They relearn the lessons of CS he hard way over 10-20-30-40(?) years of experience.
Some of them still don't learn how to write decent code after 40 years.
I've said it before, but the danger posed by a programmer with a set of tools is only surpassed by an engineer who thinks they can write code.
Except it's not a knockoff off android, it actually uses the android OS, unlike the iPhone knock off phones which are just a cheap phone made to look like an iPhone.
I'm just looking forward to a dual-SIM phone with decent software.
They proved this was possible, and now th rest of the world's governments are going to give it a try. It doesn't have to work 100% of the time, just 90% of the time for 90% of content. The main problem will be when they start blocking content that they just don't like, rather than stuff which is 100% illegal.
I'm under the impression that with books the cover of the book is considered the "license document", and you need the "license document" otherwise the book is considered an illegal copy. I would imagine the same applies to CDs. If you still own the cover that is the license document so you should be able to still use copies of the music you have. HOWEVER, it still may be illegal to get them off the net as your rights only allow you to make copies to the CD YOU purchased, not by obtaining them from other sources.
IANAL, could be completely wrong. Anyone have a real clue on this?
here are going to be people vocally declaring that we have no right to "cure" (or prevent, as the case may be) autism
If you're inferring that the "Autistic community" will react to this the same way the Deaf community did when the cochlear implant was invented, I don't think it's going to happen, simply because autistic people live in their own little world, and are not only isolated from the rest of the world but from each other was well.
I would say that the image of Honda being more of a luxury car than Toyota comes from their history in motorsport. Honda tends to be a racing company that happens to make cars for the road, whereas Toyota primarily make road cars, and occasionally go racing. Hence Honda will be seen as more sporty, which in some people's eyes makes it more of a luxury car.
Shows like that tend to buy sort of "bulk licences" from record companies and such stating that they can perform all of the songs that record company has. Since the ownership of lyrics is concentrated in the hands of a few companies they don't get sued too often.
Have you stopped to think that it is possible that they are fighting that cultural war because of climate change. If you accept that it is our actions that are causing global warming and destroying the planet then you really have no choice but to change those actions.
I'm not sure that climate change is cuased by greenhouse gases, but if it is then I believe that the only real way to stop it will be tro recude consumption. You find me a politican that will tell that to their elecorate.
The first thing that comes to mind is the fact that you would need a bigger brain to process all the information that comes from having more skin, since you have more surface area to feel with. This of course assumes that there is the same sensitivity per unit of surface area in the larger animal.
The problemn is that Joe Sixpack will simply grab the nearest phone. In an emergency people don't want to have to think "Oh I can't use this phone, it uses VoIP". They just want to make the call NOW.
Except that there is a privacy issue here, because I'm guessing that the system will be able to tell the police where you are at all times. Then it's not an issue of traffic law, it's an issue of them following your every movement. If that's not a privacy issue, I don't know what is.
And I hope that is what saves the rest of the West (UK, Australia, NZ, EU Japan etc.): The fact that we are no where near as bad as the US in this regard.
" This shit will come to an abrupt halt once the Indian peasantry demands their piece."
Unless the 300 million educated Indians just ignore them, which is very possible. It's not like the industrial revolution, because the poor aren't contibuting in any way to the production of the software. You also forget that as India becomes more powerful, its capacity to educate its people increases as well, so in a few years you may see 700 million educated 300 million poor.
The endless torrent of home renovation shows comes from the fact that they have to poduce a certain percentage of prime time local content. Also those shows are cheap to make.
Bad ananlogy. This is more an issue of cost more than anything else. Because people choose airlines based on price more than quality. You also have to consider that in the early days of air travel it had to compete with the ocean liners for passengers, so had to be more luxurious than today to compete. Also airships could afford the space & weight for such things as pianos. And Concorde was politics more than anything else.
I think the primary threat to DVD will coem from the studios themselves when they try to turn everything into one big pay per view system. Converthing audio into analoge and back into digital again results in a reletivly small loss in audio quality on everyday equipment. Doing the same thing with video however results in a much greater percived loss of audio quality. So in an attempt to stop piracy, I think the studios may just stop releasing DVDs all together, and just release everything pay per view. This will make it harder to priate (I'm pretty sure that there are moderen TV encryption systems that haven't been cracked) and they get to charge you every time you watch it.
This is why you never see American TV shows and networks outside the United States; because it's all 'bullshit'.
