I live on my boat and I'm not required to have running water or electricity on it. Clothing.. I can live at a nude ranch if I want. Education, I can home school if I want. Social Security is true though.
Dude, dude. I ONLY have a camera and microphone on my phone, laptop, 10 inch tablet, actual camera and video camera. How the hell am I supposed to create anything if my e-book reader doesn't have them as well?
No, infact I didn't miss it at all - but you seem to have missed mine.
If MySQL is GPLed, and can be forked, then why the interest in what Oracle does to the trunk?
The interest is that it looks like the trunk is a dead end. This gives more press to MariaDB and could eventually mean distros drop MySQL going forward in favor of it.
This is completely bullshit. I've designed MySQL clusters that, in the initial rollout, needed to be able to handle 200k inserts per second and then be able to scale up from there. And we did it on EC2 for 1k a month worth of systems.
>Books with good quality content and good production values will then become a thing of the past, because quality costs a lot to produce, readers can't examine the books before they've paid for it the way they can in a bricks 'n' mortar book store, and not enough people will exercise any legal right of return they may have to make a difference to the policy.
This is completely false. Customer reviews are superior to publisher gateways for determining quality and you can already download samples of every book on Amazon's Kindle to see if you'll like it or not.
Playgrounds shouldn't be risk free, but to be honest, jungle gyms were death machines. Those things probably broke more bones in the 70's and 80's than the Japanese and Italian mafia combined did.
True, but if that was a feasible plan, then they wouldn't be going after court orders for the key, would they?
No. You have a crypted hard drive. First thing that'd be done would be to copy the entire crypted drive and then try to hack it in its new location. If it gets nuked, just recopy the crypted drive from the source.
26 inch LED LCD tv: 44 watts when in use. Popcorn Hour: 8 watts WRT54G Wireless router: 3-5 watts My uplink 800Mhz Wifi link: 8 watts
So my entire entertainment with internet linkup only pulls 64 watts, 20 or less when the TV is off. The popcorn hour also spins down when not in use. So I'm using less power for my entertainment than a single incandescent light bulb.
All these problems can be mitigated, in both cases. (Physical cash can be stored in safes or banks; BitCoins can be stored on offline media.) One isn't specifically less secure than the other at this point.
There's a big security difference. I can store my money in a bank and use debit/credit cards. I'm legally protected when someone steals my credentials and spends my money without my authorization.
A few quotes by a few people doesn't make for a culture of Anti-Intellectualism. The change in how knowledge is acquired over the last 20 years has been beyond drastic. 20 years ago when I wanted to do a paper on super novas and pulsars I spent days in the library sorting through books. Today all that information, and more, is available to me in seconds.
It's completely valid that this sort of change will shake up how humans deal with education and the transfer of knowledge. It's also good to be questioning the impact such systems have on us as a whole(such as how the super organic impacts knowledge when it's completely free flowing and popular opinions percolate to the top). Questioning old guard institutions and methods isn't Anti-Intellectualism, it's quite the opposite.
I agree it's not slavery, but the economy definitely runs on a lower "has less rights" class. Look at migrant workers. It's illegal, everyone knows it takes place, even knows who uses them, but we let it happen. And the workers don't have many rights. Worker rights? They have no rights. If they complain? They can simply be deported.
I'm not a fanboi. The iPad 2 is not the best product for me right now. I don't like the vendor lock in that Apple provides. I've been much happier with my Android phone than I was with my iPhone.
Android integrates much more seamlessly into how I use computer devices.
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> Why did they not do a full on media blitz at launch?
It hasn't launched yet. As a biz account user, I wasn't even able to create a plus account until last week.
Shoving hours and hours of homework on your students doesn't make you a good teacher.
I live on my boat and I'm not required to have running water or electricity on it. Clothing.. I can live at a nude ranch if I want. Education, I can home school if I want. Social Security is true though.
Dude, dude. I ONLY have a camera and microphone on my phone, laptop, 10 inch tablet, actual camera and video camera. How the hell am I supposed to create anything if my e-book reader doesn't have them as well?
