...your local non-oligopolistic wireless provider. More often than not, that's a non-incumbent mobile provider. Here in Canada, a good example would be Wind Mobile.
Real competition in the wireless category is the best, new hope for ensuring real competition in the internet service category (see what Clearwire is trying to do in the US, though it is currently struggling and not necessarily non-incumbent). Wireless has the potential to one day offer the speeds we currently see in landline infrastructure (though not fiber optic) and more than enough to serve demands for things like HD IPTV and video conferencing. I can assure you that the incumbents are most afraid of the potential of wireless: the potential for competition that can start competing with lower upfront fixed costs and risks for infrastructure than they had to pay way back when they laid cable in the ground.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL NON-CARTEL BASED WIRELESS PROVIDER !!
The answer is never, "Well, I just happened to be a couple of sigma away from the mean in the normal distribution of human longevity".
Nor should it be. It's not like the universe must obey some mathematical formula (or in this case, probability distribution) that we applied to model the longevity of human life. So, an answer like that from him would be as good as no answer at all, or simply having him dodge the question altogether:)
Going a bit further and slightly off-topic, I (and much more importantly philosophers of science) would say that there's no "proof" that our mathematical and scientific models of the world are true. They rise and fall as the empires that have come and gone through the ages, though immeasurably influencing their inevitable successors.
Wow, I'm a bit disappointed:) Yes, with the iPad a bit, but more so with the idea that this is Slashdot and barely anyone has thrown a spotlight on the Apple A4. This is an ARM, high performance, low power CPU with integrated graphics, and more importantly the first piece of processing silicon coming out of Cupertino. Regardless of how much i like the Intel Atom, i think this will be a viable competitor on the ARM front. Too bad it is under lock and key with the iPhone OS:p
If they succeed, then I'm sure others (obviously not everyone) will follow. If they don't, well they will be back to square one and have even less money time to come up with a solution.
Agreed, though I question how much control Intel exerts over netbook manufacturers for features such as external sound ports, SD card, screen size, etc.
Microsoft and Intel have been very uninterested in netbooks...
Sorry, w.r.t. Intel, that statement is completely false. Intel has been a key, driving force behind the netbook phenomenon... witnessed by the AMD still not having a good competitive product for the Atom processor.
Intel is making more of a killing off the netbook market than any other company (perhaps they are making a lower profit per unit, but doing delivering higher volume). Not to mention, these Atom/netbook sales are bootstrapping Intel's R&D on future Atom or Atom-like chips that will eventually themselves into smartphones (can you smell low power x86 on a device like the iPhone??)
You get the idea- a bunch of pretty meaningless steps to further ruin air travel, delay passengers, violate privacy, push prices up, all so people will feel "safe" again.
Depends on what you consider meaningless (not that what you're saying is totally wrong). But, consider this:
Is it the people on the plane whom they want to feel safer? Or, is it the people on the ground (in other words, the much vaster and inclusive, voting public)? Furthermore, is it lives that are being protected? Or, rather symbols of a republic and the essential system of law and order on which it is based?
All I see here is a story about a foolish developer who decided it was smarter to let slip that they are mining their usage logs looking for "interesting" stuff like this, when they should probably keep their mouths shut if they plan on misusing people's (or, for that matter, a company's) personal data.
If they are leaving, just to sit on their ass and say "oh hey I used to contribute to Wikipedia, but now I don't because X, Y and Z.", then who the hell cares about them. Wikipedia will keep growing anyway, and their contributions will remain. If they actually are going to contribute to a competing solution, what is it and why. Or maybe, they are getting together to create a new solution to their woes. Now you've got me interested.
But as far as I see it, Wikipedia is by far the best at what it is and does. Do something constructive if you're going to leave. Otherwise, continue contributing and remember that your contributions are still there in the history of the article, which in my opinion is by far the most underutilized feature of the site.
Winter holidays. The same fucktard from the 2nd time comes along and nominates the article a 3rd time. This time, vocal people are away or just tired of it all. Whoops, delete request accepted by a narrow margin, all the work of everyone goes *poof*.
Could you fill me in ? Are you saying that you can't bring deleted articles back from the dead ? If so, what is the problem? If not, that's a real problem with the software or policy.
Also, people have to start making better use of the history of an article to fight back against "editors" that are up to no good. In fact, I think there's some pretty good software/tools out there that does this very thing. Let's you see where an article came from, as opposed to just what it looks like right now.
Excellent info, especially the background that the related law is old (probably inherited from the British?) and wasn't lobbied in by the modern corporation.
