In 2000 GPS chips cost much more than they do now, probably several time the cost of a cheap phone. What you call "GPS" is actually trilateration, which works by measuring the distance between the terminal and 3 base stations whose location is known. Basic geometry. It also does not require any info being sent back by the phone, and there's nothing you can do against it without dropping off the network. It's a simple consequence of how cell networks work: it has to know in which cell you are so that it can reach you should someone call you. What phones can do now wrt trilateration that they couldn't in 2000 is get the localisation info back from the network. I have this on my corporate blackberry, it works well and arguably better than GPS in a city, where base towers are aplenty and buildings block satellite signals. Newer phones (such as iPáone 3G) can combine both techniques.
What he (and you) describe is not vendor lock-in. When the vendor lets you go with the source code, no question asked, it's not vendor lock-in. Period.
You're describing an hypothetical situation (code soooo hard to maintain but the vendor can) without even providing an example for it. I doubt you could -- it's completely ridiculous.
Every time the bastards get slapped with an as ginormous as ridiculous patent infringement judgement as this, I hope they see the light and start opposing software patents. Hey, a boy can dream.
I know those BS NRA talking points. Those numbers have nothing to do with each other. Falling, for fuck's sake, is a fact of life. It happened before guns existed. Those 776 deaths, on the other hand, could have been avoided by simply taking away the god damn guns.
You might fantasize about Hitler's second coming as a result of gun control as much as you want. But even if that scenario was a possibility, it would still be true that those 776 people wouldn't have died without those guns. Because with that kind of argument you could justify anything; after all, tobacco companies could (and probably have) say that people die anyway, and so many more die of causes unrelated to smoking, so why target us?
In any case, I'm talking about deliberate killings. Murders. I've seen enough assholes get worked up on the road over nothing that I don't want to have to entertain the possibility that they have a pistol in their glove compartment.
Frederic Mitterrand, the nephew of the former president, just appointed by our dumbass in chief Sarkzy, just stated that he wanted to fight "free [libre] internet fundamentalists."
I sooo wanted to cockpunch the son of a bitch. And the god damn sarkock-sucking media who didn't point out the outrageous nature of that fascist statement.
Well, with the exception of the UK (too far gone past 1984) this kind of shit doesn't happen in strictly gun-controlled western Europe, because seeing such a gun is so unlikely that most people will assume it's a toy or something.
Our pigs are just as fucktarded as the typical US donut muncher, but they have the luxury of not having to assume every jaywalker is going to start shooting. As a result, they still have to use their hands or not-100%-lethal flashballs to beat up journalists. Old school shit. Should they pull their guns, they would have to fill lots of forms afterwards, and that would considerably eat into their free time. So little time, so many pastis bottles to empty.
Anyway, I trust the 2nd amendment brigade will vote me down with thoughtful historical references to Hitler taking the guns of the Jews (that's exactly how WWII started) and Stalin denying conceal-carry to Sakkharov resulting in the Cuban missile crisis, but I thought you needed to be reminded of the cost of that particular hobby, err I mean "freedom."
I have critical services (mail, DNS, web) on the expensive hosting and non-critical ones (basic monitoring, backup and video hosting) on the cheap BW one.
But thankfully we have the EU so you can easily buy from a number of neighbouring country that don't implement that scam/scheme. I can only guess it will be the same thing with the US. There is something completely retarded about this concept of making iPod users pay. They're likely to buy overpriced crap from iTunes. So once again the music industry is showing how much they despise their customer base. I long for the day a jetliner full of music industry execs crashes into a volcano. I will pop the Champagne and dance in the street.
See dedibox.fr. They offer dedicated servers (originally custom-built VIA boards with 120G HDD, probably much better by now) with 100Mbps and completely unlimited traffic, for â30/month. Another company has virtualized hosting that even cheaper, but you pay more for storage (on a SAN).
No transfer quota. For instance I have a few low usage servers (mail and backups for a few small biz), I pay for 2Mbps with 100M burst. This means that I can use 100M 5% of the time as long as I don't use more than 2M 95% of the time. But bandwidth is extremely cheap around here.
Have you tried reading a patent? It's complete gobbledygook. On purpose, so that they can confuse a jury and stretch their claims to anything they can vaguely relate to. Anyway, even in my field of expertise, I have absolutely no idea what the patents say. No fucking idea. So trying to read them is a complete waste of time anyway.
the third option (the one implied by the quote above), continue selling infringing product in the hopes that you don't get caught is stupid and anyone who does that deserves to pay triple.
You never get "caught" infringing patents, esp. software patents. Well at least, you don't get "caught" if you show you didn't know about the patent, as in, you don't get punitive damages, or at least you don't get assraped half as hard. Hence the policy, I believe it's indeed verbotten to discuss patents on linux-kernel IIRC.
We do. So your rhetorical question: "Who knows what profitable product there might be on mars?" is ret.. well the answer is "we do." Or rather we don't even need to go there to find out.
