Are you suggesting they do this for free? They may actually lose existing customers if those customers find out they can piggy back on their neighbors connection for free.
In any case, they're already over-selling more bandwidth than they currently have. And this system works relatively well when only a fraction of subscribers are using their service at a time, but that idea quickly falls apart when everybody starts using their paid-for service at the very exact same time.
There is no need for metrics if IBM is willing to warranty them against defacement, or at least guarantee that their replacement/repair costs don't go past a certain maximum amount. After all, standing up against tampering is their primary function. If the city could trust people, it wouldn't need meters, it would just need buckets in front of parking spaces, that people would just throw coins into as necessary.
$25!! That Cambridge area must be in the boondocks!
In San Francisco, our fines for expired meters are $68. In Berkeley, it's $43. And of course, other kinds of parking violations have much higher fines.
Motorola Mobility (now owned by Google) is also not paying up, and counter-suing for MS's infringements of their patents on WP7 (not that they can recover very much from MS, it's not like the infringing WP7/WP7.5 is harming anyone right now -- except Microsoft).
But my question is, how much of this software will see the light outside the universities?
The truth is that most software projects (even the ones developed outside of Universities) never get widely adopted. Just take a look at Sourceforge, how many of those projects become widely adopted? or even get anywhere? 1 percent? 0.00001 percent?
That being said, I believe Universities have a disproportionately strong influence on the software industry (which is by design of course). Take for instance, Intel, Linux, Google, InfoSeek, SendMail, Internet Explorer/Netscape (which both used the initial code base from Mosaic), Cisco, Yahoo, Sun, etc. They were all started initially as some kind of school projects.
Actually, it was called Google Desktop (parts of Google Labs and just recently discontinued). It had this functionality five to ten years ago (and Google certainly wasn't the only one).
Google.RTM., while providing a mechanism to search both the internet and the user's hard drive, cannot search both the internet and the user's hard drive simultaneously and provide a single set of search results. Further, Google only allows searches dedicated to video, audio, or images, and does not provide a mechanism for searching for all media types at the same time.
Actually, Google Desktop did search both, did index all media types (even the unknown ones since it even allowed you to write your own indexing plugin), and even your porn (unless you told it to exclude those folders or urls), and it did provide you with a single set of merged search results (if you so desired).
The only thing Google Desktop didn't do was the simultaneous search. Thankfully, Google Desktop was smart enough (even at the time) to pre-index your existing data in advance while your computer is idling, and only waste cpu cycles on un-indexed data only for your most recent stuff.
Not only OnStar turns on the onboard Microphone without your knowledge for months at a time so that the FBI can listen in, but it also disables its emergency channel so that no one answers your call for help and no one comes to your rescue when the FBI is listening in (or is recording) in your car.
Thankfully, they lost a big civil lawsuit over this.
This is the main reason the cars with old OnStar technology (with only one channel of communication instead of two) can still be listened in, but can no longer receive the service and therefore can not pay a subscription fee to OnStar anymore. The judge felt that disabling an emergency service that people were still paying for every month was just unacceptable.
I know this doesn't align with the personal view point of the original submitter, but given a popular enough service/game, the people who care about the service generally actually *want* to do those translations for free.
And I'd take it one step further, not only users like to translate a popular service/game into their own language for free, but if given half a chance, and if given proper attribution, many people would actually *pay* for the chance to translate their favorite service/game into their own language (or their own regional dialect or accent). That's how much they (and their own friends/family) care about getting good support for their own language on many popular games and popular web sites.
Yes, and rightly so. Many children can't be trusted not to use them during class.
But at least if you do this part well, then at least you may be able to change the policy. Principals and teachers are human beings too. Some of them are even parents. As long as you take their needs into consideration, they'll listen to you.
PS: A couple of more things that may need to be disabled too are the camera and the mp3 player.
It's such a competitive field, I'll bet that the ones that tend to be honest about their true capabilities never even make it into the program in the first place.
You mean, a no-texting phone. Because shame doesn't work equally on all kids and I've seen kids text super well on even dumb phones (that's why I'd even go as far as disabling texting altogether, or just enable texting for the parents only -- assuming the control is there to do that).
And in other news, the same tax watchdog found that FedEx invoices were usually twice the cost of US Post Office bills, therefore proving without a shadow of a doubt that the US Post Office is generally much more efficient and cost-effective than FedEx in all cases.
Pay the premium. Get your kid a Disney phone. Disable all its functions, but the one that calls you (and other emergency numbers), or the one that allows you to track him down through gps. Then, it's very unlikely that your kid will be playing games in class, or texting in class, for him to get it confiscated in the first place.
The homeless guy is alleging he did it. May be, he just wants a hot meal and free health care for the next twenty years. If that's the case, kudos to him for getting himself upgraded to Federal prison. I hear Federal prison is much better than State prison.
Can you really be sure it's the government who did this?
And not some republican yahoo users hitting the spam button (or the report suspicious phishing site button) when they saw an email they didn't like. This is not to say that I trust our government (or even Yahoo for that matter), but come on, can you really be sure this can't be a spam filter thing?
