I'm also a little annoyed Android doesn't support SD encryption
I think Android 3.x does. You can also buy WhisperCore for earlier devices (not that I'd trust encryption I can't compile myself). I think there was a port of LUKS to Android 2 as well. But only the newest mobil eCPU's (e.g. in the Droid 3) have hardware AES, so it's going to eat battery on older stuff (and most Android phone already have terrible battery life).
When I can get 3 days charge and encryption on an Android phone I'm buying one, full unlocked price.
Quite right. Our problem at the moment, though, is that governments have appointed themselves to the 'superhuman dictator' role (von Mises's term, not mine) when their track record of predictions has proven to be quite poor. At least spreading that money out over a vast populous ensures the good ideas won't get neglected, even if some of the poor ones get malinvestments too.
Do you do import/export work? I've never heard of a 50-400% markup to pay for container shipping that people are talking about here. Since the market isn't finding an optimal solution, there's bound to be somebody interfering with it.
4) I'm not sure why you trhink man isn't effecting tyhe climate and why it's OCD egoism to want to take action against it.
It's because all the narrow-minded proposed actions by governments won't solve the problem and will wreck economies, which are needed to actually solve the problems.
Bad: shut down 25% of the world's economic output to maintain a CO2 concentration that's still being debated as a leading or trailing indicator.
Good: get everybody on the planet up to a middle-class lifestyle so they can stop burning dung for cooking fuel, and use the excess production of such a society to fund research needed to get nuclear fusion and superconductivity actually working in a commercial setting.
It's easy to say, "well just stop burning now" but that doesn't help - at best it prolongs the problem. It's hard to say, "burn more now so we can stop burning at all in 50 years."
You can certainly look at the portion of our resources that leave the country. Based on that you can come up with a pretty good estimate of how much would have been spend in the US versus outside the US.
Right, if it's spent on commodities that's true, but what if it's spend on developing new businesses or products; an inventor in his garage that can afford that extra part he really needed, etc. This is all 'the unseen' that is prevented from occurring.
Also, if people simply had a bunch more money what would really happen is inflation. Take a look at the housing bubble. Large low-interest loans were easy to get so people were willing to pay more for housing. Now that loans are harder to get the price of housing is dropping.
Agreed, artificially fixing interest rates is a really bad idea.
Similarly, someone with a bunch more money won't think much of paying $30 where they would have previously hesitated to pay $20.
Quite so, but I'm not making the connection back to DARPA here.
Except that Android phones have abysmal battery life most of the time.
I have a Nook Color that lasts for several days on a charge. Bigger screen than any phone too.
I don't have an Android phone because, indeed, the battery life tends to suck (my LG 'feature-phone' lasts 4 days) and hardware encryption is just barely coming out, but I don't think you can blame a VM for the power budget of radio sets.
This is only true if the money taken would not have been put to more useful purposes had it not been taken. You can't say if it would have been or not, but you're told to trust the 'superhuman dictator' to make better decisions than everybody else.
Therefore, the best bet for humanity's long-term survival is to get at least some of us off this rock at distances so vast that near-instantaneous travel from place to place is infeasible.
Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophenes.. and all of this.. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars. -JMS
It's all true, but it has nothing to do with DARPA's mandate. They might as well work on faster-cooking spaghetti.
The whole POINT of DARPA is to throw money at projects
that have vital national defense applications for the USA. The Internet was built to enable reliable communications in the event of a nuclear war. Easy, direct application.
that aren't likely to succeed right away
right.
because if DARPA doesn't do it, no one will and it will never get done.
For interstellar travel this isn't DARPA's problem. NSF, maybe, but DARPA is over-funded at least to the degree it can spend money on this kind of project.
Google is buying Motorola MOBILITY. Who owns MM? Motorola.
How do you figure? Motorola Mobility is a separate company. Motorola is likely a very large shareholder.
Who do you think is getting 12 billion?
It looks like this one actually is an all-cash deal, so the money will go to the shareholders.
If you could buy a company for $12 billion which you then got back, *I* could have bought Motorola Mobility.
Well, many m&a deals are stock-swaps, but this one isn't. You don't issue valuable stock, so you couldn't buy MM.
If either stock was taking a hit over this, I'd say it was a good time to buy.
If you think so, go ahead.
What's with the intentional mis-quote?
But in reality I'm not buying or selling GOOG, I'm staying far away from the whole thing.
Me too, the entire US stock market - any Google returns are aren't likely to keep pace with the dollar devaluation. But in nominal terms, we can check back in a year and see who was right.
Your link claims Google has an advantage of being open while not understanding that Google has closed down Honeycomb (no you can not download it from the link you provided).
