IP law needs to be obliterated and rewritten. This "150 years plus the heat death of the universe, and I control everything about it and all derivative works forever" shit has got to stop. Mandatory copyright licensing with FRAND pricing schedules and a 15 year tern would be a good first step. And if the content creators want to take their ball and go home then fine... they won't be missed. Others will innovate in their place.
It's not going to happen. no one will ever willingly turn off a money spigot. If anything you're going to see more micropayments being pushed on us. And with the number of content providers dwindling on a yearly basis, you're not going to have competition to drive down price either.
DRM is a given since all WB video products are sold with DRM or equivalent protection against copyright theft, WB never promised that it would be DRM free. Only an out of his mind Slashdotter was going to think that WB would reverse precedent for this one film.
Actually it would be Hail, Eris full of Discord. If you're getting your mythology straight. She started both the first beauty contest, and the Trojan War as a direct result of said contest, in a fit of pique from being excluded from an Olympian social.
A government that is huge does not help either - when you are trying to control and tax everyone by majority vote, you are bound to end up this way. This is why the founding vision was so important, people were allowed to decide for themselves, not elect someone to decide for them and for everyone else.
In short, when everything is political, everything becomes about forcing others to do as you want.
Actually the "people" were never actually allowed to decide for themselves whether to rebel or not. The revolution was a minority position held by influential landowners and buisnessmen who had the networking and the wherewithal to override the majority who wished to remain British subjects.
Europe discovered America and now, a few years letters, America wants to discover Europa. They must be subconsciously influenced by the mother continent name from which they originated.
That is going to be quite a surprise to the ancestors of the Asian tribes that actually were the first to settle the Americas;)
The post styling seems to intimate an act of negligence or mistake by NASA on the order which doomed the Martian mission which crashed into the Red Planet because of a miscommunication measuring units.
Fact of the matter is that the spacecraft's mission ended decades ago, and it's apparant life is in the form of a failure in the shutdown protocol. To think of a new mission, and program the spacecraft requires time in planning and expense in recreating technology long declared obsolete, and dedication of man-hours to operation and implementation.
These are not trivial considerations. Fact of the matter is that there are quite a few active missions involving craft and rovers that have exceeded their design lifetimes and are in extended mission phase. Some, maybe many of these are going to be shutdown because NASA's budget can not accommodate the expense of keeping them running along with active programs. I would not want a cent spent on this over-romanticised anomaly.
What sins are you talking about? I wasn't discussing the religious implications of a theoretical person's actions. i was talking about social policy and how I view it as unfair that someone would be willing to act in that manner and then demand that others come armed to my house demanding that I pay her.
And if you think an armed visit is an exaggeration, stop paying any federal tax in the US for awhile (while having employment that causes you to have that legal requirement. IRS agents are armed.
Oh stop being dramatic. The IRS won't visit you with guns. Court ordered garnishment is the tool of the day, with seizuere of assets as needed if that does not prove sufficient. This is of course after you've refused any of various means to settle your debt to society. No matter what society you've lived in, you've always payed some form of fief to someone else.
yeah, and a society where the only scarcity is found in luxuries, would be by definition a utopia. I don't think anybody would mind the free market as a thought exercise.
scarcity reduced to a level where you need never worry of need, but only of want, is how i see society going.
The problem is.. a society where the workers are content, and well fed, and have the luxury to think for themselves is a society where workers won't tolerate being paid starvation wages, and may actually be in a position to make demands to management as far as working conditions, benefits, without fear of the consequences of reprisal.
The key to the Party's strategy of power in Orwell's "1984" was to maximize both productivity and scarcity. The productivty supports a massive military industrial complex whose output goes into military spending which does not get recycled back into the economy. The upper classes, the Inner Party, while relatively impoverished compared to the titans of old, are living way better than the barely fed proletariat who are in total thrall to the system for their needs to the extent that even the concept of striking is no longer in play.
Only if your one of those morons who likes to pretend credits don't exist in StarTrek... Because they do, and your allotment depends on you contributing to society.
Fuck fake geeks talking about StarTrek like it presented some utopian perfect future. You probably also ignore that there is constant fighting both in and outside the federation as well as all the "evolved" species, almost all of which saw civil war in one StarTrek series or another. Even the Vulcans had corruption and war on their own world. Multiple times.