I've always wondered what the economics of the world of cheap, prolific, effective 3D printers is like.
It will be just like the cheap, prolific, effective color jet printers we have now. The printer will be cheap, but the cartridges will be expensive. And your printer will be able to print lots of stuff, but it will never be as good as a commercial printer. For instance, by the time I get to own a printer that prints a house, or prints a decent painting, in a couple of days, someone else will have a printer that can print a Mona Lisa, or a working plane, in less than 2 seconds.
Star Trek had replicators, which could basically make anything, even food or water (except for a few things which were a de-facto currency).
Star Trek is an utopian fantasy. Now don't get me wrong, we can certainly learn from sci-fi, but Star Trek's technology is still so far off. I'm not sure humanity can even survive that long.
They were basically communists, which doesn't work with people being people but might work if anyone could create whatever they wanted.
That part will work fine as long as the originals are killed off and replaced through a replicator/transporter. Making people will be the ultimate solution. I envision it's going to be a genocide of massive proportions (assuming humanity can even make it that far).
Twitter, I wouldn't mind. It's more apps like NASCAR that I couldn't care less about. Are there really that many fans of NASCAR on Sprint??? What's next?? an unremovable app for Vagesil on all Sprint phones??? It's not like Sprint is a low-cost carrier to begin with.
I think it's more like one scientist predicted the earthquake.
And currently, it's the scientists and the government official that tried to place that particular scientist in jail that are now being targeted by the angry populace.
Basically you can not waiver your law given rights in a contract, if the contract (ToS) contains such demands, it pretty much invalidates the entire contract...
I actually really like this idea. It would make most American contracts a lot more succinct and reasonable that way.
This reminds me of the Sprint commercials I keep on seeing recently these days.
First a disclaimer, I am a customer of Sprint and I like Sprint for the most part, but their commercial just pisses me off.
Sprint claims that they're the only one that "do not lie about their monthly rate", but in the same commercial they claim that their rate is "only $79.99 with no extra fees" which is a load of crap. They have an unexplained $10 data premium fee (that they're now applying to every new phone, not just the new smart-phones anymore).
Why do corporations have to be so damn patronizing? Are all executives social-retards? Don't they have underlings with spines anymore?
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Are you suggesting they do this for free? They may actually lose existing customers if those customers find out they can piggy back on their neighbors connection for free.
In any case, they're already over-selling more bandwidth than they currently have. And this system works relatively well when only a fraction of subscribers are using their service at a time, but that idea quickly falls apart when everybody starts using their paid-for service at the very exact same time.
There is no need for metrics if IBM is willing to warranty them against defacement, or at least guarantee that their replacement/repair costs don't go past a certain maximum amount. After all, standing up against tampering is their primary function. If the city could trust people, it wouldn't need meters, it would just need buckets in front of parking spaces, that people would just throw coins into as necessary.
$25!! That Cambridge area must be in the boondocks!
In San Francisco, our fines for expired meters are $68. In Berkeley, it's $43. And of course, other kinds of parking violations have much higher fines.
Wow! You didn't even read the summary!
Motorola Mobility (now owned by Google) is also not paying up, and counter-suing for MS's infringements of their patents on WP7 (not that they can recover very much from MS, it's not like the infringing WP7/WP7.5 is harming anyone right now -- except Microsoft).
This is a loaded question:
But my question is, how much of this software will see the light outside the universities?
The truth is that most software projects (even the ones developed outside of Universities) never get widely adopted. Just take a look at Sourceforge, how many of those projects become widely adopted? or even get anywhere? 1 percent? 0.00001 percent?
That being said, I believe Universities have a disproportionately strong influence on the software industry (which is by design of course). Take for instance, Intel, Linux, Google, InfoSeek, SendMail, Internet Explorer/Netscape (which both used the initial code base from Mosaic), Cisco, Yahoo, Sun, etc. They were all started initially as some kind of school projects.
Actually, it was called Google Desktop (parts of Google Labs and just recently discontinued). It had this functionality five to ten years ago (and Google certainly wasn't the only one).
Google.RTM., while providing a mechanism to search both the internet and the user's hard drive, cannot search both the internet and the user's hard drive simultaneously and provide a single set of search results. Further, Google only allows searches dedicated to video, audio, or images, and does not provide a mechanism for searching for all media types at the same time.
Actually, Google Desktop did search both, did index all media types (even the unknown ones since it even allowed you to write your own indexing plugin), and even your porn (unless you told it to exclude those folders or urls), and it did provide you with a single set of merged search results (if you so desired).
The only thing Google Desktop didn't do was the simultaneous search. Thankfully, Google Desktop was smart enough (even at the time) to pre-index your existing data in advance while your computer is idling, and only waste cpu cycles on un-indexed data only for your most recent stuff.
...just as every single Hudson user is switching to Jenkins
The only users Oracle is keeping are, the Windows 98 users, the users that refuse to upgrade to anything.
You don't know the history of OnStar.
Not only OnStar turns on the onboard Microphone without your knowledge for months at a time so that the FBI can listen in, but it also disables its emergency channel so that no one answers your call for help and no one comes to your rescue when the FBI is listening in (or is recording) in your car.