Both are caused by right wingers. Just look at all the rugged induhviduals (AKA libertardians) toeing the AEI line on global warming around here, or all the neo-nazis (AKA republicans in the US and likkudniks in Israel) advocating nuking Iran. All the other kinds of annihilation -- natural phenomenas -- have significantly lower probability in the short term. The risk of a big asteroid crashing on us is quite low. And while current tech would not allow us to colonize Mars, it would actually be enough to detect the most dangerous ones and deflect it (not with nukes but with more subtle means such as gravity tugging).
Not with current technology. Not very likely with 2030 technology either, assuming current progress rates continues. Maybe in 50 years' time.
If you send a few astronauts now, there's no way they can be self-sufficient. It's absolutely impossible. They'd have better odds being stranded in Antartica, with temps reaching -50ÂC -- but at least there's oxygen and you can hunt penguins. There's nothing on Mars. Nothing. Nothing to build anything.
Unless you set up a massive infrastructure there to begin with; but guess what: you can do that without humans. You just send robots to do that.
Even if there has been times where the earth was hotter than now, it's mostly been colder, which suggests that there is an equilibrium below.
Note that according to the snow ball earth hypothesis, there was a time when the system moved out of equilibrium but towards lower temperature. According to that hypothesis, it probably took a long build up of volcanic gases to get back to the current liquid water-friendly local minimum. If we were in a situation where most of the historical data showed higher temperatures, we would have to be careful not to tip the scale downward. Today, however, we have to worry about high temperatures.
At that time there were turkey-sized damselflies and pig-sized sea scorpions.
At other times, ice covered much of the earth. Sea levels were much lower. It looked very different.
And at other times the temperature was higher alright, although I don't think there were humans then, but that's not even the point. Your ugly strawman is acknowledged. The point is, if you were to revert to any of those states in the time frame we're talking about (a few decades) there would be *massive* destruction and suffering in very short order.
And in a million years, it will have been erased. (Hell if you wait enough millions of years there is no oil shortage problem.)
But you know what; millions of years ago it was hot, and 200 hundred years ago people died of an infected rasor cut. Not being a conservative, I'm not a fan of the good ole' days and the good ole' christian ways and I don't like the taste of the American Enterprise Institute's bullshit. I'm more interested in the future; that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
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In 2000 GPS chips cost much more than they do now, probably several time the cost of a cheap phone.
What you call "GPS" is actually trilateration, which works by measuring the distance between the terminal and 3 base stations whose location is known. Basic geometry. It also does not require any info being sent back by the phone, and there's nothing you can do against it without dropping off the network.
It's a simple consequence of how cell networks work: it has to know in which cell you are so that it can reach you should someone call you.
What phones can do now wrt trilateration that they couldn't in 2000 is get the localisation info back from the network. I have this on my corporate blackberry, it works well and arguably better than GPS in a city, where base towers are aplenty and buildings block satellite signals.
Newer phones (such as iPáone 3G) can combine both techniques.
So enterprises are like me: I don't care about cancer, I only care about the consequences of cancer, the part with the dying and shit.
Come on.
I got it perfectly right.
What he (and you) describe is not vendor lock-in. When the vendor lets you go with the source code, no question asked, it's not vendor lock-in. Period.
You're describing an hypothetical situation (code soooo hard to maintain but the vendor can) without even providing an example for it. I doubt you could -- it's completely ridiculous.
You're right, if we change the meaning of "vendor lock-in", then vendor lock-in is possible with Free Software!
But with the generally accepted one, no, it's not.
Every time the bastards get slapped with an as ginormous as ridiculous patent infringement judgement as this, I hope they see the light and start opposing software patents.
Hey, a boy can dream.
I know those BS NRA talking points. Those numbers have nothing to do with each other. Falling, for fuck's sake, is a fact of life. It happened before guns existed. Those 776 deaths, on the other hand, could have been avoided by simply taking away the god damn guns.
You might fantasize about Hitler's second coming as a result of gun control as much as you want. But even if that scenario was a possibility, it would still be true that those 776 people wouldn't have died without those guns. Because with that kind of argument you could justify anything; after all, tobacco companies could (and probably have) say that people die anyway, and so many more die of causes unrelated to smoking, so why target us?
In any case, I'm talking about deliberate killings. Murders. I've seen enough assholes get worked up on the road over nothing that I don't want to have to entertain the possibility that they have a pistol in their glove compartment.
I've stumbled a few times.
Never been shot.
Unless you're taking hostages you are unlikely to get shot.
Frederic Mitterrand, the nephew of the former president, just appointed by our dumbass in chief Sarkzy, just stated that he wanted to fight "free [libre] internet fundamentalists."
I sooo wanted to cockpunch the son of a bitch. And the god damn sarkock-sucking media who didn't point out the outrageous nature of that fascist statement.
Try to kill someone accidentally without a gun or something that requires a license.
Well, with the exception of the UK (too far gone past 1984) this kind of shit doesn't happen in strictly gun-controlled western Europe, because seeing such a gun is so unlikely that most people will assume it's a toy or something.
