Speeding is also wrong. In fact, if you speed, you are actually putting your and other people's lives in danger. Now let's see - endager people's lives, a few points on your license and a hundred dollars or so fine. Download 24 songs, a >$200,000 fine. Yep. Makes a LOT of sense.
it's unfortunate the jurors in this case blindly followed the instruction to judge "on the law", and not on conscience
Considering the fact that the majority of jurors are people not smart enough to get out of jury duty, I wouldn't hold my breath for an intelligent decision on the behalf of ANY jury.
they'd be forced to use your own single version. And as businesses are involved in making money, that's certainly the better alternative vs forking.
That business model is rapidly becoming out-dated. It's too vertical, and the world has changed. No one will support lock in for much longer. Now I have a choice - there are plenty of very good alternatives that have a few kinks but can be modified to something closer than what I need for FAR less than the privilege of nursing at a single corporation's teat at monopoly prices. Traditional companies are seeing this and screaming "lock them in, lock them in!". Tomorrow's leaders are saying "open the door, open the door!". Watch - you'll see.
Different users want different things. If you end up with "One Big App" that tries to do everything anyone could ever dream of, you'll have all the creative, hard to find bugs, flaws and design problems that go along with such complexity. Which is where we're at today with slow, bloated, buggy programs.
Remember that the whole POINT of software is to specialize. I'd rather see many forks of smaller, specialized, GOOD apps than the "One App to Rule Them All" approach. So long as we keep track of all the different versions and where they particularly shine and figure out a way to search for the "right version for me", forks should not be a problem but a BONUS.
you'll wake up one day with the entire project forked by a competing company.
That really doesn't matter. People will use the program that suits them most. Forked or not.
It's like having kids. You splice your DNA to your partner's DNA, and who knows what you end up with. Some will be decent people, others will be downright brats. Society as a whole will take care of deciding which "version" is worthy of success. Just because one of your kids turns out to be a brat doesn't mean everyone should stop having kids. The more variety the better.
Instead of curing us with prayer, doctors kill our precious children by refusing to prescribe antibiotics.
Speaking as a doctor I would appreciate if you could provide proof of this claim (other than the ramblings of a lunatic). Considering the continuing increased life expectancy of humans in the developed world, and the decreased infant mortality rates prevalent over the past and this century, I'd say that medical science has a fair grasp of what it's doing. Although it's hard to pair statistics to an individual person, as tools for determining trends in populations they are pretty darned useful and truthful.
Your comment is a perfect example of why YOU are not allowed to prescribe antibiotics.
Although living cells are *mostly* carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, several other elements are indispensable to life.
And you won't get very far without iron and/or some other transition element that you can use to push electrons around to catalyze reactions. I'm not thinking hemoglobin but rather oxidative phosphorylation/electron transport chains or some xenobiochemical equivalent.
The other problem is that life on earth thrives because we are able to create a "barrier" between the polar world around us by using phospholipids. That way we can divide the world into "the water outside the cell" and "the water inside the cell", and then control the "inside" to our liking.
In a methane world, where your solvent will presumably be some organic substance, instead of water: what do you use as an relatively impermeable barrier? Personally I'd love to see organisms with crystalline cell walls, however I imagine growth and reproduction would be a bitch.
You still need an ISP to use satellite internet, and generally that ISP is in your home country.
Completely wrong. Obviously you haven't spent much time in the 3rd world. In the 3rd world country I live in, there is (legally) only ONE ISP - the official government telco. And they do offer satellite, at extortionate pricing (after all, they are reselling the bandwidth on a bird owned by Hughes (or whoever)). So a black market develops, where you can get a local nerd to install the uplink for you, and you create an account through a foreign ISP. Therefore the local government knows nothing about this "illegal" uplink.
At least that's how it works in my country. I imagine Burma is not that much different.
How could you do a physical exam without being physically present?
With today's technology it's not possible. But maybe one day it WILL be possible to do even THAT. The drive towards "cheaper" is indirectly pushing us to develop something that lets us do just that. That's why no one knows what the future holds. Who would have guessed 20 years ago that we could send video anywhere in the world for basically no charge?
