He didn't say the USA is "laissez-faire anarcho-libertarian". He said it's "un by lunatics who still think laissez-faire anarcho-libertarian economic theory does anything but cause monopolism and boom/bust depression cycles."
Which gets us the worst of both worlds: It gets the government meddling of socialist systems, and the corporate meddling of capitalist systems, without the controls either provide. (Instead we socialize the controls of the capitalist systems, and capitalize the controls of the socialist systems.)
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Apple's success record has never been 100%. It just has to be better then average for them to succeed.
Apple's been working on the dock port problem as well: IIRC, Recent OS updates will alert the user if you plug into a device that attempts to treat the phone as a USB storage device (instead of a battery), and require the user to allow it. (After unlocking the screen, of course, which means if it's locked and requires a password or fingerprint, you need the password or fingerprint.)
It's not a high-security device by any means, but the obvious pitfalls are being taken care of. I don't expect this bounty to be particularly hard, but it's probably going to be beyond the average thief.
Well, then, think of it this way: Shooting yourself in public in front of the police station means they are spared the pain of uncertainty about what has happened to you.
Money - treated properly - is only a proxy for other things. It is a quantifiable measure of time and effort. Do you want people to spend time and effort worrying about whether you have killed yourself, where your body is, what's happened to it, etc., or do you want them to know the answers - even if they don't like them? That's the choice we are discussing. It's a bit easier to discuss in terms of money - but that doesn't mean I'm thinking of it that way.
They'd still need to send somebody in, drag your body out, prove there wasn't any foul play, etc.
As I said: it depends on what was important to him. There are logical reasons to choose the street in front of the police station. There are reasons to choose walking into the woods to disappear - but they are different reasons. Apparently this was the statement he wanted to make, for whatever reasons. (Maybe for the reasons I gave, maybe for others.)
Putting a bullet to your head in front of witnesses and the police means there's little to no investigation - or, cost to society. They clean up the street, but it's obvious why, how, and when you died.
Disappearing into the woods could prompt a million-dollar manhunt trying to 'rescue' you, until or unless they find you first. And once they do find you, they'll have to do an autopsy to investigate cause of death - possibly quite an expensive one, as your remains will have degraded. You'll cause a lot of extra cost and grief to society that you could have avoided.
People always say this. I don't think they've actually looked at real Ikea furniture, just Ikea-inspired 'modular' furniture from Walmart and Target. There is a major difference.
The La-Z-boy chair is the lowest quality furniture in my living room. And feels it.
Actually, I meant 'muscle car', as a couple of other posts in the article comment thread were wishing it (or electric cars in general) looked more like a muscle car.
All in all, I don't actually see it as ugly that everyone seems to be complaining about.
I'll actually bet that it has a lower friction coefficient than many muscle cars. It's decently streamlined for it's job: Moving people/cargo around a city. It's also short (front-to-back) so it's easy to maneuver and park. I'll bet it can seat four (maybe two with real comfort, but I suspect the back seats aren't bad), or carry a decent amount of cargo.
It's boxy because a box is an efficient shape to contain a large amount of space in a small amount of area. With this thing's range, it is not intended to cruise down the freeway; it's made for short trips inside the city.
On The Matrix: It may have a significantly more complex plot than most Hollywood efforts, but go watch Ghost in the Shell (arguably the source material), and you'll realize that the entire plot simplified and stretched out over several movies when Hollywood got it's hands on it.
Worked just fine on my Android 2.3 device. Of course, one of the first apps I replaced with a free alternative was the browser... If it matters, there are good solutions out there.
He also told the US Attorney's office to look into the possibility of racketeering, and the IRS to look at them for tax evasion. Oh, and he's sending a copy of this to every judge who has a case with them anywhere in the country.
The next time these guys are in court, it's probably going to be as defendants.
Unless they've got the mirrors set up to automatically replicate your mistakes, in which case it's possible to accidentally delete every copy of it in existence everywhere... (This nearly happened to one OSS project recently.)
