Maybe I'm paranoid, but I'm not so sure I want my electronics, and hardware, consuming the same "food" I do. Especially if we are going to continue down this path of complete automation, and pursuit of AI.
I remember reading somewhere that the Earth flips its magnetic polls every 100,000 years or so. The article also said we were close to a switch relativly, within 10,000 years of one. If that is true then how can this clock be acurate at that time? Wouldn't a flip in the magnetic polls change the wobble of the earth a bit?
On top of all that how close to thier magnetic switch are the other planets it is keeping track of?
A speaker pops on in your car and announces, "Good Day sir/madam, I have been 'randomly' monitoring your conversation and noticed you seem distressed about our government, we will be dispatching a robot overlord reprogramming unit to your area please pull over and wait quietly for them to arrive. Thank you for your co operation."
US Constitution, Article I, Section 8 Clause 8:
[The Congress shall have Power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
It seems to me that if the 1st guy to file is the inventor leagaly you are protecting the inventor. But in reality you are robbing the true inventor of the right to use his own ideas simply because he didn't have a good lawyer. This is an obvious step toward big business and away from small time inventor. From reading the empowering clause in the constitution I imagine the Supreme Court would rule any law as unconstitutional that robbed the true inventor.
IMHO: The US Patent and Trademark office is no longer used to promote the progress of science and useful arts. Instead it is used to restrict the use of a particular science or useful art. Somewhere along the line the inventor's and authors stopped getting the lion's share of the rewards. Those rewards are now eaten by large corps and lawyer gangs. I'm not sure how you fix this problem but I do know the 1st person to say "I got Dibs!" is not a valid legal stance.
On the beneficial side this could allow the growth of farm product inside a controlled environment say in a basement.
On the not so beneficial side this could allow illegal substances to be grown inside and reduce the amount of radiation the structure would normally give off with traditional lighting methods. That radiation is how most of these places are found.
I'm no lawyer but I would think a group of 'greedy' lawyers could sue on behalf of the general public. I know the government can file suits on behalf of its citizenry.
IMHO
A government "for the people, by the people" should use software "for the people, by the people".
Do we really want our government to continue to buy the same software each year, while never understanding its innermost secret workings, and in the mean time paying annual service contracts?
haha.. but Earl is a title that requires land to be owned in the British Empire. The land in England is quite valuable as a matter of fact the last time the US tried to buy the land the US embassy was on the Queen said sure... but we don't want money we would like to have some land in America that was once ours anyway. What land you ask? Oh just a little island called Manhattan in your northern area.
Unlike other VoIP systems we've tested, including the IM-based voice chat, there was no perceptible lag time - which is an impressive feat.
Well I used Skype and just to test lag time I also called my friend on the phone. I noticed a lag between when the phone delivered his voice and when my pc speakers did. (about 1/2 a second)The authors of this article should have used something other than VOIP to test VOIP.
All the car companies wanted their technologies to be the one every other company used in the new machines. That way they could collect on patents or at least control the direction of the market.
BUT theese 2 lost the battle for comformity. All the others car companies joined forces to make fuel cells. Which means if theese 2 also went with fuel cells then they could get cheeper mass produced parts all the fuel cell cars had in common.
conspiracy theory start
I wouldn't be suprised if the president, chemical companies, and oil companies didn't have something to do with this choice. It keeps us going to a station to buy 'fuel'. Since electric cars eliminated MUCH of the need for theese company's products and the services gas stations provide lots of jobs would be 'lost'. And lots of companies would have to change the way they do business. And we all know how hard financial groups can fight.
conspiracy theory end
Monkeys flew out of Bill Gate's butt today.
Pigs flew over Microsoft head quaters and force Bill Gates to make good on a bet.
Sientists have discovered the core tempature of hell is actually zero degrees Celcius.
Or a company to offer money for our processing cycles. They could offer to let you run their client for $1 per X/UnitsOfCalculation and cut you a check each month. Then turn around and sell it in large blocks to groups that really need it. The only thing they would have to worry about is people forgeing their calculations but with a large enough user base they would make plenty of profit to cover countering thieves with better security.
I go to the theaters for any movie is because their screen is bigger than mine. I have the surround sound and great resolution on my computer but hands down a 60 ft screen is awsome. As soon as HDTV projectors drop to an affordable price I will get one and NEVER return to the theater again. And I imagine many of of the populus will begin doing also. The information age is finnaly settling into its own and businesses are starting to realize how big this change is. 100% of the media industry has to re-learn everything it knows about how is manages itself. It has been ignoring East Asia because it never had that market to loose. All our markets are turning from product based to service based. How good the movie of the week is does not matter anymore. How good the service gets that movie to me is what matters.