Insurance companies hiring private investigators to spy on their clients is fairly common in Canada
IANAL, but would appreciate it if someone who is a lawyer (a Canadian lawyer preferably;) could fill everyone in on the legality of private corporations/individuals spying on other individuals in Canada. In particular, who is most protected by these laws?
As an after-thought, I should say that by ubiquituous Internet... I am also implying the idea that if one network goes down or is inaccessible for whatever reason, you still have other, easily accessible and equally dirt cheap options.
To slightly reword a quote by The Great One (that's Wayne Gretzky to everyone else:)... a quote that also happens to be one of Jobs' favorite.
Looks like Google is building an operating system in anticipation of the ubiquitous Internet and optimizing it for that purpose alone. That's to say, wireless available everywhere and hopefully dirt cheap. Maybe they believe that's gonna happen just about late 2010.
Wouldn't be surprising given competition by upcoming networks like Clearwire WiMax.
Oh, give me a break. The idea of the "skilled" journalist is just that... an idea. Pure fiction. Sure, there are a few journalists who see their work as a profession and aspire to the highest standards of quality and truth, but the rest are just trying to make a buck and stay afloat. While I agree, the world may witness a drought of well-written, well-researched journalism... I think most people will turn to the mish-mash of blogs, tweets and "amateur journalists" out there. While none of them alone may be great journalists... it will be up to the reader to piece together what they read, assess its credibility and come up with an informed opinion.
Hey, wait.. isn't that what readers are supposed to be doing anyways?
So why again do we *need* 'skilled journalists'? Oh, right. The same reason we still need trains when we can now have cars.
You're probably a troll, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and treat you as if you are not:)
I think neither of you realizes that depending on our chosen philosophy you both might be right or you both might be wrong. Generally speaking if you choose modern Western philosophy, you both are wrong in that you did not consult a reputable source on definitions like Merriam-Webster.
Anyway, from ancient philosophy suggesting that you are both valid in creating your own definitions for words used in the English language, you both are right.
However, most people nowadays say that it's up to a more knowledgeable source like Merriam-Webster to come up with our best definition for encyclopedia. To rephrase M-W's definition in my own words, they consider an encyclopedia to be a body of work that treats all bodies of knowledge or a particular body of knowledge. Its subjects are usually, but *not necessarily*, arranged alphabetically. Thus, Wikipedia by a more popular definition of encyclopedia most definitely qualifies as an instance of an encyclopedia.
Sorry, Chacham... if you're going to be pedantic, you should really check that your knowledge has been checked with the "rest of us.";)
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No it isn't. The "best video-on-the-web delivery platform" is a hyperlink to an.mpeg file (in terms of ubiquity and cross-platform support; in an ideal world it should be a link to an.ogg (Theora) file).
Sounds like you know your French pretty well, but you're still trying to get a grasp of English;) Video-on-the-web implies video-in-the-browser but since no major browser has built-in MPEG (proprietary?) then we are left to use JAVA or FLASH to achieve this in the browser. And yes, there are reasons for both content providers and customers to want video delivered in your browser as opposed to using an external application. For example, browser banner ads for content providers and ease-of-use for customers.
unfortunately when you do something well you rarely get praise for it, people generally say 'well thats great, so what's next'.
Replace "people" with "stock holders" and you are dead on why smart investors like Warren Buffett have said speculation can be bad since it only focuses on growth and not on profits. As long as profits are strong, Apple is doing better than they were before IMHO. Speculators require the kind of never-ending growth that is unsustainable in reality.
Some idiots here suggest you should escalate the problem. The problem with that is you don't know where it will end. If you escalate enough, it can end with destroyed lives, his or yours. Think about that.
Very insightful suggestion... to be honest, the escalation responses are damned hilarious "on paper", but none of them would be good suggestions without knowing more about the situation. The main question is:
How disruptive is the noise to your everyday life?
Whether any escalation is required depends only on the answer to that question. Most people wouldn't be able to answer that question properly because they would allow thoughts of revenge to cloud their thinking. The best thing to do if the problem is really disrupting your life is to convince your neighbour that it is. If this does not help, then you should try to convince authorities that it is disrupting your life. If both these attempts fail, then you should exercise caution when deciding on appropriate responses to his "mosquito device".
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...your local non-oligopolistic wireless provider. More often than not, that's a non-incumbent mobile provider. Here in Canada, a good example would be Wind Mobile.
