No, Windows suck as much as people think (if not more). But several applications need it, and Microsoft is pushing it by everywhere all means (legal or not).
Remove just one of those factors, and people will change. In fact, they are changing to non-windows phones and tablets, and they don't even understand why they like those things.
Except that logs are rarely used by the system. And on the few times where performance matters, the system is just interested on the last few lines, in real time. So, you just use them before (or while) writting.
I'm still fail to understand why a client would keep going to a phamacy that have more expensive medicines. Or is Pfizer using dirtier tricks to get pharmacies to sign (like offering discounts on other medicines only if they sign).
"First of all, remember that the R has to do with Restrictions, no more no less."
"Rights Management" == "Added Restrictions" In a way, the marketers that coined that term weren't lying... The term means exactly what the system does, it just needs some thinking to actualy understand it, since it is not an usual term.
That's a more general question. Why do big companies buy bad products?
The explanation is that decision makers in big companies are removed from the consequences of their decisions by several layers, and are easily conviced (by honest or dishonest means) to act against the company's interest by vendors with a big enough budget.
It is so ingrained in the idea of copyrights that "you can't copyright an idea, just its expression" that nearly all the countries, and international treates about it already recognize it.
It is just absurd that SAS is argumentating to the contrary, but why is it newsworth?
They can remove only books with their DRM (that means, stuff you brought from Amazon). Also, they only removed one version, of the several they have available.
I'd buy a Kindle to use as a tablet if it is easy to hack and cheap enough (and meets the specs I need, and if they deliver it here). I'll certanly hack it if I buy one, and won't buy DRMed books (Kindle or not). Thus Amazon probably isn't amazed by the idea of selling it to me. I can see why they'd ignore the entire demographics that thinks like me.
We are strugling to gather enough renewable power for our needs here on Earth. What makes you think we can start a space colonization program? Our best chance of getting into space is to reduce emphasis on (manned) space exploration, and focus more on basic science.
We are living in a window where altough we are powerful enough to destroy a planet, we aren't powerful enough to colonize another one or space. That is bad, but investing in the wrong path won't get us out of here faster.
"when the singularity comes (the ability to REALLY control matter at the atomic level)"
That thing inside the parenthesis is called "nanotechnology". The singularity is something different. Both concepts may be related, but as we don't know the implementation details, we can't know how they relate to each other.
Now, you needed this research to discover that nanotechnology could have bad effects? Have you been living under a rock?
When will it be at PirateBay? They can delay it, but I doubt they can choose not to release.
Now, that is quite like disclosure of bugs in software. They have a proof of concept tool, they should make the information available for a possible vaccine first. If we are luck, authorities are responsible enough to protect against that virus just by knowing that it is possible. If authorities and people are as complacent as they are with software, there is simply no good way to deal with the info.
Way to miss the point. The algorithm for combining influenza genes is quite simple, fast and obvious. The set of genes you want to test is somewhat limited, and the length of the genome is very smal. It is more like "I claim that factoring the number 32 is possible, the implementation is left as an excercize for the reader".
By the way, I can factor any prime number you send my in O(1) time.
On the bright side, there seems to be enough stuff in there to port any Linux (including Android) system into the Kindle (or, saying that in another way, all the drivers seem to be there).
On the bad side, no the reader is not there, and you won't be able to remove their capacity of remotely excluding your books (except if you remove the reader). It is also not more than they are required by the (L)GPL, and there is nothing telling if the boot loader will accept a user supplied system, or if you'll need to root it like any other tablet.
Democracy and capitalism seems to be the best answer we have come up with so far, but these days with the Internet etc. it is becoming all the more visible how plagued our Western systems are by corruption and self-serving people in positions of power.
I'd risk that the answer to that involves more Democracy, and more Capitalism.
That is a tried and trusted way. Not in prision, of course, since that would be too expensive, but a couple of wars could take that population away. Also, neither the GP nor I am adovcating that, it is a warning, not a manual.
"So dramatically increased efficiency leads to surplus labor."
That is the problem here. Some times it does, other times it doesn't. It seems that production factors botleneck each other, so large gains in one factor (in efficiency or size) when compared to the other will lead to a surplus of this factor. By that same rationale, large increases in capital will make labor more pricey (as it indeed did by the end of the XIX century or after WWII), and large increases on agriculture techniques will make food cheap enough to use as fuel.
Large increase on the efficiency of labor will only affect negatively the workers if agricultire, mineration, capital use, enterpreneuship, et al don't improve enough to compensate.
That thinking is normaly wrong. They'll lead to less jobs doing maintence on themselves, but the people that didn't spend money on that maintence is still looking for places where they can invest it, so they'll probably hire somebody else, to do some other job that they think is worthwhile.
Odds are that the money won't even left IT. On most places IT lives under a somewhat fixed budget, and that money will hire people to fix some other IT related problem.
Labor is the main cost on everything you buy. As labor gets more efficient, it decreases. If the history ended here, we'd be walking into a disaster, that's for sure. But it doesn't end here; we are getting more efficient on extracting and making use of natural resources too, and capital costs always tend to zero.
All taken in account, we have an income tending to zero, with expenses also tending to zero. Deriving those curves would be usefull if we knew them, but we don't, and they get even harder to know once they approach zero.
Most parties spying on the Internet have just one interest in mind. We (some, you, whoever) may not like that interest, but it is rare that one of them have conflicting intersts as the summary says.
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Way to get vendor lockin using free software!