Mirrors are not backup. They are uptime reliability.
ZFS can implement some backup on top of it's reliability - in that the snapshots can allow you to recover recently-deleted files, but it's not really a true replacement for a real backup - something that you can pull the files off of if your entire server goes down.
My home server has ZFS (with hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly snapshots that get cleaned up on a regular basis), but I also use tarsnap for regular backups. It stores encrypted (and deduped) incrementals of your data on an Amazon store.
My desktop mounts some of it's files (including a couple of whole users) from the home server, for the rest I use OS X's Time Machine - not quite as good as a remote backup scheme, but cheaper, and easy to set up.
In this case, probably the best way is to back Civitas on Kickstarter: It appears to be SimCity the way EA should have done it. If they succeed widely while SimCity flops, then it's fairly clear that it was EA's approach to that was the killer, not the type of game.
It's 1970 because that's the first decade-year before Unix was created, so any programs or files on a unix machine will always be dealing with positive numbers. (Unless they are specifically doing date math, in which case they can be expected to handle it themselves.)
It sounds like it does, on the surface, but lesson plans are something teachers currently trade, sell, and use as a basic resource. The difference between a just-graduated teacher and a teacher with ten years of experience is that the teacher with experience has a stack of lesson plans, and can swap out which ones they use on any given day based on the progress, skill, and mood of their students. And, let's not forget, all of this is being created in the teacher's own time, outside of school hours.
Oh, and I doubt the school district will be making these available for free to their own teachers. (Unlike the teachers themselves, who might share with a co-worker.)
Any teacher who's spent any amount of time working on their own lesson plans would immediately start looking for a job outside the county. Any teacher who's any good wouldn't take a job in that county. You'll have beginner teachers who don't know any better, or teachers who've been there for ages and don't want to move, who'll just be hanging out until retirement. (And not updating any of their lesson plans.) Oh, and teachers who buy all of their lesson plans, because they can't be bothered to come up with them themselves. And the beginners will probably leave as quick as possible.
So you're trying for high-turnover, and chasing out any teacher who wants to invest their own time and effort into teaching the kids. Which means you'll get low-quality teaching, and low-quality schools.
The problem is that if you send them a letter it says that you exist and are taking them seriously. You don't actually want to do that; if they know that you are taking them seriously, then they know they can threaten you.
Let them actually threaten you first: Make them actually do something that costs them money, like file an actual lawsuit. Then you can immediately offer to settle, or whatever. (And just because you are ignoring them publicly doesn't mean you have to ignore them internally - start a chain of internal correspondence showing that you were checking for use of the patent and considering a reply, or something.)
Right now they haven't actually spent any significant amount of time or money on this. See if they want to, before you spend yours.
If the OP truly believes that this is a patent troll attacking them, the best thing may be to just ignore them. It's like spam: They are seeing who bites, and then they can reel you in for a settlement. If they send a couple of letters and don't get any response (especially from a small company that may have gone out of business without notifying anyone), they'll just move on to their next possible target.
Ars Technica had an article on this recently, though I can't find it quickly at the moment. It most cases, the best response was to just ignore the first couple of letters.
Opera Mini does it even for HTTPS. Opera Mobile has it as an option, like their desktop browsers. (And then I don't think it does HTTPS.) That's the difference, and the advertising all mentions it. (And why they have two browsers for the same market. Mini does have a slightly smaller CPU footprint on the consumer device, so it works on lower-end devices as well.)
I think the soda machines are probably one of the biggest problems in introducing a dollar coin: It's the only place I even use cash on a regular basis, and most won't get updated to take new coins. (But they can take new bills just fine...)
Give the vending machine operators $101 for every hundred dollars in dollar coins they accept. Watch as the whole country uses dollar coins overnight.
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So, we can't be glad they changed their mind when they realized what they'd done?
He didn't say the USA is "laissez-faire anarcho-libertarian". He said it's "un by lunatics who still think laissez-faire anarcho-libertarian economic theory does anything but cause monopolism and boom/bust depression cycles."
