Morality is in the eye of the beholder, but to those not jaded by modern life, spying on your friends is clearly immoral. It might be "normal" whatever that means. But moral? No way.
Can someone explain to me how DRM can be a standard? All DRM relies on some secret or other. A key buried in the DVD player for example. If its all written into some standard, which anyone can implement, what is it protecting?
The history of computing is that winners emerge from the bottom up. DOS was a toy that came to destroy the mighty mainframe. Sun despised consumer level hardware, and now it has vanished, consumed by cheaper Linux and Windows boxes. Android isn't exactly ready as a desktop OS, but its mad ascent in cheap mobile devices means it should be feared.
My question is, why do we need thin client/server in an age where a decent computer surely costs about the same as some kind of thin client anyway? I can see benefits in a specialized scenario where you need access to vast computing power, but for every day people in an apartment complex, web browsing and reading mail, why is it necessary, and doesn't it in fact add a lot of complexity for little gain, not to mention administrative problems and a central point of failure. People are using $30 Android tablets for their computing needs without that complexity.
It seems to me, that our elected representatives can sometimes do the right thing. It's when the executive and the faceless men do it all in secret that we have problems.
Isn't Sherwin Smith's threat against the citizens in itself an act of terror? Complaining about the water might upset one government official. But Sherwin's comments have upset and terrorized everybody.
Leads me to wonder something else... whether the product is yet another con fake "miracle" for women, so they can get enough money to keep their con fake environmental biofuel dream alive.
Maybe I'm naive, but I don't care about being tracked so I can be served useful ads. As a choice between seeing useful ads and non useful ones, I'd prefer to see useful ones. Remind me again why I should care?
Yes exactly. This table might be brilliant, but we aren't told exactly what the extra relationships are that are modelled. If some label could be applied to the various rows to tell us what value the table is giving us, it might make sense.
Hmm, I can imagine a world where taxis then become so cost efficient that its cheaper for most people to take a taxi than own a car. Cheap taxi cars with automated payment systems, and so many of them in the city that there's always one around the corner. The cost could plummet.
Isn't this an idea that would have been incredible 15 years ago, but now is past its prime? A cheap computer can be purchased for the same price as a thin client. In fact, most thin client machines are more powerful than computers were 5 years ago. So what's the point?
Well, Surface may or may not be crappy, but all kids these days have already got their allegiance to ipad/iphone or Android, and dumping Surface at a slight discount is not necessarily going to do much for them. Hey, but if I were them, I'd probably try it too. Worth a shot. But my guess is MS will get bored with this quickly like they do with most of their ideas that don't generate instant cash, and that will be that.
Censoring other people in your own domain IS A FORM OF SPEECH!
The Neo Nazis can go spout their nonsense, but it doesn't mean I have to let them do it in my own home. Neither does Martin censoring his own blog mean that he is against free speech. He is exercising his own free speech in his own domain by censoring trolls.
There are any number of reasons to censor people in your own domain that doesn't indicate that you think their ideas are dangerous in themselves. You simply are telling them to take their ideas somewhere else, which we all have a right to do.
I'm sure. But I think he considers the island his little home, so he doesn't want to mess it up, get the locals off side, or otherwise make life for himself there unpleasant. I'm sure he is ruthless in business, but here he is role playing being nice guy.
Depends on whether you understand what the code does. If you understand what the code does from the user perspective, then find the code which does the most critical and interesting bits and find out how it works. If you have little clue about what the code does then its trickier. I think just browse the code and be guided by your own curiousity. Examine any documentation that might exist, or any user interface that might be available to find clues to what is important.
Look at what external libraries it uses. How it interfaces to the outside world, whether it be a user interface, network connections, files used, etc etc.
Sounds like they've aquired a rich benevolent dictator and Ellison is enjoying playing the role of benevolent king over his mini kingdom. It's going to be nice, but since Ellison is 68 or whatever, who knows how long it can last till the next rich nit-wit comes along.
Apple has always been more about taking the technology available and packaging it into something easy to use and accessible. Unless technology itself has stopped evolving, I see no reason to see why this can't continue. The problem is, people have been accustomed to assuming that the Next Big Thing is necessarily going to happen every year or two. This is asking too much.
Amazon: they're a retailer. Their innovation is being online, and are rather good at it. That's it. There doesn't seem to be any obvious next big thing in selling stuff. Google is in the business of online search, applications and so forth. They're always coming out with new stuff, but there are diminishing returns on how it will change my life. We've arrived in the post-internet era. Calm down, enjoy, stop caring about the Next Big Thing. It may come, it may not. I realise this isn't good news for the online media, but so be it.
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Morality is in the eye of the beholder, but to those not jaded by modern life, spying on your friends is clearly immoral. It might be "normal" whatever that means. But moral? No way.
No wonder I kept getting a Chinese take out joint.
