But to stay on your point, I'd love to see Mozilla get into direct digital democracy platforms... and not just "e-voting" for "elected representatives," but full polling of how individuals would decide on each issue that was important to them, rankings of their priorities, designated allocations of their tax dollars directly towards departments, organizations, and programs they felt were worthy... essentially an open platform for secure collaborative decision-making.
Any details on how the system worked at the time of the crash? Is it too much to ask for a black box for the arms and a black box for the modified car?
No, I've never posted on ArsTechnica, but I did attend the last day of the Intel AppUp Elements Developer 2010 conference in San Francisco. And if they do have a reference guide for handsets, which I am surprised that they do, it was certainly not their main focus during that conference.
And also, MeeGo is not meant for the phone market, only Android is. MeeGo is meant for the mobile/wifi netbook/tablet market. In that sense, MeeGo is competing with ChromeOS, Windows 7, and Linux, and it will do very well in that regards with Intel backing it, Intel already dominates the Netbook market (just not on the OS side yet).
And from the same link in the comment section of the article:
Astraltune is the original personal portable stereo sold in the US (1975). Morita purchased an Astraltune in Aspen, Co. in 1978. Prior art can void any patent claim.
It's too bad the Sony lawyers settled this case before crowdsourcing the research of prior art.
Apparently, he even posted the scans on his web site. On that note, can anyone recommend me a good comic viewer that will browse/open this type of.cbt files on Windows, or even better a comic viewer that could browse/open this type of.cbt files on my Evo (Android phone). There are so many manga/comic viewers out there, I'd rather not waste my time trying a different bunch of them.
This kid is 15 years old. He's a heavy repeated drug offender. He shoots his bibi gun at people. And while on probation, he most likely stole a motorcycle and rode it without a helmet.
Not only that, he's already a ward of the state (I'm not sure what happened to his parents, they either gave up on him, they're in prison, or they're dead??). And if I understand the term correctly, the state is his parent now. And the kid simply has many less rights than any other kid, since no one else is willing to shoulder the responsibility to parent him.
You could fine the kid, sure, but he's not going to pay. You could fine his parent, the state. I personally doubt the state will fine itself thought. You could put him in Juve or in Jail, a place not known to rehabilitate people.
Or you could listen to his story, not make his entire story public since he's a minor, and tailor some kind of solution that would fit his particular case (a case we're really not really aware of anyway). And since the judge also placed him in a drug detoxification program as part of his punishment, because of his repeated drug use, I'd like to think that the judge wasn't entirely irrational when selecting a punishment.
These days, many cops and DAs troll facebook pages to supplement their information before prosecuting someone, and I wouldn't be surprised if this kid published stuff about himself that only incriminated him further.
The Germans wanting to destroy your "freedom". That's not good PR. Also, that doesn't sound like Germany is being "lenient" with its laws here. This request implies that all those dongles were stopped (or are going to be stopped) at the border by custom officials. Also, I would like to know how they got the names and addresses of the people who ordered those dongles (did the custom officials give it to Sony)? It sounds like there was a serious breach of privacy as well.
That's too late for that. He's pissed off so many governments. Hiring him would just mean you'd create yourself an unnecessary list of powerful enemies. No, he's basically stuck with that kind of job for life. Except for Al Jazeera, or may be Amnesty International, I can't think of any other organization that would have the balls to take him on as an employee.
If that is the case, such was not noted in the posted IRC log, whereas the point I noted was.
To be honest, I did also think you were a troll, until I double-checked something.
The following comment "(21:48:26) jsc: Many of us worked on the project before Sun and before Oracle. Please don't come us with this phrase" I thought was written by one of the independents in response to one of the phrases written by an Oracle employee (it turns out I was wrong I believe, jsc is an Oracle employee and he was replying to a different phrase/different person than I was thinking of)
That being said, I also think it's a stretch to assume that none of the three independent members didn't work on that project before Sun. Considering jsc's comment, even if he is an Oracle employee now, and even if it's not clear if he includes any of the independents in the "us" he used in this case, his comment does seem to imply that this open source project was created outside of Sun, not only before SunOracle, but even "before Sun" as well.
Take a look at Google's App Inventor for Android (for now). It was heavily influenced by projects like Scratch. It's not an app as such, the kid/toddler will still need a PC to "program" with, and it doesn't have an emulator (you must have an Android phone connected to your computer, or connected to the internet, if you want to be able to test your programs, although you can still write one without one), but any changes the kid does to the visual lego-like structure on the screen of his PC will immediately reflect itself into the program logic and display on the phone, which makes it an absolutely fantastic programming environment to work in!