Even your fantasy paradise is no such place.
Star Trek pretty much exists in two periods. During Roddenberry, and After Roddenberry. After Roddenberry was safely dead, DS9 writers took off with morally ambiguous stories such as when the classic "Pale in Moonlight", Sisko engages with Garak to create a fake record of a Cardassian conference to draw the Romulans into the war, a scheme that ultimately proves successful, but not in the way he intended, and with plenty of skulduggery, intimidation, crossing of ethical guidelines and murder to go around. It's a thought provoking episode that I consider the best the series ever produced. For this reason, DS9 has never quite sit fully nicely in the Star Trek NG pantheon which was emblemised by Jon Luc Picard's seemingly endless series of moral superiority speeches whether directed at aliens or at our 20th century present. or Kirk's cocksure sense of rightness with every culture he collided with. TNG was pretty much in sync with the Roddenberry paradigm of "our ship and crew are perfect, it's those foreigners (aliens) who keep mucking up the works."
You think this could only be about money? That's adorable.
This could be about decentralized currencies & their ability to control our money. Considering how much involvement they've had in undermining almost all aspects of the internet recently, I'd bet it was them.
Besides, its very nice and easily to "plant" evidence to keep for a later date.
Or maybe the cypherphunks can't accept the idea that it's most likely they're being attacked by their own kind with the same lack of respect for regulation and disdain for law that they have?
We've been playing with a number of yet to be announced similar pieces of HDMI hardware at work, as well as Chromecast. The #1 feature I wish was available is to make multiple dongles stackable on one HDMI port.
That's why we have HDMI switchers.... they even have some with remote controls.
Wow. But the problem is that the only realistic cheap-energy that is currently technically viable is nuclear. And that has the same group of environmentalists opposed to it as are trying to decry AGW. They're shooting their cause in the foot.
Other than oil executives, most of the rest of us don't care where our energy comes from.
Global warming is a serious enough concern that there are environmentalists who believe that nuclear power does need to be revisited as an alternative to carbon fuels. They still maintain that this does not change that long term issues with nuclear power (among them waste disposal) still need to be answered. The other really big question is that can nuclear power shoulder the burden economically when all the costs associated with it (including the long term issue of waste, which will scale with the number of nuke plants operating) are factored into the equation. It is worth noting that the only places where nuclear power is doing well is under heavy state subsidy, a model which won't fly in the U.S.
You may run afoul of the exclusive deal the cable company has for your town...
Would the rest of your town be willing to abandon their current cable company so that your 22 house neighborhood can enjoy better internet connections and no unsightly poles? I suspect not, and I suspect the cable company knows this, so you have no leverage over the cable company to get what you want...
Exclusive deals don't come into play in areas the company does not cover.
Apple carved out a new frontier in the small touch screen market with the iOS interface. Then Android came along and also did well in the small touch screen interface market. However, both of these OS's left their desktop version (OS/X and Linux whatever) behind. Different modes of interfacing with hardware drove different interfaces.
Apple did not leave OS/X behind. Not only has it been refreshing it's desktops, IOS shares it's ancestry and underpinnings with OS/X.
Microsoft refuses to acknowledge the one simple truth that could save them:
No one who chooses to use a PC instead of a tablet wants to see Metro. Ever.
Count me as one those "no bodies" then. There are apps on the "Metro" side I find quite handy. The real problem is the execution of the desktop side of the deal. If that had been done better, I'd imagine there would be far less Metro haters about.
While Martian winds may kick up some respectable velocity as far as feet per second, remember it's blowing around an extremely tenuous close to non-existent atmosphere. A martian wind may kick up to four hundred miles an hour, but if you were standing in it it would be no more force to you than a 25 mile per hour gust on Earth.
Not to where this vehicle is going. That F-15 was pretty much limited by physics and its design to the altitude record (again the airframe record and not really even impressive compared to other vehicles at the time other than perhaps impressive compared to other fighter planes.... the record they were trying to make).
Better altitude records were met with the X-15 a decade earlier, and even those records for vehicles launched from a runway, but none the less something much more worthy of comparison. On the other hand, Spaceship One, currently on display in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, was able to exceed the altitude records of even the X-15 and is the vehicle that is merely being upgraded and designed to hold passengers as well.... something that F-15 never could do.
