Then why do most artistic works increase in value after the artists death? This is typically when the effort they are putting into creating the work is declining rapidly.
It is commonly accepted in the physical world that the original is worth more than duplicates, even among people who can't actually tell them apart. However in the digital world it is not just that these duplicates can be created so cheaply, nor that they are totally indistinguishable, it is that the isn't even an original.
Value only exists at the moment of origination (ask van Gogh how that works out).
Not only is it extra work, but it means you won't get any user-testing until you are nearing feature parity (which given how many features a modern smart phone has is FAR too late). It would be easier and more logical to develop your new API as a standard Android App.
More importantly if they do change Dalvik's byte-code format do Android devices stuck on 2.1 or even 1.5 get the patch, and if not do they at least get to keep the Apps they already have installed?
How dose your desktop computer protect your WiFi/server passwords? A computer either knows your credentials or it don't. If you have root access then any talk of security is moot. Yes the are protocols (Kerberos) that dramatically limit the value of any stored credentials, but Google can't force them onto POP3 servers (which often still send the passwords over the network plain-text).
The amount you charge for distributing software under the GPL, even if you offer it gratis, is completely unrelated to then the amount you would charge for offering alternative license terms. Conversely Google are claiming Sun set a price for licensing the technology on the very terms that Google asked for. This can and should be taking into account in calculating any real damages. However admitting that this was discussed also risks strengthening Oracle's case that there was willful infringement, which would add unrelated and much higher punitive damages.
This is a ridiculous solution. What they need to develop is a LCD screen which draws its power from the laptop's IEEE 1394 port (IEEE 1394's 45W is fine for an efficient 17" LED monitor). Customer: * Take or leave the second monitor on a per-job basis * Can upgrade at any time * >2 panels possible * Can combine with other specialist requirements, (i.e. a Mac or a ToughBook etc.) * All your eggs aren't in one basket when something breaks. Manufacturer * The high R&D can pay back over a much longer product cycle (A decent 1080p LED monitor should be viable in a decade, any extreme-high-end laptop is obsolete in months).
Human creativity is such that it can (and invariably dose) play games with everything. Some of the most popular games still only require a ball or a pencil. Minecraft is certainly used to play games, but it has limited potential and no real innovation. On the plus side it requires no external tools and provides a flexible 3d environment and networking however it don't really bring anything new. Most PC game engines have allowed extensive user content creation and modifications, and have invariably been better for it. Whilst Minecraft may seem to have lower barriers of entry, it is actually very hard to make anything even slightly complex. Its realistic entropy, and level playing field mean not only dose it take longer for me to build a wall then it takes for the player to knock it down, but if a single player knocks down the wrong thing then the whole game is off. 20 years ago 3d Construction Kit already allowed much more complex triggers and scripting. A more recent example is Little Big Planet which despite a seriously unsuitable controller still allows much easier control.
Whilst I love toys like Lego and Minecraft, they are are not the same thing as games. Would Tetris be better if you got to choose the blocks, would a film be better if you had to write it yourself (okay maybe most would)?
As you say the cells need to be trusted with the routing and hand-off. Obviously the cell can always block/drop/throttle calls but that don't mean you should trust them with everything. To place a call on behalf of a mobile should require a time-limited signed token from the mobile's SIM. Once the call is established it makes no difference if you are routing an unencrypted voice codec or some encrypted data. Public-key encryption could simply be used for the initial A5/1 initialization key, the voice data itself can still use a stream cipher.
Why dose having root on any cell, let alone a femtocell give you the ability to impersonate and eavesdrop? They should be simply forwarding the encrypted streams to/from Vodaphone they have no need to interpret or modify them.
In fact it would have been trivial to design a phone system where even the operators can't eavesdrop, encrypting each call with the receiver's public key. The first time you rang a new number you would have to trust you were getting the correct public-key, but any abuse would be easy to detect and prove. This would mean that voice-mail etc. was only accessible with the original SIM, but that may not be too much of a compromise!