Well, you can download the GPL parts, just not the whole image yet. Google has promised that that the subsequent release will be open again (Slashdot covered this).
If Google does follow through on that promise, does that change your perspective?
You should read the papers. It might be possible to fake, but it's very useful for everything that's carefully constructed to foil this sort of analysis.
Then I would think you'd be rather more upset given the number of hardware makers that are going to switch away from Android after this.
People have counted Microsoft out but Microsoft is perfectly positioned to take over all of the gains Android has enjoyed, and is now telling handset makers "we are the only mobile OS not competing with you".
These guys know that Google is buying Motorola specifically because Microsoft and Apple attacked their businesses (and demanded licensing fees from many of them). They have more advantages by staying with Google.
No, you apparently don't; Look at Motoroa Mobile's balance sheet, assets are around 9 billion, but OBLIGATIONS (debt and other money owed) is the same amount - in fact slightly higher.
Right, but if you follow it through, Google is paying $12B to Motorola. Who they're going to acquire. The money will go back to Google, except the Motorola shareholders will have an inflated percentage of Google shares vs. if they had gone to e.Trade and traded a swap. It only costs Google $12B if all of Motorola's shareholders cash out and nobody comes in behind them. Likely they're rather happier to be owning the joint shares. I guess this is where Microsoft's PR budget can come in handy - to try to persuade some of them to sell.
If either stock was taking a hit over this, I'd say it was a good time to buy. Except I'm not investing in any USD-denominated investments.
The weird thing is I've never heard any other self-professed libertarian argue for this, or even make a distinction between corporations and people like this.
They don't need to. There is software that authenticates originals vs. 'shopped versions. IIRC, it analyzes entropy in the frequency domain and can make a 'heat map' of doctored images.
Given the proven track record of linux in-house, do you think, when the time comes and Oracle forks Java from OpenJDK, that there's enough industry support to help fund the OpenJDK effort, or will they go back to proprietary?
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I'm also a little annoyed Android doesn't support SD encryption
I think Android 3.x does. You can also buy WhisperCore for earlier devices (not that I'd trust encryption I can't compile myself). I think there was a port of LUKS to Android 2 as well. But only the newest mobil eCPU's (e.g. in the Droid 3) have hardware AES, so it's going to eat battery on older stuff (and most Android phone already have terrible battery life).
When I can get 3 days charge and encryption on an Android phone I'm buying one, full unlocked price.
IIRC, Xen will have the VGA bits in the Linux 3.1 kernel that you need for this kind of setup. So, give it a few more weeks.
Oh, wow, I enjoyed Web Techniques back in the day. Thanks for that.
Quite right. Our problem at the moment, though, is that governments have appointed themselves to the 'superhuman dictator' role (von Mises's term, not mine) when their track record of predictions has proven to be quite poor. At least spreading that money out over a vast populous ensures the good ideas won't get neglected, even if some of the poor ones get malinvestments too.
substituting one middle-man like me
Do you do import/export work? I've never heard of a 50-400% markup to pay for container shipping that people are talking about here. Since the market isn't finding an optimal solution, there's bound to be somebody interfering with it.
4) I'm not sure why you trhink man isn't effecting tyhe climate and why it's OCD egoism to want to take action against it.
It's because all the narrow-minded proposed actions by governments won't solve the problem and will wreck economies, which are needed to actually solve the problems.
Bad: shut down 25% of the world's economic output to maintain a CO2 concentration that's still being debated as a leading or trailing indicator.
Good: get everybody on the planet up to a middle-class lifestyle so they can stop burning dung for cooking fuel, and use the excess production of such a society to fund research needed to get nuclear fusion and superconductivity actually working in a commercial setting.
It's easy to say, "well just stop burning now" but that doesn't help - at best it prolongs the problem. It's hard to say, "burn more now so we can stop burning at all in 50 years."
You can certainly look at the portion of our resources that leave the country. Based on that you can come up with a pretty good estimate of how much would have been spend in the US versus outside the US.
Right, if it's spent on commodities that's true, but what if it's spend on developing new businesses or products; an inventor in his garage that can afford that extra part he really needed, etc. This is all 'the unseen' that is prevented from occurring.
Also, if people simply had a bunch more money what would really happen is inflation. Take a look at the housing bubble. Large low-interest loans were easy to get so people were willing to pay more for housing. Now that loans are harder to get the price of housing is dropping.
Agreed, artificially fixing interest rates is a really bad idea.
Similarly, someone with a bunch more money won't think much of paying $30 where they would have previously hesitated to pay $20.
Quite so, but I'm not making the connection back to DARPA here.
Except that Android phones have abysmal battery life most of the time.
I have a Nook Color that lasts for several days on a charge. Bigger screen than any phone too.