And presumably much safer, considering that the careers of two of the the original 3 X-15's ended in crashes. One a relatively minor crash that the ship was able to be rebuilt to a new configuration from, and another which killed the pilot when the rocket plane disintegrated at 60,000 feet. The two surviving planes remain on display to this day.
It's been a theorised consequence of inflation and later string theory.
This article would be news if it offered any inclination on how to REACH those parralell worlds as the theories that postulate them also deem them forever inaccessible from each other.
I wasn't talking about what 'the tools do, under the hood' (dammit, typical windows speak), my point was that your operating system is a black box. dammit there isn't even source code available.
Darwin source code no longer exists? This link no longer works?.
A self driving car is that much less likely to be stupid.
It's not going to jump lanes in traffic because it's in a hurry, or because it has a self-delusion of being the next Mario Andretti. What it will do is adapt to changing driving conditions, such as rain, ice, etc.
It's not going to succumb to highway hypnosis, even if the human "driver" falls asleep at the wheel.
The decisions it makes will be all derived from logical algorithms.
The challenge is to make those algorithms smart and adaptable enough. Sure there will be accidents caused by those algorithims, but most likely far far less than those caused by human error.
It would have taken a lot of Lunokhod missions true, but most likely it would have been at a much lower cost.
Than a national prestige mission that happened to have some scientific output as part of the package? A manned exploration program that put some effort into reducing costs would also have been much lower cost than Apollo.
How much cost reduction is debatable. A significant part of the payload for a manned mission has to be devoted towards keeping the living cargo....well... living.
Apollo wasn't a mision about national prestige... it was simply stark fear. That did get kind of muted after the crash of Luna 15, and space eventually became a cooperative venture between the two powers. The Soviet Union even supplied the flight path of Luna 15 to ensure Apollo would not collide with it. That itself is places the Soviet Union as a corrobative witness to the moonflight.
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... When you get a poor performance review, it doesn't help your case to engage in activity which justifies it.
IP law needs to be obliterated and rewritten. This "150 years plus the heat death of the universe, and I control everything about it and all derivative works forever" shit has got to stop. Mandatory copyright licensing with FRAND pricing schedules and a 15 year tern would be a good first step. And if the content creators want to take their ball and go home then fine... they won't be missed. Others will innovate in their place.
It's not going to happen. no one will ever willingly turn off a money spigot. If anything you're going to see more micropayments being pushed on us. And with the number of content providers dwindling on a yearly basis, you're not going to have competition to drive down price either.
WB mentioned that it will be with DRM?
DRM is a given since all WB video products are sold with DRM or equivalent protection against copyright theft, WB never promised that it would be DRM free. Only an out of his mind Slashdotter was going to think that WB would reverse precedent for this one film.
Actually it would be Hail, Eris full of Discord. If you're getting your mythology straight. She started both the first beauty contest, and the Trojan War as a direct result of said contest, in a fit of pique from being excluded from an Olympian social.
If you believe there's some pedantic reason to keep Pluto as a planet, I have to ask whether you hold the same views regarding Ceres.
This would not be a discussion if Pluto was not the only "planet" to have been discovered by an American.
A government that is huge does not help either - when you are trying to control and tax everyone by majority vote, you are bound to end up this way. This is why the founding vision was so important, people were allowed to decide for themselves, not elect someone to decide for them and for everyone else.
In short, when everything is political, everything becomes about forcing others to do as you want.
Actually the "people" were never actually allowed to decide for themselves whether to rebel or not. The revolution was a minority position held by influential landowners and buisnessmen who had the networking and the wherewithal to override the majority who wished to remain British subjects.
Europe discovered America and now, a few years letters, America wants to discover Europa. They must be subconsciously influenced by the mother continent name from which they originated.
That is going to be quite a surprise to the ancestors of the Asian tribes that actually were the first to settle the Americas ;)
It was.
The post styling seems to intimate an act of negligence or mistake by NASA on the order which doomed the Martian mission which crashed into the Red Planet because of a miscommunication measuring units. Fact of the matter is that the spacecraft's mission ended decades ago, and it's apparant life is in the form of a failure in the shutdown protocol. To think of a new mission, and program the spacecraft requires time in planning and expense in recreating technology long declared obsolete, and dedication of man-hours to operation and implementation. These are not trivial considerations. Fact of the matter is that there are quite a few active missions involving craft and rovers that have exceeded their design lifetimes and are in extended mission phase. Some, maybe many of these are going to be shutdown because NASA's budget can not accommodate the expense of keeping them running along with active programs. I would not want a cent spent on this over-romanticised anomaly.