You could still require that any phone connecting to the network submits its private keys to law enforcement.
A standard technique in animal photography is the use of tripwires/pressure plates/motion sensors. I don't see why a tiger standing on a pressure plate is any different from a monkey pressing a button.
Dose a footballer take all the photographs of the goal? The people holding the camera are more or less reacting on instinct, he is providing all the volition. What about the photo-finish of a race?
The chain of trust is only as long as the number of elements in the domain name. It is already common practice for banks and merchants to use 2nd/3rd-level domains so the chains are very short. I suppose technically your OS is an extra step in the chain (and often the most easy to compromise).
Once an organization has setup DNSSEC for their domains there are two main vulnerabilities: The organization could allow it's private keys to become public and then fail to revoke them. This is smiler to their web-server being compromised, and beyond the scope of DNSSEC. A malicious third party could convince the managers of the parent domain that they were the organization, had lost their keys, and new ones should be issued. Given that total key-loss should be extremely rare (normal secure rotating of keys is properly handled), proper off-line validation should be done. Even if/when this fails the new keys can be quickly revoked. As the are several competing TLD providers, the quality of their validation should be a factor they are judged on.
This is a two-edged sword.
Amazon obviously needs to allow you to filter by device, and should by default warn you of mismatch. Filter by permissions would also be nice along with lots of other criteria nether market bothers with.
However Google's approach of absolutely denying the App has ever existed when you access it from a device which the publisher may just have not have got around to testing is also very annoying. An App that I purchased often don't show up in my market, but once I trick it into appearing (Google 'Market Fix'), it invariably works perfectly.
You would think that the device makers, who should have the clout, would be furious about this. Why would I upgrade my ancient device if I don't even know I am missing out on half the market's games?
I am not sure you can draw such a clear distinction. WebGL allows arbitrary GLSL shader code to execute on your GPU in much the same way as OpenCL. The fact that GLSL is intended to process graphics doesn't itself provide any guarantees that is all it can be used for.
The example glob would require looking up 37 indexed terms. More complicated regexes would require exponentially more. With the comparatively tiny amount of code Google indexes this is possible, with the full web index it is just beyond their capacity.
Telling people that the police are trying to bust them, or the location of speed traps, would responsible lead to them avoiding the police/location (not a crime), or potentially cause them to decrease any criminal activities they may otherwise have been undertaking.
Spotting officers for an armed hostage taker could reasonably lead to him perpetrating additional crimes, such as shooting at said officers.
The CD is the box the music comes in. If I choose to take the couch out of the box before the box is burnt, I am then not morally or legally obligated to destroy the couch.
Claiming on insurance, or selling the CD would require I delete the backups, but I should be free to choose not to claim/sell them.
And how easy would it be for Google to change the 'open' button to a 'add to home' button instead of disabling it?
Instead developers now include an 'app' just to tell you to install the widget, further clogging up the menus.
This exactly the attention to detail which creates a sense of quality.
The warranty is void if you have ever used third party software. Even if it only actual broke much later for an unrelated reason whilst playing a 360 game.
I hope you got your computer supplier to test and approve slashdot before you posted!
One of the biggest news items yet released about Windows 8 is that it will be cross-architecture (x86 & ARM), and that the ARM version will not run x86 native binaries. This will effectively force ALL programs to be written for.NET if they want to reach the full Windows market.
What is the counter argument exactly? That their Mac UI guidelines are never going to change for the rest of time? The Mac's OS will continue to evolve, taking as much as possible of the good stuff from iOS or wherever else it can find it. Will future versions be more touch orientated? Yes Will future versions be focus more on the AppStore? Yes Will future versions prevent you running Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, or XCode? No No one cares if it is marketed as iOS, OS:X, OS:XI or FishFood.
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Then why do most artistic works increase in value after the artists death? This is typically when the effort they are putting into creating the work is declining rapidly.
It is commonly accepted in the physical world that the original is worth more than duplicates, even among people who can't actually tell them apart. However in the digital world it is not just that these duplicates can be created so cheaply, nor that they are totally indistinguishable, it is that the isn't even an original.