Actually there is only one reason that American programs are so "popular" outside the US, and that is becuse the people who make them make all their money showing them in America, so they have nothing to loose by selling them dirt cheap overseas to make a bit more money. The local production companies can't produce programs for a price better than the Americans are selling theirs for, and since all the networks are doing it the public can't really just change the channel to non-American programing. This is why Australia (and many other countries) have laws that say ech network must have a minimum amount of local content (25% here I think).
Come to think about it doen't America have laws saying that each network can show a MAXIMUM of 25% non-American programming? It would explain a lot (could someone please tell me if this is true).
SH*T, should have previewed that first. It was meant to have paragraphs (I cut-and-pasted from notepad, and forgot to set it to plain text).
Here it is WITH the paragraphs
That cars that drive themselves are made legal. I predict that within 30 years of that happening, you will not be allowed to drive your own car.
There are two types of drivers. Those you enjoy driving, and those who don't, and until recently, I thought those that don't were in a minority. I'm shocked to realise now that this is not the case, and it is this large group of people that will buy these robo-cars when they inevitably appear. In addition, governments will push for them to become more common in order to be seen to be doing something about the road toll, the enviromentalists will push for them becuase these cars will be more enviromentally friendly (less agressive driving = less polution), and of course the insurance companies will push for them, even though they shouldn't be needed any more (cars that drive themselves should never be involved in a crash if that's all that's on the road), and belive it or not, the car companies will push for it (read on).
This is one step on this path. By constantly monitering us, the insurance companies will turn driving into a chore for EVERYONE, not just the people who don't like driving. This will send demand for robo-cars sky high, because no one wants to drive when big brother is watching, so they'll be lazy and have big brother do it for them. Also, by this stage, young drivers won't be able to afford inssurance on non-robo-cars, so they'll buy only robo-cars and not even bothering to learn how to drive, killing the ability for people to drive as well, and hence completely killing any demand at all for normal cars within 40 years.
Not only that, but I also predict that in order to prevent cars being modified so that you can control them yourself, laws will be passed making it so that you can only work on a car if you are a government registerd mechanic, and they'll even go to the extent of making it so that those poeple who are registered mechanics are not allowed to work on their own cars. You'll only be able to open the bonet (hood for you Americans) of a car if your have the key code for that car, and the only people who'll have these will be the manufactuers. So, this will mean a nice profit boost for the car manufactuers, because they will be the only people able to fix their cars. Of course the sports car market is dead, but so is the used car market, becuase the car companies will simply not service cars beyond a certain age, and since only they can do it, your car will be useless.
When I talk to normal people about open source software, they can see what I'm saying but they fail to see how it can effect them, or why it is important at all. But when I talk about the issue of monitering technology in cars, and the potential results of it, they sit up an listen. These both go right to the heart of the same issue, and that is corperate and government control over technology. People are all too willing to sell out their right for a discount. Get a moniterted alarm system in your home and you'll reduce your home insurance premium, but how many years will it be before you have a CCTV system attatched to your monitered alarm system, so they can see the criminals and catch them easier? And how long will it be before the CCTV images are sent to the monitering company via your broadband? And how long then before the government passes laws so they can view the video? All coming with the phrase "nothing to hide, nothing to fear", until you get some extreme religous nut in power, who decides they are moraly superior to everyone else. OK, I'm getting off topic here, but you see how the corperate-government combination has massive potential to ruin our lives.
Technology: Don't trust it if you an't take it apart; Don't trust it if you don't have full control over it; Don't trust it if it tells someone else what you are doning; NEVER trust it if you can't tur
That cars that drive themselves are made legal. I predict that within 30 years of that happening, you will not be allowed to drive your own car.
There are two types of drivers. Those you enjoy driving, and those who don't, and until recently, I thought those that don't were in a minority. I'm shocked to realise now that this is not the case, and it is this large group of people that will buy these robo-cars when they inevitably appear. In addition, governments will push for them to become more common in order to be seen to be doing something about the road toll, the enviromentalists will push for them becuase these cars will be more enviromentally friendly (less agressive driving = less polution), and of course the insurance companies will push for them, even though they shouldn't be needed any more (cars that drive themselves should never be involved in a crash if that's all that's on the road), and belive it or not, the car companies will push for it (read on).
This is one step on this path. By constantly monitering us, the insurance companies will turn driving into a chore for EVERYONE, not just the people who don't like driving. This will send demand for robo-cars sky high, because no one wants to drive when big brother is watching, so they'll be lazy and have big brother do it for them. Also, by this stage, young drivers won't be able to afford inssurance on non-robo-cars, so they'll buy only robo-cars and not even bothering to learn how to drive, killing the ability for people to drive as well, and hence completely killing any demand at all for normal cars within 40 years.