As a developer, I would love to able to use that tool to do fast prototypes, and then have access to the code, so I can further customize it. Unfortunately, it was written in Scheme (LISP), they don't want to give us access to the actual written code (only the visual one, that's what's considered the source), and its developers don't seem to be at all interested in changing the scope of their project -- they are really only interested in targeting kids/teenagers with it.
Charging money for software you created 'with your own labor' is generally bad.
No. Open source doesn't mean free. It never did. RMS, the GPL, they all say that you can charge for your work. Do I really need to find the citation for this? Or are you just pulling my leg?
That's why this scheme will probably only work with a national identity card/passport and a centralized database. After all, this the French government, this isn't the first mass giveaway they're doing. Strictly enforcing a quota per person/per household, with a proof of id and address, is nothing new to them.
Possibly also training pilots not to negotiate with terrorists, even ones with hostages...
Why would the pilots even need training? If you're smart enough to reach this conclusion after 9/11, why aren't they smart enough to reach the same conclusion. Otherwise, I agree with everything else you've said.
You're missing the bigger picture. As consumers, we are already paying for all of this.
The CEO of Google already said three or four years ago at the Barcelona conference that the number of Google mobile queries were exceeding the number of Google queries coming from PCs, in at least two countries. I believe the two countries he mentioned, where this threshold was reached, were Indonesia and South Africa. And ever since that point, every year the growth of internet connectivity for mobile devices worldwide has grown at nine times the rate of internet connectivity growth for PCs. And since Google's main source of revenue is delivering advertisements, an area where Google dominates almost completely (at least on the PC). It shouldn't really take a rocket scientist to figure out that if Google really wanted to keep its dominance over its main source of revenue, its Android strategy is going to be absolutely critical. So in that sense, Google is getting everything it wants, a continuance of the status quo, and a continuance of its dominance over internet ads, in a commercial world overtaken by mobile devices.
As to the carriers, don't worry, the ones that are not saddled by the iPhone are making plenty of money, and some of them have even been posting record profits. Unlike with the iPhone/Apple, Google/Android isn't keeping the 30% app commission to itself, it's giving it to the carriers, plus it's giving a rev-share of ad-revenues going through a carrier to the carrier itself. And of course, let's not forget that carriers may be subsidizing their phones to you, but the subsidization is almost as bad as those Rent-to-Own furniture scams, by the end of your two year contract, on average you end up having paid -- way more than what the phone was actually worth.
I'm not. I don't think his set up requires him to click three buttons and wait for internet explorer to load. He's most likely just establishing the connection through some kind of scripted command-line utility, and then just issuing a ping to a well-known fast-loading web site.
Thanks for the correction. I take back what I said about the licensing.
Since your observation exposed one of my mistakes, I also wasn't sure if what I said in the rest of my post was accurate (I'm an Android developer, not a Blackberry one), so I googled around and found this, a confirmation that Blackberry had its own VM and its own bytecode (compiled a second time from Java bytecode) since the early 90s (at least according to one Blackberry developer).
Also considering its age, I don't think it's a stretch to assume that the Blackberry VM can indeed support J2ME. After all, Android should be able to get J2ME applications working on it very soon (assuming you believe the developers currently working on those efforts), and yet Android has only been out only a tiny fraction of the time the Blackberry VM has been out.
So if for not licensing reasons, there must be another technical reason why the Blackberry is using its own VM (which doesn't surprise me, Google speakers do say that there are technical reasons for using their own Dalvik VM. It's just that I didn't really believe them until now. I always thought that this workaround was a way to get around the licensing fees/restrictions from Sun.)
Enough people will pay, especially for the New York Times. The goal is not for everyone to pay, and they could not care less about whether people have access to their newspaper.
Hopefully, Slashdot and bloggers, will take a page from Google, and stop linking to sporadically inaccessible sites. The problem is not so much with the New York Times (by now, most of us do recognize the New York Times link as an inaccessible site). For me, the problem becomes the other lesser known news sites (that are trying to follow in the New York Times foot steps). Clicking on a link, and then having to click the back button because I can't read the content anymore, just drives me nuts.
And I do hope that the Slashdot summarizes and the blogs that I read start implementing some kind of automatic filter that weeds out the links that are no longer valid (and/or that have content only the first time you click on it, but not the second time). Eventually, it's not just the sites that have paywalls that will lose traffic, but it's also the sites that link to them that will lose traffic as well.
And that nightmare (in addition to licensing costs) is why Google came up with their own VM implementation.
