And is it any coincidence that a new 3D Replicator has been introduced at CES? http://tinyurl.com/8yoby4j I think not. Code was the conception. Malware is coming manifest in a hardware form. Isn't that how Terminator started?
I thought 1.4 billion people were polluting and used coal. Now you tell me 1.4 billion people are investing in clean energy data centers. Maybe the 1.4 billion people are being dishonest? Or maybe the 1.4 billion people have really changed for the good? What are we the 320M people in USA supposed to say? We need one answer. Is China good or bad? When apparently good, is it directly good, or alternating?
In the Sixties, we could put a man on the moon. Nowadays, laments ________________ (grumpy person), America's tech giants can't even ____________________________ (something that's already available, something no one wants, something cranky). Slashdot can write a program to submit these "stories", and we can all log in to write how dumb the idea is, how already done the idea is, etc.
These stories about Chinese censorship and an all-controlling communist party are really easy for reporters to write. I follow blogs written in China, mostly USA writers who are based there. They basically don't see it. One writer keeps a regular column to "fact check" claims of blogs being censored and words being deleted, and says the majority of the time the reporter either assumed it, repeated a rumor, or just made it up. Most commentary on most social media is boring, and CCP (Chinese Communist Party) officials generally have better things to do than censor LOL status and twitter updates. There is just too much content to effectively censor. And Facebook etc. not catching fire in China may have more to do with Chinese language than with the CCP struggle to control it. It sounds like MySpace blaming government interference for losing to Facebook.
For speed and access to composition, technology is great. Many, many people will use it for games and porn, instead of X, and X is rarely "read collective works of Charles Dickents". But the yellow press helped pay off printing press investments in record time, and in the end it doesn't matter why 99 people use the technology if it lowers the cost of production for the 100th. Snail mail is the same way, without junk mail the cost of sending a check would be much higher.
So when every other whale species is hunted to endangered status, and they focus on the remaining species not endangered, we shouldn't care until it too is endangered? The mechnanization and scaling of the wildlife hunting industry, from buffalo to gorillas, has too poor a track record not to have watchdogs in international waters. They may not be perfect but life without them would be less diverse.
Whoa, copy paste error. Ahem, I said their investment into content (Sony Pictures and Playstation games) has been better to stockholders than their hardware business.
Samsung has an Intel-like proprietary stake with many of the boards used in LCD and plasma production, and everyone is using Foxconn factories to assemble and produce. Sony is a major brand value but trying to keep ownership of actual LCD display production was an expensive gamble. Hopefully they put some of the trillion into R&D. Their mhttp://slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/1238225/samsung-buys-sonys-stake-in-lcd-joint-venture#ove to make content (Sony Pictures and Playstation games) was a better investment than hardware.
This has always been a balancing act, the same questions were raised about allowing non-landholders to vote, allowing women to vote, etc. There need to be editors and judges. But in just as many cases, we need the twittering mob to correct editors who get it wrong.
Those cutting edge Senators and Representatives have a hunch that China and others may one day consider developing such a cyberwar capacity, and want the USA to be the first to develop it.
About half my regular blog readers are based in emerging markets / less developed countries. I began to notice that hittership was dropping in Africa and India. Reviewing about a thousand posts, I noticed that the more photos and "blogger apps" I put on the web page, the lower the readership in countries with low bandwidth. I've been more conscientious now about which photo resolution I post and tend to avoid videos. And a lot of the cool little blogger widgets don't seem as important when measured in seconds to open the page. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-has-widget-fever.html Of course my content also sometimes sucks, and it also helps if I lay off the haiku.
This is like a quarrel at a casino. If you take all the singers, banjo players, actors, actresses, etc. and add up all their income, and compare that to the ratio that goes to the few who make it big in Hollywood, the whole entertainment industry resembles a lottery. It's funded by charging for overpriced tickets. Whenever you overcharge for something (margins over value of cost of production) you create huge incentives for piracy. The music industry should have revamped the "Columbia Record Club" of the 1970s Parade Magazine, given away enough songs/albums up front for customers to feel like they were getting a deal.
