iPads are pretty good visual media consumption devices, but they're not designed for creating content, well even typing emails gets awkward extremely quickly.
.. PHP's raison de etre has always been using cheap less experienced easily replaceable programmers. You start losing those benefits once you build your API.
I'd say that's very good news for PHP users, that said I'm unsure why PHP exists. Perl is rather "choosy about it's friends", but Python and Ruby obliterate PHP while being incredibly easy for everyone. To me, there is only one viable reasons for using PHP : You want cheap replaceable programmers so badly that you need a language so brain dead nobody will ever write anything clever and confusing.
Yes, more patent examiners helps considerably, but so does fewer patentable domains, i.e. eliminate patents on business methods, software, look-and-feel, life forms, etc.
Patent lawyers already cost way more than patent fees. If large entities pay more for their lawyers, why not declare that patent fees should match the cost of the patent lawyers, but leave the minimum fee alone.
Or you might simply make the patent fees progressive in the examiner's time. In particular, if many people contested your patent, the fees will sky rocket.
There should also be an upkeep or property tax on owning all intellectual property with rates that were progressive based upon the number of patents the entity holds.
I don't buy their argument, PHP and Visual Basic are famously bad at security, while most other languages require real work to achieve their innate level of insecurity.
We've all seen what giving a Randroid free reign over the economy causes, so you'll forgive my credulity at your little objectivist intellectual property fantasy.
All intellectual property laws stem purely from piratical concerns, despite the copyright lobby's assertions. Piracy isn't even illegal for the receiver today, just the distributor.
I'll accept that some laws have moral grey areas, like traffic violations. We make tough amoral laws about traffic violations because the consequences are so serious, but piracy simply does not have significant consequences.
Btw : Charlie Stross has estimates for the traditional book piracy rate at 75%, that covers libraries, second hand sales, and lending to friends. We should ignore all media outlet bitching unless they can demonstrate their piracy rate exceeds this.
Would rogue individuals reduce their liability? Aren't we taking about the moronic system designed by the district? I say lock them all up for child porn, everyone who knew the system used the cameras, all the way up through the school board. It's the only way yo be sure.
Copyright only ever needed to control the main stream distribution channel. I'd say the best approach to copyright would be :
(1) creators get a five year "prior restrain" on mass reproduction, meaing they may sue anyone who distributes the work.
(2) creators get a subsequent 5 year right to issue entity-wide reproduction restraint orders.
If you don't like Disney or YouTube publishing your video, you may order them to cease distribution, and they must comply. In fact, the order applies to all companies present and future under the same overall managerial control, although you may need to prove that control for damages if you sue a different company than the one you ordered to cease distribution. You may not however issue an across-the-board restrain on distribution.
Any distributor like youtube that doesn't control their distribution channel should have be permitted temporary violations provided they remove offending content promptly, ala DMCA takedown notices.
(3) creators get additional subsequent years to issue entity-wide reproduction restraint orders if the copyright has never been sold or only minimal work for hire was involved in the work.
In other words, all copyright enforcement after 5 years should require DMCA takedown notices, but these notices have more teeth for distributors that actually control their channels like Disney.
Yes, some laws are codifying morality, like laws against theft and murder, but copyright isn't one of them. Receiving stolen good codifies the morality that you shouldn't knowingly purchase stolen property.
Copyright and patents were historically merely a practical means to ensure that larger publishing houses and manufacturers didn't exploit authors, smaller publishing houses, manufacturers etc. Trademarks are also not codified morality, they just let consumers easily identify the manufacturer, merchant, etc.
In fact, intellectual property laws simply cannot be said to codify morality even in the modern world since they don't truly take intention into account like receiving stolen goods. For example :
(1) We all accept there is nothing wrong morally or legally with downloading mp3s, movies, etc. but there are legal issues once you upload content, which bittorrent requires during downloading. Yes, seeds are juicier targets of course, but even leeches who never knowingly seed have broken the law, which places the law on a purely practical footing.
(2) Asset forfeiture drug laws are similarly purely practical from a legal perspective, well you don't even get a trial there.
Time machine showing the world how one makes backups user friendly was definitely good. I'd say the old PC Apple is lawful neutral while the new iPhone Apple is clearly lawful evil.
I'd say the legally cleanest approach might be requiring that Apple jailbreak your phone without voiding your hardware warranty, thus allowing other app stores.
Apple warranties are usually much less bang for your buck than other venders because Apple require that you purchase software support along with the warranty but that actually make life easier for most users. Apple might impose reflashing upon all warranty support for jail broken iPhones, which sounds reasonable.