What sins are you talking about? I wasn't discussing the religious implications of a theoretical person's actions. i was talking about social policy and how I view it as unfair that someone would be willing to act in that manner and then demand that others come armed to my house demanding that I pay her.
And if you think an armed visit is an exaggeration, stop paying any federal tax in the US for awhile (while having employment that causes you to have that legal requirement. IRS agents are armed.
Oh stop being dramatic. The IRS won't visit you with guns. Court ordered garnishment is the tool of the day, with seizuere of assets as needed if that does not prove sufficient. This is of course after you've refused any of various means to settle your debt to society. No matter what society you've lived in, you've always payed some form of fief to someone else.
yeah, and a society where the only scarcity is found in luxuries, would be by definition a utopia. I don't think anybody would mind the free market as a thought exercise.
scarcity reduced to a level where you need never worry of need, but only of want, is how i see society going.
The problem is.. a society where the workers are content, and well fed, and have the luxury to think for themselves is a society where workers won't tolerate being paid starvation wages, and may actually be in a position to make demands to management as far as working conditions, benefits, without fear of the consequences of reprisal. The key to the Party's strategy of power in Orwell's "1984" was to maximize both productivity and scarcity. The productivty supports a massive military industrial complex whose output goes into military spending which does not get recycled back into the economy. The upper classes, the Inner Party, while relatively impoverished compared to the titans of old, are living way better than the barely fed proletariat who are in total thrall to the system for their needs to the extent that even the concept of striking is no longer in play.
Only if your one of those morons who likes to pretend credits don't exist in StarTrek ... Because they do, and your allotment depends on you contributing to society.
Fuck fake geeks talking about StarTrek like it presented some utopian perfect future. You probably also ignore that there is constant fighting both in and outside the federation as well as all the "evolved" species, almost all of which saw civil war in one StarTrek series or another. Even the Vulcans had corruption and war on their own world. Multiple times.
Even your fantasy paradise is no such place.
Star Trek pretty much exists in two periods. During Roddenberry, and After Roddenberry. After Roddenberry was safely dead, DS9 writers took off with morally ambiguous stories such as when the classic "Pale in Moonlight", Sisko engages with Garak to create a fake record of a Cardassian conference to draw the Romulans into the war, a scheme that ultimately proves successful, but not in the way he intended, and with plenty of skulduggery, intimidation, crossing of ethical guidelines and murder to go around. It's a thought provoking episode that I consider the best the series ever produced. For this reason, DS9 has never quite sit fully nicely in the Star Trek NG pantheon which was emblemised by Jon Luc Picard's seemingly endless series of moral superiority speeches whether directed at aliens or at our 20th century present. or Kirk's cocksure sense of rightness with every culture he collided with. TNG was pretty much in sync with the Roddenberry paradigm of "our ship and crew are perfect, it's those foreigners (aliens) who keep mucking up the works."
You think this could only be about money? That's adorable.
This could be about decentralized currencies & their ability to control our money. Considering how much involvement they've had in undermining almost all aspects of the internet recently, I'd bet it was them.
Besides, its very nice and easily to "plant" evidence to keep for a later date.
Or maybe the cypherphunks can't accept the idea that it's most likely they're being attacked by their own kind with the same lack of respect for regulation and disdain for law that they have?
Waiting for the libertarians here to demonstrate why this shows how Bitcoin is such a wonderful idea.
We've been playing with a number of yet to be announced similar pieces of HDMI hardware at work, as well as Chromecast. The #1 feature I wish was available is to make multiple dongles stackable on one HDMI port.
That's why we have HDMI switchers.... they even have some with remote controls.
Wow. But the problem is that the only realistic cheap-energy that is currently technically viable is nuclear. And that has the same group of environmentalists opposed to it as are trying to decry AGW. They're shooting their cause in the foot.
Other than oil executives, most of the rest of us don't care where our energy comes from.