Technically speaking, RIM (Blackberry) was the first mobile OS to come up with that workaround. Google (or more specifically the startup that Google purchased) just saw what RIM did, saw that it was working, and did the same themselves (thus avoiding the per JVM licensing fee that Sun was charging companies).
Thomas Jefferson did support the abolition of slavery. He felt that it was an institution whose time has served its purpose and that it should happen gradually, over the course of a couple of generations rather than all at once, but that it was important to end the institution at some point in the future. At the time he was alive, it was a dying institution as it was with many slave holders emancipating their slaves... usually at their death. Most of them didn't want their children to continue to be slave holders.
Yeah, I'm sure that must have been very comforting to the 182 slaves which he didn't even bother to free after his death. He did free five slaves, both before his death and also in his will, but I don't think those really counted since those five slaves were finally proven to be his very own kids.
If you are trying to be sarcastic, at least try to use a valid analogy or something resembling truth.
Yeah, the next time you hear a politician say that he supports universal health-care, but only a couple of generations from now, or that he supports green energy, but only a couple of generations from now, that will probably be Steve Colbert saying it -- that's how absurd your statement about Thomas Jefferson being some kind of delayed-abolitionist really sounds to the rest of us (especially, since he didn't even say anything of the sorts one way or another. For all we know, Thomas Jefferson may very well have been a closeted-delayed-abolitionist, but making that claim when there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever -- only shows a very strong bias on your part).
Agents make 5-20% cuts to do the same thing(negotiate, draft paperwork, follow regulations, etc).
In this case, the lawyers could have gotten 99-100% of the settlement, and I'm pretty sure that the students/parents would have been fine with it.
And that is where your sales agent analogy breaks down. In the case of an agent, his clients are trying to maximize their revenue. In this case with the lawyer, his clients were trying to get justice (even the local DA and FBI were siding with the school, so the students were obviously not going to get justice any other way).
Also in the case of a lawyer, not only there is the risk of not earning anything (just like there would be with an agent), but litigation can be so much more adversarial and there can be so much more ill-will present -- that even if a lawyer did pick a winning case, and actually worked on it full time for a period of months (or even decades), only to win it eventually, the losing party may be so bitter, that the lawyer who worked on contingency may never be able to fully collect on the amount awarded to him.
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5 seconds to blow through my monthly "unlimited" quota!! I didn't realize a DVD could travel through a tube that fast!!!
But to stay on your point, I'd love to see Mozilla get into direct digital democracy platforms... and not just "e-voting" for "elected representatives," but full polling of how individuals would decide on each issue that was important to them, rankings of their priorities, designated allocations of their tax dollars directly towards departments, organizations, and programs they felt were worthy... essentially an open platform for secure collaborative decision-making.
Isn't this Twitter's domain?
Any details on how the system worked at the time of the crash? Is it too much to ask for a black box for the arms and a black box for the modified car?
No, I've never posted on ArsTechnica, but I did attend the last day of the Intel AppUp Elements Developer 2010 conference in San Francisco. And if they do have a reference guide for handsets, which I am surprised that they do, it was certainly not their main focus during that conference.
And also, MeeGo is not meant for the phone market, only Android is. MeeGo is meant for the mobile/wifi netbook/tablet market. In that sense, MeeGo is competing with ChromeOS, Windows 7, and Linux, and it will do very well in that regards with Intel backing it, Intel already dominates the Netbook market (just not on the OS side yet).
And from the same link in the comment section of the article:
Astraltune is the original personal portable stereo sold in the US (1975). Morita purchased an Astraltune in Aspen, Co. in 1978. Prior art can void any patent claim.
It's too bad the Sony lawyers settled this case before crowdsourcing the research of prior art.
Apparently, he even posted the scans on his web site. On that note, can anyone recommend me a good comic viewer that will browse/open this type of .cbt files on Windows, or even better a comic viewer that could browse/open this type of .cbt files on my Evo (Android phone). There are so many manga/comic viewers out there, I'd rather not waste my time trying a different bunch of them.
This kid is 15 years old. He's a heavy repeated drug offender. He shoots his bibi gun at people. And while on probation, he most likely stole a motorcycle and rode it without a helmet.
Not only that, he's already a ward of the state (I'm not sure what happened to his parents, they either gave up on him, they're in prison, or they're dead??). And if I understand the term correctly, the state is his parent now. And the kid simply has many less rights than any other kid, since no one else is willing to shoulder the responsibility to parent him.
You could fine the kid, sure, but he's not going to pay. You could fine his parent, the state. I personally doubt the state will fine itself thought. You could put him in Juve or in Jail, a place not known to rehabilitate people.
