Your apparent passion for assisting emergency vehicles in getting to their destionation as quickly as possible suggests that you sir, do not hate people.
By saying we should judge Chinas values according to their own culture, you are promoting ethical relativism. Should we judge slavery as OK because it was part of the culture of the south 150 years ago? Saying that what google is doing is ok because of chinas values are different then our own is not a valid ethical argument.
Odd that 'harmonizing' is always in one direction - for some reason, no one ever wants to decrease IP regulation to harmonize with some other country.
It's not odd at all. The Australian government wants more trade from the US, whitch will only occur if the Australian government increases IP regulation. If the Australian people want less IP regulation (I.e. fair use clauses), its up to them to lobby their government. Things don't usually happen in government because its the right thing to do, things happen because of interests. In this case, businesses (both US and Australian) have a compelling interest towards more trade, so until there is a compelling interest towards fair use the Australian government will probbley not get around to it.
I think its ridiculous to say that anything like Prey is going to happen in the near future. If you really want to worry yourself to death, there are much better problems in the world then 'intelligent swarms of nearly indestructible particles'.
An Oligopoly is not a non-ideal form of competition when the products being made are high cost items. Imagine if there were many small firms in the console business...instead of there being only 3 consoles to deal with, one would have to choose between many (not as good) products. ALso, Video game manufactures would have to make games that could work on all the consoles. For the video game market, an Oligopoly is ideal.
For me its because Firefox takes about 7 seconds longer to load then IE. When I just want to check slashdot, I dont wait to wait 7 seconds for firefox to boot up just so firefox loads slashdot.1 seconds faster than IE.
Yes, i know IE loads faster because it is integrated in windows and whatnot, and however unfair that may be, the bottom line is that it is faster.
Maybe Dell does not want to deal with the possibillity of legal trouble by offering Linux in the US. Who knows the contracts that microsoft has over dell.
Also remember the legal trouble Linspire had when it was Lindows.
Mozilla, Opera and Firefox, from my unscientific perspective, seem to load web pages quicker than IE, but what really bothers me is how slow the mozilla opera and firefox load times are. I can either get to the web quickly with IE, or wait a while with firefox for a minute page load time diffrence.
newb question: is wifi good enough to play games on? With the new generation of high power laptops, pretty soon we could be having lan parties anywhere we go.
I wonder what the social implications of the growth of WIFI are. Coffee shops and cafes and trains used to be a place where people would sometimes sit alone, be bored, and sometimes start talking and meeting people. Now with WIFI, you'll be able to work whereever you go, could this have any sociological effect?
The Wired article calls Mozilla stripped dows and lacking features, but isn't that the point of Mozilla, to be faster by getting rid of the bells and whistles?
... it is ethical for a corporation to own DNA, as DNA only acts as a blueprint for the creation of life, and is not actually life itself. The life that is actually created by the DNA would also be able to be owned by a corporation, just like and farmer owns their own animals (except of course if a corporation created a logical rational being).
In the posters example, I would imagine the corporation would 1. Sell the new wheat 2. Sell the DNA to other soulless multinational corporations who would grow more wheat, and 3. Profit. And we should all be thankfull that the corporation was around in the first place.
In Soviet Russia, the McDonalds super sizes you!!
In Soviet Russia, the Music pirates you!!
In Soviet Russia, the fast food eats you!!
In Soviet Russia, the cliches write you!!
Just curious though, what started this cliche?
Remember all those videos of terrorists on monkey bars? When does a terrorist really need the ability to swing, one arm over the other, into a battle. And by battle, i mean crowded bus.
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Your apparent passion for assisting emergency vehicles in getting to their destionation as quickly as possible suggests that you sir, do not hate people.
By saying we should judge Chinas values according to their own culture, you are promoting ethical relativism. Should we judge slavery as OK because it was part of the culture of the south 150 years ago? Saying that what google is doing is ok because of chinas values are different then our own is not a valid ethical argument.
Never.
How often in history has there been a country as productive and stable as the US?
Never.
It's not odd at all. The Australian government wants more trade from the US, whitch will only occur if the Australian government increases IP regulation. If the Australian people want less IP regulation (I.e. fair use clauses), its up to them to lobby their government. Things don't usually happen in government because its the right thing to do, things happen because of interests. In this case, businesses (both US and Australian) have a compelling interest towards more trade, so until there is a compelling interest towards fair use the Australian government will probbley not get around to it.
I think its ridiculous to say that anything like Prey is going to happen in the near future. If you really want to worry yourself to death, there are much better problems in the world then 'intelligent swarms of nearly indestructible particles'.
An Oligopoly is not a non-ideal form of competition when the products being made are high cost items. Imagine if there were many small firms in the console business...instead of there being only 3 consoles to deal with, one would have to choose between many (not as good) products. ALso, Video game manufactures would have to make games that could work on all the consoles. For the video game market, an Oligopoly is ideal.
Ya..it would almost be as powerfull as my appleII
Yes, i know IE loads faster because it is integrated in windows and whatnot, and however unfair that may be, the bottom line is that it is faster.
The real question here is what exactly is muster?
Also remember the legal trouble Linspire had when it was Lindows.
Some microsoft products were affected also.
I do believe, however, that eventually one of the open browsers will be able to catch it.
Mozilla, Opera and Firefox, from my unscientific perspective, seem to load web pages quicker than IE, but what really bothers me is how slow the mozilla opera and firefox load times are. I can either get to the web quickly with IE, or wait a while with firefox for a minute page load time diffrence.
Finally, I can run my linux apps in a secure enviorment.
Thats about how I feel. Also its important to realize that scams like this exist everywhere, not just the internet.
newb question: is wifi good enough to play games on? With the new generation of high power laptops, pretty soon we could be having lan parties anywhere we go.
I wonder what the social implications of the growth of WIFI are. Coffee shops and cafes and trains used to be a place where people would sometimes sit alone, be bored, and sometimes start talking and meeting people. Now with WIFI, you'll be able to work whereever you go, could this have any sociological effect?
The Wired article calls Mozilla stripped dows and lacking features, but isn't that the point of Mozilla, to be faster by getting rid of the bells and whistles?
In the posters example, I would imagine the corporation would 1. Sell the new wheat 2. Sell the DNA to other soulless multinational corporations who would grow more wheat, and 3. Profit. And we should all be thankfull that the corporation was around in the first place.
Anonymous Submitter said this, not Taco.
In Soviet Russia, the McDonalds super sizes you!! In Soviet Russia, the Music pirates you!! In Soviet Russia, the fast food eats you!! In Soviet Russia, the cliches write you!! Just curious though, what started this cliche?
Remember all those videos of terrorists on monkey bars? When does a terrorist really need the ability to swing, one arm over the other, into a battle. And by battle, i mean crowded bus.
Good thing terrorists waste time on the monkey bars instead of learning about computers.
it's still no helper monkey.