If richest 1% of americans only made 1/3 of the income, we would be looking at our country in a very different light. We must congratulate Apple on given new opportunities to indie developers.
It's this kind of thinking that will make movie studios bankrupt. Otherwise law abiding people are copying stuff because IP laws have been terribly abused. If movie copyrights were around 10 years and penalties for copying were in line with petty shoplifting, a lot of us would be turning violators in. Is it really constructive at this point to pick on people who are trying to be honest by using an authorized service when they could just hit Pirate Bay?
The whole point of an ultra thin tablet is to be able to leave any optional parts you would buy from newegg at home or in the bag. Eventually people will have a powerful desktop at home and calling a docking station because all the files and even running processes, open network connections and streaming videos from the tablet will be instantly migrated. Just treat the tablet as a second monitor for user's custom PC and you will be fine. If you can not adopt your business to modern connectivity standards, oh well...
I am sure Apple be front and center in this effort, probably up to requiring all user-level applications to be signed with their developer keys. I am even sort of sympathetic. My freedom to save $100/year before hacking my own computers is not as compelling as freedom of normal folks not be be p0wned.
You think Microsoft forcing OEMs to do or not do something is a SOLUTION to their abuse of monopoly? Why don't you take it up with DELL directly? They seem to have listened with preinstalled Linux support.
Both are based on obsolete ideas. With code size ever increasing faster than L1-3 cache, it's better to have a complex instruction set with more compact encoding of common real-life code. And X86, oh well we all know where and when that came from. It's time for a modern architecture that efficiently supports today software - including JVM and.Net, security and technologies such as OpenCL. True high end servers cost millions, so it's worth developing custom software even for one of them!
Can I send a document in my native language from any hotel computer, with arbitrary layout and graphics and have the recipient correct it and send it back to me? Or is it still like early 90s thingy where I would have to tell people I never met before to install fonts or a particular version of Word - or worse have the message bounce hours later, when I am already on the plane?
Our lack of progress in space exploration has more to do with losing the will than limitations of technology. We could have launched a mission to Alpha Centauri by now if we pursued project Orion with modern advances to material science and optimized computer control of propulsion. If we are not doing that, who is to say we will build a space elevator even if the technology is feasible?
The only reason to study a subject is to make contributions to it. Any decent mathematician, physicist or writer will be failed by computers or uninvolved beaurocrats because they only look for what is already known and therefore useless.
Anonymity on Internet used to be a rare exception. It's the spammers/identity thieves/excessively nosy employers who made it this way. Does the author really want to get phone calls based on sites he visits online.
Obviously if you can not easily move your data to a competing cloud - or back to your own computers - if dissatisfied, you have no freedom. Your are stuck with what one particular company is offering.
Nobody who experienced wonderful "consistency" of cellular and cable networks would want to depend on one in an emergency or even to call a taxi to airport. That's like saying it's time to get rid of seat belts in leu of self driving cars.
Do you think the later needs to bend over for the former at the cost of antagonizing customers who plan to buy so many Apple devices that they can not keep them synced manually?
Everyone has right to their own hobbies, but think what can be accomplished with the same amount of labor and modern parts. Instead of making a CPU from hundreds of TTL gates, build a personal supercomputer from hundreds of ARM processors and custom operating system to effectively use that power for virtual reality or physics simulations. Hobbyists who has done this decades ago were futuristic not retro, creating devices that were not widely available, at least to private individuals.
The future is privacy through access control, law and mutually assured harassment. Once you can easily tell who exactly Googled you, they will be a lot more respectful.
Is USB 3.0 suitable for connecting 1080p 3D-enabled TV? I know earlier USB hardware had trouble with excessive host CPU use and thus realtime performance guarantees apart from theoretical bandwidth limits. If not, the author is missing the point, which is to have a single connector for ALL devices. As for optical, I don't see any reason to use more expensive controllers and cables if Intel was able to achieve their target bandwidth with cooper.
DOSBox may personally work for you, but lots of people want the real thing for either pragmatic or nostalgic reasons. Giving the stuff to good home is much better than just junking it.
We had realistic h-bomb powered starship technology in 60s, what is the excuse for not going half a century later? Sure there are big risks for astronauts and small risks/big expenses for the rest of us, does that mean we crawl back into stone age caves and stop trying to progress?
To maintain status as a common carrier they would need to follow the same policy for pirate bay and amazon. Do you believe for a moment comcast would not try to investigate if amazon was unreachable?
Otherwise they would lose protection as the common carrier and become responsible for all the content on their network. Syrian government is much more evil than the Pirate Bay, but you are still allowed to call them on the phone or look up their website on Google.
This is probably the only way for wikileaks to a. survive and b. get exposure through mainstream media. If information is not filtered to avoid imminent damage to life and limb of people on the ground, wikileaks and its sources will be subject to aggressive prosecution, not to mention seriously bad karma. And no newspaper will run a story without some kind of exclusive access agreement. If you truly want uncensored publication, there are millions of way to do so on Internet. You just will not get the same mainstream exposure and, if found, may find yourself a target of extradition or even covert ops.
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If richest 1% of americans only made 1/3 of the income, we would be looking at our country in a very different light. We must congratulate Apple on given new opportunities to indie developers.
