Google does not use propertiary code, they use HTML.
If Google tried to charge directly money for searches, I would swith.
If Skype starts charging money after receiving a huge market share switching is much harder as then you loose the contact to others and they own the protocol.
A proper VOIP/Cellular mixture phone would help really many people and companies to reduce communication costs. Though I doubt these first generation phones will be really "it", though a step in right direction.
Well, in many cases the companies providing one of the meantioned services is a different one from providing the other, thus some companies gain some loose, not the scenario you suggest.
If you have the money, the components are readily available and tested. It is allmost allways much more difficult to create everyting from scracth than using components that are allready designed and working. Thus the money needed to build it from scracth would be much higher and timeframe longer.
Well, then there are companies , like the one we sell, that take ERP to mean Accounting + logistics + + HR + CRM + Expenses + Business Process automation + Time & atterndance + Point of Sale + E-commerce + Production Planning + Hotel Room Management + Few dozen other things...
Yes indeed that is the core of the problem, in order to search something, the search algoritm has to understand the content to be searched.
Currently trying to get a computer to understand something in pictures, even less in motion pictures is very inaccurate and extremly prosessor intensive, unless one uses a really small subset(like fingerprint recognition)
This gets me thinking... Maybe we would need an "apprentice" system in free software. That is some more accomlished people would take some "youngsters" under their wings to help them get started the right way.
BTW, what do you think of the United States' actions in Guantanamo?
Very proper for an Empire. Every self Respecting empire is supposed to hold suspected enemies in concentration camps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp
Well the way moderation on slashdot works is actually quite simple. A friend of mine did a study and managed to get his karma for a new account into excelent in 3 days with 18 total posts.
The rules are:
Post early but not first.
Post something short.
Be deep sounding while saying nothing.
Make sure that you post in favor of the popular opinnion.
Avoid any political discussion.
It is best to be the first reply to some post that is allready modded up.
Well, I am not talking only about US, and definitely not in specially "elitistic" way. I have been to quite many countries in the all in all, and the same rule seems to hold true in most of them: Most people do not want to think.
In most countries of the world the local news channels have much more power than any international channel. if for no other reason, then for language issues.
Yes, but slashdot crowd is hardly your average person on the street. Go ask a a few people on the street some questions about the world, I suggest subjects such as the cosolidation of media, to see how much people on average think about the dangers to free speech.
During history big emprires have allways done what they think is best for themselves. The voice of the people and definitely other countries have no bearing on those, thus I do not see anything special from historical perspective with the american empire.
Well the point of the restrictions is not really to stop those who do their best to circumvent things. Instead the point is to keep the public at large ignorant. Every society will have it's dissidents, but it is only when a significant proportion of people get dissident that real problems occur for those ruling. That is what the government tries to stop.
Well, but for the minor point that the WMD in Iraq did exist.. but not at this time, the smarter bush (SR) seems to have had a strategy that apparently actually had managed to stop the development and such.
Ofcourse, if there were no immediate terminations of people who were too bad at covering their asses, someone higher up in the chain might have to take the rap. Tuhus the higherup had to act fast to cover their asses or they might be in trouble, nevermind any innocents who loose.
Indeed, anyone working in a bureucracy will go up the steps of power if they are successfull in CYA, thus the types of people who get promoted are those averse to risk taking.
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In many parts of the world the operator does not provide you with the phone. People there actually buy their own phones.
If Google tried to charge directly money for searches, I would swith.
If Skype starts charging money after receiving a huge market share switching is much harder as then you loose the contact to others and they own the protocol.
Well, voip trafic is way below heavy websurfing and downloads, so I doubt that it will create much problems.
A proper VOIP/Cellular mixture phone would help really many people and companies to reduce communication costs. Though I doubt these first generation phones will be really "it", though a step in right direction.
In many parts of the world it is actually the enduser that buys their phone, they do not come as part of any "package" or "plan".
If it sells phones....
Well, in many cases the companies providing one of the meantioned services is a different one from providing the other, thus some companies gain some loose, not the scenario you suggest.
If you have the money, the components are readily available and tested. It is allmost allways much more difficult to create everyting from scracth than using components that are allready designed and working. Thus the money needed to build it from scracth would be much higher and timeframe longer.
Talk about one software to do it all...
Currently trying to get a computer to understand something in pictures, even less in motion pictures is very inaccurate and extremly prosessor intensive, unless one uses a really small subset(like fingerprint recognition)
This gets me thinking... Maybe we would need an "apprentice" system in free software. That is some more accomlished people would take some "youngsters" under their wings to help them get started the right way.
Well, Programming matters matter to many nerds so by slashdot motto they should be included.
BTW, what do you think of the United States' actions in Guantanamo?
Very proper for an Empire. Every self Respecting empire is supposed to hold suspected enemies in concentration camps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp
Well the way moderation on slashdot works is actually quite simple. A friend of mine did a study and managed to get his karma for a new account into excelent in 3 days with 18 total posts.
The rules are:
Post early but not first.
Post something short.
Be deep sounding while saying nothing.
Make sure that you post in favor of the popular opinnion.
Avoid any political discussion.
It is best to be the first reply to some post that is allready modded up.
Well, I am not talking only about US, and definitely not in specially "elitistic" way. I have been to quite many countries in the all in all, and the same rule seems to hold true in most of them: Most people do not want to think.
In most countries of the world the local news channels have much more power than any international channel. if for no other reason, then for language issues.
Yes, but slashdot crowd is hardly your average person on the street. Go ask a a few people on the street some questions about the world, I suggest subjects such as the cosolidation of media, to see how much people on average think about the dangers to free speech.
During history big emprires have allways done what they think is best for themselves. The voice of the people and definitely other countries have no bearing on those, thus I do not see anything special from historical perspective with the american empire.
Well the point of the restrictions is not really to stop those who do their best to circumvent things. Instead the point is to keep the public at large ignorant. Every society will have it's dissidents, but it is only when a significant proportion of people get dissident that real problems occur for those ruling. That is what the government tries to stop.
oh.. physical Windows I thought they meant the operating system. Well that raises the challengerating of the task.
and this would be bad because?
same way CIA actions help the safety http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/Fig htSmart18-11-2001.htm
Well, but for the minor point that the WMD in Iraq did exist.. but not at this time, the smarter bush (SR) seems to have had a strategy that apparently actually had managed to stop the development and such.
Ofcourse, if there were no immediate terminations of people who were too bad at covering their asses, someone higher up in the chain might have to take the rap. Tuhus the higherup had to act fast to cover their asses or they might be in trouble, nevermind any innocents who loose.
Indeed, anyone working in a bureucracy will go up the steps of power if they are successfull in CYA, thus the types of people who get promoted are those averse to risk taking.