Real competition in the wireless category is the best, new hope for ensuring real competition in the internet service category (see what Clearwire is trying to do in the US, though it is currently struggling and not necessarily non-incumbent). Wireless has the potential to one day offer the speeds we currently see in landline infrastructure (though not fiber optic) and more than enough to serve demands for things like HD IPTV and video conferencing. I can assure you that the incumbents are most afraid of the potential of wireless: the potential for competition that can start competing with lower upfront fixed costs and risks for infrastructure than they had to pay way back when they laid cable in the ground.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL NON-CARTEL BASED WIRELESS PROVIDER !!
The answer is never, "Well, I just happened to be a couple of sigma away from the mean in the normal distribution of human longevity".
Nor should it be. It's not like the universe must obey some mathematical formula (or in this case, probability distribution) that we applied to model the longevity of human life. So, an answer like that from him would be as good as no answer at all, or simply having him dodge the question altogether :)
Going a bit further and slightly off-topic, I (and much more importantly philosophers of science) would say that there's no "proof" that our mathematical and scientific models of the world are true. They rise and fall as the empires that have come and gone through the ages, though immeasurably influencing their inevitable successors.
Wow, I'm a bit disappointed :) Yes, with the iPad a bit, but more so with the idea that this is Slashdot and barely anyone has thrown a spotlight on the Apple A4. This is an ARM, high performance, low power CPU with integrated graphics, and more importantly the first piece of processing silicon coming out of Cupertino. Regardless of how much i like the Intel Atom, i think this will be a viable competitor on the ARM front. Too bad it is under lock and key with the iPhone OS :p
If they succeed, then I'm sure others (obviously not everyone) will follow. If they don't, well they will be back to square one and have even less money time to come up with a solution.
Agreed, though I question how much control Intel exerts over netbook manufacturers for features such as external sound ports, SD card, screen size, etc.
Microsoft and Intel have been very uninterested in netbooks...
Sorry, w.r.t. Intel, that statement is completely false. Intel has been a key, driving force behind the netbook phenomenon... witnessed by the AMD still not having a good competitive product for the Atom processor.
Intel is making more of a killing off the netbook market than any other company (perhaps they are making a lower profit per unit, but doing delivering higher volume). Not to mention, these Atom/netbook sales are bootstrapping Intel's R&D on future Atom or Atom-like chips that will eventually themselves into smartphones (can you smell low power x86 on a device like the iPhone??)
You get the idea- a bunch of pretty meaningless steps to further ruin air travel, delay passengers, violate privacy, push prices up, all so people will feel "safe" again.
Depends on what you consider meaningless (not that what you're saying is totally wrong). But, consider this:
Is it the people on the plane whom they want to feel safer? Or, is it the people on the ground (in other words, the much vaster and inclusive, voting public)? Furthermore, is it lives that are being protected? Or, rather symbols of a republic and the essential system of law and order on which it is based?
I haven't used my real name anywhere on the Internet in about ten years.
So does that mean you never use online banking or government services ?
Ever applied for a job online ?
Pretty powerful statement.
ditto
All I see here is a story about a foolish developer who decided it was smarter to let slip that they are mining their usage logs looking for "interesting" stuff like this, when they should probably keep their mouths shut if they plan on misusing people's (or, for that matter, a company's) personal data.
If they are leaving, just to sit on their ass and say "oh hey I used to contribute to Wikipedia, but now I don't because X, Y and Z.", then who the hell cares about them. Wikipedia will keep growing anyway, and their contributions will remain. If they actually are going to contribute to a competing solution, what is it and why. Or maybe, they are getting together to create a new solution to their woes. Now you've got me interested.
But as far as I see it, Wikipedia is by far the best at what it is and does. Do something constructive if you're going to leave. Otherwise, continue contributing and remember that your contributions are still there in the history of the article, which in my opinion is by far the most underutilized feature of the site.
Winter holidays. The same fucktard from the 2nd time comes along and nominates the article a 3rd time. This time, vocal people are away or just tired of it all. Whoops, delete request accepted by a narrow margin, all the work of everyone goes *poof*.
Could you fill me in ? Are you saying that you can't bring deleted articles back from the dead ? If so, what is the problem? If not, that's a real problem with the software or policy.
Also, people have to start making better use of the history of an article to fight back against "editors" that are up to no good. In fact, I think there's some pretty good software/tools out there that does this very thing. Let's you see where an article came from, as opposed to just what it looks like right now.
Excellent info, especially the background that the related law is old (probably inherited from the British?) and wasn't lobbied in by the modern corporation.
And is this Canadian law you're talking about ?