It's this kind of thinking that will make movie studios bankrupt. Otherwise law abiding people are copying stuff because IP laws have been terribly abused. If movie copyrights were around 10 years and penalties for copying were in line with petty shoplifting, a lot of us would be turning violators in. Is it really constructive at this point to pick on people who are trying to be honest by using an authorized service when they could just hit Pirate Bay?
The whole point of an ultra thin tablet is to be able to leave any optional parts you would buy from newegg at home or in the bag. Eventually people will have a powerful desktop at home and calling a docking station because all the files and even running processes, open network connections and streaming videos from the tablet will be instantly migrated. Just treat the tablet as a second monitor for user's custom PC and you will be fine. If you can not adopt your business to modern connectivity standards, oh well...
I am sure Apple be front and center in this effort, probably up to requiring all user-level applications to be signed with their developer keys. I am even sort of sympathetic. My freedom to save $100/year before hacking my own computers is not as compelling as freedom of normal folks not be be p0wned.
You think Microsoft forcing OEMs to do or not do something is a SOLUTION to their abuse of monopoly? Why don't you take it up with DELL directly? They seem to have listened with preinstalled Linux support.
Both are based on obsolete ideas. With code size ever increasing faster than L1-3 cache, it's better to have a complex instruction set with more compact encoding of common real-life code. And X86, oh well we all know where and when that came from. It's time for a modern architecture that efficiently supports today software - including JVM and .Net, security and technologies such as OpenCL. True high end servers cost millions, so it's worth developing custom software even for one of them!
Can I send a document in my native language from any hotel computer, with arbitrary layout and graphics and have the recipient correct it and send it back to me? Or is it still like early 90s thingy where I would have to tell people I never met before to install fonts or a particular version of Word - or worse have the message bounce hours later, when I am already on the plane?
80s called and reminded you how you used to do development on X terminals without installing GCC or Eclipse locally.
Our lack of progress in space exploration has more to do with losing the will than limitations of technology. We could have launched a mission to Alpha Centauri by now if we pursued project Orion with modern advances to material science and optimized computer control of propulsion. If we are not doing that, who is to say we will build a space elevator even if the technology is feasible?
The only reason to study a subject is to make contributions to it. Any decent mathematician, physicist or writer will be failed by computers or uninvolved beaurocrats because they only look for what is already known and therefore useless.
Anonymity on Internet used to be a rare exception. It's the spammers/identity thieves/excessively nosy employers who made it this way. Does the author really want to get phone calls based on sites he visits online.
Obviously if you can not easily move your data to a competing cloud - or back to your own computers - if dissatisfied, you have no freedom. Your are stuck with what one particular company is offering.
Oh the irony. It is precisely if you have no hobbies, friends and a life that you make a big deal of minute by minute Internet connectivity.
Nobody who experienced wonderful "consistency" of cellular and cable networks would want to depend on one in an emergency or even to call a taxi to airport. That's like saying it's time to get rid of seat belts in leu of self driving cars.
Do you think the later needs to bend over for the former at the cost of antagonizing customers who plan to buy so many Apple devices that they can not keep them synced manually?
Are 11 used first generation PS3s terribly expensive? They already run Linux, have 9 cores each for a total of 99 and support networking.
Everyone has right to their own hobbies, but think what can be accomplished with the same amount of labor and modern parts. Instead of making a CPU from hundreds of TTL gates, build a personal supercomputer from hundreds of ARM processors and custom operating system to effectively use that power for virtual reality or physics simulations. Hobbyists who has done this decades ago were futuristic not retro, creating devices that were not widely available, at least to private individuals.
"Computer, report location of Cmdr Riker"
The future is privacy through access control, law and mutually assured harassment. Once you can easily tell who exactly Googled you, they will be a lot more respectful.
Is USB 3.0 suitable for connecting 1080p 3D-enabled TV? I know earlier USB hardware had trouble with excessive host CPU use and thus realtime performance guarantees apart from theoretical bandwidth limits. If not, the author is missing the point, which is to have a single connector for ALL devices. As for optical, I don't see any reason to use more expensive controllers and cables if Intel was able to achieve their target bandwidth with cooper.
DOSBox may personally work for you, but lots of people want the real thing for either pragmatic or nostalgic reasons. Giving the stuff to good home is much better than just junking it.
It doesn't make sense for hackers to have access to user data while users don't even have access to their own device.
We had realistic h-bomb powered starship technology in 60s, what is the excuse for not going half a century later? Sure there are big risks for astronauts and small risks/big expenses for the rest of us, does that mean we crawl back into stone age caves and stop trying to progress?
To maintain status as a common carrier they would need to follow the same policy for pirate bay and amazon. Do you believe for a moment comcast would not try to investigate if amazon was unreachable?
Otherwise they would lose protection as the common carrier and become responsible for all the content on their network. Syrian government is much more evil than the Pirate Bay, but you are still allowed to call them on the phone or look up their website on Google.
This is probably the only way for wikileaks to a. survive and b. get exposure through mainstream media. If information is not filtered to avoid imminent damage to life and limb of people on the ground, wikileaks and its sources will be subject to aggressive prosecution, not to mention seriously bad karma. And no newspaper will run a story without some kind of exclusive access agreement. If you truly want uncensored publication, there are millions of way to do so on Internet. You just will not get the same mainstream exposure and, if found, may find yourself a target of extradition or even covert ops.