Does that mean that finnaly I will be able to play the majority of games on Linux? Woot! I think it would be a wise move my Microsoft considering there current reputation. With a move like this they could average out their evil with Linux's purity and come up with a corporation grey that seems to be quite tollerable to a majority of customers. But I also think this would give companyies like Red Hat and Lindows a leg up in the beginning.
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Any government of the people, for the people, by the people not using an OS of the people, for the people, by the people should be ashamed of itself.
All I got from the article is a reinforcement of the idea of community and the power it wields. Linux, Unix, and Mac have managed to create a community around themselves wich helps stregthen them in every way. The Unix and Mac communities are a group of avid fans but they can't easily create for thier OS although they can add to the community. The Linux community is a step beyond the avid fan it allows the fan to become a creator. But what I find truly interesting is that Windows seems to have no community at all. The closest Windows has to a community is the VB programmers Windows so often screws by wiping out everything they know every 4 years with a new development platform. Even though it is great to have a community it doesn't seem to gain you market share while at the same time it seems to preserve market share.
because spam has 'evolved' into a more dynamic form. Spammers now append random letters and characters into emails so they don't match theese filters. So then the filters 'evolve' to match the patterns of randomness. It is an evolving game back and forth. But all in all it remains simply pattern recognition and pattern generation done by computer. If a computer can make it then a computer can un-make it. So really we will never be thru with spam until we take a less 'trusting' approach to email. By that I mean we all have to adapt to a more opt-in method of reciving mail.
Well considering Linux at its roots was for educational purposes I think it is the best OS for the job + it saves the taxpayer (me) money! I sure as heck don't want my school buying a new os every time a company(ex.Microsoft) decides to enforce some odd EULA rule on them.
SO now they want talking Penut Butter to chace me into the frozen pizza isle?
Then when I stand at the milk fridge cheking for the freshest one it starts saying "moooovalong you are holding up the line"
I wonder if the psycologist have a name yet for the mental phobias that are going to come about from this. Phonaletchaphobia(fear of hearing milk) maybe?
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Maybe I'm paranoid, but I'm not so sure I want my electronics, and hardware, consuming the same "food" I do. Especially if we are going to continue down this path of complete automation, and pursuit of AI.
I remember reading somewhere that the Earth flips its magnetic polls every 100,000 years or so. The article also said we were close to a switch relativly, within 10,000 years of one. If that is true then how can this clock be acurate at that time? Wouldn't a flip in the magnetic polls change the wobble of the earth a bit?
On top of all that how close to thier magnetic switch are the other planets it is keeping track of?
A speaker pops on in your car and announces, "Good Day sir/madam, I have been 'randomly' monitoring your conversation and noticed you seem distressed about our government, we will be dispatching a robot overlord reprogramming unit to your area please pull over and wait quietly for them to arrive. Thank you for your co operation."
US Constitution, Article I, Section 8 Clause 8: [The Congress shall have Power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; It seems to me that if the 1st guy to file is the inventor leagaly you are protecting the inventor. But in reality you are robbing the true inventor of the right to use his own ideas simply because he didn't have a good lawyer. This is an obvious step toward big business and away from small time inventor. From reading the empowering clause in the constitution I imagine the Supreme Court would rule any law as unconstitutional that robbed the true inventor. IMHO: The US Patent and Trademark office is no longer used to promote the progress of science and useful arts. Instead it is used to restrict the use of a particular science or useful art. Somewhere along the line the inventor's and authors stopped getting the lion's share of the rewards. Those rewards are now eaten by large corps and lawyer gangs. I'm not sure how you fix this problem but I do know the 1st person to say "I got Dibs!" is not a valid legal stance.
On the beneficial side this could allow the growth of farm product inside a controlled environment say in a basement.
On the not so beneficial side this could allow illegal substances to be grown inside and reduce the amount of radiation the structure would normally give off with traditional lighting methods. That radiation is how most of these places are found.
In Russia you don't unsubscribe from the list, the list unsubscribes from you!
I'm no lawyer but I would think a group of 'greedy' lawyers could sue on behalf of the general public. I know the government can file suits on behalf of its citizenry.
Library = Public Building Library WiFi = Public WiFi Priest = Public Ok so just tell the officer you are paing for it.
IMHO
A government "for the people, by the people" should use software "for the people, by the people".