No, infact I didn't miss it at all - but you seem to have missed mine.
If MySQL is GPLed, and can be forked, then why the interest in what Oracle does to the trunk?
The interest is that it looks like the trunk is a dead end. This gives more press to MariaDB and could eventually mean distros drop MySQL going forward in favor of it.
This is completely bullshit. I've designed MySQL clusters that, in the initial rollout, needed to be able to handle 200k inserts per second and then be able to scale up from there. And we did it on EC2 for 1k a month worth of systems.
MySQL is an extremely powerful tool.
>Books with good quality content and good production values will then become a thing of the past, because quality costs a lot to produce, readers can't examine the books before they've paid for it the way they can in a bricks 'n' mortar book store, and not enough people will exercise any legal right of return they may have to make a difference to the policy.
This is completely false. Customer reviews are superior to publisher gateways for determining quality and you can already download samples of every book on Amazon's Kindle to see if you'll like it or not.
Xen has a 2% overhead. It's hardly expensive.
I'd also agree. Xfce is great. What I like about it is it provides all the core tools you need and then doesn't get in your way.
It's not flashy or anything, just solid.
I keep getting this image of RMS standing in front of a podium, tears streaming down his facing and sobbing out "I have sinned!!"
Playgrounds shouldn't be risk free, but to be honest, jungle gyms were death machines. Those things probably broke more bones in the 70's and 80's than the Japanese and Italian mafia combined did.
Quantum internet, really? Will I be eating Quantum pop tarts while I surf Quantum porn?
Not really. I use one of these on my 32ft boat I liveaboard: http://www.natureshead.net/
My bathroom on that boat is smaller than most apartment closets.
Actually, that's a pretty good compromise.
True, but if that was a feasible plan, then they wouldn't be going after court orders for the key, would they?
No. You have a crypted hard drive. First thing that'd be done would be to copy the entire crypted drive and then try to hack it in its new location. If it gets nuked, just recopy the crypted drive from the source.
"You cannot pee into a Mr. Coffee and get Taster's Choice!"
26 inch LED LCD tv: 44 watts when in use.
Popcorn Hour: 8 watts
WRT54G Wireless router: 3-5 watts
My uplink 800Mhz Wifi link: 8 watts
So my entire entertainment with internet linkup only pulls 64 watts, 20 or less when the TV is off. The popcorn hour also spins down when not in use. So I'm using less power for my entertainment than a single incandescent light bulb.
All these problems can be mitigated, in both cases. (Physical cash can be stored in safes or banks; BitCoins can be stored on offline media.) One isn't specifically less secure than the other at this point.
There's a big security difference. I can store my money in a bank and use debit/credit cards. I'm legally protected when someone steals my credentials and spends my money without my authorization.
A few quotes by a few people doesn't make for a culture of Anti-Intellectualism. The change in how knowledge is acquired over the last 20 years has been beyond drastic. 20 years ago when I wanted to do a paper on super novas and pulsars I spent days in the library sorting through books. Today all that information, and more, is available to me in seconds.
It's completely valid that this sort of change will shake up how humans deal with education and the transfer of knowledge. It's also good to be questioning the impact such systems have on us as a whole(such as how the super organic impacts knowledge when it's completely free flowing and popular opinions percolate to the top). Questioning old guard institutions and methods isn't Anti-Intellectualism, it's quite the opposite.
The cost will simply be passed onto the universities.
Problem solved?
Unless you want to fight it in court.
I agree it's not slavery, but the economy definitely runs on a lower "has less rights" class. Look at migrant workers. It's illegal, everyone knows it takes place, even knows who uses them, but we let it happen. And the workers don't have many rights. Worker rights? They have no rights. If they complain? They can simply be deported.
It's a disgrace.
A late April 1 article?
I know you joke, but that's why there's things like deniable encryption.
I really don't understand why criminals wouldn't use something like that.
I'm not a fanboi. The iPad 2 is not the best product for me right now. I don't like the vendor lock in that Apple provides. I've been much happier with my Android phone than I was with my iPhone.
Android integrates much more seamlessly into how I use computer devices.