We see a pattern, figure how it could continue, and if it don't, worries us, or at least call our attention. If that is what explains the uncanny valley, makes some sense. But what about things that surprises or marvels us? What about, i.e. moonwalking? Some extra factor must be taken into account.
Why the only way to do time travel have to be going FTL? Couldnt be shortcuts or side approachs? Proving that one possible path won't work don't rules out any other unknown yet way to do it.
Of course, still there is that little trouble with causality, paradoxes, and blue butterflies. But being ruled out just because that speed limit maybe isnt necessary
Anyway, for me Diamond Age was more a combo of internet, wikipedia and the XO, than a intelligence enhancer game. Ender's Game was a bit more on the topic, but for me the goal shold be something in the line of Padgett's Mimsy were the borogoves.
Some games are already creating smarter people, not because were created with that goal, but because make people think, solve problems, even using different than normal approachs. Even Angry Birds fall into that category.Being more intelligent also improves for information outside any game or from different games, so its not limited as somethimg exclusively related to some game designers.
As the field is shaped by actual legislation, the only winning move in software development is being patent troll or big lobbyist. For anything else big success is probably followed by bigger setbacks by that kind of players.
Writable firmware/BIOS, can turn vulnerabilities into nightmares. You don't have to write complex replacement firmware, just be able to write garbage there and turn millons of computers,cellphones network/gfx cards and so on into paperweights.
People that consume certain media have more odds to buy it than people that is not interested in it. If you saw, even pirated, all Harry Potter series, and liked it, probably would bought a ticket last weekend. But if you don't care about it, pirated or not, you won't be a potential future customer. That applies not just for movie sequels, but for directors, actors, genres and whole media categories.
What about following the link to read those news from some other place, even owned by google, like the search engine itself, mail, google reader or even google+ ?
Even if this have any kind of meaning (except the obvious promoting one of their experiments/projects/profit sources/whatever that is lowering the amount of visitors), they should be consistent and integrated along all their platform.
Sometimes xkcd is pretty relevant
By now is a MUST for any ebook reader owner, or people that read ebooks in general, even in their computer.
But califying it as "unknown", well, lets say that in the line that goes from linux, vlc or php in known projects to open source projects not even known by their own authors (don't know any example, but that is part of their definition), is pretty high in the scale.
You can use gray/blacklists/rbls to get rid most of the noise caused by botnets and similar, but you shouldnt block gmail/yahoo/hotmail or other big mail servers.
I would be surprised if they not. Google+ is something that feels incomplete yet, and some of the missing bits and ways of interaction could perfectly be provided by their other services, including orkut. And if they design this well (in the "dont do evil" sense) will be able to be as much integrated with services from other parties. Won't be surprised if more bits from Wave lands there, too.
I wonder how far they could go in that interaction. And how far they will end going thanks to regulations, security/privacy concerns, abuses of the system and goverrnments influence.
This kind?
You asking to review legislation around the major lobbyists? It probably will change legislation, but in their own good, probably will end making harder to create new big labels, giving them even more in power than now, not less.
Compare that with the uptime that typically have in any windows installation running the old office, for which you pay the full price, at least, if you access the new online version from a non-ms browser/operating system.
Just wait till it faces blue kriptonite
Some of them could still be in alpha
In urls have a clear meaning. Wonder which Googlers put that symbol for it thinking in the final frontier.
Thats cruel, evil, even (or maybe, specially) inhuman. Where is PETA? Greenpeace? Is that humanity will never stop finding new ways to torture animals?
What about the scanned people itself? They belong to another cancer cluster (maybe more significant?) or they are too busy to investigate that?
Anyway, this probably will end in protection for them, not for the passengers.
If it had that roughtly that diameter, was made of rock and was inside the orbit of our moon, its proper name should have been Earth. And if it wasnt we will be screwed up, no matter if hits or miss, and not just for the tides, the messing with our orbit around the sun and the messing with the orbits of most of the solar system probably, but because if we didnt noticed it till 3 days ago we shouldnt trust in anything that we know about the universe, if we cant see something so big until is so close.
You mean stupidity like tying your company to the "safe" IE6 that even Microsoft acknowlegde that is insecure, and yet refused to keep fixing it? Stupidity like falling again in the same mistake, same company, same browser? Yes, that kind of stupidity should be punished