Wanna bet? I have news for you. A lot of medical jobs are ALREADY being outsourced. I can zap your CT scan to India this evening and have the radiology report back in a few hours - definitely by tomorrow morning, for cheaper than waking up the local radiology attending.
Apple won concessions from AT&T that were unprecedented. Some of these were really good for users, like a cheap plan with unlimited internet access.
I am willing to bet it's an even better deal for AT&T.
Apple's actions fly into the face of the reasoning that has brought the world such enormous progress in the past decade or so - namely interoperability, openness, and empowerment of the end user. Enjoy your iPhones. I for one am CERTAIN now that I will never buy one.
Microsoft's licensing and copy protection issues are not "DRM" issues. It's licensing issues.
And licensing issues have to do with "rights", specifically taking rights away from you and giving them to Microsoft. Since Microsoft is now trying to enforce the conditions of it's license via your computer with a digital, automated system, I think the DRM abbreviation applies.
What, when "DRM" is used to enforce the licenses on entertainment media, suddenly it's different?
I have a fresh Office 2K7 installation and also a Visio 2K7. Visio is not activated yet. I was still able to validate and install the PDF plugin two days ago without a problem.
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downloading the songs illegally was wrong.
Speeding is also wrong. In fact, if you speed, you are actually putting your and other people's lives in danger. Now let's see - endager people's lives, a few points on your license and a hundred dollars or so fine. Download 24 songs, a >$200,000 fine. Yep. Makes a LOT of sense.
it's unfortunate the jurors in this case blindly followed the instruction to judge "on the law", and not on conscience
Considering the fact that the majority of jurors are people not smart enough to get out of jury duty, I wouldn't hold my breath for an intelligent decision on the behalf of ANY jury.
Sorry, but wrong, the ship will be vibrating at the source of the leak.
:)
But not for very long, depending on the size of the leak.
"Hey look we have a leak in section 2, the sensors have - oh, no, it's fine now..."
they'd be forced to use your own single version.
And as businesses are involved in making money, that's certainly the better alternative vs forking.
That business model is rapidly becoming out-dated. It's too vertical, and the world has changed. No one will support lock in for much longer. Now I have a choice - there are plenty of very good alternatives that have a few kinks but can be modified to something closer than what I need for FAR less than the privilege of nursing at a single corporation's teat at monopoly prices. Traditional companies are seeing this and screaming "lock them in, lock them in!". Tomorrow's leaders are saying "open the door, open the door!". Watch - you'll see.
Different users want different things. If you end up with "One Big App" that tries to do everything anyone could ever dream of, you'll have all the creative, hard to find bugs, flaws and design problems that go along with such complexity. Which is where we're at today with slow, bloated, buggy programs.
Remember that the whole POINT of software is to specialize. I'd rather see many forks of smaller, specialized, GOOD apps than the "One App to Rule Them All" approach. So long as we keep track of all the different versions and where they particularly shine and figure out a way to search for the "right version for me", forks should not be a problem but a BONUS.
Oh no, it gets better than that. You're going to have to buy a copy every single time you REMEMBER a song.
And the 1 million dollar question is: "Is Sun forcing IBM to hand over the ownership on all of its contributions?".
:)
No, but they'll just quietly patent everything
you'll wake up one day with the entire project forked by a competing company.
That really doesn't matter. People will use the program that suits them most. Forked or not.
It's like having kids. You splice your DNA to your partner's DNA, and who knows what you end up with. Some will be decent people, others will be downright brats. Society as a whole will take care of deciding which "version" is worthy of success. Just because one of your kids turns out to be a brat doesn't mean everyone should stop having kids. The more variety the better.
I tried to think of a car analogy, but couldn't.
Instead of curing us with prayer, doctors kill our precious children by refusing to prescribe antibiotics.
Speaking as a doctor I would appreciate if you could provide proof of this claim (other than the ramblings of a lunatic). Considering the continuing increased life expectancy of humans in the developed world, and the decreased infant mortality rates prevalent over the past and this century, I'd say that medical science has a fair grasp of what it's doing. Although it's hard to pair statistics to an individual person, as tools for determining trends in populations they are pretty darned useful and truthful.