Value only exists at the moment of origination (ask van Gogh how that works out).
Not only is it extra work, but it means you won't get any user-testing until you are nearing feature parity (which given how many features a modern smart phone has is FAR too late).
It would be easier and more logical to develop your new API as a standard Android App.
But you can also implement Twitter on a 70s era BBS. Remember Blogger and even YouTube predate Twitter, it was never about what it could do.
More importantly if they do change Dalvik's byte-code format do Android devices stuck on 2.1 or even 1.5 get the patch, and if not do they at least get to keep the Apps they already have installed?
How dose your desktop computer protect your WiFi/server passwords?
A computer either knows your credentials or it don't. If you have root access then any talk of security is moot.
Yes the are protocols (Kerberos) that dramatically limit the value of any stored credentials, but Google can't force them onto POP3 servers (which often still send the passwords over the network plain-text).
The amount you charge for distributing software under the GPL, even if you offer it gratis, is completely unrelated to then the amount you would charge for offering alternative license terms. Conversely Google are claiming Sun set a price for licensing the technology on the very terms that Google asked for. This can and should be taking into account in calculating any real damages. However admitting that this was discussed also risks strengthening Oracle's case that there was willful infringement, which would add unrelated and much higher punitive damages.
This is a ridiculous solution. What they need to develop is a LCD screen which draws its power from the laptop's IEEE 1394 port (IEEE 1394's 45W is fine for an efficient 17" LED monitor).
Customer:
* Take or leave the second monitor on a per-job basis
* Can upgrade at any time
* >2 panels possible
* Can combine with other specialist requirements, (i.e. a Mac or a ToughBook etc.)
* All your eggs aren't in one basket when something breaks.
Manufacturer
* The high R&D can pay back over a much longer product cycle (A decent 1080p LED monitor should be viable in a decade, any extreme-high-end laptop is obsolete in months).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nightly-tester-tools/
Human creativity is such that it can (and invariably dose) play games with everything. Some of the most popular games still only require a ball or a pencil.
Minecraft is certainly used to play games, but it has limited potential and no real innovation. On the plus side it requires no external tools and provides a flexible 3d environment and networking however it don't really bring anything new. Most PC game engines have allowed extensive user content creation and modifications, and have invariably been better for it. Whilst Minecraft may seem to have lower barriers of entry, it is actually very hard to make anything even slightly complex. Its realistic entropy, and level playing field mean not only dose it take longer for me to build a wall then it takes for the player to knock it down, but if a single player knocks down the wrong thing then the whole game is off.
20 years ago 3d Construction Kit already allowed much more complex triggers and scripting. A more recent example is Little Big Planet which despite a seriously unsuitable controller still allows much easier control.
Whilst I love toys like Lego and Minecraft, they are are not the same thing as games.
Would Tetris be better if you got to choose the blocks, would a film be better if you had to write it yourself (okay maybe most would)?
As you say the cells need to be trusted with the routing and hand-off. Obviously the cell can always block/drop/throttle calls but that don't mean you should trust them with everything.
To place a call on behalf of a mobile should require a time-limited signed token from the mobile's SIM. Once the call is established it makes no difference if you are routing an unencrypted voice codec or some encrypted data.
Public-key encryption could simply be used for the initial A5/1 initialization key, the voice data itself can still use a stream cipher.
Why dose having root on any cell, let alone a femtocell give you the ability to impersonate and eavesdrop? They should be simply forwarding the encrypted streams to/from Vodaphone they have no need to interpret or modify them. In fact it would have been trivial to design a phone system where even the operators can't eavesdrop, encrypting each call with the receiver's public key. The first time you rang a new number you would have to trust you were getting the correct public-key, but any abuse would be easy to detect and prove. This would mean that voice-mail etc. was only accessible with the original SIM, but that may not be too much of a compromise! You could still require that any phone connecting to the network submits its private keys to law enforcement.