Which gets us the worst of both worlds: It gets the government meddling of socialist systems, and the corporate meddling of capitalist systems, without the controls either provide. (Instead we socialize the controls of the capitalist systems, and capitalize the controls of the socialist systems.)
Apple's success record has never been 100%. It just has to be better then average for them to succeed.
Apple's been working on the dock port problem as well: IIRC, Recent OS updates will alert the user if you plug into a device that attempts to treat the phone as a USB storage device (instead of a battery), and require the user to allow it. (After unlocking the screen, of course, which means if it's locked and requires a password or fingerprint, you need the password or fingerprint.)
It's not a high-security device by any means, but the obvious pitfalls are being taken care of. I don't expect this bounty to be particularly hard, but it's probably going to be beyond the average thief.
Which would require a from-scratch cleanroom rewrite, probably.
They could probably work on that, but if the current license isn't causing to much trouble, they probably have more important things to work on.
Well, then, think of it this way: Shooting yourself in public in front of the police station means they are spared the pain of uncertainty about what has happened to you.
Money - treated properly - is only a proxy for other things. It is a quantifiable measure of time and effort. Do you want people to spend time and effort worrying about whether you have killed yourself, where your body is, what's happened to it, etc., or do you want them to know the answers - even if they don't like them? That's the choice we are discussing. It's a bit easier to discuss in terms of money - but that doesn't mean I'm thinking of it that way.
They'd still need to send somebody in, drag your body out, prove there wasn't any foul play, etc.
As I said: it depends on what was important to him. There are logical reasons to choose the street in front of the police station. There are reasons to choose walking into the woods to disappear - but they are different reasons. Apparently this was the statement he wanted to make, for whatever reasons. (Maybe for the reasons I gave, maybe for others.)
Putting a bullet to your head in front of witnesses and the police means there's little to no investigation - or, cost to society. They clean up the street, but it's obvious why, how, and when you died.
Disappearing into the woods could prompt a million-dollar manhunt trying to 'rescue' you, until or unless they find you first. And once they do find you, they'll have to do an autopsy to investigate cause of death - possibly quite an expensive one, as your remains will have degraded. You'll cause a lot of extra cost and grief to society that you could have avoided.
Maybe that was important to him.
People always say this. I don't think they've actually looked at real Ikea furniture, just Ikea-inspired 'modular' furniture from Walmart and Target. There is a major difference.
The La-Z-boy chair is the lowest quality furniture in my living room. And feels it.
Actually, I meant 'muscle car', as a couple of other posts in the article comment thread were wishing it (or electric cars in general) looked more like a muscle car.
All in all, I don't actually see it as ugly that everyone seems to be complaining about.
I'll actually bet that it has a lower friction coefficient than many muscle cars. It's decently streamlined for it's job: Moving people/cargo around a city. It's also short (front-to-back) so it's easy to maneuver and park. I'll bet it can seat four (maybe two with real comfort, but I suspect the back seats aren't bad), or carry a decent amount of cargo.
It's boxy because a box is an efficient shape to contain a large amount of space in a small amount of area. With this thing's range, it is not intended to cruise down the freeway; it's made for short trips inside the city.
On The Matrix: It may have a significantly more complex plot than most Hollywood efforts, but go watch Ghost in the Shell (arguably the source material), and you'll realize that the entire plot simplified and stretched out over several movies when Hollywood got it's hands on it.
IIRC, Windows for a long time used a FreeBSD-derived networking stack for TCP/IP...
Worked just fine on my Android 2.3 device. Of course, one of the first apps I replaced with a free alternative was the browser... If it matters, there are good solutions out there.
He also told the US Attorney's office to look into the possibility of racketeering, and the IRS to look at them for tax evasion. Oh, and he's sending a copy of this to every judge who has a case with them anywhere in the country.
The next time these guys are in court, it's probably going to be as defendants.
