Every power that a government has is dangerous. Are you saying that they should have a capability to kill a large number of people in a short time, but not listen to cell phones? To whatever degree we trust a government to protect us from villains rather than be a villain, I would rather shift their powers towards later. What if communications of 9/11 highjackers were intercepted and we didn't go to two wars and make mountains out of naked unlawful combatants?
I don't know how to break it to you or Microsoft but your cell phone is not a device with a 5 year support contract or a place to run mission critical applications.
People write code either for love or for money. Writting code usable by 6 billion people on the planet is not all fun. Doing so within bounds of GPL is by itself quite a feat. For everything else is Gentoo, that I persoally use exclusively after install it from Ubuntu live CD and copying their kernel patches and.config since Gentoo folks are too busy to get kernel modesetting work on real world laptops.
...w/o magnetic field. We have oceans which are miles deep. We also have microorganisms which have been found in active volcanoes and inside nuclear reactors. Even humans spend most of the time inside radiation-shielding buildings and have survived trips to moon inside thin metal shell. I think it's more fare to say that life forms would be slightly different without magnetic field.
Could do a lot worse than cutting Internet access. But if they are just after your mesh network, they could just jam it our cut out electrical power until laptop batteries drain. You can not solve a human problem using only technological measures. Any government powers sufficient to catch and prosecute crooks is also sufficient to abuse ordinary citizens. The only answer is democratic oversight and population educated enough to use it effectively.
What motivation would any executives at Apple have to work hard if the next CEO is pre-announced? Steve Jobs could stay on for a year, or five years or ten years. That's a lot of water under the bridge. Should no new talent have a chance to emerge as a leader in all that time? Do we want Apple to make monthly public changes of heart like a rich grandma with a will?
That you don't have to wait for an 'evil' big company to provide you with features. So stop whining and start coding a community modulebalready. Or is it 'free as in leech'?
Calls for uncompensated overtime are just for suckers. If you like the work and the salary just stick to 9 to 5 and see what happens. If you have kids, excuses are made out for you. If not, feel free to come up with good fiction. It's none of their business anyway.
Open source will become mainstream as businesses realize that continued existence of other businesses and their products is not guaranteed. Google, Apple and Adobe recently illustrated this point by strategically dropping each others technologies. Even using such closed source mainstays as Windows is fraught with peril. Any luck running applications based on VB6 or IE6 lately?
Anyone who is currently making money from mission-critical closed source software should take note. This doesn't mean they all have to become hippies or service companies. There are other solutions - patent licenses, source code escrow, open source engine with closed source UI - that will address concerns of their potential customers.
In between IE specific sites and Apple boycotting flash it's already hard to access information on the web with a device one happens to have at hand. Now with this, Android users will be locked out of content owned by anyone who managed to kick dependence on both Adobe and Microsoft. All that remains if for Apple and Microsoft to block Google search and Internet will go to good old walled garden days of CompuServe and AOL.
Common knowledge? Have you personally seen one - not that "seeing" would even be possible? When an infinity appears in physics equations, the reason is always that we reached the limits of their applicability. We certainly know that there is a whole lot of stuff in small space. It's arrogant to claim we know all the details of it's condition.
We first need to break a lock of x86 instruction set and the operating system that requires it. CPUs already try to execute multiple x86 instructions in parallel, but this is severely limited by sequential instruction set design. There needs to be a way to express computation A and B using different sets of virtual registers and let hardware execute them sequentially or in parallel depending on its capabilities, or vectorize/parallelize multiple iterations of a loop. If software, including operating systems, is coded in higher level virtual machine bytecode interpreted by hypervisor, a lot of parallelism can be expressed for future use while still permitting efficient execution on current hardware. LLVM is a good start, although it needs a lot more concurrency/vectorization information to take advantage of coprocessors, GPUs and massively parallel architectures.
Does your definition of "you" include plumbers, gardeners, families with more than one small child per adult, handicapped, people with regular commute outside main train/bus routes?
If you have seven people to transport an SUV is more eco friendly than two cars. Any car, even electric one, does some damage to the environment. Fuel or electricity should be taxed accordingly to mitigate that. An outright ban makes no sense. How about tour operators, people with extended families, handicapped with wheelchairs and/or medical gear? Let people who truly need extra capacity pay some more, but still less if they had to use two cars.