I don't have an Android phone because, indeed, the battery life tends to suck (my LG 'feature-phone' lasts 4 days) and hardware encryption is just barely coming out, but I don't think you can blame a VM for the power budget of radio sets.
I use a USB foot pedal to turn pages.
oh? Forward and back? Mapped to key sequences? Have you hacked up automatic note tracking yet?
This is only true if the money taken would not have been put to more useful purposes had it not been taken. You can't say if it would have been or not, but you're told to trust the 'superhuman dictator' to make better decisions than everybody else.
Forget civillian. Which passenger wants to know they have NO pilot.
Air France passengers.
VMs just don't play well in embedded environments.
Yet, Android seems to be doing just fine.
Therefore, the best bet for humanity's long-term survival is to get at least some of us off this rock at distances so vast that near-instantaneous travel from place to place is infeasible.
It's all true, but it has nothing to do with DARPA's mandate. They might as well work on faster-cooking spaghetti.
The whole POINT of DARPA is to throw money at projects
that have vital national defense applications for the USA. The Internet was built to enable reliable communications in the event of a nuclear war. Easy, direct application.
that aren't likely to succeed right away
right.
because if DARPA doesn't do it, no one will and it will never get done.
For interstellar travel this isn't DARPA's problem. NSF, maybe, but DARPA is over-funded at least to the degree it can spend money on this kind of project.
WRONG!!!!!!!!!
Hat tip, Mr. McLaughlin!
Google is buying Motorola MOBILITY. Who owns MM? Motorola.
How do you figure? Motorola Mobility is a separate company. Motorola is likely a very large shareholder.
Who do you think is getting 12 billion?
It looks like this one actually is an all-cash deal, so the money will go to the shareholders.
If you could buy a company for $12 billion which you then got back, *I* could have bought Motorola Mobility.
Well, many m&a deals are stock-swaps, but this one isn't. You don't issue valuable stock, so you couldn't buy MM.
If you think so, go ahead.
What's with the intentional mis-quote?
But in reality I'm not buying or selling GOOG, I'm staying far away from the whole thing.
Me too, the entire US stock market - any Google returns are aren't likely to keep pace with the dollar devaluation. But in nominal terms, we can check back in a year and see who was right.
Your link claims Google has an advantage of being open while not understanding that Google has closed down Honeycomb (no you can not download it from the link you provided).
Well, you can download the GPL parts, just not the whole image yet. Google has promised that that the subsequent release will be open again (Slashdot covered this).
If Google does follow through on that promise, does that change your perspective?
err, 'not carefully constructed'
That sounds like forensic voodoo.
You should read the papers. It might be possible to fake, but it's very useful for everything that's carefully constructed to foil this sort of analysis.
If I steal your TV, you have lost a TV.
And stimulated the economy! It's almost as good as a space-alien invasion!
Then I would think you'd be rather more upset given the number of hardware makers that are going to switch away from Android after this.
People have counted Microsoft out but Microsoft is perfectly positioned to take over all of the gains Android has enjoyed, and is now telling handset makers "we are the only mobile OS not competing with you".
These guys know that Google is buying Motorola specifically because Microsoft and Apple attacked their businesses (and demanded licensing fees from many of them). They have more advantages by staying with Google.
No, you apparently don't; Look at Motoroa Mobile's balance sheet, assets are around 9 billion, but OBLIGATIONS (debt and other money owed) is the same amount - in fact slightly higher.
Right, but if you follow it through, Google is paying $12B to Motorola. Who they're going to acquire. The money will go back to Google, except the Motorola shareholders will have an inflated percentage of Google shares vs. if they had gone to e.Trade and traded a swap. It only costs Google $12B if all of Motorola's shareholders cash out and nobody comes in behind them. Likely they're rather happier to be owning the joint shares. I guess this is where Microsoft's PR budget can come in handy - to try to persuade some of them to sell.
If either stock was taking a hit over this, I'd say it was a good time to buy. Except I'm not investing in any USD-denominated investments.
The weird thing is I've never heard any other self-professed libertarian argue for this, or even make a distinction between corporations and people like this.
Adjust your comment scoring.
yeah, the courts will buy that one
They don't need to. There is software that authenticates originals vs. 'shopped versions. IIRC, it analyzes entropy in the frequency domain and can make a 'heat map' of doctored images.
Given the proven track record of linux in-house, do you think, when the time comes and Oracle forks Java from OpenJDK, that there's enough industry support to help fund the OpenJDK effort, or will they go back to proprietary?
The House of Representatives is 100% Republocrat.
Republocrats favor bigger government, more federal concentration of power, a bigger military industrial complex
Either your definition or your percentage needs revision.