You must be in your 40s or 50s. It's like music tastes, people always prefer the music they listened to in high school and college, anything newer is crap to them and anything older is their parents music.
She has a duty to the shareholders of Yahoo to do what is best for them.
Right now at this time it appears that the best interests are served by complying.
If you want corporations to fight, buy shares - get a group together to buy more shares, buy up all of the companies that run the infrastructure of the country, then use them to fight a proxy war with the current federal government.
Vote with your wallets. Vote with organization. Just hope that the new masters (whomever ends up with controlling interest) are better than what we have now.
the video postulates a future where you interact with your smartphone (or other wearable/implanted computer) by performing touch gestures on your own body. Grasp your own hands to stop the music, tap on your palm with two fingers to go forward a track, ball one hand to pop up the local weather on your Google Glasses HUD and so on.
This may not be available for an iWatch yet but it's on the horizon.
Here's a thought. While you are speaking English to your counterpart who speaks both English and a local language - he/she is telling the other people in the room how ignorant you are and why you deserve to lose the job as you are clearly unprepared for even basic communication.
Now I'm not saying that is happening, but it might be and you'd never know.
Your vision of the www is 1000x worse than what we have. It should be more open not less. Let people do what they want. Maybe we'll come back to hyper text markup eventually. For now everyone is way more excited about reactive data binding on the document object model and restful json data services. Oh and apps, lots of apps.
[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship...] "I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."...
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
You could just make up a language and use that instead. Even better, make up a language that looks like the result of encryption. They'll try to decrypt but will just scramble it up worse. They'd have to have a lexicon to make any headway and that would require active surveillance.
I have no use for such a thing personally. Just a random comment.
Someone has to make those high tech machines as you say. There is your added jobs. Not only that but someone has to market and sell the machines as well. Lets not forget the big data aspect as those machines will generate lots of it. It's a new industrial revolution.
He wasn't commenting on FRAND or anything else you mentioned. His statement was that patents are in practice the opposite of what they are in theory (and as originally prescribed). Therefore they no longer serve the purpose intended and should simply go away.
There hasn't been innovation in software in 50 years. It's all just application of basic principles worked out in the 50s and 60s to new problems. Most of what we're doing today is obvious as soon as you ask the question. People have been patenting the question not the answer.
Give most developers a software problem and they will come up with an answer that looks pretty close to what the next dev comes up with. They may choose a different language or use a different design pattern but in 99.99999999% of the time it's going to be the same logic.
When you ask a dev if something can be done the answer is not yes/no, it's when and at what cost. It pretty much comes down to the amount of time needed to QA the code and make it maintainable (test coverage, modularity, documentation).
Wrong. BMW would still deny wrongdoing and blame the people who wrote the app. You'll end up in a lawsuit with 5-6 defendants and no end in sight. Would cost more than the car so you'll settle out of court (unless you have a list of damages a judge will get behind).
Why does anyone need to put it up anyways? Is it really so damn hard to aim into the bowl and avoid the seat? If you hit the seat is it any worse than hitting the rim? Isn't it easier to clean off the seat than the rim?
And this I why you build hydro reservoirs. Use the excess energy from renewables during peak output periods to pump water up into the lake, then discharge it later during low output times such as your winter storm. Other possibles include molten salt beds, hydrogen production, compressed air tanks or any other energy store that doesn't leak or have a high maintenance cost to manage.
We do that with Netflix too. Browse to documentaries and hit the first thing that looks okay. Know what's great? It's a documentary. Probably educational. No commercials. If it gets interesting you can pause it or watch it again later without having to have set it up to record in advance. Want to finish watching it outside? Grab your tablet - picks up where you left off.
Subscription to a catalog of content is just the way to go for this stuff. IMHO 90% of the media content ever made should be available and we should only pay for the hard costs of making it available. Books, music, video, audio recordings, photography, art. All of it. It's what the library system should provide, not a private company and IP rights holders.
So you would be perfectly okay with a coworker taking off at a critical time and without notice on sick leave - forcing you and those around you to pick up the slack while actually going on a trip somewhere to play at the beach?