Increase in power plants = increase in backyards. What killed nuclear power in the USA was kicking the can down the road on the nuclear waste. The USA population, and the world's, keeps increasing, meaning more and more "backyards". If they would have dealt with Yucca Mountain 40 years ago, the community would be dependent on disposal tax base by now and there would have been an answer. Some things don't get better with time. Well, ok... there is half-life.
Does Linux do Voice and Touch user input? Do them well? The voice translators on Apple and Android are getting better... still generating snickers at times but really I'm impressed how much they are learning. In my opinion, a tablet without an input device is like a laptop without a keyboard. Getting a tablet to run linux is the second step, making sure Linux has the voice input and touch input comes first.
Whether tablets become a fad or actually change things will depend on how well they replace the keyboard. What the keyboard did to penmenship and editing and even thought is remarkable. I wonder if the voice translation will lead the next generations to speak and think differently (like Voice of America in "Special English")? Will we adapt our speech to say things that are more trite and repetitive and easily recognized, LOL, or will the software get better and better? If Linux or Android or Apple are only good enough to meet us halfway in transcribing speech, maybe tablets will be the start of the Dim Ages.
= JawsOfLife App, PryBikerFromBumper App, ExplainToOfficer App, WeavingOnRoadWarning App.... There are no "problems", only opportunities for software developers.
The growth of engineering, technician, geek, nerd, or "tinkerer" networks in developing nations is critical to successful democratic development. Democracy can either thrive beside, or be stifled under, any religion, there's nothing special Islam does that Christianity hasn't tried. Egypt tried to "put the genie back in the bottle" in 2008, banning imports of used computers. Pakistan tried the same Pakistan Computer Association. These days the usual excuse to crack down on geeks and nerds in converging market is accusing them of "environmental crime" such as the 'e-waste hoax'.. But they will keep thinking of others, like "porn" or "piracy". It's a good idea to improve and reform "e-waste" imports, porn and piracy, but complete crackdowns on internet cafes and affordable white box manufacturers are the usual result. Dictators (usually not religious) create the backwards cultures by arresting network tinkerers, creating the conditions for reactionary religion. But Al-Jazeera will never put up with censorship. Malaysia, Indonesia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are all going to be fine... and Iran too... The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth.
The key difference is that we have checks and balances. It's not that USA executive branch doesn't make mistakes. It's that we have a court system where you have a chance to have the mistake corrected, and a legislature which protects the broadest speech. I was really alarmed by the Cuba website censorship but this isn't a reason not to criticize Iran, which "censors" ballots (removing names of candidates who threaten to win, allows only weak candidates to run in opposition). USA is a lighter shade of grey.
I'm in the USA, and I know to dismiss Daily Mail headlines thanks to years on Slashdot. It would be nice if the Slashdot submitter or moderator could work some kind of a disclaimer into these summaries or headlines. The Onion has funny stories, too. If/. promotes Onion and Mail headlines without warning that they are suspicious, it could harm/. reputation in the long run. With that said, I do know the pressures of "slow news day". Maybe Daily Mail should just be like The Onion and nothing no disclaimer is necessary.
Having something to hide. In some cases it is error or bias. What other attributes are "something to hide?". And why didn't the researchers disclose them? What didn't they know, and when did they not know it ?
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I'm 49 and surviving by trading with "techs of color" overseas. There is a huge aftermarket for older / used / lagging edge technology in "emerging" and "converging" markets outside of the OECD. I can't keep up with the newest display technology. But I can buy and sell what I know about. During the past decade, internet access grew fastest among people in nations earning average of $3500 per capita per year. They aren't buying tablets or twittering about Tahir Square on their IPhones.
The biggest threat to this has been American and EU ignorance of the 6 billion people in non-OECD markets - grouping 6 billion people together under a single "non-OECD" label. They are too frequently depicted as wire burning monkeys in the press. http://tinyurl.com/6thbtf5 If you are willing to do your homework and differentiate between the lowest run / price-cutting technology buyers overseas, and the "fair trade" lagging edge and secondary markets, you can find some great partners. Oh, and by the way, they tend to have a lot of respect for seniors in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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And is it any coincidence that a new 3D Replicator has been introduced at CES? http://tinyurl.com/8yoby4j I think not. Code was the conception. Malware is coming manifest in a hardware form. Isn't that how Terminator started?