Do we really want our government to continue to buy the same software each year, while never understanding its innermost secret workings, and in the mean time paying annual service contracts?
haha.. but Earl is a title that requires land to be owned in the British Empire. The land in England is quite valuable as a matter of fact the last time the US tried to buy the land the US embassy was on the Queen said sure... but we don't want money we would like to have some land in America that was once ours anyway. What land you ask? Oh just a little island called Manhattan in your northern area.
Is it just me or does this look like Rosie's great grandmother?
Is it just me or does she look like Rosie's great grandmother? Don't tell me you don't know you Rosie is you Hanna Barbara hateing WB freek.
we could windows xp to do this......
All the car companies wanted their technologies to be the one every other company used in the new machines. That way they could collect on patents or at least control the direction of the market.
BUT theese 2 lost the battle for comformity. All the others car companies joined forces to make fuel cells. Which means if theese 2 also went with fuel cells then they could get cheeper mass produced parts all the fuel cell cars had in common.
conspiracy theory start
I wouldn't be suprised if the president, chemical companies, and oil companies didn't have something to do with this choice. It keeps us going to a station to buy 'fuel'. Since electric cars eliminated MUCH of the need for theese company's products and the services gas stations provide lots of jobs would be 'lost'. And lots of companies would have to change the way they do business. And we all know how hard financial groups can fight.
conspiracy theory end
Monkeys flew out of Bill Gate's butt today.
Pigs flew over Microsoft head quaters and force Bill Gates to make good on a bet.
Sientists have discovered the core tempature of hell is actually zero degrees Celcius.
Or a company to offer money for our processing cycles. They could offer to let you run their client for $1 per X/UnitsOfCalculation and cut you a check each month. Then turn around and sell it in large blocks to groups that really need it. The only thing they would have to worry about is people forgeing their calculations but with a large enough user base they would make plenty of profit to cover countering thieves with better security.
I go to the theaters for any movie is because their screen is bigger than mine. I have the surround sound and great resolution on my computer but hands down a 60 ft screen is awsome. As soon as HDTV projectors drop to an affordable price I will get one and NEVER return to the theater again. And I imagine many of of the populus will begin doing also. The information age is finnaly settling into its own and businesses are starting to realize how big this change is. 100% of the media industry has to re-learn everything it knows about how is manages itself. It has been ignoring East Asia because it never had that market to loose. All our markets are turning from product based to service based. How good the movie of the week is does not matter anymore. How good the service gets that movie to me is what matters.
Does that mean that finnaly I will be able to play the majority of games on Linux? Woot! I think it would be a wise move my Microsoft considering there current reputation. With a move like this they could average out their evil with Linux's purity and come up with a corporation grey that seems to be quite tollerable to a majority of customers. But I also think this would give companyies like Red Hat and Lindows a leg up in the beginning.
Any government of the people, for the people, by the people not using an OS of the people, for the people, by the people should be ashamed of itself.
All I got from the article is a reinforcement of the idea of community and the power it wields. Linux, Unix, and Mac have managed to create a community around themselves wich helps stregthen them in every way. The Unix and Mac communities are a group of avid fans but they can't easily create for thier OS although they can add to the community. The Linux community is a step beyond the avid fan it allows the fan to become a creator. But what I find truly interesting is that Windows seems to have no community at all. The closest Windows has to a community is the VB programmers Windows so often screws by wiping out everything they know every 4 years with a new development platform. Even though it is great to have a community it doesn't seem to gain you market share while at the same time it seems to preserve market share.
What if I forget where I put the dvd?
because spam has 'evolved' into a more dynamic form. Spammers now append random letters and characters into emails so they don't match theese filters. So then the filters 'evolve' to match the patterns of randomness. It is an evolving game back and forth. But all in all it remains simply pattern recognition and pattern generation done by computer. If a computer can make it then a computer can un-make it. So really we will never be thru with spam until we take a less 'trusting' approach to email. By that I mean we all have to adapt to a more opt-in method of reciving mail.
Well considering Linux at its roots was for educational purposes I think it is the best OS for the job + it saves the taxpayer (me) money! I sure as heck don't want my school buying a new os every time a company(ex.Microsoft) decides to enforce some odd EULA rule on them.
SO now they want talking Penut Butter to chace me into the frozen pizza isle?
Then when I stand at the milk fridge cheking for the freshest one it starts saying "moooovalong you are holding up the line"
I wonder if the psycologist have a name yet for the mental phobias that are going to come about from this. Phonaletchaphobia(fear of hearing milk) maybe?