Our pigs are just as fucktarded as the typical US donut muncher, but they have the luxury of not having to assume every jaywalker is going to start shooting. As a result, they still have to use their hands or not-100%-lethal flashballs to beat up journalists. Old school shit. Should they pull their guns, they would have to fill lots of forms afterwards, and that would considerably eat into their free time. So little time, so many pastis bottles to empty.
Anyway, I trust the 2nd amendment brigade will vote me down with thoughtful historical references to Hitler taking the guns of the Jews (that's exactly how WWII started) and Stalin denying conceal-carry to Sakkharov resulting in the Cuban missile crisis, but I thought you needed to be reminded of the cost of that particular hobby, err I mean "freedom."
I have critical services (mail, DNS, web) on the expensive hosting and non-critical ones (basic monitoring, backup and video hosting) on the cheap BW one.
But thankfully we have the EU so you can easily buy from a number of neighbouring country that don't implement that scam/scheme. I can only guess it will be the same thing with the US.
There is something completely retarded about this concept of making iPod users pay. They're likely to buy overpriced crap from iTunes.
So once again the music industry is showing how much they despise their customer base.
I long for the day a jetliner full of music industry execs crashes into a volcano. I will pop the Champagne and dance in the street.
See dedibox.fr. They offer dedicated servers (originally custom-built VIA boards with 120G HDD, probably much better by now) with 100Mbps and completely unlimited traffic, for â30/month.
Another company has virtualized hosting that even cheaper, but you pay more for storage (on a SAN).
No transfer quota.
For instance I have a few low usage servers (mail and backups for a few small biz), I pay for 2Mbps with 100M burst. This means that I can use 100M 5% of the time as long as I don't use more than 2M 95% of the time.
But bandwidth is extremely cheap around here.
Have you tried reading a patent? It's complete gobbledygook. On purpose, so that they can confuse a jury and stretch their claims to anything they can vaguely relate to. Anyway, even in my field of expertise, I have absolutely no idea what the patents say. No fucking idea. So trying to read them is a complete waste of time anyway.
You never get "caught" infringing patents, esp. software patents. Well at least, you don't get "caught" if you show you didn't know about the patent, as in, you don't get punitive damages, or at least you don't get assraped half as hard. Hence the policy, I believe it's indeed verbotten to discuss patents on linux-kernel IIRC.
We do. So your rhetorical question: "Who knows what profitable product there might be on mars?" is ret.. well the answer is "we do." Or rather we don't even need to go there to find out.
The main threats to humanity are:
Both are caused by right wingers. Just look at all the rugged induhviduals (AKA libertardians) toeing the AEI line on global warming around here, or all the neo-nazis (AKA republicans in the US and likkudniks in Israel) advocating nuking Iran.
All the other kinds of annihilation -- natural phenomenas -- have significantly lower probability in the short term. The risk of a big asteroid crashing on us is quite low. And while current tech would not allow us to colonize Mars, it would actually be enough to detect the most dangerous ones and deflect it (not with nukes but with more subtle means such as gravity tugging).
Not with current technology. Not very likely with 2030 technology either, assuming current progress rates continues. Maybe in 50 years' time.
If you send a few astronauts now, there's no way they can be self-sufficient. It's absolutely impossible. They'd have better odds being stranded in Antartica, with temps reaching -50ÂC -- but at least there's oxygen and you can hunt penguins.
There's nothing on Mars. Nothing. Nothing to build anything.
Unless you set up a massive infrastructure there to begin with; but guess what: you can do that without humans. You just send robots to do that.
If you're referring to the so-called "fairness doctrine," that was flushed down the crapper by Reagan.
Even if there has been times where the earth was hotter than now, it's mostly been colder, which suggests that there is an equilibrium below.
Note that according to the snow ball earth hypothesis, there was a time when the system moved out of equilibrium but towards lower temperature. According to that hypothesis, it probably took a long build up of volcanic gases to get back to the current liquid water-friendly local minimum. If we were in a situation where most of the historical data showed higher temperatures, we would have to be careful not to tip the scale downward. Today, however, we have to worry about high temperatures.
Again, I'm not saying you're wrong because you follow MiniFaux. I'm saying you've gotta be a braindead dittohead to be that wrong.
I just said they weren't an entertainment "industry."
An ad hominem is when someone says: "you're wrong because you're a dumbass"
I'm saying: "you're a dumbass because you're wrong."
It's called an insult.
Sorry for being a bit technical, but the topic is delicate.
At that time there were turkey-sized damselflies and pig-sized sea scorpions.
At other times, ice covered much of the earth. Sea levels were much lower. It looked very different.
And at other times the temperature was higher alright, although I don't think there were humans then, but that's not even the point. Your ugly strawman is acknowledged. The point is, if you were to revert to any of those states in the time frame we're talking about (a few decades) there would be *massive* destruction and suffering in very short order.
And in a million years, it will have been erased. (Hell if you wait enough millions of years there is no oil shortage problem.)
But you know what; millions of years ago it was hot, and 200 hundred years ago people died of an infected rasor cut. Not being a conservative, I'm not a fan of the good ole' days and the good ole' christian ways and I don't like the taste of the American Enterprise Institute's bullshit. I'm more interested in the future; that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.