No, Windows suck as much as people think (if not more). But several applications need it, and Microsoft is pushing it by everywhere all means (legal or not).
Remove just one of those factors, and people will change. In fact, they are changing to non-windows phones and tablets, and they don't even understand why they like those things.
Except that logs are rarely used by the system. And on the few times where performance matters, the system is just interested on the last few lines, in real time. So, you just use them before (or while) writting.
Replace with a generic, seems quite ok.
I'm still fail to understand why a client would keep going to a phamacy that have more expensive medicines. Or is Pfizer using dirtier tricks to get pharmacies to sign (like offering discounts on other medicines only if they sign).
"Rights Management" == "Added Restrictions"
In a way, the marketers that coined that term weren't lying... The term means exactly what the system does, it just needs some thinking to actualy understand it, since it is not an usual term.
That's a more general question. Why do big companies buy bad products?
The explanation is that decision makers in big companies are removed from the consequences of their decisions by several layers, and are easily conviced (by honest or dishonest means) to act against the company's interest by vendors with a big enough budget.
It is so ingrained in the idea of copyrights that "you can't copyright an idea, just its expression" that nearly all the countries, and international treates about it already recognize it.
It is just absurd that SAS is argumentating to the contrary, but why is it newsworth?
They can remove only books with their DRM (that means, stuff you brought from Amazon). Also, they only removed one version, of the several they have available.
I'd buy a Kindle to use as a tablet if it is easy to hack and cheap enough (and meets the specs I need, and if they deliver it here). I'll certanly hack it if I buy one, and won't buy DRMed books (Kindle or not). Thus Amazon probably isn't amazed by the idea of selling it to me. I can see why they'd ignore the entire demographics that thinks like me.
We are strugling to gather enough renewable power for our needs here on Earth. What makes you think we can start a space colonization program? Our best chance of getting into space is to reduce emphasis on (manned) space exploration, and focus more on basic science.
We are living in a window where altough we are powerful enough to destroy a planet, we aren't powerful enough to colonize another one or space. That is bad, but investing in the wrong path won't get us out of here faster.
No delay. It just fails in antecipating it.
The question is: "Can the flu virus continue to be lethal after it mutated enough to survive on humans?"
Now we know the answer.
You should take a look at how complex the flu virus is.
That thing inside the parenthesis is called "nanotechnology". The singularity is something different. Both concepts may be related, but as we don't know the implementation details, we can't know how they relate to each other.
Now, you needed this research to discover that nanotechnology could have bad effects? Have you been living under a rock?
Hint: HIV is only a problem because it doesn't kill its host (or at least takes a decade for killing it).
No, the benefit is that it will protect us against Nature, when Nature by chance repeat the steps of the researchers.
When will it be at PirateBay? They can delay it, but I doubt they can choose not to release.
Now, that is quite like disclosure of bugs in software. They have a proof of concept tool, they should make the information available for a possible vaccine first. If we are luck, authorities are responsible enough to protect against that virus just by knowing that it is possible. If authorities and people are as complacent as they are with software, there is simply no good way to deal with the info.
Way to miss the point. The algorithm for combining influenza genes is quite simple, fast and obvious. The set of genes you want to test is somewhat limited, and the length of the genome is very smal. It is more like "I claim that factoring the number 32 is possible, the implementation is left as an excercize for the reader".
By the way, I can factor any prime number you send my in O(1) time.
On the bright side, there seems to be enough stuff in there to port any Linux (including Android) system into the Kindle (or, saying that in another way, all the drivers seem to be there).
On the bad side, no the reader is not there, and you won't be able to remove their capacity of remotely excluding your books (except if you remove the reader). It is also not more than they are required by the (L)GPL, and there is nothing telling if the boot loader will accept a user supplied system, or if you'll need to root it like any other tablet.
I'd risk that the answer to that involves more Democracy, and more Capitalism.
That is a tried and trusted way. Not in prision, of course, since that would be too expensive, but a couple of wars could take that population away. Also, neither the GP nor I am adovcating that, it is a warning, not a manual.
That is the problem here. Some times it does, other times it doesn't. It seems that production factors botleneck each other, so large gains in one factor (in efficiency or size) when compared to the other will lead to a surplus of this factor. By that same rationale, large increases in capital will make labor more pricey (as it indeed did by the end of the XIX century or after WWII), and large increases on agriculture techniques will make food cheap enough to use as fuel.
Large increase on the efficiency of labor will only affect negatively the workers if agricultire, mineration, capital use, enterpreneuship, et al don't improve enough to compensate.
That thinking is normaly wrong. They'll lead to less jobs doing maintence on themselves, but the people that didn't spend money on that maintence is still looking for places where they can invest it, so they'll probably hire somebody else, to do some other job that they think is worthwhile.
Odds are that the money won't even left IT. On most places IT lives under a somewhat fixed budget, and that money will hire people to fix some other IT related problem.
It is even more complex than that.
Labor is the main cost on everything you buy. As labor gets more efficient, it decreases. If the history ended here, we'd be walking into a disaster, that's for sure. But it doesn't end here; we are getting more efficient on extracting and making use of natural resources too, and capital costs always tend to zero.
All taken in account, we have an income tending to zero, with expenses also tending to zero. Deriving those curves would be usefull if we knew them, but we don't, and they get even harder to know once they approach zero.
You have the retrieval mission budgeted, great. Now how much will the search missions cost?
Most parties spying on the Internet have just one interest in mind. We (some, you, whoever) may not like that interest, but it is rare that one of them have conflicting intersts as the summary says.