What if you found out about this but had no proof? What if you had proof but were not legally allowed to reveal it?
What if this happened several times? Always the same MO - at the worst possible time when all hands were needed? Again, no usable proof - except that you could see the proof right there on Facebook, taunting you.
Apple devices auto adjust to ambient light. Works great as long as the ambient light isn't changing too much but then that's going to be annoying no matter what.
Apple managed it, why didn't MS? They should have put a transparent VM into Vista and 7 to run binaries, drivers, etc and called it Windows Classic. They could have had everyone migrated by now and made more money in the process.
Our economy is backed by debt. Banking records, paper, etc are just IOUs. You do some work (make something of value, perform a service) someone can pay you for that with an IOU. You can then trade that obligation to someone else for a good or service.
The value of the debt is based on market forces, eg whatever value someone will give it.
The money / currency has no value. If you trade in gold for something other than a debt note (IOU) you are just bartering.
Have you not been to the Internet? Millions are creating content every day. We're doing it right now!!!!!
You give far too much credit to the abilities of "professional" authors.
Really all they have to do is put up a low cost pay wall or pay to download site and post the work up. Hundreds of thousands would pay $1.99 or so to read their work.
Just like apps they would get a big spike on release day and then it would fall off and pirates would begin trading but if priced right most people will pay a few dollars. A decent author could make a few hundred thousand a year on one book a year. If you can't write one book a year (due to research time or whatever) you may be able to charge more but if your market is too small then it really comes down to economics. Write something commercial to fund your hobby / niche piece.
It's actually so easy now that it's a little embarrassing to see smart talented people shafting themselves so badly.
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You must be in your 40s or 50s. It's like music tastes, people always prefer the music they listened to in high school and college, anything newer is crap to them and anything older is their parents music.
If you can build autonomous cars you can build autonomous robots ( at what point are they the same thing?).
She has a duty to the shareholders of Yahoo to do what is best for them.
Right now at this time it appears that the best interests are served by complying.
If you want corporations to fight, buy shares - get a group together to buy more shares, buy up all of the companies that run the infrastructure of the country, then use them to fight a proxy war with the current federal government.
Vote with your wallets. Vote with organization. Just hope that the new masters (whomever ends up with controlling interest) are better than what we have now.
Disney, whom Apple has a great relationship with, demonstrated a technology recently that may change your mind about this.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/128715-disney-touche-turns-everyday-objects-into-multi-touch-gesture-recognizing-interfaces
the video postulates a future where you interact with your smartphone (or other wearable/implanted computer) by performing touch gestures on your own body. Grasp your own hands to stop the music, tap on your palm with two fingers to go forward a track, ball one hand to pop up the local weather on your Google Glasses HUD and so on.
This may not be available for an iWatch yet but it's on the horizon.
Here's a thought. While you are speaking English to your counterpart who speaks both English and a local language - he/she is telling the other people in the room how ignorant you are and why you deserve to lose the job as you are clearly unprepared for even basic communication.
Now I'm not saying that is happening, but it might be and you'd never know.
Your vision of the www is 1000x worse than what we have. It should be more open not less. Let people do what they want. Maybe we'll come back to hyper text markup eventually. For now everyone is way more excited about reactive data binding on the document object model and restful json data services. Oh and apps, lots of apps.
[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship...] ...
"I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
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You could just make up a language and use that instead. Even better, make up a language that looks like the result of encryption. They'll try to decrypt but will just scramble it up worse. They'd have to have a lexicon to make any headway and that would require active surveillance.
I have no use for such a thing personally. Just a random comment.
Someone has to make those high tech machines as you say. There is your added jobs. Not only that but someone has to market and sell the machines as well. Lets not forget the big data aspect as those machines will generate lots of it. It's a new industrial revolution.
He wasn't commenting on FRAND or anything else you mentioned. His statement was that patents are in practice the opposite of what they are in theory (and as originally prescribed). Therefore they no longer serve the purpose intended and should simply go away.