A standard technique in animal photography is the use of tripwires/pressure plates/motion sensors. I don't see why a tiger standing on a pressure plate is any different from a monkey pressing a button. Dose a footballer take all the photographs of the goal? The people holding the camera are more or less reacting on instinct, he is providing all the volition. What about the photo-finish of a race?
The chain of trust is only as long as the number of elements in the domain name. It is already common practice for banks and merchants to use 2nd/3rd-level domains so the chains are very short. I suppose technically your OS is an extra step in the chain (and often the most easy to compromise).
Once an organization has setup DNSSEC for their domains there are two main vulnerabilities:
The organization could allow it's private keys to become public and then fail to revoke them. This is smiler to their web-server being compromised, and beyond the scope of DNSSEC.
A malicious third party could convince the managers of the parent domain that they were the organization, had lost their keys, and new ones should be issued. Given that total key-loss should be extremely rare (normal secure rotating of keys is properly handled), proper off-line validation should be done. Even if/when this fails the new keys can be quickly revoked.
As the are several competing TLD providers, the quality of their validation should be a factor they are judged on.
This is a two-edged sword. Amazon obviously needs to allow you to filter by device, and should by default warn you of mismatch. Filter by permissions would also be nice along with lots of other criteria nether market bothers with. However Google's approach of absolutely denying the App has ever existed when you access it from a device which the publisher may just have not have got around to testing is also very annoying. An App that I purchased often don't show up in my market, but once I trick it into appearing (Google 'Market Fix'), it invariably works perfectly. You would think that the device makers, who should have the clout, would be furious about this. Why would I upgrade my ancient device if I don't even know I am missing out on half the market's games?
I am not sure you can draw such a clear distinction. WebGL allows arbitrary GLSL shader code to execute on your GPU in much the same way as OpenCL.
The fact that GLSL is intended to process graphics doesn't itself provide any guarantees that is all it can be used for.
The example glob would require looking up 37 indexed terms. More complicated regexes would require exponentially more.
With the comparatively tiny amount of code Google indexes this is possible, with the full web index it is just beyond their capacity.
It would be easy to knock together a GreaseMonkey script with the code from http://joseph.rezeau.pagesperso-orange.fr/eao/developpement/expandRegexpToString.htm tweaked to generate Google's OR syntax.
Like all the $100+ movies you buy?
Telling people that the police are trying to bust them, or the location of speed traps, would responsible lead to them avoiding the police/location (not a crime), or potentially cause them to decrease any criminal activities they may otherwise have been undertaking. Spotting officers for an armed hostage taker could reasonably lead to him perpetrating additional crimes, such as shooting at said officers.
The CD is the box the music comes in. If I choose to take the couch out of the box before the box is burnt, I am then not morally or legally obligated to destroy the couch. Claiming on insurance, or selling the CD would require I delete the backups, but I should be free to choose not to claim/sell them.
And how easy would it be for Google to change the 'open' button to a 'add to home' button instead of disabling it? Instead developers now include an 'app' just to tell you to install the widget, further clogging up the menus. This exactly the attention to detail which creates a sense of quality.
Dalvik doesn't have to fully implement the Java standard, so it can take shortcuts to be faster then any licensed JVM.
The warranty is void if you have ever used third party software. Even if it only actual broke much later for an unrelated reason whilst playing a 360 game.
I hope you got your computer supplier to test and approve slashdot before you posted!
One of the biggest news items yet released about Windows 8 is that it will be cross-architecture (x86 & ARM), and that the ARM version will not run x86 native binaries. .NET if they want to reach the full Windows market.
This will effectively force ALL programs to be written for
What is the counter argument exactly? That their Mac UI guidelines are never going to change for the rest of time?
The Mac's OS will continue to evolve, taking as much as possible of the good stuff from iOS or wherever else it can find it.
Will future versions be more touch orientated? Yes
Will future versions be focus more on the AppStore? Yes
Will future versions prevent you running Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, or XCode? No
No one cares if it is marketed as iOS, OS:X, OS:XI or FishFood.