Or you could listen to his story, not make his entire story public since he's a minor, and tailor some kind of solution that would fit his particular case (a case we're really not really aware of anyway). And since the judge also placed him in a drug detoxification program as part of his punishment, because of his repeated drug use, I'd like to think that the judge wasn't entirely irrational when selecting a punishment.
These days, many cops and DAs troll facebook pages to supplement their information before prosecuting someone, and I wouldn't be surprised if this kid published stuff about himself that only incriminated him further.
The Germans wanting to destroy your "freedom". That's not good PR. Also, that doesn't sound like Germany is being "lenient" with its laws here. This request implies that all those dongles were stopped (or are going to be stopped) at the border by custom officials. Also, I would like to know how they got the names and addresses of the people who ordered those dongles (did the custom officials give it to Sony)? It sounds like there was a serious breach of privacy as well.
Fuck that. Take the money you would have used for a PS3, and buy as many dongles as you can.
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You picked a really bad example. Electricians must be certified.
Sorry Julian, it's time to find a new job.
That's too late for that. He's pissed off so many governments. Hiring him would just mean you'd create yourself an unnecessary list of powerful enemies. No, he's basically stuck with that kind of job for life. Except for Al Jazeera, or may be Amnesty International, I can't think of any other organization that would have the balls to take him on as an employee.
If that is the case, such was not noted in the posted IRC log, whereas the point I noted was.
To be honest, I did also think you were a troll, until I double-checked something.
The following comment "(21:48:26) jsc: Many of us worked on the project before Sun and before Oracle. Please don't come us with this phrase" I thought was written by one of the independents in response to one of the phrases written by an Oracle employee (it turns out I was wrong I believe, jsc is an Oracle employee and he was replying to a different phrase/different person than I was thinking of)
That being said, I also think it's a stretch to assume that none of the three independent members didn't work on that project before Sun. Considering jsc's comment, even if he is an Oracle employee now, and even if it's not clear if he includes any of the independents in the "us" he used in this case, his comment does seem to imply that this open source project was created outside of Sun, not only before SunOracle, but even "before Sun" as well.
Take a look at Google's App Inventor for Android (for now). It was heavily influenced by projects like Scratch. It's not an app as such, the kid/toddler will still need a PC to "program" with, and it doesn't have an emulator (you must have an Android phone connected to your computer, or connected to the internet, if you want to be able to test your programs, although you can still write one without one), but any changes the kid does to the visual lego-like structure on the screen of his PC will immediately reflect itself into the program logic and display on the phone, which makes it an absolutely fantastic programming environment to work in!
As a developer, I would love to able to use that tool to do fast prototypes, and then have access to the code, so I can further customize it. Unfortunately, it was written in Scheme (LISP), they don't want to give us access to the actual written code (only the visual one, that's what's considered the source), and its developers don't seem to be at all interested in changing the scope of their project -- they are really only interested in targeting kids/teenagers with it.
Charging money for software you created 'with your own labor' is generally bad.
No. Open source doesn't mean free. It never did. RMS, the GPL, they all say that you can charge for your work. Do I really need to find the citation for this? Or are you just pulling my leg?
That's why this scheme will probably only work with a national identity card/passport and a centralized database. After all, this the French government, this isn't the first mass giveaway they're doing. Strictly enforcing a quota per person/per household, with a proof of id and address, is nothing new to them.
Possibly also training pilots not to negotiate with terrorists, even ones with hostages...
Why would the pilots even need training? If you're smart enough to reach this conclusion after 9/11, why aren't they smart enough to reach the same conclusion. Otherwise, I agree with everything else you've said.
You're missing the bigger picture. As consumers, we are already paying for all of this.
The CEO of Google already said three or four years ago at the Barcelona conference that the number of Google mobile queries were exceeding the number of Google queries coming from PCs, in at least two countries. I believe the two countries he mentioned, where this threshold was reached, were Indonesia and South Africa. And ever since that point, every year the growth of internet connectivity for mobile devices worldwide has grown at nine times the rate of internet connectivity growth for PCs. And since Google's main source of revenue is delivering advertisements, an area where Google dominates almost completely (at least on the PC). It shouldn't really take a rocket scientist to figure out that if Google really wanted to keep its dominance over its main source of revenue, its Android strategy is going to be absolutely critical. So in that sense, Google is getting everything it wants, a continuance of the status quo, and a continuance of its dominance over internet ads, in a commercial world overtaken by mobile devices.
