Yes. But they forgot to mention that by 2050, robots will run out of power a bit under 10 minutes into the game. So humans will have plenty of time to catch up.
Technically, that doesn't mention _domain_; I'd imagine it to refer to hosting services.
In other words, you OWN the domain, not -they-. If they terminate your account, you should be able to take your business elsewhere. They have no claim on the NAME of your site.
It goes: ``400 years ago, on the planet earth, workers who felt their livelyhood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes, called saboe, into the machines, to stop them, hense, the word: sabotage''
Star Trek 6, The Undiscovered Country, spoken by that female volken.
Unless of course you -have- a micrphone already, and install something like google toolbar (or have it pre-installed by Dell, or something). The point is that they wouldn't do this -covertly- (do no evil?), but if they -wanted- to do it (and get clickthrough agreement from the user) they could.
And if all of a sudden they turned into a spyware corp (not that far off their business model), they may even do it covertly---but that would be the end of Google.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. I wonder if eventually we'll see google toolbar unnoticebly turning on microphone to listen in.
Figuring out TV ratings is an expensive things for corps. Google can get a huge market by automating the job of figuring out whose watching what at any given time---if they can only convince the users to let them (``hey, install this google audio-ad analyzer and get 10 gigs added to your gmail account---and it lets you see tv listings in real time, as well as clips from tv programs'')
That's like saying memories and talking about the details in the movie are illegal because you wouldn't have memories and couldn't talk about the movie events without seeing the movie.
Ok. Lossy compression. At what point does it become "non-derived"?
Take the whole movie. Compress with lossy compression to remove 1 bit from it. Is it still derived work? Yes, no? Repeat that many billions of times, and you get to... a hash. At what point is it not a derived work?
I think the point is that Lenovo is a hardware corp, so they can pick and choose which hardware to use (and simply refuse any non-Linux friendly hardware components).
In fact, Lenovo is big enough to -require- corps to release open source drivers (or open up the specs) for all components Lenovo integrates (that could be part of the contract with them).
The reason IBM PC got popular is because it was standard, and to an extent, very well documented. Everyone knew how things worked. For some reason, the industry is heading into the direction of "mystery hardware" that only some obscure company has a binary only driver to. This is a wrong path, and isn't a way to the future.
You're forgetting that -they- are a hardware corp. They -can- make 100% linux-compatible hardware, they -can- install Linux, and they -can- support it (or partner with redhat, or someone to do that).
And if they did that, they'd be one of the larger corps to do that. If a business -anywhere- needed a Linux box (or a laptop), they'd think ``ah, that corp that got IBM's hardware''.
Not only that, but it wouldn't mean they still cannot sell Windows boxes---just that they'd be the larger player in the Linux market.
Stupid move on their part. I was gonna buy a ThinkPad, but now, no way (and no, I wasn't planning to run Linux on a laptop [got a desktop for that]---but I don't wanna give business to a corp that's anti-Linux... like I wouldn't buy an ATI graphics card, or boards with WinModems on them).
Obviously the 14$ a month covers the cost of the maximum bandwidth that can be consumed by a 128 kbps connection in a month.
Actually, it doesn't. It covers what the ISP believes the average user with that connection speed will use. If every user of that ISP consumed the maximum amount of bandwidth 24/7 the ISP would have to raise prices significantly.
Then I guess they shouldn't be advertising it as ``unlimited'' service, eh? (an unlimited service with these limitations...)
Political solutions seem much more cost-effective as well.
Politics has many solutions... some of which involve subtle (or not) defense contractors---most of whom don't want peace and security in the world. Also, it's not their own money politicians are spending on these things... so who cares about another few billion?
Seriously... about how many people out there actually need to know NTP to this degree?
None. In fact, at wr0k, I setup NTP on all boxes in a matter of 20 minutes (without -ever- having used/configured NTP). It's just a matter of reading the man page, changing servers in config files, and... well.. starting NTP server. That's it.
One would have to be pretty thick headed to need a 300 page book to explain it.
Don't archiologists dig up graves? Do you really think they'll stop if they see representations of skeletons? I'd imagine that would drive them to dig in the first place.
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...and lock everything down in a year when your format has been the winner for some time.
That is so evil it might just work!
Yes. But they forgot to mention that by 2050, robots will run out of power a bit under 10 minutes into the game. So humans will have plenty of time to catch up.
They'll hard-wire the 3 rules of robotics by -then-.
:-D
So all a human player will have to do is come up with some set of events where a goal saves'em from certain death---and then they'll win
Technically, that doesn't mention _domain_; I'd imagine it to refer to hosting services.
In other words, you OWN the domain, not -they-. If they terminate your account, you should be able to take your business elsewhere. They have no claim on the NAME of your site.