Not only that, but I also predict that in order to prevent cars being modified so that you can control them yourself, laws will be passed making it so that you can only work on a car if you are a government registerd mechanic, and they'll even go to the extent of making it so that those poeple who are registered mechanics are not allowed to work on their own cars. You'll only be able to open the bonet (hood for you Americans) of a car if your have the key code for that car, and the only people who'll have these will be the manufactuers. So, this will mean a nice profit boost for the car manufactuers, because they will be the only people able to fix their cars. Of course the sports car market is dead, but so is the used car market, becuase the car companies will simply not service cars beyond a certain age, and since only they can do it, your car will be useless.
When I talk to normal people about open source software, they can see what I'm saying but they fail to see how it can effect them, or why it is important at all. But when I talk about the issue of monitering technology in cars, and the potential results of it, they sit up an listen. These both go right to the heart of the same issue, and that is corperate and government control over technology. People are all too willing to sell out their right for a discount. Get a moniterted alarm system in your home and you'll reduce your home insurance premium, but how many years will it be before you have a CCTV system attatched to your monitered alarm system, so they can see the criminals and catch them easier? And how long will it be before the CCTV images are sent to the monitering company via your broadband? And how long then before the government passes laws so they can view the video? All coming with the phrase "nothing to hide, nothing to fear", until you get some extreme religous nut in power, who decides they are moraly superior to everyone else. OK, I'm getting off topic here, but you see how the corperate-government combination has massive potential to ruin our lives.
Technology: Don't trust it if you an't take it apart; Don't trust it if you don't have full control over it; Don't trust it if it tells someone else what you are doning; NEVER trust it if you can't turn it off (unless it's your pacemaker). In short, if you are not it's one and only master, don't trust it. (I would go as far as to say if you don't know how it works don't trust it, but then there would be some people able
And look at all the 4-in-one games that were released for the Super-NES that were all collections of games taken from the original NES. You can't do things like that when you have backwards compatibility, becuase the games are already released on that console. Maybe this is why microsoft aren't inculding backwards compatibility.
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They relearn the lessons of CS he hard way over 10-20-30-40(?) years of experience.
Some of them still don't learn how to write decent code after 40 years. I've said it before, but the danger posed by a programmer with a set of tools is only surpassed by an engineer who thinks they can write code.
Except it's not a knockoff off android, it actually uses the android OS, unlike the iPhone knock off phones which are just a cheap phone made to look like an iPhone. I'm just looking forward to a dual-SIM phone with decent software.
They proved this was possible, and now th rest of the world's governments are going to give it a try. It doesn't have to work 100% of the time, just 90% of the time for 90% of content. The main problem will be when they start blocking content that they just don't like, rather than stuff which is 100% illegal.
I'm under the impression that with books the cover of the book is considered the "license document", and you need the "license document" otherwise the book is considered an illegal copy. I would imagine the same applies to CDs. If you still own the cover that is the license document so you should be able to still use copies of the music you have. HOWEVER, it still may be illegal to get them off the net as your rights only allow you to make copies to the CD YOU purchased, not by obtaining them from other sources.
IANAL, could be completely wrong. Anyone have a real clue on this?
here are going to be people vocally declaring that we have no right to "cure" (or prevent, as the case may be) autism
If you're inferring that the "Autistic community" will react to this the same way the Deaf community did when the cochlear implant was invented, I don't think it's going to happen, simply because autistic people live in their own little world, and are not only isolated from the rest of the world but from each other was well.
You want us to eat with our fingers?
I would say that the image of Honda being more of a luxury car than Toyota comes from their history in motorsport. Honda tends to be a racing company that happens to make cars for the road, whereas Toyota primarily make road cars, and occasionally go racing. Hence Honda will be seen as more sporty, which in some people's eyes makes it more of a luxury car.
Shows like that tend to buy sort of "bulk licences" from record companies and such stating that they can perform all of the songs that record company has. Since the ownership of lyrics is concentrated in the hands of a few companies they don't get sued too often.
No in this analogy linux users are what they alwayws have been, geeks who aren't getting any.
Have you stopped to think that it is possible that they are fighting that cultural war because of climate change. If you accept that it is our actions that are causing global warming and destroying the planet then you really have no choice but to change those actions. I'm not sure that climate change is cuased by greenhouse gases, but if it is then I believe that the only real way to stop it will be tro recude consumption. You find me a politican that will tell that to their elecorate.
The same reason the DEA will always opose the leagalisation of drugs: because it justifies their existence.