As to the carriers, don't worry, the ones that are not saddled by the iPhone are making plenty of money, and some of them have even been posting record profits. Unlike with the iPhone/Apple, Google/Android isn't keeping the 30% app commission to itself, it's giving it to the carriers, plus it's giving a rev-share of ad-revenues going through a carrier to the carrier itself. And of course, let's not forget that carriers may be subsidizing their phones to you, but the subsidization is almost as bad as those Rent-to-Own furniture scams, by the end of your two year contract, on average you end up having paid -- way more than what the phone was actually worth.
I'm not. I don't think his set up requires him to click three buttons and wait for internet explorer to load. He's most likely just establishing the connection through some kind of scripted command-line utility, and then just issuing a ping to a well-known fast-loading web site.
Thanks for the correction. I take back what I said about the licensing.
Since your observation exposed one of my mistakes, I also wasn't sure if what I said in the rest of my post was accurate (I'm an Android developer, not a Blackberry one), so I googled around and found this, a confirmation that Blackberry had its own VM and its own bytecode (compiled a second time from Java bytecode) since the early 90s (at least according to one Blackberry developer).
Also considering its age, I don't think it's a stretch to assume that the Blackberry VM can indeed support J2ME. After all, Android should be able to get J2ME applications working on it very soon (assuming you believe the developers currently working on those efforts), and yet Android has only been out only a tiny fraction of the time the Blackberry VM has been out.
So if for not licensing reasons, there must be another technical reason why the Blackberry is using its own VM (which doesn't surprise me, Google speakers do say that there are technical reasons for using their own Dalvik VM. It's just that I didn't really believe them until now. I always thought that this workaround was a way to get around the licensing fees/restrictions from Sun.)
Enough people will pay, especially for the New York Times. The goal is not for everyone to pay, and they could not care less about whether people have access to their newspaper.
Hopefully, Slashdot and bloggers, will take a page from Google, and stop linking to sporadically inaccessible sites. The problem is not so much with the New York Times (by now, most of us do recognize the New York Times link as an inaccessible site). For me, the problem becomes the other lesser known news sites (that are trying to follow in the New York Times foot steps). Clicking on a link, and then having to click the back button because I can't read the content anymore, just drives me nuts.
And I do hope that the Slashdot summarizes and the blogs that I read start implementing some kind of automatic filter that weeds out the links that are no longer valid (and/or that have content only the first time you click on it, but not the second time). Eventually, it's not just the sites that have paywalls that will lose traffic, but it's also the sites that link to them that will lose traffic as well.
And that nightmare (in addition to licensing costs) is why Google came up with their own VM implementation.
Technically speaking, RIM (Blackberry) was the first mobile OS to come up with that workaround. Google (or more specifically the startup that Google purchased) just saw what RIM did, saw that it was working, and did the same themselves (thus avoiding the per JVM licensing fee that Sun was charging companies).
Thomas Jefferson did support the abolition of slavery. He felt that it was an institution whose time has served its purpose and that it should happen gradually, over the course of a couple of generations rather than all at once, but that it was important to end the institution at some point in the future. At the time he was alive, it was a dying institution as it was with many slave holders emancipating their slaves... usually at their death. Most of them didn't want their children to continue to be slave holders.
Yeah, I'm sure that must have been very comforting to the 182 slaves which he didn't even bother to free after his death. He did free five slaves, both before his death and also in his will, but I don't think those really counted since those five slaves were finally proven to be his very own kids.
If you are trying to be sarcastic, at least try to use a valid analogy or something resembling truth.
Yeah, the next time you hear a politician say that he supports universal health-care, but only a couple of generations from now, or that he supports green energy, but only a couple of generations from now, that will probably be Steve Colbert saying it -- that's how absurd your statement about Thomas Jefferson being some kind of delayed-abolitionist really sounds to the rest of us (especially, since he didn't even say anything of the sorts one way or another. For all we know, Thomas Jefferson may very well have been a closeted-delayed-abolitionist, but making that claim when there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever -- only shows a very strong bias on your part).
Agents make 5-20% cuts to do the same thing(negotiate, draft paperwork, follow regulations, etc).
In this case, the lawyers could have gotten 99-100% of the settlement, and I'm pretty sure that the students/parents would have been fine with it.
And that is where your sales agent analogy breaks down. In the case of an agent, his clients are trying to maximize their revenue. In this case with the lawyer, his clients were trying to get justice (even the local DA and FBI were siding with the school, so the students were obviously not going to get justice any other way).
Also in the case of a lawyer, not only there is the risk of not earning anything (just like there would be with an agent), but litigation can be so much more adversarial and there can be so much more ill-will present -- that even if a lawyer did pick a winning case, and actually worked on it full time for a period of months (or even decades), only to win it eventually, the losing party may be so bitter, that the lawyer who worked on contingency may never be able to fully collect on the amount awarded to him.