I'd agree that Google is chaotic good and Microsoft is neutral evil, although Microsoft may be trending towards chaotic, but surely Apple is lawful evil or lawful neutral. All the lawfuls can most definitely be self-righteous.
True, they almost never catch anyone using CCTV, really like never, but the British love their useless feel good bandaids.
In fact, the U.S. has installed cameras in police cars, but those are vastly more effective, as they point right where the crime often takes place! Britain then copied this by putting cameras in police hats, which again are vastly more effective than CCTV.
If you mean idealistic Germans, Dutch, Belgians, etc. turning those poor countries into middle class countries, yeah I'd they're doing fairly well. They are having some trouble learning those rich countries have limits on their generosity, but they've now gained a thriving middle class.
Alright, answer me two questions : HTML5 is really the flash killer, yes? Isn't an open replacement for Flash an improvement over flash? I'd assume that HTML5's openness will help avoid Flash's spammyness, right? In particular, all the pop-up ads that circumvent the "Block Pop-Ups" button are using Flash now, so they'll all go away right?
I'm not sure that HTML5 will beat the Flash plus FlashBlocker combo, but that's not realistic for most users, and variations on NoScript could accomplish the same ends.
We're mostly talking about industrial espionage here. Companies often don't buy security just like people often don't buy health insurance. China's has set an example of government backed industrial espionage, which plays a big role in their growth. So governments see this as an opportunity to provide a service.
In fact, the companies would probably learn they need good geeks eventually, unlike people and health care. Governments could help the most by explaining good people security, which I'm sure get way more subtle than "don't hire chinese nationals for sensitive work."
In fact, financial rewards works great for finding and retaining high level talent. It's bonuses that induce people to optimize their bonus over the final product.
That said, there are companies that give the executives stock options that din't vest until after they retire, meaning the executives must optimize the company for long term profitability. You could offer programmers the same similar deal where their bonuses are tied to the ongoing profitability of the intellectual property they created while employed, but no-longer actively develop, i.e. you get a salary for the work but keep a stake in the product itself. I'd imagine that'll gain you immaculate and well-documented code base.
Also, freeware developers develop software suitable for people like themselves. That's great if you need the linux kernel, ssh, or even rsync. If you need some polished final product you better pay them. Are all the distributions people usually use put together by companies?
Oops, many applications apparently don't run correctly over an X connection. sbrsh is just a convenient tool for running applications on the N900 while using the desktop's filesystem.
I've seen packages for the N900 that claim support for bluetooth keyboards and mice, and the N900 definitely has video out, so this exists. I'd imagine this holds for all Nokia's Symbian phones with video out too, N95, N97, etc.
You can alternatively pull up an N900 on your desktop using x11vnc, but the performance sucks over wifi. I've hear people prefer USB networking for VNC and X11 connections with their N900s, never heard anything about bluetooth. In any case, you'll nuke your battery pumping such high bandwidth though the wifi, so usb networking seems preferable regardless.
I'd imagine the best solution overall would be pulling up a whole second login on your desktop, presumably using straight X11 so the desktop does all the graphics work. Individual applications should work fine already because N900 developers using scrachbox remote shell (sbrsh) already launch their apps this way, but I'm unsure about multiple logins or apps launching other apps.
Are there any good TV shows? I've watched some Lost episodes when a hawt girl said she loved it, but mostly it's just an incremental improvement over that perpetual mystery garbage the X-Files popularized.
I'd say the last good TV show I saw was B5, although Buffy was alright if you skipped al the crap episodes. I'm sure there must be good one season shows like Earth 2 and American Gothic, but I've not noticed them.
I've mostly watched movies on the internet since I've been living in countries like Germany and France where movies are dubbed.. and England where the women are too fat to invite to a movie.
You know, every day some friend forwards me some really awesome youtube video. I also really liked the Daily Show when I remember it. etc.
I'm definitely not the future of television of course. lol I'd hazard a guess though more people are valuing those daily youtube clips more and more highly. I'll bet they notice when the available television shows just don't stand up to :
Oops, yes, I'd forgotten exactly what they did wrong, but nevertheless everyone outside the UK basically agrees these rankings are self aggrandizing bullshit.
A more honest ranking was done by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In fact, the Shanghai rankings are still extremely based towards English speaking universities, although less blatantly biased towards British institutions. In all seriousness, the University of Sheffield simply does not belong in the top 100 for any world university rankings. lol
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iPads are pretty good visual media consumption devices, but they're not designed for creating content, well even typing emails gets awkward extremely quickly.