Insurance companies hiring private investigators to spy on their clients is fairly common in Canada
IANAL, but would appreciate it if someone who is a lawyer (a Canadian lawyer preferably ;) could fill everyone in on the legality of private corporations/individuals spying on other individuals in Canada. In particular, who is most protected by these laws?
So how do Asus Netbooks fair, then ? :)
As an after-thought, I should say that by ubiquituous Internet... I am also implying the idea that if one network goes down or is inaccessible for whatever reason, you still have other, easily accessible and equally dirt cheap options.
To slightly reword a quote by The Great One (that's Wayne Gretzky to everyone else :)... a quote that also happens to be one of Jobs' favorite.
Looks like Google is building an operating system in anticipation of the ubiquitous Internet and optimizing it for that purpose alone. That's to say, wireless available everywhere and hopefully dirt cheap. Maybe they believe that's gonna happen just about late 2010.
Wouldn't be surprising given competition by upcoming networks like Clearwire WiMax.
Oh, give me a break. The idea of the "skilled" journalist is just that... an idea. Pure fiction. Sure, there are a few journalists who see their work as a profession and aspire to the highest standards of quality and truth, but the rest are just trying to make a buck and stay afloat. While I agree, the world may witness a drought of well-written, well-researched journalism... I think most people will turn to the mish-mash of blogs, tweets and "amateur journalists" out there. While none of them alone may be great journalists... it will be up to the reader to piece together what they read, assess its credibility and come up with an informed opinion.
Hey, wait.. isn't that what readers are supposed to be doing anyways?
So why again do we *need* 'skilled journalists'? Oh, right. The same reason we still need trains when we can now have cars.
Why should IBM care? They sold off their Thinkpad line (and share in Lenovo) to Lenovo a long time ago...
That and why you'll never be with a girl in your life.
You're probably a troll, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and treat you as if you are not :)
;)
I think neither of you realizes that depending on our chosen philosophy you both might be right or you both might be wrong. Generally speaking if you choose modern Western philosophy, you both are wrong in that you did not consult a reputable source on definitions like Merriam-Webster.
Anyway, from ancient philosophy suggesting that you are both valid in creating your own definitions for words used in the English language, you both are right.
However, most people nowadays say that it's up to a more knowledgeable source like Merriam-Webster to come up with our best definition for encyclopedia. To rephrase M-W's definition in my own words, they consider an encyclopedia to be a body of work that treats all bodies of knowledge or a particular body of knowledge. Its subjects are usually, but *not necessarily*, arranged alphabetically. Thus, Wikipedia by a more popular definition of encyclopedia most definitely qualifies as an instance of an encyclopedia.
Sorry, Chacham... if you're going to be pedantic, you should really check that your knowledge has been checked with the "rest of us."
No it isn't. The "best video-on-the-web delivery platform" is a hyperlink to an .mpeg file (in terms of ubiquity and cross-platform support; in an ideal world it should be a link to an .ogg (Theora) file).
;) Video-on-the-web implies video-in-the-browser but since no major browser has built-in MPEG (proprietary?) then we are left to use JAVA or FLASH to achieve this in the browser. And yes, there are reasons for both content providers and customers to want video delivered in your browser as opposed to using an external application. For example, browser banner ads for content providers and ease-of-use for customers.
Sounds like you know your French pretty well, but you're still trying to get a grasp of English
unfortunately when you do something well you rarely get praise for it, people generally say 'well thats great, so what's next'.
Replace "people" with "stock holders" and you are dead on why smart investors like Warren Buffett have said speculation can be bad since it only focuses on growth and not on profits. As long as profits are strong, Apple is doing better than they were before IMHO. Speculators require the kind of never-ending growth that is unsustainable in reality.
Some idiots here suggest you should escalate the problem. The problem with that is you don't know where it will end. If you escalate enough, it can end with destroyed lives, his or yours. Think about that.
Very insightful suggestion... to be honest, the escalation responses are damned hilarious "on paper", but none of them would be good suggestions without knowing more about the situation. The main question is:
How disruptive is the noise to your everyday life?
Whether any escalation is required depends only on the answer to that question. Most people wouldn't be able to answer that question properly because they would allow thoughts of revenge to cloud their thinking. The best thing to do if the problem is really disrupting your life is to convince your neighbour that it is. If this does not help, then you should try to convince authorities that it is disrupting your life. If both these attempts fail, then you should exercise caution when deciding on appropriate responses to his "mosquito device".
Ya,I get the joke :>
But of course, that's if you're assuming AT&T owns your eyeballs. That would be quite the pact with the devil eh