Every major game company is chasing the majority market with multimillion dollar production budget first person shooters. But there are still millions of gamers worldwide who would prefer adventure, split screen or arcade. As angry birds prove, games like Pacman can be still popular today and attract enough following to at least support a small team. Even text only interactive fiction has possibilities. People still read lots of books. Why wouldn't they read a book that asks you to solve interesting puzzles to read some more?
And we should proclaim a single utterance of a man who lived hundreds of years ago because...? FYI, I do agree going overboard with passenger screening is ridiculous when the real problems on 9/11 were cockpit security and everyone's lack of insight into terrorists' intentions. But as technology progresses, we should prepare to give up enough liberty/privacy to avoid nuclear or nanobot armed terrorists. Transporter filters are good for you.
What is consciousness exactly? Matter organized in particular ways? Electric impulses? Information? Which of these really disappear when you kick the bucket? According to cosmology, even if you are sucked into a black hole someone could later observe every photon it emits as it evaporates due to quantum effects and reconstruct you atom by atom. For more practical solutions, you could upload important parts of your persona to cloud computing (write books, raise children, etc) and they will happily keep running after your passing.
We don't REALLY know what makes us self aware. We know about neurons, axons, and neurotransmitters but that has nothing to do with why some being fired feels good, bad or whatever. We simply don't have (and probably will never have) enough information to know weather to fear death, look forward to death or just be indifferent. For all I know rocks or skeletons are having one big great party. I simply can not speculate on self awareness, intelligence or feelings of the rest of the universe from my single fixed point of reference. People who throw around either science or religion to obscure a fundamentally unsolvable problem fear death primarily because trying to understand it exposes the ignorance of their small minds. Educated people naturally approach ignorance as an exciting challenge.
The guy didn't offer any reason why Apple is a threat to net freedom, other than that it's successful enough to influence things one way or the other. One could certainly argue that Apple is a danger to smartphone developer freedom. But is HTML5 so bad for Internet compared to Flash? I certainly can't see why.
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Every power that a government has is dangerous. Are you saying that they should have a capability to kill a large number of people in a short time, but not listen to cell phones? To whatever degree we trust a government to protect us from villains rather than be a villain, I would rather shift their powers towards later. What if communications of 9/11 highjackers were intercepted and we didn't go to two wars and make mountains out of naked unlawful combatants?
Which of the two is more useful for mission critical work. Say, Osborne had a real keyboard and support for removable storage media.
I don't know how to break it to you or Microsoft but your cell phone is not a device with a 5 year support contract or a place to run mission critical applications.
See: way stronger gravity than Mars to keep gases anchored down.
Who said anything about no atmosphere?
People write code either for love or for money. Writting code usable by 6 billion people on the planet is not all fun. Doing so within bounds of GPL is by itself quite a feat. For everything else is Gentoo, that I persoally use exclusively after install it from Ubuntu live CD and copying their kernel patches and .config since Gentoo folks are too busy to get kernel modesetting work on real world laptops.
...w/o magnetic field. We have oceans which are miles deep. We also have microorganisms which have been found in active volcanoes and inside nuclear reactors. Even humans spend most of the time inside radiation-shielding buildings and have survived trips to moon inside thin metal shell. I think it's more fare to say that life forms would be slightly different without magnetic field.
I would personally find the version of a web site without large images and streaming video a huge improvement.
Could do a lot worse than cutting Internet access. But if they are just after your mesh network, they could just jam it our cut out electrical power until laptop batteries drain. You can not solve a human problem using only technological measures. Any government powers sufficient to catch and prosecute crooks is also sufficient to abuse ordinary citizens. The only answer is democratic oversight and population educated enough to use it effectively.
What motivation would any executives at Apple have to work hard if the next CEO is pre-announced? Steve Jobs could stay on for a year, or five years or ten years. That's a lot of water under the bridge. Should no new talent have a chance to emerge as a leader in all that time? Do we want Apple to make monthly public changes of heart like a rich grandma with a will?
That you don't have to wait for an 'evil' big company to provide you with features. So stop whining and start coding a community modulebalready. Or is it 'free as in leech'?
Calls for uncompensated overtime are just for suckers. If you like the work and the salary just stick to 9 to 5 and see what happens. If you have kids, excuses are made out for you. If not, feel free to come up with good fiction. It's none of their business anyway.
Certainly having a trouble free product is worth more than 10% of developer salary to google?