The first thing that comes to mind is the fact that you would need a bigger brain to process all the information that comes from having more skin, since you have more surface area to feel with. This of course assumes that there is the same sensitivity per unit of surface area in the larger animal.
The problemn is that Joe Sixpack will simply grab the nearest phone. In an emergency people don't want to have to think "Oh I can't use this phone, it uses VoIP". They just want to make the call NOW.
Except that there is a privacy issue here, because I'm guessing that the system will be able to tell the police where you are at all times. Then it's not an issue of traffic law, it's an issue of them following your every movement. If that's not a privacy issue, I don't know what is.
And I hope that is what saves the rest of the West (UK, Australia, NZ, EU Japan etc.): The fact that we are no where near as bad as the US in this regard.
" This shit will come to an abrupt halt once the Indian peasantry demands their piece."
Unless the 300 million educated Indians just ignore them, which is very possible. It's not like the industrial revolution, because the poor aren't contibuting in any way to the production of the software. You also forget that as India becomes more powerful, its capacity to educate its people increases as well, so in a few years you may see 700 million educated 300 million poor.
Don't they release Aussie stuff as "foregin language" movies in the US now (eg "The Dish", which had subtitles for the US audiences)
The endless torrent of home renovation shows comes from the fact that they have to poduce a certain percentage of prime time local content. Also those shows are cheap to make.
after midday? Actually where I am it's April 2 already, so this is getting really annoying for me.
Bad ananlogy. This is more an issue of cost more than anything else. Because people choose airlines based on price more than quality. You also have to consider that in the early days of air travel it had to compete with the ocean liners for passengers, so had to be more luxurious than today to compete. Also airships could afford the space & weight for such things as pianos. And Concorde was politics more than anything else. I think the primary threat to DVD will coem from the studios themselves when they try to turn everything into one big pay per view system. Converthing audio into analoge and back into digital again results in a reletivly small loss in audio quality on everyday equipment. Doing the same thing with video however results in a much greater percived loss of audio quality. So in an attempt to stop piracy, I think the studios may just stop releasing DVDs all together, and just release everything pay per view. This will make it harder to priate (I'm pretty sure that there are moderen TV encryption systems that haven't been cracked) and they get to charge you every time you watch it.
This is why you never see American TV shows and networks outside the United States; because it's all 'bullshit'.
Actually there is only one reason that American programs are so "popular" outside the US, and that is becuse the people who make them make all their money showing them in America, so they have nothing to loose by selling them dirt cheap overseas to make a bit more money. The local production companies can't produce programs for a price better than the Americans are selling theirs for, and since all the networks are doing it the public can't really just change the channel to non-American programing. This is why Australia (and many other countries) have laws that say ech network must have a minimum amount of local content (25% here I think).
Come to think about it doen't America have laws saying that each network can show a MAXIMUM of 25% non-American programming? It would explain a lot (could someone please tell me if this is true).
This is flamebait if I ever saw it, but unfortuatly there are too many mods in the US to notice this.
SH*T, should have previewed that first. It was meant to have paragraphs (I cut-and-pasted from notepad, and forgot to set it to plain text).
Here it is WITH the paragraphs
That cars that drive themselves are made legal. I predict that within 30 years of that happening, you will not be allowed to drive your own car.
There are two types of drivers. Those you enjoy driving, and those who don't, and until recently, I thought those that don't were in a minority. I'm shocked to realise now that this is not the case, and it is this large group of people that will buy these robo-cars when they inevitably appear. In addition, governments will push for them to become more common in order to be seen to be doing something about the road toll, the enviromentalists will push for them becuase these cars will be more enviromentally friendly (less agressive driving = less polution), and of course the insurance companies will push for them, even though they shouldn't be needed any more (cars that drive themselves should never be involved in a crash if that's all that's on the road), and belive it or not, the car companies will push for it (read on).
This is one step on this path. By constantly monitering us, the insurance companies will turn driving into a chore for EVERYONE, not just the people who don't like driving. This will send demand for robo-cars sky high, because no one wants to drive when big brother is watching, so they'll be lazy and have big brother do it for them. Also, by this stage, young drivers won't be able to afford inssurance on non-robo-cars, so they'll buy only robo-cars and not even bothering to learn how to drive, killing the ability for people to drive as well, and hence completely killing any demand at all for normal cars within 40 years.