.. PHP's raison de etre has always been using cheap less experienced easily replaceable programmers. You start losing those benefits once you build your API.
I'd say that's very good news for PHP users, that said I'm unsure why PHP exists. Perl is rather "choosy about it's friends", but Python and Ruby obliterate PHP while being incredibly easy for everyone. To me, there is only one viable reasons for using PHP : You want cheap replaceable programmers so badly that you need a language so brain dead nobody will ever write anything clever and confusing.
Yes, more patent examiners helps considerably, but so does fewer patentable domains, i.e. eliminate patents on business methods, software, look-and-feel, life forms, etc.
Patent lawyers already cost way more than patent fees. If large entities pay more for their lawyers, why not declare that patent fees should match the cost of the patent lawyers, but leave the minimum fee alone.
Or you might simply make the patent fees progressive in the examiner's time. In particular, if many people contested your patent, the fees will sky rocket.
There should also be an upkeep or property tax on owning all intellectual property with rates that were progressive based upon the number of patents the entity holds.
I don't buy their argument, PHP and Visual Basic are famously bad at security, while most other languages require real work to achieve their innate level of insecurity.
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We've all seen what giving a Randroid free reign over the economy causes, so you'll forgive my credulity at your little objectivist intellectual property fantasy.
All intellectual property laws stem purely from piratical concerns, despite the copyright lobby's assertions. Piracy isn't even illegal for the receiver today, just the distributor.
I'll accept that some laws have moral grey areas, like traffic violations. We make tough amoral laws about traffic violations because the consequences are so serious, but piracy simply does not have significant consequences.
Btw : Charlie Stross has estimates for the traditional book piracy rate at 75%, that covers libraries, second hand sales, and lending to friends. We should ignore all media outlet bitching unless they can demonstrate their piracy rate exceeds this.
Would rogue individuals reduce their liability? Aren't we taking about the moronic system designed by the district? I say lock them all up for child porn, everyone who knew the system used the cameras, all the way up through the school board. It's the only way yo be sure.
Copyright only ever needed to control the main stream distribution channel. I'd say the best approach to copyright would be :
(1) creators get a five year "prior restrain" on mass reproduction, meaing they may sue anyone who distributes the work.
(2) creators get a subsequent 5 year right to issue entity-wide reproduction restraint orders.
If you don't like Disney or YouTube publishing your video, you may order them to cease distribution, and they must comply. In fact, the order applies to all companies present and future under the same overall managerial control, although you may need to prove that control for damages if you sue a different company than the one you ordered to cease distribution. You may not however issue an across-the-board restrain on distribution.
Any distributor like youtube that doesn't control their distribution channel should have be permitted temporary violations provided they remove offending content promptly, ala DMCA takedown notices.
(3) creators get additional subsequent years to issue entity-wide reproduction restraint orders if the copyright has never been sold or only minimal work for hire was involved in the work.
In other words, all copyright enforcement after 5 years should require DMCA takedown notices, but these notices have more teeth for distributors that actually control their channels like Disney.
Yes, some laws are codifying morality, like laws against theft and murder, but copyright isn't one of them. Receiving stolen good codifies the morality that you shouldn't knowingly purchase stolen property.
Copyright and patents were historically merely a practical means to ensure that larger publishing houses and manufacturers didn't exploit authors, smaller publishing houses, manufacturers etc. Trademarks are also not codified morality, they just let consumers easily identify the manufacturer, merchant, etc.
In fact, intellectual property laws simply cannot be said to codify morality even in the modern world since they don't truly take intention into account like receiving stolen goods. For example :
(1) We all accept there is nothing wrong morally or legally with downloading mp3s, movies, etc. but there are legal issues once you upload content, which bittorrent requires during downloading. Yes, seeds are juicier targets of course, but even leeches who never knowingly seed have broken the law, which places the law on a purely practical footing.
(2) Asset forfeiture drug laws are similarly purely practical from a legal perspective, well you don't even get a trial there.
Time machine showing the world how one makes backups user friendly was definitely good. I'd say the old PC Apple is lawful neutral while the new iPhone Apple is clearly lawful evil.
I'd say the legally cleanest approach might be requiring that Apple jailbreak your phone without voiding your hardware warranty, thus allowing other app stores.
Apple warranties are usually much less bang for your buck than other venders because Apple require that you purchase software support along with the warranty but that actually make life easier for most users. Apple might impose reflashing upon all warranty support for jail broken iPhones, which sounds reasonable.