Open source will become mainstream as businesses realize that continued existence of other businesses and their products is not guaranteed. Google, Apple and Adobe recently illustrated this point by strategically dropping each others technologies. Even using such closed source mainstays as Windows is fraught with peril. Any luck running applications based on VB6 or IE6 lately?
Anyone who is currently making money from mission-critical closed source software should take note. This doesn't mean they all have to become hippies or service companies. There are other solutions - patent licenses, source code escrow, open source engine with closed source UI - that will address concerns of their potential customers.
In between IE specific sites and Apple boycotting flash it's already hard to access information on the web with a device one happens to have at hand. Now with this, Android users will be locked out of content owned by anyone who managed to kick dependence on both Adobe and Microsoft. All that remains if for Apple and Microsoft to block Google search and Internet will go to good old walled garden days of CompuServe and AOL.
Common knowledge? Have you personally seen one - not that "seeing" would even be possible? When an infinity appears in physics equations, the reason is always that we reached the limits of their applicability. We certainly know that there is a whole lot of stuff in small space. It's arrogant to claim we know all the details of it's condition.
We first need to break a lock of x86 instruction set and the operating system that requires it. CPUs already try to execute multiple x86 instructions in parallel, but this is severely limited by sequential instruction set design. There needs to be a way to express computation A and B using different sets of virtual registers and let hardware execute them sequentially or in parallel depending on its capabilities, or vectorize/parallelize multiple iterations of a loop. If software, including operating systems, is coded in higher level virtual machine bytecode interpreted by hypervisor, a lot of parallelism can be expressed for future use while still permitting efficient execution on current hardware. LLVM is a good start, although it needs a lot more concurrency/vectorization information to take advantage of coprocessors, GPUs and massively parallel architectures.
Does your definition of "you" include plumbers, gardeners, families with more than one small child per adult, handicapped, people with regular commute outside main train/bus routes?
If you have seven people to transport an SUV is more eco friendly than two cars. Any car, even electric one, does some damage to the environment. Fuel or electricity should be taxed accordingly to mitigate that. An outright ban makes no sense. How about tour operators, people with extended families, handicapped with wheelchairs and/or medical gear? Let people who truly need extra capacity pay some more, but still less if they had to use two cars.
Every major game company is chasing the majority market with multimillion dollar production budget first person shooters. But there are still millions of gamers worldwide who would prefer adventure, split screen or arcade. As angry birds prove, games like Pacman can be still popular today and attract enough following to at least support a small team. Even text only interactive fiction has possibilities. People still read lots of books. Why wouldn't they read a book that asks you to solve interesting puzzles to read some more?
And we should proclaim a single utterance of a man who lived hundreds of years ago because...? FYI, I do agree going overboard with passenger screening is ridiculous when the real problems on 9/11 were cockpit security and everyone's lack of insight into terrorists' intentions. But as technology progresses, we should prepare to give up enough liberty/privacy to avoid nuclear or nanobot armed terrorists. Transporter filters are good for you.
What is consciousness exactly? Matter organized in particular ways? Electric impulses? Information? Which of these really disappear when you kick the bucket? According to cosmology, even if you are sucked into a black hole someone could later observe every photon it emits as it evaporates due to quantum effects and reconstruct you atom by atom. For more practical solutions, you could upload important parts of your persona to cloud computing (write books, raise children, etc) and they will happily keep running after your passing.
We don't REALLY know what makes us self aware. We know about neurons, axons, and neurotransmitters but that has nothing to do with why some being fired feels good, bad or whatever. We simply don't have (and probably will never have) enough information to know weather to fear death, look forward to death or just be indifferent. For all I know rocks or skeletons are having one big great party. I simply can not speculate on self awareness, intelligence or feelings of the rest of the universe from my single fixed point of reference. People who throw around either science or religion to obscure a fundamentally unsolvable problem fear death primarily because trying to understand it exposes the ignorance of their small minds. Educated people naturally approach ignorance as an exciting challenge.
As you said they will eventually outgrow trucks/homemaking. Help them enjoy it properly in the meantime. get a Dora links Doll. you know they want it!
The guy didn't offer any reason why Apple is a threat to net freedom, other than that it's successful enough to influence things one way or the other. One could certainly argue that Apple is a danger to smartphone developer freedom. But is HTML5 so bad for Internet compared to Flash? I certainly can't see why.
Gives a new meaning to "blood boiling". Considering also child deaths in hot cars, I would say a solar powered fan would be a better investment.