Patent science knowledge, and then it becomes a competition. Add extra points if you manage to harm commerce of countries that don't follow your definition of patents (i.e. only are valid what our citizens invent, the other country inventions could wait till some of us do the same).
Science used to be standing over the shoulders of giants... now is steping over everyone else to claim everything as yours.
As long as the top goal is making as much money as you can, no matter how, this will continue on for some time, this way or another. If now the most efficient way is the financial area, doing basically nothing else but inventing more money, then a lot will keep going in that direction. And lobbiers are making sure than inventing value is a very restricted area.
What if that DNA comes originally from one of the known domains, but was somewhat damaged by chemicals/radiation/whatever sources so it couldn't be recognized as a normal one?
Take a math approach here. As you got to an absurd result, then the hypotesis were false. Limewire don't owe that money, or RIAA is not allowed to sue, or the law is invalid.
The alternative is a more clinical ones. The ones asking that kind of money are clearly crazy, so should be put in a mental institution, all of them, lawyers, RIAA directives, or the ones approving that law.
Just profit. "Defending civilians" will end killing even more people that did Gaddafi, maybe orders more if we take Irak as an example, but the oil production will get ensured and under more friendly hands.
Just wait till someone with enough money decides that would be profitable to invest on building such machines to know how high will be stock market next week.
I was attributing this to Forbes malice, then i noted the message at the bottom of the slashdot page:
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Go to even earlier uses of computers and you'll find gold. Most uses of computers pre'80s, specially when they tried to do "futuristic" things, are usually ridiculous (and not just in films, in literature too). A good exception in that time zone is 2001.
Of course, with older movies you were playing with almost magical entities for most at that time. With newer ones, specially last years where most have one and know that there is no magic around (ok, there are exceptions, summoning Linux and its daemons usually solves the blue screen curse) things like those done in CSI feel worse than normal.
And probably will hit a nerve here, but Tron, if you take the same approach as with ID4, should be a major offender too.
Windows won't have an interface meant for i.e. tablets till late next year. If they want an OS for a full range of devices they should go in a way or another Linux, be Android, WebOS, MeeGo, or even normal distributions like Ubuntu with the right desktop environment. Even Maemo would be a better alternative if hadnt so much closed components.
Not sure which other alternatives are around, iOS? Playbook's OS? Apple/RIM won't license to others their OSs, they want to sell the devices and keep the ecosystem for themselves.
Some of those "shady ad networks" gets blocked by chrome and probably some security plugins/extensions for other browsers because they are used to serve malware, so i bet facebook or fb app devels will cry foul when google blocks them because of those ads, not for being facebook.
My N900 is the computer i use more in a way or another most days. But it don't replace my PC, complements it. Sometimes i need far more horsepower, memory, and bigger screen and input devices than my phone, and in that tasks the Atrix would fall short too. I don't know if future devices (using i.e. the Sixth Sense approach?) will improve a lot input and output of information for small devices, that coupled with improvements in battery, cpu and memory could make the PC less needed.
Maybe im using PC too much as synonymous of desktop computer (or big/powerful laptop), but still, odds should be even smaller than netbooks replacing PCs still.
That seems to be the last word twist of microsoft of anything related with security, right to the mind of their workers. Work by yourself or for anyone else is insecure, so keep working for us, uh, and, you must give us a share of whar you make in your own time for "protection".
So is better that be the government that do the law breaking thing instead of citizens or foreigners? Shouldnt it give the example, instead of doing the same or worse?
Probably people from 100-200 years ago would not feel as bad, even if seeing it live. In this TED talk is argued that we feel more the violence than before, that somewhat empathy is more cultural than, well, being human. And we feel less empathy, specially the suffering part, on non real characters, unless you do the "based in a real story" trick.
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Patent science knowledge, and then it becomes a competition. Add extra points if you manage to harm commerce of countries that don't follow your definition of patents (i.e. only are valid what our citizens invent, the other country inventions could wait till some of us do the same).
Science used to be standing over the shoulders of giants... now is steping over everyone else to claim everything as yours.
If their number of patents is close to 0, then they are several years ahead of US science, and politics.
