Population is widely expected to peak at around 8 - 10 billion and stabilise somewhere in the next 10 - 20 years, and probably decline a little afterwards. Scary visions of a planet bursting at the seams with people are just hyperbole at this point.
I'm not sure why a luddite would also want an email account!
But in seriousness, at least in the UK, you can have SMS sent to a landline number no problem. Some magic along the way results in a phone call and a robot reading out the text message. Our banks even use an automated outbound voice messaging platform to do the same thing as the SMS for people who don't have a mobile.
I expect they'll offer this if demand is high enough.
It's trivial to block HTML5 tags that show multimedia content and works pretty much the same way you'd block Flash wholesale--just drop all and tags (or whatever they are) using the same mechanism
Not sure about the rest of the world, but in the UK you can call yourself whatever you like quite legally--as long as you're not doing it with the intent to commit fraud or break the law.
So what is your real name when these are the circumstances?
Seems more like Person of Interest realm, and that show feels a lot more like something that could exist today than flukey telepaths being born. (Great show by the way, starts of slow but gets going!)
I discovered a while ago that most crossings in the UK have a little metal nubbin underneath the button...When it's safe to walk the metal thingy whirs around, and it stays still when it's not safe!
Not sure how much vegetables cost in the USA, but everywhere I've been they're pretty fucking cheap. I'd question why someone is deemed capable of having a child in the first place if they can't spend a few pounds a week on some vegetables that may or may not be eaten...
The US by far had (and still has) the most advanced Internet infrastructure. The invented it, they were there first and best, that is why it is theirs in many ways.
I sincerely doubt this, may have been true a decade ago.
Is this "billable hours" thing even true? I'd expect a company such as Sony to retain a law firm rather than hiring lawyers on an hourly rate? That's how my company works, and they're an international energy utility...
Would we be able to see these power lines or easily know where they are? I don't know much about the technology but it seems like a bird, person, aircraft or anything getting in the way of these wouldn't fare too well? And wouldn't rain cause trouble?
Doesn't Google have offices and servers in nearly every developed country in the world? If the MPAA tried anything, surely they can simply set up shop elsewhere and carry on?
Movies are hyped up for a long time before actual release in cinema, meaning a demand is created before the supply is actually available. If a screener is leaked accidentally, people are already waiting for it.
With music this is different. You don't get "trailers" for upcoming song releases, or big media campaigns getting people ready months in advance--there is no point for a 3-4 minute audio track.
Even if a track was leaked and available on bittorrent a month before its actual release, no one would download it because there is no knowledge that it really exists and therefore no demand.
Okay, fair points but you do realise the devices you listed would only need a trivial software update to work with WebM--not to mention on the "phone" side of things Google pretty much has Android covered, with a pretty large market share.
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Population is widely expected to peak at around 8 - 10 billion and stabilise somewhere in the next 10 - 20 years, and probably decline a little afterwards. Scary visions of a planet bursting at the seams with people are just hyperbole at this point.
I'm not sure why a luddite would also want an email account!
But in seriousness, at least in the UK, you can have SMS sent to a landline number no problem. Some magic along the way results in a phone call and a robot reading out the text message. Our banks even use an automated outbound voice messaging platform to do the same thing as the SMS for people who don't have a mobile.
I expect they'll offer this if demand is high enough.
Facebook is a platform, it just happens not to be a hardware one.
You can convince a sceptic, the word you're looking for is "denier"
It's trivial to block HTML5 tags that show multimedia content and works pretty much the same way you'd block Flash wholesale--just drop all and tags (or whatever they are) using the same mechanism
Not sure about the rest of the world, but in the UK you can call yourself whatever you like quite legally--as long as you're not doing it with the intent to commit fraud or break the law.
So what is your real name when these are the circumstances?
Seems more like Person of Interest realm, and that show feels a lot more like something that could exist today than flukey telepaths being born. (Great show by the way, starts of slow but gets going!)
We've had those rules for longer than the EU has existed, our state-owned monopoly on the tubes was privatised in 1985...
Whitelisted internet mode, this is fucking trivial. Switch it on when your child is on the internet.
I discovered a while ago that most crossings in the UK have a little metal nubbin underneath the button...When it's safe to walk the metal thingy whirs around, and it stays still when it's not safe!
Genius.
Not sure how much vegetables cost in the USA, but everywhere I've been they're pretty fucking cheap. I'd question why someone is deemed capable of having a child in the first place if they can't spend a few pounds a week on some vegetables that may or may not be eaten...
I may be naive in saying this, but people shouldn't be proving their own innocence...law enforcement should be trying to prove their guilt
Original definition of scum: a film or layer of foul or extraneous matter that forms on the surface of a liquid.
Language evolves and words pick up new meanings, get over it.
If you're that bothered about "multi hundred dollar" hardware, why are you using Apple gear?
You seem to be the only person to point this out so far, and I completely agree! If there is less work to go around, then why don't we work less?
Final Fantasy XIV is also on its way to the PS3, albeit delayed!
I sincerely doubt this, may have been true a decade ago.
Aren't your personal emails already copyrighted to you by default?
Because in the office it's the other way around:
75% are bums, and need to be fired. 20% are typical workers, 5% are insanely ambitious and should be paid more, not less
Is this "billable hours" thing even true? I'd expect a company such as Sony to retain a law firm rather than hiring lawyers on an hourly rate? That's how my company works, and they're an international energy utility...
I suspect the "anger the fundies" problem is primarily a USA-centric issue, the rest of the modern world is probably working hard on this...
Would we be able to see these power lines or easily know where they are? I don't know much about the technology but it seems like a bird, person, aircraft or anything getting in the way of these wouldn't fare too well? And wouldn't rain cause trouble?
Doesn't Google have offices and servers in nearly every developed country in the world? If the MPAA tried anything, surely they can simply set up shop elsewhere and carry on?
Movies are hyped up for a long time before actual release in cinema, meaning a demand is created before the supply is actually available. If a screener is leaked accidentally, people are already waiting for it.
With music this is different. You don't get "trailers" for upcoming song releases, or big media campaigns getting people ready months in advance--there is no point for a 3-4 minute audio track.
Even if a track was leaked and available on bittorrent a month before its actual release, no one would download it because there is no knowledge that it really exists and therefore no demand.
Okay, fair points but you do realise the devices you listed would only need a trivial software update to work with WebM--not to mention on the "phone" side of things Google pretty much has Android covered, with a pretty large market share.