Copyright should be a good thing. It's called copyright, as in "the right to make a copy". But in a few decades, Hollywood, the MPPA, the RIAA and Disney butchered copyright laws to a point where the spirit of it isn't even there anymore. They've twisted it into "it's only to protect us, screw everyone else and screw the public domain".
Is this guy insane? I only pay $9 for Netflix and I can watch a lot of movies for that low price. Sure, I have to wait months or even years, but in the end I've watched the same movies as everybody else. My money is better spent elsewhere, like rent and food.
Can the Nook, or any other e-reader, be used as a computer USB display out of the box? How about hacks? Can the 5th generation Kindle be hacked to do that?
The whole concept of [rewards] has gotta be the most wildly optimistic crime-fighting idea. I mean, so how does it work? Okay. I'm on line at the post office. I see [a poster of the stolen item]. I check [around]. If it's not [there], that's pretty much all I can do. Okay? It's not that I don't want to help.
Doctor: Mrs. Simpson, I'm sorry, but your husband suffers from a persecution complex, extreme paranoia, and... bladder hostility. Marge: Doctor, if you just talk to him for five minutes without mentioning our town Springfield, you'd see how sane he is. Doctor: You mean there really is a Springfield? Good lord!
Same thing happens in other fields, too. Example: Jonathan Ive is a great industrial designer but he should never have been put in charge of the user interfaces nor in charge of the engineering. What's the point of thin desktop computers?
For decades, the tiny ships will tore across the empty wastes of space to finally dive on to the first planet they come across, where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire space fleet will be accidentally swallowed by a small dog.
I'm saying that the only way to be sure these days is by using open-source software on single board computers, such as the Raspberry Pi. But even then, you need to trust all the ICs on the damn thing but at least there's only a few of them to test.
How about the prices I mentioned but with a contract duration allowing Google to break-even on the installation cost with early termination fees that requires to pay whatever cost is left from that $300?
They should simply split the speeds into tiers. They went from free 5Mbps to $50 for 100Mbps. The price increase is too high and they land in the same price range as the alternatives, although offering a much higher speed.
How about $10 per 20Mbps, $12.50 per 25Mbps or at the very least $25 per 50Mbps? That would give them multiple prices to accommodate people who can't afford more.
At some point it's gonna figure out that scared humans listen to his suggestions more often than happy humans. Don't have to progress far from there and you have an evil overlord ruling it's subjects through fear.
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Copyright should be a good thing. It's called copy right, as in "the right to make a copy". But in a few decades, Hollywood, the MPPA, the RIAA and Disney butchered copyright laws to a point where the spirit of it isn't even there anymore. They've twisted it into "it's only to protect us, screw everyone else and screw the public domain".
Is this guy insane? I only pay $9 for Netflix and I can watch a lot of movies for that low price. Sure, I have to wait months or even years, but in the end I've watched the same movies as everybody else. My money is better spent elsewhere, like rent and food.
Can the Nook, or any other e-reader, be used as a computer USB display out of the box? How about hacks? Can the 5th generation Kindle be hacked to do that?
The whole concept of [rewards] has gotta be the most wildly optimistic crime-fighting idea. I mean, so how does it work? Okay. I'm on line at the post office. I see [a poster of the stolen item]. I check [around]. If it's not [there], that's pretty much all I can do. Okay? It's not that I don't want to help.
Doctor: Mrs. Simpson, I'm sorry, but your husband suffers from a persecution complex, extreme paranoia, and... bladder hostility.
Marge: Doctor, if you just talk to him for five minutes without mentioning our town Springfield, you'd see how sane he is.
Doctor: You mean there really is a Springfield? Good lord!
Same thing happens in other fields, too. Example: Jonathan Ive is a great industrial designer but he should never have been put in charge of the user interfaces nor in charge of the engineering. What's the point of thin desktop computers?
No, silly. You just reverse the polarity and/or modulate the shield frequency.
And between you and Hawking, who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?
Oh great, now the damn things will need to run Java.
For decades, the tiny ships will tore across the empty wastes of space to finally dive on to the first planet they come across, where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire space fleet will be accidentally swallowed by a small dog.
They should have named it Odo.
Take your stinking javascript off my USB devices, you damned dirty Google! - George Taylor
Open-source compiler?
If the CPU, flash/etc ICs are made in China then you can't trust made-in-not-China devices either.
1) Internet of Things devices could do things I don't want them to.
FTFY.
And as all Slashdot readers know, 24-bit apps are six times better than 4-bit apps, right?
What's the point of these pointless "apps!" comments? Where's the Chobits guy?
No, what do you mean "nuke them from orbit"? WTF?
I'm saying that the only way to be sure these days is by using open-source software on single board computers, such as the Raspberry Pi. But even then, you need to trust all the ICs on the damn thing but at least there's only a few of them to test.
You better go right now, before they have time to assemble their army with an allen key!
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P.S.: why is your email charlesbaer@outlook.com? Shouldn't it be charlesbaer@gig15.com? .gig!
How about the prices I mentioned but with a contract duration allowing Google to break-even on the installation cost with early termination fees that requires to pay whatever cost is left from that $300?
They should simply split the speeds into tiers. They went from free 5Mbps to $50 for 100Mbps. The price increase is too high and they land in the same price range as the alternatives, although offering a much higher speed.
How about $10 per 20Mbps, $12.50 per 25Mbps or at the very least $25 per 50Mbps? That would give them multiple prices to accommodate people who can't afford more.
Is that not what people downloading kiddie porn are doing?
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You just described American politics.
It's more like a Wernstrom coalitioner.