Your comment is a perfect example of why YOU are not allowed to prescribe antibiotics.
but good luck getting through spaceport security when methane is a liquid.
Fortunately the security people will also be completely solid at those temperatures, so getting through security should be a breeze...
Sun is not the only source of energy out there.
Can't wait to see the earthquake-harvesting bacteria thriving off the aftershocks !
Although living cells are *mostly* carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, several other elements are indispensable to life.
And you won't get very far without iron and/or some other transition element that you can use to push electrons around to catalyze reactions. I'm not thinking hemoglobin but rather oxidative phosphorylation/electron transport chains or some xenobiochemical equivalent.
The other problem is that life on earth thrives because we are able to create a "barrier" between the polar world around us by using phospholipids. That way we can divide the world into "the water outside the cell" and "the water inside the cell", and then control the "inside" to our liking.
In a methane world, where your solvent will presumably be some organic substance, instead of water: what do you use as an relatively impermeable barrier? Personally I'd love to see organisms with crystalline cell walls, however I imagine growth and reproduction would be a bitch.
LOL! I'm in Costa Rica virtually in the middle of the jungle and I have 1Mbit down 256kbit up, for $25 a month. Enjoying your "freedom" are you?
In my experience, copper CAN'T compete with Fiber. Does that mean that this really doesn't apply?
That's like saying KFC doesn't compete with McDonald's.
There are almost 60 subtypes of diabetes, according to the latest studies. Although for convenience we like to keep them in two major groups.
Do try to keep up with the times.
You still need an ISP to use satellite internet, and generally that ISP is in your home country.
Completely wrong. Obviously you haven't spent much time in the 3rd world. In the 3rd world country I live in, there is (legally) only ONE ISP - the official government telco. And they do offer satellite, at extortionate pricing (after all, they are reselling the bandwidth on a bird owned by Hughes (or whoever)). So a black market develops, where you can get a local nerd to install the uplink for you, and you create an account through a foreign ISP. Therefore the local government knows nothing about this "illegal" uplink.
At least that's how it works in my country. I imagine Burma is not that much different.
Could they block that?
No, but they can probably DF it and pay the owners a visit to "pull the plug", so to speak.
You can't use an iPhone in Burma. So there. See? It DOES have something to do with the iPhone.
This is like ignoring a "No Trespassing" sign, then getting shot. Don't Follow instructions; pay the consequences.
If you think you can shoot someone dead for trespassing - good luck with that.
How could you do a physical exam without being physically present?
With today's technology it's not possible. But maybe one day it WILL be possible to do even THAT. The drive towards "cheaper" is indirectly pushing us to develop something that lets us do just that. That's why no one knows what the future holds. Who would have guessed 20 years ago that we could send video anywhere in the world for basically no charge?
You really can't outsource doctors and lawyers.
Wanna bet? I have news for you. A lot of medical jobs are ALREADY being outsourced. I can zap your CT scan to India this evening and have the radiology report back in a few hours - definitely by tomorrow morning, for cheaper than waking up the local radiology attending.
It's like they can't do anything without being monitored anymore.
:)
If they haven't done anything wrong, surely they shouldn't mind being monitored. After all, turnabout is fair play, right?
Apple won concessions from AT&T that were unprecedented. Some of these were really good for users, like a cheap plan with unlimited internet access.
I am willing to bet it's an even better deal for AT&T.
Apple's actions fly into the face of the reasoning that has brought the world such enormous progress in the past decade or so - namely interoperability, openness, and empowerment of the end user. Enjoy your iPhones. I for one am CERTAIN now that I will never buy one.
Microsoft's licensing and copy protection issues are not "DRM" issues. It's licensing issues.
And licensing issues have to do with "rights", specifically taking rights away from you and giving them to Microsoft. Since Microsoft is now trying to enforce the conditions of it's license via your computer with a digital, automated system, I think the DRM abbreviation applies.
What, when "DRM" is used to enforce the licenses on entertainment media, suddenly it's different?
I have a fresh Office 2K7 installation and also a Visio 2K7. Visio is not activated yet. I was still able to validate and install the PDF plugin two days ago without a problem.
That's only because you pirated it.