There hasn't been innovation in software in 50 years. It's all just application of basic principles worked out in the 50s and 60s to new problems. Most of what we're doing today is obvious as soon as you ask the question. People have been patenting the question not the answer.
Give most developers a software problem and they will come up with an answer that looks pretty close to what the next dev comes up with. They may choose a different language or use a different design pattern but in 99.99999999% of the time it's going to be the same logic.
When you ask a dev if something can be done the answer is not yes/no, it's when and at what cost. It pretty much comes down to the amount of time needed to QA the code and make it maintainable (test coverage, modularity, documentation).
Akamai has several streaming media solutions. One example http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/sola-vision.html
Wrong. BMW would still deny wrongdoing and blame the people who wrote the app. You'll end up in a lawsuit with 5-6 defendants and no end in sight. Would cost more than the car so you'll settle out of court (unless you have a list of damages a judge will get behind).
Why does anyone need to put it up anyways? Is it really so damn hard to aim into the bowl and avoid the seat? If you hit the seat is it any worse than hitting the rim? Isn't it easier to clean off the seat than the rim?
As a man I've never once lifted the seat.
And this I why you build hydro reservoirs. Use the excess energy from renewables during peak output periods to pump water up into the lake, then discharge it later during low output times such as your winter storm. Other possibles include molten salt beds, hydrogen production, compressed air tanks or any other energy store that doesn't leak or have a high maintenance cost to manage.
Tablets work great as personal media viewers. You really only need a TV if watching something with a group.
We do that with Netflix too. Browse to documentaries and hit the first thing that looks okay. Know what's great? It's a documentary. Probably educational. No commercials. If it gets interesting you can pause it or watch it again later without having to have set it up to record in advance. Want to finish watching it outside? Grab your tablet - picks up where you left off.
Subscription to a catalog of content is just the way to go for this stuff. IMHO 90% of the media content ever made should be available and we should only pay for the hard costs of making it available. Books, music, video, audio recordings, photography, art. All of it. It's what the library system should provide, not a private company and IP rights holders.
Did you search for it or just browse? The browse only shows ~20% of what they have.
So you would be perfectly okay with a coworker taking off at a critical time and without notice on sick leave - forcing you and those around you to pick up the slack while actually going on a trip somewhere to play at the beach?
What if you found out about this but had no proof? What if you had proof but were not legally allowed to reveal it?
What if this happened several times? Always the same MO - at the worst possible time when all hands were needed? Again, no usable proof - except that you could see the proof right there on Facebook, taunting you.
Apple devices auto adjust to ambient light. Works great as long as the ambient light isn't changing too much but then that's going to be annoying no matter what.
This is what VMs were made for.
Apple managed it, why didn't MS? They should have put a transparent VM into Vista and 7 to run binaries, drivers, etc and called it Windows Classic. They could have had everyone migrated by now and made more money in the process.
So wrong.
Our economy is backed by debt. Banking records, paper, etc are just IOUs. You do some work (make something of value, perform a service) someone can pay you for that with an IOU. You can then trade that obligation to someone else for a good or service.
The value of the debt is based on market forces, eg whatever value someone will give it.
The money / currency has no value. If you trade in gold for something other than a debt note (IOU) you are just bartering.
Those aren't things. Things are tangible and manifest in the physical world.
Have you not been to the Internet? Millions are creating content every day. We're doing it right now!!!!!
You give far too much credit to the abilities of "professional" authors.
Really all they have to do is put up a low cost pay wall or pay to download site and post the work up. Hundreds of thousands would pay $1.99 or so to read their work.
Just like apps they would get a big spike on release day and then it would fall off and pirates would begin trading but if priced right most people will pay a few dollars. A decent author could make a few hundred thousand a year on one book a year. If you can't write one book a year (due to research time or whatever) you may be able to charge more but if your market is too small then it really comes down to economics. Write something commercial to fund your hobby / niche piece.
It's actually so easy now that it's a little embarrassing to see smart talented people shafting themselves so badly.