Google scans books without asking the authors permission.
Please show one instance of a time where Google scanned the contents of a book written by a living person, whom they didn't make more than reasonable attempts to contact and get authorization from.
The whole Google books deal has been a mess because a bunch of greedy fucks crawled out of the woodwork and made a bunch of noise as though they were getting cheated because Google was scanning a book that hasn't been in print for 30 years and no one on the planet gives a shit about... except the greedy fuck who wrote it and thinks the world should serve him because of that.
Because the current trend is for PCs to be marginalized. Just because PCs still make a better word processor doesn't mean people will need to buy them forever. I can see a cheap docking station for your phone/tablet easily running a competent word processor.
As soon as thats happens on an x86 processor, and I can run Windows (not mobile, the real Windows) or full OSX on it, I'll likely be first in line to buy multiple devices, but its got to give me everything my PC gives me, not just dumbed down tablet and phone apps. ARM is great, saves power, does a great job, but I really don't care about that, the technology will catch up so eventually x86 gets fast enough even at low power and I won't have to use an ARM device... and I'll be able to run all the same apps at work, home, where ever since its all on my phone.
Or at least thats my hope. I'd pay considerably more to replace the laptops in my home with phones and docking stations if the processing power could be equal on demand (So on battery its scaled back tremendously, thats fine)
Its also rather important to note that a monopoly IS NOT ILLEGAL IN ANY WAY.
Now, there are plenty of things you can get in trouble for if you've been deemed a monopoly that you wouldn't otherwise get in trouble for, but just being a monopoly in and of itself is 100% legal.
You don't get punished for being good at what you do, you get punished for taking advantage of your size to bully others out of business.
You're claim is that its the manufactures... because there are both locked and unlocked phones on all the carriers.
Unfortunately for your logic, there are also locked and unlocked phones from pretty much all the manufactures other than Apple, which means by your logic, its not the manufactures either.
There is no logical reason for a manufacture to care, they just want the phone sold.
There are plenty of financial reasons for the carrier to care. Logic dictates that you follow the money trail.
I'd say that, and the fact that the base is all open source, does quite a bit to calm other manufacturers.
The open source base you're referring to is rather useless without Google's dressing on top, which is not under the same license. You also actually have to port that OSS base to your hardware, which then makes that base exactly like pretty much every other mobile OS... except free... but without any of the useful bits that people want.
Its cute that you think Android is 'Open Source' but the OSS parts have been OSS for 10 years and are useless by themselves. Theoretically, yes, its got some OSS in it. Practically, its closed as you're at Google's whim.
So Motorola owns nothing they could go after Apple for... otherwise they would have rather than watching their business get destroyed by the iPhone and eventually dumping it on someone else... like Google.
So... Google now owns a big ass patent gun... with no bullets that will affect Apple.
co-pilot quickly climbs down to the cockpit door, moves shit out of the way with the help of a stewardess/passenger/anyone, Aircraft falls ~2-3k feet and then has plenty of airspeed to recover.
co-pilot breaks in, shoots pilot in the head, Aircraft falls another 10k feet
Co-pilot recovers aircraft... with only 20k feet between him and the ground...
At 32k feet in the air, it takes a little bit of time to get to the ground. You're best bet would be to do a full throttle dive straight down hoping to gain enough airspeed to rip the aircraft apart well enough to ensure no possible recovery, that should be fairly easy if you have sufficient time.
Unfortunately, all you end up with is a hole in the ground covering about 1600 square feet (small house) under which is an aircraft buried. There are easier ways to take out 300 people that are far more 'scary'... which is what a terrorist would want.
So you're saying its okay if we know exactly which gun we're handing to someone we haven't really bothered to id as long as we make sure to get it back after the flight and make sure the gun is properly tracked?
You're saying thats better than making sure we know positively who we're handing the gun to, and a little information about the persons history?
Do you have any idea how many times I've walked off an airplane after a flight only to reach in my pocket and pull out my pocket knife that I forgot about... after being passed through both the metal detector AND the full body scanner? I'm currently at 3... out of 4 flights since I started paying attention. The one that it didn't happen on I just happen to remember in advance to take it out before getting to the airport. Had I been flying alone I would have kept it in my pocket just to try again, but with the wife its not worth the headache for her if they find it and go all militant on me. If I can just walk on an airplane like that, with items that are clearly banned , without trying purely by accident and stupidity on my part, do you seriously think they can stop someone putting effort into it who has learned all the security related procedures and policies of the TSA just so they could sneak past them?
The reality of it is, this is a GOOD thing because the TSA is absolutely useless and has no effect what so ever on safety. Never has the TSA actually caught someone. Pretty much every other government police/security agency has, even the ones that shouldn't really be doing so.