I have enough trouble keeping track of the two-dimensional stuff I print. This is something best left cloud-based.
You dont charge different rates for different oranges, figs, corn cons. The definition of a commodity fits most movies.
I thought 1.4 billion people were polluting and used coal. Now you tell me 1.4 billion people are investing in clean energy data centers. Maybe the 1.4 billion people are being dishonest? Or maybe the 1.4 billion people have really changed for the good? What are we the 320M people in USA supposed to say? We need one answer. Is China good or bad? When apparently good, is it directly good, or alternating?
In the Sixties, we could put a man on the moon. Nowadays, laments ________________ (grumpy person), America's tech giants can't even ____________________________ (something that's already available, something no one wants, something cranky). Slashdot can write a program to submit these "stories", and we can all log in to write how dumb the idea is, how already done the idea is, etc.
These stories about Chinese censorship and an all-controlling communist party are really easy for reporters to write. I follow blogs written in China, mostly USA writers who are based there. They basically don't see it. One writer keeps a regular column to "fact check" claims of blogs being censored and words being deleted, and says the majority of the time the reporter either assumed it, repeated a rumor, or just made it up. Most commentary on most social media is boring, and CCP (Chinese Communist Party) officials generally have better things to do than censor LOL status and twitter updates. There is just too much content to effectively censor. And Facebook etc. not catching fire in China may have more to do with Chinese language than with the CCP struggle to control it. It sounds like MySpace blaming government interference for losing to Facebook.
For speed and access to composition, technology is great. Many, many people will use it for games and porn, instead of X, and X is rarely "read collective works of Charles Dickents". But the yellow press helped pay off printing press investments in record time, and in the end it doesn't matter why 99 people use the technology if it lowers the cost of production for the 100th. Snail mail is the same way, without junk mail the cost of sending a check would be much higher.
I bought 20 of them. It will probably beat my mutual retirement fund, if the recent past is any indicator.
So when every other whale species is hunted to endangered status, and they focus on the remaining species not endangered, we shouldn't care until it too is endangered? The mechnanization and scaling of the wildlife hunting industry, from buffalo to gorillas, has too poor a track record not to have watchdogs in international waters. They may not be perfect but life without them would be less diverse.
Whoa, copy paste error. Ahem, I said their investment into content (Sony Pictures and Playstation games) has been better to stockholders than their hardware business.
Samsung has an Intel-like proprietary stake with many of the boards used in LCD and plasma production, and everyone is using Foxconn factories to assemble and produce. Sony is a major brand value but trying to keep ownership of actual LCD display production was an expensive gamble. Hopefully they put some of the trillion into R&D. Their mhttp://slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/1238225/samsung-buys-sonys-stake-in-lcd-joint-venture#ove to make content (Sony Pictures and Playstation games) was a better investment than hardware.
This has always been a balancing act, the same questions were raised about allowing non-landholders to vote, allowing women to vote, etc. There need to be editors and judges. But in just as many cases, we need the twittering mob to correct editors who get it wrong.
Or proved that Beyblades can exceed the speed of light.
Those cutting edge Senators and Representatives have a hunch that China and others may one day consider developing such a cyberwar capacity, and want the USA to be the first to develop it.
About half my regular blog readers are based in emerging markets / less developed countries. I began to notice that hittership was dropping in Africa and India. Reviewing about a thousand posts, I noticed that the more photos and "blogger apps" I put on the web page, the lower the readership in countries with low bandwidth. I've been more conscientious now about which photo resolution I post and tend to avoid videos. And a lot of the cool little blogger widgets don't seem as important when measured in seconds to open the page. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-has-widget-fever.html Of course my content also sometimes sucks, and it also helps if I lay off the haiku.
This is like a quarrel at a casino. If you take all the singers, banjo players, actors, actresses, etc. and add up all their income, and compare that to the ratio that goes to the few who make it big in Hollywood, the whole entertainment industry resembles a lottery. It's funded by charging for overpriced tickets. Whenever you overcharge for something (margins over value of cost of production) you create huge incentives for piracy. The music industry should have revamped the "Columbia Record Club" of the 1970s Parade Magazine, given away enough songs/albums up front for customers to feel like they were getting a deal.