Thankfully, they lost a big civil lawsuit over this.
This is the main reason the cars with old OnStar technology (with only one channel of communication instead of two) can still be listened in, but can no longer receive the service and therefore can not pay a subscription fee to OnStar anymore. The judge felt that disabling an emergency service that people were still paying for every month was just unacceptable.
I know this doesn't align with the personal view point of the original submitter, but given a popular enough service/game, the people who care about the service generally actually *want* to do those translations for free.
And I'd take it one step further, not only users like to translate a popular service/game into their own language for free, but if given half a chance, and if given proper attribution, many people would actually *pay* for the chance to translate their favorite service/game into their own language (or their own regional dialect or accent). That's how much they (and their own friends/family) care about getting good support for their own language on many popular games and popular web sites.
Yes, and rightly so. Many children can't be trusted not to use them during class.
But at least if you do this part well, then at least you may be able to change the policy. Principals and teachers are human beings too. Some of them are even parents. As long as you take their needs into consideration, they'll listen to you.
PS: A couple of more things that may need to be disabled too are the camera and the mp3 player.
It's such a competitive field, I'll bet that the ones that tend to be honest about their true capabilities never even make it into the program in the first place.
You mean, a no-texting phone. Because shame doesn't work equally on all kids and I've seen kids text super well on even dumb phones (that's why I'd even go as far as disabling texting altogether, or just enable texting for the parents only -- assuming the control is there to do that).
And in other news, the same tax watchdog found that FedEx invoices were usually twice the cost of US Post Office bills, therefore proving without a shadow of a doubt that the US Post Office is generally much more efficient and cost-effective than FedEx in all cases.
Pay the premium. Get your kid a Disney phone. Disable all its functions, but the one that calls you (and other emergency numbers), or the one that allows you to track him down through gps. Then, it's very unlikely that your kid will be playing games in class, or texting in class, for him to get it confiscated in the first place.
How they know the homeless guy did it...
The homeless guy is alleging he did it. May be, he just wants a hot meal and free health care for the next twenty years. If that's the case, kudos to him for getting himself upgraded to Federal prison. I hear Federal prison is much better than State prison.
Can you really be sure it's the government who did this?
And not some republican yahoo users hitting the spam button (or the report suspicious phishing site button) when they saw an email they didn't like. This is not to say that I trust our government (or even Yahoo for that matter), but come on, can you really be sure this can't be a spam filter thing?
I've always wondered what the economics of the world of cheap, prolific, effective 3D printers is like.
It will be just like the cheap, prolific, effective color jet printers we have now. The printer will be cheap, but the cartridges will be expensive. And your printer will be able to print lots of stuff, but it will never be as good as a commercial printer. For instance, by the time I get to own a printer that prints a house, or prints a decent painting, in a couple of days, someone else will have a printer that can print a Mona Lisa, or a working plane, in less than 2 seconds.
Star Trek had replicators, which could basically make anything, even food or water (except for a few things which were a de-facto currency).
Star Trek is an utopian fantasy. Now don't get me wrong, we can certainly learn from sci-fi, but Star Trek's technology is still so far off. I'm not sure humanity can even survive that long.
They were basically communists, which doesn't work with people being people but might work if anyone could create whatever they wanted.
That part will work fine as long as the originals are killed off and replaced through a replicator/transporter. Making people will be the ultimate solution. I envision it's going to be a genocide of massive proportions (assuming humanity can even make it that far).
This is just what we need, more politicians/civil servants browsing web sites, doing email, or playing games during meetings.
My question is. Who made this idiotic remark?
Stephen Dubner? or the journalist who's claiming to paraphrase what Stephen Dubner said during his speech?
I'm crossing my fingers that's it's not the Freakonomics co-author, otherwise I'll never dare quoting anything again from that book.
Twitter, I wouldn't mind. It's more apps like NASCAR that I couldn't care less about. Are there really that many fans of NASCAR on Sprint??? What's next?? an unremovable app for Vagesil on all Sprint phones??? It's not like Sprint is a low-cost carrier to begin with.
Are there any tax advantages to Netflix for doing this?
This doesn't make much sense. I'm really having a hard time believing the official reasons given for this change.
I think it's more like one scientist predicted the earthquake.
And currently, it's the scientists and the government official that tried to place that particular scientist in jail that are now being targeted by the angry populace.
So they can email you to notify you, but you have to snail-mail them.
Basically you can not waiver your law given rights in a contract, if the contract (ToS) contains such demands, it pretty much invalidates the entire contract...
I actually really like this idea. It would make most American contracts a lot more succinct and reasonable that way.
This reminds me of the Sprint commercials I keep on seeing recently these days.
First a disclaimer, I am a customer of Sprint and I like Sprint for the most part, but their commercial just pisses me off.
Sprint claims that they're the only one that "do not lie about their monthly rate", but in the same commercial they claim that their rate is "only $79.99 with no extra fees" which is a load of crap. They have an unexplained $10 data premium fee (that they're now applying to every new phone, not just the new smart-phones anymore).
Why do corporations have to be so damn patronizing? Are all executives social-retards? Don't they have underlings with spines anymore?