I just had a mental picture of the auto dashboard of 2050, complete with indicator lights reading "LOOK OUT!", "NOT SO FAST", "POTHOLE!", "SHARP TURN AHEAD", "DON'T FOLLOW SO CLOSE"... in other words, they've digitized my Mom and stuck her in the dash.
Not at all. It just introduces a synchronization step when you go back online. Windows does this already with its file servers - if you go offline and have some shared files open, you can still use them normally, save them, etc. But when you go online, the files get synchronized back to the server so they can be backed up, opened from other workstations, etc. It's supposed to be the best of both worlds.
What makes you think it's so benign? Dashboard real estate is precious, like screen real estate on the monitor you're currently looking at. Suppose the government decided they were going to take a 100x50 pixel block and use it for a "ECONOMY" indicator light that stayed on top all the time and lit up when you were using too much power playing your latest FPS of choice.
I'm having trouble finding a link, but this is something I read about in the Economist a few years ago. It caught my attention in particular because my wife is Bulgarian and that's one of the countries that was affected.
If you mean that the EU took some extraordinary steps to penalize these eastern European countries, above and beyond the normal customs duties and tariffs that it applies to other non-EU countries (such as Switzerland, UK, USA, South Africa, India, etc.), I can understand calling that "penalization", although I'd love to see a link about this. But this is the first I've heard of such a thing.
That's exactly what I mean by penalties. If I can locate a link I will post it. Unfortunately, not all media is readily available on the web (yet!).
As full EU members, they'd get votes in the EU parliament just like the western countries, and if I understand correctly, the EU isn't like the screwed-up UN with its Security Council with some countries being "more equal" than others, they're basically all equals.
That's basically not true either - France and Germany dominate. That's what a previous poster was getting at when he said that they'd figured out a way to conquer Europe without using guns (I'm paraphrasing).
Lastly, to an outsider (I'm USian), it only makes sense that smaller countries would want to band together into an economic federation, so they can eliminate tariffs and customs between them, have a common currency, have a common defense, etc.
I totally agree and certainly have no problem in principle with such a federation. And the EU could be much worse than it is - it may on balance be a positive force in the world.
The danger is if the larger government has too much power over the member states, which is what we have here in the USA (IMO anyway--I believe in more states' rights).
Heh, well, I predict that the EU will in no time far eclipse any states' rights concerns you have about the US. FWIW, I'm a federalist as well. But it's a bit of a mistake to compare the EU (a federation comprised of over a dozen nationalities with distinct cultures, traditions, etc) with the US (a republic comprised of a single nationality - to a first approximation - and only regional differences).
But if the lottery picks that number and publishes it, isn't that a violation of your copyright? I suppose you could sue for an amount equal to what your lottery winnings would have been, but it seems like a lot less trouble just to collect the jackpot.
I don't think you get it - I'm not talking about Switzerland. The EU threatened to penalize Eastern European countries who did not toe the line and join. The USA is certainly not acting this way with our neighbors Mexico and Canada, with which we have free trade agreements, and our territories like Guam and Puerto Rico enjoy a trade-advantaged status (since investments there are not subject to federal income tax).
Yet nobody forces them. All that EU says is: these are the rules of the club, you want to get in? Follow them.
Well, not quite. The EU says: these are the rules of the club. Want to get in, then follow them. Don't want to get in, then we will not trade with you. What's that? You're a small Eastern European country on our borders that sells primarily to Europe? Gosh, that would suck if you couldn't do that anymore. Well, up to you. We're not forcing you.
The problem with saving as CSV is that this shouldn't be called "Save" - it should be called "Export", "Convert", or something else. The "Save" feature should always save in the native format of the application. Then the user would have to explicitly request a change of format, minimizing confusion.
Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you - just one word. Ben: Yes sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Ben: Yes I am. Mr. McGuire: 'Nanotubes.'
We can have a brain that's fully deterministic at a microscopic level without doing away with free will...
Actually, no you can't. Deterministic means the initial conditions have predetermined the outcome, meaning no free will. We may not be able to compute the outcome, which means from a computational standpoint our behavior may seem random enough to exhibit free will. But philosophically if the brain is deterministic then we cannot have free will.
Forget losing my data, I'm using the "Seasonal" theme on my Google homepage and it's still showing snow-covered hills and a snowman. It knows from my zip code that I do not live in Siberia or even Buffalo. How is this seasonal!? I think Google should drop everything else and get on this one pronto.
Maybe we're reading different articles. The one I read is about a compound called DCA which has already been tested and which is cheap to produce. Maybe Big Pharma is blocking this in the US, but then why hasn't Canada added it to the drinking water along with fluoride?
Or if you're talking about Taxol, which is what TFA was about, the new twist there was developed in the US in conjunction with a US private company, Weyerhauser. They evidently think it's profitable. So what are you even talking about?
Now there is still much expensive testing and trials to do, and they will not be done by pharmaceutical companies because there is no money in it.