The TSA is a waste of time, money, and frankly... oxygen. IF WE'RE LUCKY, all this security shit will go away and they'll just keep paying them to stand there. If we're unlucky, we're going to have to continue taking our shoes off and dancing around in a scanner with output blurrier than a Fisher Price 'My First Digital Camera' with your 3 year olds finger over the lens.
The TSA shouldn't be making policy, they shouldn't exist. Hopefully this is a step towards that goal.
You act like any of those things are hard to get by.
Having been through all of those sorts of checks for another job, I assure you, their evaluation and screening is pretty fucking shitty and anyone moderately intelligent and competent terrorist could easily 'pass'.
Mom clients can be hacked too, and are regularly. Mom clients get updated far more often and are forced so taking hackers out is easy.
Diablo isn't going to get updated constantly or people will get annoyed even more, so you'll still be able to run a bot on it if you know what your doing, and it'll be far more profitable since there is an open real money market for those bots to profit from.
Because all of the things you listed are requirements in order for the software to do what I, the customer wants the game for.
The always on requirement provides me no features I want, and does mean I can't use the game in situations where I would be able to if their artificial requirements didn't exist.
I was thinking something like that myself. Back when I did wares, I was ALWAYS online, even at 2400 baud. I guess they really want me to go back to that
The simplest solution to this is simply add email addresses of some of the spam RBL admins to LinkedIn, that'll make it fun for them when they end up on a few of the no-remove on third strike lists.
Personally, I just blocked all of their domains at our mail server, but not everyone can do that of course.
MS is not going to become bedfellows with the browser organization they spent a fuckton of effort (in development and legal battles) destroying them and Navigator the first time around. They aren't going to do anything at all to keep them around this time.
This one is personal for Ballmer, don't be so naive.
But if the exec want to keep drawing ridiculous salaries while they run Netscape errr Mozilla into the ground again, than they'll keep on talking Googles money just like Netscape did before them with their other partners.
Who else is going to give them money? Won't be Microsoft... and by extension that means it won't be Yahoo.
Its funny that old guys thing distortion sounds better. I presume it goes with the type of music that typically goes along with this discussion, i.e., you end up over driving the amp into distortion as matter of normal operation.
Basically the only people I ever see being happy about it are people who's' idea of playing the strings is turning the amp all the way up and slamming some chords and then raving about how awesome they sound.
This being slashdot, it's safe to assume the GP knows that.
10 years ago, I'd have agreed. Today, I'd say its almost the exact opposite, clarifying that vacuum cleaners are not vacuum tubes seems appropriate with todays slashdot users.
Obviously, you're not gay and hold no controversial views. Good for you, for the rest of us, there's always the possibility of saying something that would lead somebody living relatively near to us to come over and take things up in person. Sure it's a remote risk, but for some issues it definitely could happen.
According to FBI records, stastics show that there has been no noticible change in crime rates since the FBI was formed.
I.E. Your ranting like a moron on the Internet isn't going to change the the odds of a crime being committed against you.
It's likely due to the fact that those 'scary people' you're afraid of are just as socially inept as you and don't want to leave their homes because some scary internet person might get them.
The solution to background checks such as that is to simply not work for companies that do them and go work somewhere else. I assume you're an american (if not, I realize your country may be different) then you have no excuse for not being able to find a job. ANYONE in America can get a job, you just don't want to. So make your choice, do you want to be a douche and hide who you are online just incase someone in the real world sees it, or do you want to take a different, possible less enjoyable position somewhere else?
Figure out your priorities and deal with it.
Personally, I won't work somewhere like that and I suggest the same to you. If we all boycott we'll win, but it takes everyone.
Funny, he makes a calm collected statement and you respond like a pompous ass who needs a good beating just to prove a point... Of course, his limited experience matches pretty much what anyone over the age of 25 has already learned, I guess you're just a little slow.
Note: I don't hide behind a psuedonym, it takes a basic Google search to find my real identity, but I used to when I was a little git on BBSes, and this is actually how people online recognize me now. Now I just realize that the people who argue on the Internet are so socially inept and afraid of meeting other people that all they have is computer courage so I have no problem acting like a prick to little douches such as yourself without any worry of you actually doing anything to me. You're entire life revolves around trying to contradict people on the Internet and you're too ignorant to realize you completely missed the point.
What impact do people think having real names genuinely has on advertising?
If you want to spam them with standard mail (you know, the thing the postman carries...) or you want to run a credit check on them... you need their real name and not much more really.
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Google scans books without asking the authors permission.
Please show one instance of a time where Google scanned the contents of a book written by a living person, whom they didn't make more than reasonable attempts to contact and get authorization from.
The whole Google books deal has been a mess because a bunch of greedy fucks crawled out of the woodwork and made a bunch of noise as though they were getting cheated because Google was scanning a book that hasn't been in print for 30 years and no one on the planet gives a shit about ... except the greedy fuck who wrote it and thinks the world should serve him because of that.