Not only that, but I also predict that in order to prevent cars being modified so that you can control them yourself, laws will be passed making it so that you can only work on a car if you are a government registerd mechanic, and they'll even go to the extent of making it so that those poeple who are registered mechanics are not allowed to work on their own cars. You'll only be able to open the bonet (hood for you Americans) of a car if your have the key code for that car, and the only people who'll have these will be the manufactuers. So, this will mean a nice profit boost for the car manufactuers, because they will be the only people able to fix their cars. Of course the sports car market is dead, but so is the used car market, becuase the car companies will simply not service cars beyond a certain age, and since only they can do it, your car will be useless.
When I talk to normal people about open source software, they can see what I'm saying but they fail to see how it can effect them, or why it is important at all. But when I talk about the issue of monitering technology in cars, and the potential results of it, they sit up an listen. These both go right to the heart of the same issue, and that is corperate and government control over technology. People are all too willing to sell out their right for a discount. Get a moniterted alarm system in your home and you'll reduce your home insurance premium, but how many years will it be before you have a CCTV system attatched to your monitered alarm system, so they can see the criminals and catch them easier? And how long will it be before the CCTV images are sent to the monitering company via your broadband? And how long then before the government passes laws so they can view the video? All coming with the phrase "nothing to hide, nothing to fear", until you get some extreme religous nut in power, who decides they are moraly superior to everyone else. OK, I'm getting off topic here, but you see how the corperate-government combination has massive potential to ruin our lives.
Technology: Don't trust it if you an't take it apart; Don't trust it if you don't have full control over it; Don't trust it if it tells someone else what you are doning; NEVER trust it if you can't tur
That cars that drive themselves are made legal. I predict that within 30 years of that happening, you will not be allowed to drive your own car. There are two types of drivers. Those you enjoy driving, and those who don't, and until recently, I thought those that don't were in a minority. I'm shocked to realise now that this is not the case, and it is this large group of people that will buy these robo-cars when they inevitably appear. In addition, governments will push for them to become more common in order to be seen to be doing something about the road toll, the enviromentalists will push for them becuase these cars will be more enviromentally friendly (less agressive driving = less polution), and of course the insurance companies will push for them, even though they shouldn't be needed any more (cars that drive themselves should never be involved in a crash if that's all that's on the road), and belive it or not, the car companies will push for it (read on). This is one step on this path. By constantly monitering us, the insurance companies will turn driving into a chore for EVERYONE, not just the people who don't like driving. This will send demand for robo-cars sky high, because no one wants to drive when big brother is watching, so they'll be lazy and have big brother do it for them. Also, by this stage, young drivers won't be able to afford inssurance on non-robo-cars, so they'll buy only robo-cars and not even bothering to learn how to drive, killing the ability for people to drive as well, and hence completely killing any demand at all for normal cars within 40 years. Not only that, but I also predict that in order to prevent cars being modified so that you can control them yourself, laws will be passed making it so that you can only work on a car if you are a government registerd mechanic, and they'll even go to the extent of making it so that those poeple who are registered mechanics are not allowed to work on their own cars. You'll only be able to open the bonet (hood for you Americans) of a car if your have the key code for that car, and the only people who'll have these will be the manufactuers. So, this will mean a nice profit boost for the car manufactuers, because they will be the only people able to fix their cars. Of course the sports car market is dead, but so is the used car market, becuase the car companies will simply not service cars beyond a certain age, and since only they can do it, your car will be useless. When I talk to normal people about open source software, they can see what I'm saying but they fail to see how it can effect them, or why it is important at all. But when I talk about the issue of monitering technology in cars, and the potential results of it, they sit up an listen. These both go right to the heart of the same issue, and that is corperate and government control over technology. People are all too willing to sell out their right for a discount. Get a moniterted alarm system in your home and you'll reduce your home insurance premium, but how many years will it be before you have a CCTV system attatched to your monitered alarm system, so they can see the criminals and catch them easier? And how long will it be before the CCTV images are sent to the monitering company via your broadband? And how long then before the government passes laws so they can view the video? All coming with the phrase "nothing to hide, nothing to fear", until you get some extreme religous nut in power, who decides they are moraly superior to everyone else. OK, I'm getting off topic here, but you see how the corperate-government combination has massive potential to ruin our lives. Technology: Don't trust it if you an't take it apart; Don't trust it if you don't have full control over it; Don't trust it if it tells someone else what you are doning; NEVER trust it if you can't turn it off (unless it's your pacemaker). In short, if you are not it's one and only master, don't trust it. (I would go as far as to say if you don't know how it works don't trust it, but then there would be some people able
And look at all the 4-in-one games that were released for the Super-NES that were all collections of games taken from the original NES. You can't do things like that when you have backwards compatibility, becuase the games are already released on that console. Maybe this is why microsoft aren't inculding backwards compatibility.