But if it's so expensive to develop this drug, then how does one defend the argument that it's really cheap and simple, and therefore evidence of a conspiracy that Big Pharma isn't doing it already?
Mod parent to the moon! I figure if we can do that, and then safely mod him back down to Earth, we can certainly develop a dupe-free Slashdot. It just stands to reason.
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I was shooting for +1, Ironic, but since that's not available, I'll take +1, Funny!
Sure, he may be ignored now. But in 30 years maybe we'll dig up his article again and do something about it....
I just had a mental picture of the auto dashboard of 2050, complete with indicator lights reading "LOOK OUT!", "NOT SO FAST", "POTHOLE!", "SHARP TURN AHEAD", "DON'T FOLLOW SO CLOSE"... in other words, they've digitized my Mom and stuck her in the dash.
Not at all. It just introduces a synchronization step when you go back online. Windows does this already with its file servers - if you go offline and have some shared files open, you can still use them normally, save them, etc. But when you go online, the files get synchronized back to the server so they can be backed up, opened from other workstations, etc. It's supposed to be the best of both worlds.
What makes you think it's so benign? Dashboard real estate is precious, like screen real estate on the monitor you're currently looking at. Suppose the government decided they were going to take a 100x50 pixel block and use it for a "ECONOMY" indicator light that stayed on top all the time and lit up when you were using too much power playing your latest FPS of choice.
I'm having trouble finding a link, but this is something I read about in the Economist a few years ago. It caught my attention in particular because my wife is Bulgarian and that's one of the countries that was affected.
That's exactly what I mean by penalties. If I can locate a link I will post it. Unfortunately, not all media is readily available on the web (yet!).
That's basically not true either - France and Germany dominate. That's what a previous poster was getting at when he said that they'd figured out a way to conquer Europe without using guns (I'm paraphrasing).
I totally agree and certainly have no problem in principle with such a federation. And the EU could be much worse than it is - it may on balance be a positive force in the world.
Heh, well, I predict that the EU will in no time far eclipse any states' rights concerns you have about the US. FWIW, I'm a federalist as well. But it's a bit of a mistake to compare the EU (a federation comprised of over a dozen nationalities with distinct cultures, traditions, etc) with the US (a republic comprised of a single nationality - to a first approximation - and only regional differences).
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Ah, but is it free?
But if the lottery picks that number and publishes it, isn't that a violation of your copyright? I suppose you could sue for an amount equal to what your lottery winnings would have been, but it seems like a lot less trouble just to collect the jackpot.
I don't think you get it - I'm not talking about Switzerland. The EU threatened to penalize Eastern European countries who did not toe the line and join. The USA is certainly not acting this way with our neighbors Mexico and Canada, with which we have free trade agreements, and our territories like Guam and Puerto Rico enjoy a trade-advantaged status (since investments there are not subject to federal income tax).
Well, not quite. The EU says: these are the rules of the club. Want to get in, then follow them. Don't want to get in, then we will not trade with you. What's that? You're a small Eastern European country on our borders that sells primarily to Europe? Gosh, that would suck if you couldn't do that anymore. Well, up to you. We're not forcing you.
The problem with saving as CSV is that this shouldn't be called "Save" - it should be called "Export", "Convert", or something else. The "Save" feature should always save in the native format of the application. Then the user would have to explicitly request a change of format, minimizing confusion.
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The first? He was already in a public school!
That's where my patented hand-penetrating radar comes into play.
Yes, but what if the luser^Wsick person came in complaining of a cough while he has a broken rib sticking out of his chest?
Actually, no you can't. Deterministic means the initial conditions have predetermined the outcome, meaning no free will. We may not be able to compute the outcome, which means from a computational standpoint our behavior may seem random enough to exhibit free will. But philosophically if the brain is deterministic then we cannot have free will.
Forget losing my data, I'm using the "Seasonal" theme on my Google homepage and it's still showing snow-covered hills and a snowman. It knows from my zip code that I do not live in Siberia or even Buffalo. How is this seasonal!? I think Google should drop everything else and get on this one pronto.
Hey, it's not my fault that some admin kicked out the power cable 53 days ago!
Definitely not a Linux problem:
Maybe we're reading different articles. The one I read is about a compound called DCA which has already been tested and which is cheap to produce. Maybe Big Pharma is blocking this in the US, but then why hasn't Canada added it to the drinking water along with fluoride?
Or if you're talking about Taxol, which is what TFA was about, the new twist there was developed in the US in conjunction with a US private company, Weyerhauser. They evidently think it's profitable. So what are you even talking about?
But if it's so expensive to develop this drug, then how does one defend the argument that it's really cheap and simple, and therefore evidence of a conspiracy that Big Pharma isn't doing it already?
Mod parent to the moon! I figure if we can do that, and then safely mod him back down to Earth, we can certainly develop a dupe-free Slashdot. It just stands to reason.
But if it's so cheap and simple, why aren't the uncapitalist socialist-medicine countries developing it?