If Motorola had something they could use to beat Apple down ... don't you think they'd have done it by now?
Because the current trend is for PCs to be marginalized. Just because PCs still make a better word processor doesn't mean people will need to buy them forever. I can see a cheap docking station for your phone/tablet easily running a competent word processor.
As soon as thats happens on an x86 processor, and I can run Windows (not mobile, the real Windows) or full OSX on it, I'll likely be first in line to buy multiple devices, but its got to give me everything my PC gives me, not just dumbed down tablet and phone apps. ARM is great, saves power, does a great job, but I really don't care about that, the technology will catch up so eventually x86 gets fast enough even at low power and I won't have to use an ARM device ... and I'll be able to run all the same apps at work, home, where ever since its all on my phone.
Or at least thats my hope. I'd pay considerably more to replace the laptops in my home with phones and docking stations if the processing power could be equal on demand (So on battery its scaled back tremendously, thats fine)
Its also rather important to note that a monopoly IS NOT ILLEGAL IN ANY WAY.
Now, there are plenty of things you can get in trouble for if you've been deemed a monopoly that you wouldn't otherwise get in trouble for, but just being a monopoly in and of itself is 100% legal.
You don't get punished for being good at what you do, you get punished for taking advantage of your size to bully others out of business.
You're logic is ... well, isn't.
You're claim is that its the manufactures ... because there are both locked and unlocked phones on all the carriers.
Unfortunately for your logic, there are also locked and unlocked phones from pretty much all the manufactures other than Apple, which means by your logic, its not the manufactures either.
There is no logical reason for a manufacture to care, they just want the phone sold.
There are plenty of financial reasons for the carrier to care. Logic dictates that you follow the money trail.
I'd say that, and the fact that the base is all open source, does quite a bit to calm other manufacturers.
The open source base you're referring to is rather useless without Google's dressing on top, which is not under the same license. You also actually have to port that OSS base to your hardware, which then makes that base exactly like pretty much every other mobile OS ... except free ... but without any of the useful bits that people want.
Its cute that you think Android is 'Open Source' but the OSS parts have been OSS for 10 years and are useless by themselves. Theoretically, yes, its got some OSS in it. Practically, its closed as you're at Google's whim.
So Motorola owns nothing they could go after Apple for ... otherwise they would have rather than watching their business get destroyed by the iPhone and eventually dumping it on someone else ... like Google.
So ... Google now owns a big ass patent gun ... with no bullets that will affect Apple.
Thats as likely as Apple suing Google out of the Software business.
Lets try again.
Plane noses up.
Plane stalls
Nose drops
co-pilot quickly climbs down to the cockpit door, moves shit out of the way with the help of a stewardess/passenger/anyone, Aircraft falls ~2-3k feet and then has plenty of airspeed to recover.
co-pilot breaks in, shoots pilot in the head, Aircraft falls another 10k feet
Co-pilot recovers aircraft ... with only 20k feet between him and the ground ...
At 32k feet in the air, it takes a little bit of time to get to the ground. You're best bet would be to do a full throttle dive straight down hoping to gain enough airspeed to rip the aircraft apart well enough to ensure no possible recovery, that should be fairly easy if you have sufficient time.
Unfortunately, all you end up with is a hole in the ground covering about 1600 square feet (small house) under which is an aircraft buried. There are easier ways to take out 300 people that are far more 'scary' ... which is what a terrorist would want.
So you're saying its okay if we know exactly which gun we're handing to someone we haven't really bothered to id as long as we make sure to get it back after the flight and make sure the gun is properly tracked?
You're saying thats better than making sure we know positively who we're handing the gun to, and a little information about the persons history?
Seriously?
Do you have any idea how many times I've walked off an airplane after a flight only to reach in my pocket and pull out my pocket knife that I forgot about ... after being passed through both the metal detector AND the full body scanner? I'm currently at 3 ... out of 4 flights since I started paying attention. The one that it didn't happen on I just happen to remember in advance to take it out before getting to the airport. Had I been flying alone I would have kept it in my pocket just to try again, but with the wife its not worth the headache for her if they find it and go all militant on me. If I can just walk on an airplane like that, with items that are clearly banned , without trying purely by accident and stupidity on my part, do you seriously think they can stop someone putting effort into it who has learned all the security related procedures and policies of the TSA just so they could sneak past them?
The reality of it is, this is a GOOD thing because the TSA is absolutely useless and has no effect what so ever on safety. Never has the TSA actually caught someone. Pretty much every other government police/security agency has, even the ones that shouldn't really be doing so.
