Find me a service that delivers money into my account in less than 30 minutes, without fees, from Japan to France or Australia to France. I am more than interested.
It takes several days for money to arrive and it arrives with a few percents of fees removed from the transaction. The fact that the sender can cancel the transaction may be viewed as a problem instead of a feature.
What the bitcoin economy needs is not another financial market but more people accepting it as a payement for real goods and services.
I still offer a 5% discount for bitcoin users, but until now, no clients have been interested. However I do not despair as I am getting clients from all around the world and a lot complain about the difficulty to make international payement.
So, if you have bitcoins and need computer vision development, contact me : IV-devs
...just make an install with all the same packages except these ads and distribute them. That's how open source works. Complaints about such trivial things in OSS should not be taken seriously.
I did that when they switched to unity and yet, after several month of debian, I will come back to Ubuntu. Why? Integration is better. It took me a day to make multiscreen work, discover that ATI driver does not work with debian's version of X.org, suspend does not work and I have overheating issues. So their choice of packages sometimes suck a bit, especially if you happen to be on the development side of things, their UI really sucks and I hate being imposed a way to work, but luckily one can install gnome classic, enlightnement or KDE.
Are users the product? This is a stupid question. Here is another : How does Canonical get money from you? I don't pay them anything so the fact that they could be profitable by serving me is a miracle. If they manage to find a way to make money without forcing me to pay, without forcing me to use proprietary software and without selling my personal data, I m all for it. If it means I'll need to uninstall a few packages before using my system correctly, I'll do it.
I used to do that, then my government (France) declared that any act committed from my IP address was my responsibility and that if I don't protect my access, my connection can be cut. It kinda slowed me down...
Steve Wozniak has a good enough reputation to really make people in power change their opinions about this whole mess. He needs to become more aggressive and vocal about it. "I'm Wozniak, co inventor of the Mac, I know what innovation is, and patents hurt it. Just stop. Thanks."
I went to a presentation of experimental education techniques (it was in France) where several classes used either laptops or tablets (both iPads and android), lend to students, and tested adapted applications with that.
Their conclusions were not that clear. They mentioned the troubles of using a totally closed system like Apple's but also mentioned something I did not realize : tablets tend to be more robust than PCs. Classes had a lot more hardware problems with laptops than with tablets.
Tablets are great for sharing and exploring, not so much for writing and they identified copy-pasting operations as being the less practical operation. Also, a lack of educational applications for tablets (compared to laptops) was also a concern.
However, laptops are great for solitary work, but tablets are great for group work, as it is as easy to pass one around as it is to pass a sheet of paper.
I hope they will try transformer tablets soon. These have the best of both worlds.
You cannot eat space money either. It is worth asking where the "saved" money would be spent. I remember more than ten years ago, China was planning to send a man in space. "There will be a Chinese in space soon" was the promise. I walked in Chinatown at that time, and saw the children's drawings. Space, space, rockets.
A space program is not much about science, but a lot about education and the dreams that fuel it.
India can use more education. Not everyone will end up in space, science has a lot of other interesting fields, but space acts like a magnet to children so that they can get an interest to these fields.
We would be a bit more friendly toward these if these data were not then used as an unbalanced weapon.
I will answer fairly (almost) any question, for free, if the results will be publicly published. I will ask to be paid or poison the data otherwise. Sounds fair, no?
You know, it is funny that music piracy is said to slash down artists revenues but that pedopornography piracy is said to increase the demand.
Philosophically, and technically as wall as pragmatically, continuing to forbid the production of pedo-pornography with live models (I still don't understand why underage hentai is forbidden for instance) while encouraging pedo-pronography piracy should destroy the whole economical ecosystem.
If the purpose of the discussion was really to stop children exploitation, this would be the route taken, but we all know that this is just an excuse to put filters on internet communication and getting votes on emotional appeals so no one will ever endorse such a policy.
Here when you vote, they ask you "do you have time to help us count tonight?" If so we are then paired with someone we don't know, get ~500 ballots to count, have to agree on the final count. The total is then quickly made.
Voluntary work, every thing is done in one hour. Really, US, ditch the voting machines.
I was mainly referring to soil and water sources pollutions. Sure, it can use more energy and CO2 (though, it is not even certain) but I consider these issues as separate.
There is a very good reason to buy organic food : sustainability. It causes less pollution and uses less synthetic additives (which are often derived from fossil resources).
The "good for your health" is more of a marketing tool for people too concerned about themselves than about the planet. It has always disturbed me that people call organic food healthier : in the past decades, food quality has gone up. Intoxications are rare, parasites are fought, rotten food is less hidden in processed food. Organic food partly comes back on the techniques that allowed this. When done correctly, it is an efficient fight against wastes, but I always fear that it could be done wrong and cause intoxication, especially given the number of people who combine organic food growing and some kind of alternative spirituality (not the majority, but these people do exist) that may make them believe that "natural" ways can not create a dangerous fruit or vegetable.
When I buy organic food, I do it to preserve the planet, and I consider this a slight health risk. This would be a hard sell for most people.
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Find me a service that delivers money into my account in less than 30 minutes, without fees, from Japan to France or Australia to France. I am more than interested.
It takes several days for money to arrive and it arrives with a few percents of fees removed from the transaction. The fact that the sender can cancel the transaction may be viewed as a problem instead of a feature.
What the bitcoin economy needs is not another financial market but more people accepting it as a payement for real goods and services.