As long as the top goal is making as much money as you can, no matter how, this will continue on for some time, this way or another. If now the most efficient way is the financial area, doing basically nothing else but inventing more money, then a lot will keep going in that direction. And lobbiers are making sure than inventing value is a very restricted area.
What if that DNA comes originally from one of the known domains, but was somewhat damaged by chemicals/radiation/whatever sources so it couldn't be recognized as a normal one?
Take a math approach here. As you got to an absurd result, then the hypotesis were false. Limewire don't owe that money, or RIAA is not allowed to sue, or the law is invalid.
The alternative is a more clinical ones. The ones asking that kind of money are clearly crazy, so should be put in a mental institution, all of them, lawyers, RIAA directives, or the ones approving that law.
Are you sure?
Just profit. "Defending civilians" will end killing even more people that did Gaddafi, maybe orders more if we take Irak as an example, but the oil production will get ensured and under more friendly hands.
Just wait till someone with enough money decides that would be profitable to invest on building such machines to know how high will be stock market next week.
I was attributing this to Forbes malice, then i noted the message at the bottom of the slashdot page: Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Go to even earlier uses of computers and you'll find gold. Most uses of computers pre'80s, specially when they tried to do "futuristic" things, are usually ridiculous (and not just in films, in literature too). A good exception in that time zone is 2001.
Of course, with older movies you were playing with almost magical entities for most at that time. With newer ones, specially last years where most have one and know that there is no magic around (ok, there are exceptions, summoning Linux and its daemons usually solves the blue screen curse) things like those done in CSI feel worse than normal.
And probably will hit a nerve here, but Tron, if you take the same approach as with ID4, should be a major offender too.
2012 WILL be the year of the Linux (HP) Desktop.
He was just swiching from trading illegal, addictive substances to other market addictive, but this time legal, things, and they put him in jail?
Windows won't have an interface meant for i.e. tablets till late next year. If they want an OS for a full range of devices they should go in a way or another Linux, be Android, WebOS, MeeGo, or even normal distributions like Ubuntu with the right desktop environment. Even Maemo would be a better alternative if hadnt so much closed components. Not sure which other alternatives are around, iOS? Playbook's OS? Apple/RIM won't license to others their OSs, they want to sell the devices and keep the ecosystem for themselves.
Some of those "shady ad networks" gets blocked by chrome and probably some security plugins/extensions for other browsers because they are used to serve malware, so i bet facebook or fb app devels will cry foul when google blocks them because of those ads, not for being facebook.
How would be named devices based on aerogel batteries? Vaporware?
The last mimzy should teach them what hollywood do to your prefered tales when you don't behave. And IBM will just make it even (if possible) worse.
well... an average human driver could take the wheel.
So this will be the trade market version of the thiotimoline?
Or the Schroedinger version of it, if something bad happens you can't decide if nothing of value was lost, or the very meaning of value got lost.
My N900 is the computer i use more in a way or another most days. But it don't replace my PC, complements it. Sometimes i need far more horsepower, memory, and bigger screen and input devices than my phone, and in that tasks the Atrix would fall short too. I don't know if future devices (using i.e. the Sixth Sense approach?) will improve a lot input and output of information for small devices, that coupled with improvements in battery, cpu and memory could make the PC less needed.
Maybe im using PC too much as synonymous of desktop computer (or big/powerful laptop), but still, odds should be even smaller than netbooks replacing PCs still.
He blowed up the last chance to finally get intelligent life on earth getting rid of that meteorite.
That seems to be the last word twist of microsoft of anything related with security, right to the mind of their workers. Work by yourself or for anyone else is insecure, so keep working for us, uh, and, you must give us a share of whar you make in your own time for "protection".
So is better that be the government that do the law breaking thing instead of citizens or foreigners? Shouldnt it give the example, instead of doing the same or worse?
Unless you noticed that similar approaches were already used in things like this (of course that their new minion will sue them, but still)
Probably people from 100-200 years ago would not feel as bad, even if seeing it live. In this TED talk is argued that we feel more the violence than before, that somewhat empathy is more cultural than, well, being human. And we feel less empathy, specially the suffering part, on non real characters, unless you do the "based in a real story" trick.
worked for Mark Twain in Riverworld, even if is science fiction instead of historic one. And, btw, Tolkien should had been around there too.