Unless they've got the mirrors set up to automatically replicate your mistakes, in which case it's possible to accidentally delete every copy of it in existence everywhere... (This nearly happened to one OSS project recently.)
Mirrors are not backup. They are uptime reliability.
ZFS can implement some backup on top of it's reliability - in that the snapshots can allow you to recover recently-deleted files, but it's not really a true replacement for a real backup - something that you can pull the files off of if your entire server goes down.
My home server has ZFS (with hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly snapshots that get cleaned up on a regular basis), but I also use tarsnap for regular backups. It stores encrypted (and deduped) incrementals of your data on an Amazon store.
My desktop mounts some of it's files (including a couple of whole users) from the home server, for the rest I use OS X's Time Machine - not quite as good as a remote backup scheme, but cheaper, and easy to set up.
You assume by 'succeed widely' I mean 'outsell SimCity': It just has to do enough better than expectations that EA (and others) take notice.
In this case, probably the best way is to back Civitas on Kickstarter: It appears to be SimCity the way EA should have done it. If they succeed widely while SimCity flops, then it's fairly clear that it was EA's approach to that was the killer, not the type of game.
It's 1970 because that's the first decade-year before Unix was created, so any programs or files on a unix machine will always be dealing with positive numbers. (Unless they are specifically doing date math, in which case they can be expected to handle it themselves.)
It sounds like it does, on the surface, but lesson plans are something teachers currently trade, sell, and use as a basic resource. The difference between a just-graduated teacher and a teacher with ten years of experience is that the teacher with experience has a stack of lesson plans, and can swap out which ones they use on any given day based on the progress, skill, and mood of their students. And, let's not forget, all of this is being created in the teacher's own time, outside of school hours.
Oh, and I doubt the school district will be making these available for free to their own teachers. (Unlike the teachers themselves, who might share with a co-worker.)
Any teacher who's spent any amount of time working on their own lesson plans would immediately start looking for a job outside the county. Any teacher who's any good wouldn't take a job in that county. You'll have beginner teachers who don't know any better, or teachers who've been there for ages and don't want to move, who'll just be hanging out until retirement. (And not updating any of their lesson plans.) Oh, and teachers who buy all of their lesson plans, because they can't be bothered to come up with them themselves. And the beginners will probably leave as quick as possible.
So you're trying for high-turnover, and chasing out any teacher who wants to invest their own time and effort into teaching the kids. Which means you'll get low-quality teaching, and low-quality schools.
The problem is that if you send them a letter it says that you exist and are taking them seriously. You don't actually want to do that; if they know that you are taking them seriously, then they know they can threaten you.
Let them actually threaten you first: Make them actually do something that costs them money, like file an actual lawsuit. Then you can immediately offer to settle, or whatever. (And just because you are ignoring them publicly doesn't mean you have to ignore them internally - start a chain of internal correspondence showing that you were checking for use of the patent and considering a reply, or something.)
Right now they haven't actually spent any significant amount of time or money on this. See if they want to, before you spend yours.
If the OP truly believes that this is a patent troll attacking them, the best thing may be to just ignore them. It's like spam: They are seeing who bites, and then they can reel you in for a settlement. If they send a couple of letters and don't get any response (especially from a small company that may have gone out of business without notifying anyone), they'll just move on to their next possible target.
Ars Technica had an article on this recently, though I can't find it quickly at the moment. It most cases, the best response was to just ignore the first couple of letters.
Opera Mini does it even for HTTPS. Opera Mobile has it as an option, like their desktop browsers. (And then I don't think it does HTTPS.) That's the difference, and the advertising all mentions it. (And why they have two browsers for the same market. Mini does have a slightly smaller CPU footprint on the consumer device, so it works on lower-end devices as well.)
I think the soda machines are probably one of the biggest problems in introducing a dollar coin: It's the only place I even use cash on a regular basis, and most won't get updated to take new coins. (But they can take new bills just fine...)
Give the vending machine operators $101 for every hundred dollars in dollar coins they accept. Watch as the whole country uses dollar coins overnight.