It goes: ``400 years ago, on the planet earth, workers who felt their livelyhood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes, called saboe, into the machines, to stop them, hense, the word: sabotage''
Star Trek 6, The Undiscovered Country, spoken by that female volken.
(yes, I'm bad at speling)
move my Bank of America accounts to another bank who employs solely domestic workers
Does such a bank exist? I seriously doubt it.
Meh. You just ruined that joke for everyone.
Unless of course you -have- a micrphone already, and install something like google toolbar (or have it pre-installed by Dell, or something). The point is that they wouldn't do this -covertly- (do no evil?), but if they -wanted- to do it (and get clickthrough agreement from the user) they could.
And if all of a sudden they turned into a spyware corp (not that far off their business model), they may even do it covertly---but that would be the end of Google.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. I wonder if eventually we'll see google toolbar unnoticebly turning on microphone to listen in.
Figuring out TV ratings is an expensive things for corps. Google can get a huge market by automating the job of figuring out whose watching what at any given time---if they can only convince the users to let them (``hey, install this google audio-ad analyzer and get 10 gigs added to your gmail account---and it lets you see tv listings in real time, as well as clips from tv programs'')
That's like saying memories and talking about the details in the movie are illegal because you wouldn't have memories and couldn't talk about the movie events without seeing the movie.
Ok. Lossy compression. At what point does it become "non-derived"?
Take the whole movie. Compress with lossy compression to remove 1 bit from it. Is it still derived work? Yes, no? Repeat that many billions of times, and you get to... a hash. At what point is it not a derived work?
I think the point is that Lenovo is a hardware corp, so they can pick and choose which hardware to use (and simply refuse any non-Linux friendly hardware components).
In fact, Lenovo is big enough to -require- corps to release open source drivers (or open up the specs) for all components Lenovo integrates (that could be part of the contract with them).
The reason IBM PC got popular is because it was standard, and to an extent, very well documented. Everyone knew how things worked. For some reason, the industry is heading into the direction of "mystery hardware" that only some obscure company has a binary only driver to. This is a wrong path, and isn't a way to the future.
You're forgetting that -they- are a hardware corp. They -can- make 100% linux-compatible hardware, they -can- install Linux, and they -can- support it (or partner with redhat, or someone to do that).
And if they did that, they'd be one of the larger corps to do that. If a business -anywhere- needed a Linux box (or a laptop), they'd think ``ah, that corp that got IBM's hardware''.
Not only that, but it wouldn't mean they still cannot sell Windows boxes---just that they'd be the larger player in the Linux market.
Stupid move on their part. I was gonna buy a ThinkPad, but now, no way (and no, I wasn't planning to run Linux on a laptop [got a desktop for that]---but I don't wanna give business to a corp that's anti-Linux... like I wouldn't buy an ATI graphics card, or boards with WinModems on them).
I wonder if .torrent file can be considered a `derived work' from the copyrighted stuff... Hmm... (you wouldn't have them hashes without the original).
Cell phones should have -better- voice quality than a land-line... (don't they dedicate a wider bandwidth than land-lines?)
oligatory: The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
I wonder if corps write off these "losses" and pay less taxes 'cause of them?
Actually, it doesn't. It covers what the ISP believes the average user with that connection speed will use. If every user of that ISP consumed the maximum amount of bandwidth 24/7 the ISP would have to raise prices significantly.
Then I guess they shouldn't be advertising it as ``unlimited'' service, eh? (an unlimited service with these limitations...)
Political solutions seem much more cost-effective as well.
Politics has many solutions... some of which involve subtle (or not) defense contractors---most of whom don't want peace and security in the world. Also, it's not their own money politicians are spending on these things... so who cares about another few billion?
Indeed. And it will be complete once again in a few years.
Once you get beyond a certain point of "complete", there is no real boundary from where you can claim to be more complete than before.
Seriously... about how many people out there actually need to know NTP to this degree?
None. In fact, at wr0k, I setup NTP on all boxes in a matter of 20 minutes (without -ever- having used/configured NTP). It's just a matter of reading the man page, changing servers in config files, and... well.. starting NTP server. That's it.
One would have to be pretty thick headed to need a 300 page book to explain it.
Don't archiologists dig up graves? Do you really think they'll stop if they see representations of skeletons? I'd imagine that would drive them to dig in the first place.
Hmm... even 64bit Linux?
The point grandparent was making is that QuickTime isn't an open format.
Indeed. First thing I thought ``this would look so crappy when you stretch the desktop over 2 monitors''.
And... they claim to remove such software. Wow.
Oh, don't worry, alexa spyware already does that (and it comes installed!).