Global warming is a serious enough concern that there are environmentalists who believe that nuclear power does need to be revisited as an alternative to carbon fuels. They still maintain that this does not change that long term issues with nuclear power (among them waste disposal) still need to be answered. The other really big question is that can nuclear power shoulder the burden economically when all the costs associated with it (including the long term issue of waste, which will scale with the number of nuke plants operating) are factored into the equation. It is worth noting that the only places where nuclear power is doing well is under heavy state subsidy, a model which won't fly in the U.S.
You may run afoul of the exclusive deal the cable company has for your town...
Would the rest of your town be willing to abandon their current cable company so that your 22 house neighborhood can enjoy better internet connections and no unsightly poles? I suspect not, and I suspect the cable company knows this, so you have no leverage over the cable company to get what you want...
Exclusive deals don't come into play in areas the company does not cover.
What defines a small screen though?.
Physical size of the screen in inches/cm, not it's resolution.
Apple carved out a new frontier in the small touch screen market with the iOS interface. Then Android came along and also did well in the small touch screen interface market. However, both of these OS's left their desktop version (OS/X and Linux whatever) behind. Different modes of interfacing with hardware drove different interfaces.
Apple did not leave OS/X behind. Not only has it been refreshing it's desktops, IOS shares it's ancestry and underpinnings with OS/X.
Microsoft refuses to acknowledge the one simple truth that could save them:
No one who chooses to use a PC instead of a tablet wants to see Metro. Ever.
Count me as one those "no bodies" then. There are apps on the "Metro" side I find quite handy. The real problem is the execution of the desktop side of the deal. If that had been done better, I'd imagine there would be far less Metro haters about.
While Martian winds may kick up some respectable velocity as far as feet per second, remember it's blowing around an extremely tenuous close to non-existent atmosphere. A martian wind may kick up to four hundred miles an hour, but if you were standing in it it would be no more force to you than a 25 mile per hour gust on Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7YAN9--3MA
Not to where this vehicle is going. That F-15 was pretty much limited by physics and its design to the altitude record (again the airframe record and not really even impressive compared to other vehicles at the time other than perhaps impressive compared to other fighter planes.... the record they were trying to make).
Better altitude records were met with the X-15 a decade earlier, and even those records for vehicles launched from a runway, but none the less something much more worthy of comparison. On the other hand, Spaceship One, currently on display in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, was able to exceed the altitude records of even the X-15 and is the vehicle that is merely being upgraded and designed to hold passengers as well.... something that F-15 never could do.
And presumably much safer, considering that the careers of two of the the original 3 X-15's ended in crashes. One a relatively minor crash that the ship was able to be rebuilt to a new configuration from, and another which killed the pilot when the rocket plane disintegrated at 60,000 feet. The two surviving planes remain on display to this day.
It's been a theorised consequence of inflation and later string theory. This article would be news if it offered any inclination on how to REACH those parralell worlds as the theories that postulate them also deem them forever inaccessible from each other.
I wasn't talking about what 'the tools do, under the hood' (dammit, typical windows speak), my point was that your operating system is a black box. dammit there isn't even source code available.
Darwin source code no longer exists? This link no longer works?.
the link worked for me just fine.
A self driving car is that much less likely to be stupid. It's not going to jump lanes in traffic because it's in a hurry, or because it has a self-delusion of being the next Mario Andretti. What it will do is adapt to changing driving conditions, such as rain, ice, etc. It's not going to succumb to highway hypnosis, even if the human "driver" falls asleep at the wheel. The decisions it makes will be all derived from logical algorithms. The challenge is to make those algorithms smart and adaptable enough. Sure there will be accidents caused by those algorithims, but most likely far far less than those caused by human error.
It would have taken a lot of Lunokhod missions true, but most likely it would have been at a much lower cost.
Than a national prestige mission that happened to have some scientific output as part of the package? A manned exploration program that put some effort into reducing costs would also have been much lower cost than Apollo.
How much cost reduction is debatable. A significant part of the payload for a manned mission has to be devoted towards keeping the living cargo....well... living. Apollo wasn't a mision about national prestige... it was simply stark fear. That did get kind of muted after the crash of Luna 15, and space eventually became a cooperative venture between the two powers. The Soviet Union even supplied the flight path of Luna 15 to ensure Apollo would not collide with it. That itself is places the Soviet Union as a corrobative witness to the moonflight.