Increase in power plants = increase in backyards. What killed nuclear power in the USA was kicking the can down the road on the nuclear waste. The USA population, and the world's, keeps increasing, meaning more and more "backyards". If they would have dealt with Yucca Mountain 40 years ago, the community would be dependent on disposal tax base by now and there would have been an answer. Some things don't get better with time. Well, ok... there is half-life.
Does Linux do Voice and Touch user input? Do them well? The voice translators on Apple and Android are getting better... still generating snickers at times but really I'm impressed how much they are learning. In my opinion, a tablet without an input device is like a laptop without a keyboard. Getting a tablet to run linux is the second step, making sure Linux has the voice input and touch input comes first.
Whether tablets become a fad or actually change things will depend on how well they replace the keyboard. What the keyboard did to penmenship and editing and even thought is remarkable. I wonder if the voice translation will lead the next generations to speak and think differently (like Voice of America in "Special English")? Will we adapt our speech to say things that are more trite and repetitive and easily recognized, LOL, or will the software get better and better? If Linux or Android or Apple are only good enough to meet us halfway in transcribing speech, maybe tablets will be the start of the Dim Ages.
= JawsOfLife App, PryBikerFromBumper App, ExplainToOfficer App, WeavingOnRoadWarning App.... There are no "problems", only opportunities for software developers.
The growth of engineering, technician, geek, nerd, or "tinkerer" networks in developing nations is critical to successful democratic development. Democracy can either thrive beside, or be stifled under, any religion, there's nothing special Islam does that Christianity hasn't tried. Egypt tried to "put the genie back in the bottle" in 2008, banning imports of used computers. Pakistan tried the same Pakistan Computer Association. These days the usual excuse to crack down on geeks and nerds in converging market is accusing them of "environmental crime" such as the 'e-waste hoax'.. But they will keep thinking of others, like "porn" or "piracy". It's a good idea to improve and reform "e-waste" imports, porn and piracy, but complete crackdowns on internet cafes and affordable white box manufacturers are the usual result. Dictators (usually not religious) create the backwards cultures by arresting network tinkerers, creating the conditions for reactionary religion. But Al-Jazeera will never put up with censorship. Malaysia, Indonesia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are all going to be fine... and Iran too... The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth.
The key difference is that we have checks and balances. It's not that USA executive branch doesn't make mistakes. It's that we have a court system where you have a chance to have the mistake corrected, and a legislature which protects the broadest speech. I was really alarmed by the Cuba website censorship but this isn't a reason not to criticize Iran, which "censors" ballots (removing names of candidates who threaten to win, allows only weak candidates to run in opposition). USA is a lighter shade of grey.
I'm in the USA, and I know to dismiss Daily Mail headlines thanks to years on Slashdot. It would be nice if the Slashdot submitter or moderator could work some kind of a disclaimer into these summaries or headlines. The Onion has funny stories, too. If /. promotes Onion and Mail headlines without warning that they are suspicious, it could harm /. reputation in the long run. With that said, I do know the pressures of "slow news day". Maybe Daily Mail should just be like The Onion and nothing no disclaimer is necessary.
Will this important function, having geek words in articles appear on Google News and then submitting them over to Slashdot, be kept intact?
Having something to hide. In some cases it is error or bias. What other attributes are "something to hide?". And why didn't the researchers disclose them? What didn't they know, and when did they not know it ?
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I'm 49 and surviving by trading with "techs of color" overseas. There is a huge aftermarket for older / used / lagging edge technology in "emerging" and "converging" markets outside of the OECD. I can't keep up with the newest display technology. But I can buy and sell what I know about. During the past decade, internet access grew fastest among people in nations earning average of $3500 per capita per year. They aren't buying tablets or twittering about Tahir Square on their IPhones.
The biggest threat to this has been American and EU ignorance of the 6 billion people in non-OECD markets - grouping 6 billion people together under a single "non-OECD" label. They are too frequently depicted as wire burning monkeys in the press. http://tinyurl.com/6thbtf5 If you are willing to do your homework and differentiate between the lowest run / price-cutting technology buyers overseas, and the "fair trade" lagging edge and secondary markets, you can find some great partners. Oh, and by the way, they tend to have a lot of respect for seniors in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.