The TSA is a waste of time, money, and frankly ... oxygen. IF WE'RE LUCKY, all this security shit will go away and they'll just keep paying them to stand there. If we're unlucky, we're going to have to continue taking our shoes off and dancing around in a scanner with output blurrier than a Fisher Price 'My First Digital Camera' with your 3 year olds finger over the lens.
The TSA shouldn't be making policy, they shouldn't exist. Hopefully this is a step towards that goal.
You act like any of those things are hard to get by.
Having been through all of those sorts of checks for another job, I assure you, their evaluation and screening is pretty fucking shitty and anyone moderately intelligent and competent terrorist could easily 'pass'.
*sigh*
Mom clients can be hacked too, and are regularly. Mom clients get updated far more often and are forced so taking hackers out is easy.
Diablo isn't going to get updated constantly or people will get annoyed even more, so you'll still be able to run a bot on it if you know what your doing, and it'll be far more profitable since there is an open real money market for those bots to profit from.
Learned nothing, they have
TW business class is less reliable by far than TWC home/roadrunner. Sad but true
Because all of the things you listed are requirements in order for the software to do what I, the customer wants the game for.
The always on requirement provides me no features I want, and does mean I can't use the game in situations where I would be able to if their artificial requirements didn't exist.
I was thinking something like that myself. Back when I did wares, I was ALWAYS online, even at 2400 baud.
I guess they really want me to go back to that
The simplest solution to this is simply add email addresses of some of the spam RBL admins to LinkedIn, that'll make it fun for them when they end up on a few of the no-remove on third strike lists.
Personally, I just blocked all of their domains at our mail server, but not everyone can do that of course.
2) They immediately become the major driving force in web standards, so they can start playing all kinds of nasty games.
I guess you haven't noticed ... they already ARE a major driving force in web standards.
...
Do you know who Microsoft is and what Firefox is?
MS is not going to become bedfellows with the browser organization they spent a fuckton of effort (in development and legal battles) destroying them and Navigator the first time around. They aren't going to do anything at all to keep them around this time.
This one is personal for Ballmer, don't be so naive.
But if the exec want to keep drawing ridiculous salaries while they run Netscape errr Mozilla into the ground again, than they'll keep on talking Googles money just like Netscape did before them with their other partners.
Who else is going to give them money? Won't be Microsoft ... and by extension that means it won't be Yahoo.
Its funny that old guys thing distortion sounds better. I presume it goes with the type of music that typically goes along with this discussion, i.e., you end up over driving the amp into distortion as matter of normal operation.
Basically the only people I ever see being happy about it are people who's' idea of playing the strings is turning the amp all the way up and slamming some chords and then raving about how awesome they sound.
This being slashdot, it's safe to assume the GP knows that.
10 years ago, I'd have agreed. Today, I'd say its almost the exact opposite, clarifying that vacuum cleaners are not vacuum tubes seems appropriate with todays slashdot users.
Obviously, you're not gay and hold no controversial views. Good for you, for the rest of us, there's always the possibility of saying something that would lead somebody living relatively near to us to come over and take things up in person. Sure it's a remote risk, but for some issues it definitely could happen.
According to FBI records, stastics show that there has been no noticible change in crime rates since the FBI was formed.
I.E. Your ranting like a moron on the Internet isn't going to change the the odds of a crime being committed against you.
It's likely due to the fact that those 'scary people' you're afraid of are just as socially inept as you and don't want to leave their homes because some scary internet person might get them.
The solution to background checks such as that is to simply not work for companies that do them and go work somewhere else. I assume you're an american (if not, I realize your country may be different) then you have no excuse for not being able to find a job. ANYONE in America can get a job, you just don't want to. So make your choice, do you want to be a douche and hide who you are online just incase someone in the real world sees it, or do you want to take a different, possible less enjoyable position somewhere else?
Figure out your priorities and deal with it.
Personally, I won't work somewhere like that and I suggest the same to you. If we all boycott we'll win, but it takes everyone.
Funny, he makes a calm collected statement and you respond like a pompous ass who needs a good beating just to prove a point ... Of course, his limited experience matches pretty much what anyone over the age of 25 has already learned, I guess you're just a little slow.
Note: I don't hide behind a psuedonym, it takes a basic Google search to find my real identity, but I used to when I was a little git on BBSes, and this is actually how people online recognize me now. Now I just realize that the people who argue on the Internet are so socially inept and afraid of meeting other people that all they have is computer courage so I have no problem acting like a prick to little douches such as yourself without any worry of you actually doing anything to me. You're entire life revolves around trying to contradict people on the Internet and you're too ignorant to realize you completely missed the point.
You're also a really shitty troll.
What impact do people think having real names genuinely has on advertising?
If you want to spam them with standard mail (you know, the thing the postman carries ...) or you want to run a credit check on them ... you need their real name and not much more really.