Can someone explain to me how DRM can be a standard? All DRM relies on some secret or other. A key buried in the DVD player for example. If its all written into some standard, which anyone can implement, what is it protecting?
Hey, it wouldn't be the full 1980s experience and bring back the full flood of memories, if it wasn't pirated.
The history of computing is that winners emerge from the bottom up. DOS was a toy that came to destroy the mighty mainframe. Sun despised consumer level hardware, and now it has vanished, consumed by cheaper Linux and Windows boxes. Android isn't exactly ready as a desktop OS, but its mad ascent in cheap mobile devices means it should be feared.
Hair dye? :-)
But then... you are using it right NOW... in a usable amount. :-)
My question is, why do we need thin client/server in an age where a decent computer surely costs about the same as some kind of thin client anyway? I can see benefits in a specialized scenario where you need access to vast computing power, but for every day people in an apartment complex, web browsing and reading mail, why is it necessary, and doesn't it in fact add a lot of complexity for little gain, not to mention administrative problems and a central point of failure. People are using $30 Android tablets for their computing needs without that complexity.
I don't understand that explanation, but anyway...
Only because most European countries are too small and/or too incompetent to do it. I'm sure the UK at least is working hard on it.
It seems to me, that our elected representatives can sometimes do the right thing. It's when the executive and the faceless men do it all in secret that we have problems.
If you're sophisticated enough to be evading spooks and using stenography, you're probably not using " primitive steganography".
Isn't Sherwin Smith's threat against the citizens in itself an act of terror? Complaining about the water might upset one government official. But Sherwin's comments have upset and terrorized everybody.
Leads me to wonder something else... whether the product is yet another con fake "miracle" for women, so they can get enough money to keep their con fake environmental biofuel dream alive.
But but now it has a stopwatch!!!!
Maybe I'm naive, but I don't care about being tracked so I can be served useful ads. As a choice between seeing useful ads and non useful ones, I'd prefer to see useful ones. Remind me again why I should care?
Yes exactly. This table might be brilliant, but we aren't told exactly what the extra relationships are that are modelled. If some label could be applied to the various rows to tell us what value the table is giving us, it might make sense.
Hmm, I can imagine a world where taxis then become so cost efficient that its cheaper for most people to take a taxi than own a car. Cheap taxi cars with automated payment systems, and so many of them in the city that there's always one around the corner. The cost could plummet.
Isn't this an idea that would have been incredible 15 years ago, but now is past its prime? A cheap computer can be purchased for the same price as a thin client. In fact, most thin client machines are more powerful than computers were 5 years ago. So what's the point?
Well, Surface may or may not be crappy, but all kids these days have already got their allegiance to ipad/iphone or Android, and dumping Surface at a slight discount is not necessarily going to do much for them. Hey, but if I were them, I'd probably try it too. Worth a shot. But my guess is MS will get bored with this quickly like they do with most of their ideas that don't generate instant cash, and that will be that.
Censoring other people in your own domain IS A FORM OF SPEECH!
The Neo Nazis can go spout their nonsense, but it doesn't mean I have to let them do it in my own home. Neither does Martin censoring his own blog mean that he is against free speech. He is exercising his own free speech in his own domain by censoring trolls.
There are any number of reasons to censor people in your own domain that doesn't indicate that you think their ideas are dangerous in themselves. You simply are telling them to take their ideas somewhere else, which we all have a right to do.
I'm sure. But I think he considers the island his little home, so he doesn't want to mess it up, get the locals off side, or otherwise make life for himself there unpleasant. I'm sure he is ruthless in business, but here he is role playing being nice guy.
Depends on whether you understand what the code does. If you understand what the code does from the user perspective, then find the code which does the most critical and interesting bits and find out how it works. If you have little clue about what the code does then its trickier. I think just browse the code and be guided by your own curiousity. Examine any documentation that might exist, or any user interface that might be available to find clues to what is important.
Look at what external libraries it uses. How it interfaces to the outside world, whether it be a user interface, network connections, files used, etc etc.
Sounds like they've aquired a rich benevolent dictator and Ellison is enjoying playing the role of benevolent king over his mini kingdom. It's going to be nice, but since Ellison is 68 or whatever, who knows how long it can last till the next rich nit-wit comes along.
Apple has always been more about taking the technology available and packaging it into something easy to use and accessible. Unless technology itself has stopped evolving, I see no reason to see why this can't continue. The problem is, people have been accustomed to assuming that the Next Big Thing is necessarily going to happen every year or two. This is asking too much.
Amazon: they're a retailer. Their innovation is being online, and are rather good at it. That's it. There doesn't seem to be any obvious next big thing in selling stuff. Google is in the business of online search, applications and so forth. They're always coming out with new stuff, but there are diminishing returns on how it will change my life. We've arrived in the post-internet era. Calm down, enjoy, stop caring about the Next Big Thing. It may come, it may not. I realise this isn't good news for the online media, but so be it.