Being the computer loser I am, I wholly support opening up the lines to increase competition, thus reducing my outrageous broadband fees I'm currently paying. However, if I was a cable company and I personally laid thousands of miles of cable lines, I'd be royally ticked off if the government forced me to offer the lines as free grass to any Joe Schmoe with an internet hookup.
Of course, the former argument sways me more because I don't actually own a cable company. Considering most Americans are like me, I'll bet polls show everyone wants the lines opened.
I made the switch a year and a half ago when I needed to pick a laptop that I could write effective code with and still be able to read file formats that the rest of the world reads, such as Word and Excel. There's really only one option....and cue the replies offering the "one option" that is not a Mac. There, I preempted them.
ISPs already block other ports, such as ftp and web servers to prevent users from attracting more bandwidth to their network. Is this any different? The act of port blocking isn't any different, so I wonder if the content going over the port (in this case, voip) would make a difference in court.
The fact that your fuel is expensive because of taxes makes your argument pointless. You want cheap fuel? Try lower taxes. Of course, that would spur your economy too much, and apparently you don't want that.
"...or the rights of journalists to protect their sources?"
This supposed "right" is always heralded about by journalists and their closest friends. There is no such thing as a right of a journalist. Going to journalism school does not grant someone a certain level of rights that a normal citizen has. If I was to spread leaflets around town, accusing my city mayor of eating Soylent Green made in his basement without evidence, I'm committing a crime. Likewise, a journalist who defaces someone's character and then claims "the right of private sources" is also committing a crime.
The one-button mouse is always at risk of being an endangered gizmo, but Apple keeps reintroducing the species into the wild, where they are promptly eaten by 2-buttons and scroll wheels.
When you actually read the article, it's quickly apparent that it compares China to Canada and not "the west". While Canada is indeed in the west, only Canadians would include "free hemming of pants" in a list of top 10 technologies. And of course the fact that you actually care that China is better in the hemming department...boy what will the Chinese think of next!
I had a phone interview with Google several months ago for a product developer. I was told the job specification was to come up with new ideas to make Google better. So during the phone interview they asked me what I would change about Google. My answer? I gave them the example that if you want to find information on where apples are grown and you search for 'apple', all you find are Apple links.
No joke. Who stole my example?!
Naturally I agree with this article. What was Google's response to my suggestion? They told me it was irrelevant because there are more links to Apple Computers.
That is definitely a list of 'thinkers' and no doubt have contributed greatly to the field...but let's not forget that people like Marvin Minsky was a huge collaborator with Clarke and Kubrick on the film, 2001 A Space Odyssey.
They honestly thought HAL could be built in 30 years...just look at their old interviews. Alarmists always think we're about to die to our technology. We are far from any sort of AI that will 'threaten' our lives, steal our firstborns, and form robot-only school systems.
The semantic web is a decent idea, something that search engines are still failing to do...when someone searches for 'growing apples', you shouldn't get links to Apple Computers and whatnot.
But making everyone write this semantic code to describe their web page is just duplicating the information that is already presented, in English (or spanish, japanese, etc.). Efforts toward better natural language processing (NLP) and research in this area would wipe out any need for wasting time on rewriting information in a more machine friendly format.
Tailor machines to humans, not the other way around.
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Burn it down!!!
Of course, the former argument sways me more because I don't actually own a cable company. Considering most Americans are like me, I'll bet polls show everyone wants the lines opened.
I made the switch a year and a half ago when I needed to pick a laptop that I could write effective code with and still be able to read file formats that the rest of the world reads, such as Word and Excel. There's really only one option. ...and cue the replies offering the "one option" that is not a Mac. There, I preempted them.
ISPs already block other ports, such as ftp and web servers to prevent users from attracting more bandwidth to their network. Is this any different? The act of port blocking isn't any different, so I wonder if the content going over the port (in this case, voip) would make a difference in court.
Well, I think you haven't studied enough if you think this. When you start to realize we actually know very little, then you're getting somewhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seward's_Folly
The fact that your fuel is expensive because of taxes makes your argument pointless. You want cheap fuel? Try lower taxes. Of course, that would spur your economy too much, and apparently you don't want that.
"...or the rights of journalists to protect their sources?" This supposed "right" is always heralded about by journalists and their closest friends. There is no such thing as a right of a journalist. Going to journalism school does not grant someone a certain level of rights that a normal citizen has. If I was to spread leaflets around town, accusing my city mayor of eating Soylent Green made in his basement without evidence, I'm committing a crime. Likewise, a journalist who defaces someone's character and then claims "the right of private sources" is also committing a crime.
The one-button mouse is always at risk of being an endangered gizmo, but Apple keeps reintroducing the species into the wild, where they are promptly eaten by 2-buttons and scroll wheels.
The name, speakeasy, was used 7 times in 6 sentences on this post. Try some shorter pronouns, I hope we don't charge by the letter.
When you actually read the article, it's quickly apparent that it compares China to Canada and not "the west". While Canada is indeed in the west, only Canadians would include "free hemming of pants" in a list of top 10 technologies. And of course the fact that you actually care that China is better in the hemming department...boy what will the Chinese think of next!
That's my school! You go boiii!
I had a phone interview with Google several months ago for a product developer. I was told the job specification was to come up with new ideas to make Google better. So during the phone interview they asked me what I would change about Google. My answer? I gave them the example that if you want to find information on where apples are grown and you search for 'apple', all you find are Apple links.
No joke. Who stole my example?!
Naturally I agree with this article. What was Google's response to my suggestion? They told me it was irrelevant because there are more links to Apple Computers.
I didn't get the job.
That is definitely a list of 'thinkers' and no doubt have contributed greatly to the field...but let's not forget that people like Marvin Minsky was a huge collaborator with Clarke and Kubrick on the film, 2001 A Space Odyssey. They honestly thought HAL could be built in 30 years...just look at their old interviews. Alarmists always think we're about to die to our technology. We are far from any sort of AI that will 'threaten' our lives, steal our firstborns, and form robot-only school systems.
The semantic web is a decent idea, something that search engines are still failing to do...when someone searches for 'growing apples', you shouldn't get links to Apple Computers and whatnot.
But making everyone write this semantic code to describe their web page is just duplicating the information that is already presented, in English (or spanish, japanese, etc.). Efforts toward better natural language processing (NLP) and research in this area would wipe out any need for wasting time on rewriting information in a more machine friendly format.
Tailor machines to humans, not the other way around.