I'd agree that Google is chaotic good and Microsoft is neutral evil, although Microsoft may be trending towards chaotic, but surely Apple is lawful evil or lawful neutral. All the lawfuls can most definitely be self-righteous.
True, they almost never catch anyone using CCTV, really like never, but the British love their useless feel good bandaids.
In fact, the U.S. has installed cameras in police cars, but those are vastly more effective, as they point right where the crime often takes place! Britain then copied this by putting cameras in police hats, which again are vastly more effective than CCTV.
If you mean idealistic Germans, Dutch, Belgians, etc. turning those poor countries into middle class countries, yeah I'd they're doing fairly well. They are having some trouble learning those rich countries have limits on their generosity, but they've now gained a thriving middle class.
Your browser need not let any webpage open new windows, but flash is a binary plug-in.
Alright, answer me two questions : HTML5 is really the flash killer, yes? Isn't an open replacement for Flash an improvement over flash? I'd assume that HTML5's openness will help avoid Flash's spammyness, right? In particular, all the pop-up ads that circumvent the "Block Pop-Ups" button are using Flash now, so they'll all go away right?
I'm not sure that HTML5 will beat the Flash plus FlashBlocker combo, but that's not realistic for most users, and variations on NoScript could accomplish the same ends.
We're mostly talking about industrial espionage here. Companies often don't buy security just like people often don't buy health insurance. China's has set an example of government backed industrial espionage, which plays a big role in their growth. So governments see this as an opportunity to provide a service.
In fact, the companies would probably learn they need good geeks eventually, unlike people and health care. Governments could help the most by explaining good people security, which I'm sure get way more subtle than "don't hire chinese nationals for sensitive work."
In fact, financial rewards works great for finding and retaining high level talent. It's bonuses that induce people to optimize their bonus over the final product.
That said, there are companies that give the executives stock options that din't vest until after they retire, meaning the executives must optimize the company for long term profitability. You could offer programmers the same similar deal where their bonuses are tied to the ongoing profitability of the intellectual property they created while employed, but no-longer actively develop, i.e. you get a salary for the work but keep a stake in the product itself. I'd imagine that'll gain you immaculate and well-documented code base.
Also, freeware developers develop software suitable for people like themselves. That's great if you need the linux kernel, ssh, or even rsync. If you need some polished final product you better pay them. Are all the distributions people usually use put together by companies?
ahh, here we go, you need this sapwood-server running first.
Oops, many applications apparently don't run correctly over an X connection. sbrsh is just a convenient tool for running applications on the N900 while using the desktop's filesystem.
I've seen packages for the N900 that claim support for bluetooth keyboards and mice, and the N900 definitely has video out, so this exists. I'd imagine this holds for all Nokia's Symbian phones with video out too, N95, N97, etc.
You can alternatively pull up an N900 on your desktop using x11vnc, but the performance sucks over wifi. I've hear people prefer USB networking for VNC and X11 connections with their N900s, never heard anything about bluetooth. In any case, you'll nuke your battery pumping such high bandwidth though the wifi, so usb networking seems preferable regardless.
I'd imagine the best solution overall would be pulling up a whole second login on your desktop, presumably using straight X11 so the desktop does all the graphics work. Individual applications should work fine already because N900 developers using scrachbox remote shell (sbrsh) already launch their apps this way, but I'm unsure about multiple logins or apps launching other apps.
Apple just released an oversized mobile phone to compete with netbooks, while others ship cheaper laptops. lol
Are there any good TV shows? I've watched some Lost episodes when a hawt girl said she loved it, but mostly it's just an incremental improvement over that perpetual mystery garbage the X-Files popularized.
I'd say the last good TV show I saw was B5, although Buffy was alright if you skipped al the crap episodes. I'm sure there must be good one season shows like Earth 2 and American Gothic, but I've not noticed them.
I've mostly watched movies on the internet since I've been living in countries like Germany and France where movies are dubbed.. and England where the women are too fat to invite to a movie.
You know, every day some friend forwards me some really awesome youtube video. I also really liked the Daily Show when I remember it. etc.
I'm definitely not the future of television of course. lol I'd hazard a guess though more people are valuing those daily youtube clips more and more highly. I'll bet they notice when the available television shows just don't stand up to :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN0254u56Mc
Oops, yes, I'd forgotten exactly what they did wrong, but nevertheless everyone outside the UK basically agrees these rankings are self aggrandizing bullshit.
A more honest ranking was done by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In fact, the Shanghai rankings are still extremely based towards English speaking universities, although less blatantly biased towards British institutions. In all seriousness, the University of Sheffield simply does not belong in the top 100 for any world university rankings. lol