I still offer a 5% discount for bitcoin users, but until now, no clients have been interested. However I do not despair as I am getting clients from all around the world and a lot complain about the difficulty to make international payement.
So, if you have bitcoins and need computer vision development, contact me : IV-devs
And lear the joy of barking and japping dogs.
Yes, it is a sad state of affairs when US will have to chose between a complete moron and a war criminal.
How can a lethal technology have a 98% error rate?
The next step is to ban it. Do not wait until it is too late to show your disagreement.
FDA is a purely American problem. Solve it if you want, but the rest of the world doesn't have to consider it like an obstacle when innovating...
I wish there were a +1 Frightening moderation option
...just make an install with all the same packages except these ads and distribute them. That's how open source works. Complaints about such trivial things in OSS should not be taken seriously.
I did that when they switched to unity and yet, after several month of debian, I will come back to Ubuntu. Why? Integration is better. It took me a day to make multiscreen work, discover that ATI driver does not work with debian's version of X.org, suspend does not work and I have overheating issues. So their choice of packages sometimes suck a bit, especially if you happen to be on the development side of things, their UI really sucks and I hate being imposed a way to work, but luckily one can install gnome classic, enlightnement or KDE.
Are users the product? This is a stupid question. Here is another : How does Canonical get money from you? I don't pay them anything so the fact that they could be profitable by serving me is a miracle. If they manage to find a way to make money without forcing me to pay, without forcing me to use proprietary software and without selling my personal data, I m all for it. If it means I'll need to uninstall a few packages before using my system correctly, I'll do it.
If your title has a question mark and your summary is written in the conditional tense, you can move along, there is surely nothing to see there...
I used to do that, then my government (France) declared that any act committed from my IP address was my responsibility and that if I don't protect my access, my connection can be cut. It kinda slowed me down...
and it was pretty interesting :
http://exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-this-is-how-the-carriers-will-die/all/1/
Steve Wozniak has a good enough reputation to really make people in power change their opinions about this whole mess. He needs to become more aggressive and vocal about it. "I'm Wozniak, co inventor of the Mac, I know what innovation is, and patents hurt it. Just stop. Thanks."
It gets transformed into more bacteria and heat. And probably CO2 in the process.
I went to a presentation of experimental education techniques (it was in France) where several classes used either laptops or tablets (both iPads and android), lend to students, and tested adapted applications with that.
Their conclusions were not that clear. They mentioned the troubles of using a totally closed system like Apple's but also mentioned something I did not realize : tablets tend to be more robust than PCs. Classes had a lot more hardware problems with laptops than with tablets.
Tablets are great for sharing and exploring, not so much for writing and they identified copy-pasting operations as being the less practical operation. Also, a lack of educational applications for tablets (compared to laptops) was also a concern.
However, laptops are great for solitary work, but tablets are great for group work, as it is as easy to pass one around as it is to pass a sheet of paper.
I hope they will try transformer tablets soon. These have the best of both worlds.
Hey, I don't know if the content will be good, they don't know if their answers will be good. Quite fair.
You cannot eat space money either. It is worth asking where the "saved" money would be spent. I remember more than ten years ago, China was planning to send a man in space. "There will be a Chinese in space soon" was the promise. I walked in Chinatown at that time, and saw the children's drawings. Space, space, rockets.
A space program is not much about science, but a lot about education and the dreams that fuel it.
India can use more education. Not everyone will end up in space, science has a lot of other interesting fields, but space acts like a magnet to children so that they can get an interest to these fields.
We would be a bit more friendly toward these if these data were not then used as an unbalanced weapon.
I will answer fairly (almost) any question, for free, if the results will be publicly published. I will ask to be paid or poison the data otherwise. Sounds fair, no?
You know, it is funny that music piracy is said to slash down artists revenues but that pedopornography piracy is said to increase the demand.
Philosophically, and technically as wall as pragmatically, continuing to forbid the production of pedo-pornography with live models (I still don't understand why underage hentai is forbidden for instance) while encouraging pedo-pronography piracy should destroy the whole economical ecosystem.
If the purpose of the discussion was really to stop children exploitation, this would be the route taken, but we all know that this is just an excuse to put filters on internet communication and getting votes on emotional appeals so no one will ever endorse such a policy.
Here when you vote, they ask you "do you have time to help us count tonight?" If so we are then paired with someone we don't know, get ~500 ballots to count, have to agree on the final count. The total is then quickly made.
Voluntary work, every thing is done in one hour. Really, US, ditch the voting machines.
The trick is probably to hire people who have proven that they do more interesting things than that during their free time.
I was mainly referring to soil and water sources pollutions. Sure, it can use more energy and CO2 (though, it is not even certain) but I consider these issues as separate.
There is a very good reason to buy organic food : sustainability. It causes less pollution and uses less synthetic additives (which are often derived from fossil resources).
The "good for your health" is more of a marketing tool for people too concerned about themselves than about the planet. It has always disturbed me that people call organic food healthier : in the past decades, food quality has gone up. Intoxications are rare, parasites are fought, rotten food is less hidden in processed food. Organic food partly comes back on the techniques that allowed this. When done correctly, it is an efficient fight against wastes, but I always fear that it could be done wrong and cause intoxication, especially given the number of people who combine organic food growing and some kind of alternative spirituality (not the majority, but these people do exist) that may make them believe that "natural" ways can not create a dangerous fruit or vegetable.
When I buy organic food, I do it to preserve the planet, and I consider this a slight health risk. This would be a hard sell for most people.