If I had mod points today, you sir would get one. This is also why Apple is both one of the most admired and despised of modern companies. Some people will like what Apple comes up with, others (maybe most) with different views won't. Down the road many years, most will look back and say, "They got it pretty much right." This is a recurring theme.
So many people/companies think the way to a great product is just to cram as many line items as possible from a feature checklist into a thing for the lowest cost. Fortunately for them, plenty such monstrosities of featurosis can be found anywhere today. There are also always people who take it personally when whatever new product nearly matches their wish list, but omits their ONE pet feature, and start flaming/trolling out of frustration.
Re human intelligence - you must be new to this planet... Other than that, I agree somewhat. Sooner or later we will be able to build systems of comparable complexity to the human brain. At that point, if the machines are truly intelligent, they'll do away with us, at least most of us anyway.
Re #1, AT&T is posting multibillion dollar profits. I admit to being confused as to exactly how they're suffering so terribly. Give me a taste of their suffering, please!
#2 While not advertised, many ISPs already do this. That's unlikely to change regardless of NN.
#3 Since {AT&T | Comcast | Verizon | etc} has concluded that the current multibillions in profit are insufficient to support infrastructure in this country comparable to other theoretically developed nations, they want to collect per stream in addition to per pipe. Why should we expect that even allowing this would provide them enough incentive to improve US broadband? They were already paid via a bevy of tax breaks and outright subsidies to roll out these services nationwide, and they just redefined "nationwide" as "Those few spots with enough rich clueless folk who'll pay through the nose for service still well below that of numerous other countries."
No amount of corporate welfare appears to be enough for these parasites. A stinking government telecom monopoly could hardly be worse than what we have right now.
Has to do with direction of money transfer. Visualization:
Corporation --> SHIT (proposed corporate welfare law) --> Add BAG (of $$$$$$) --> Congresscritter
Congresscritter --> Open BAG (go snort cocaine off prostitute's chest) --> pass SHIT (Superior Hi-speed Internet Telecommunications legislation) into law.
I can't think of much less funny than the prospect of something analogous to this. Shitbags like Whitacre should be called out for their disgustingly open money grabs. As should their associated bagshits in Congress. Make it loud and clear: the US pioneered the internet, and users here expect, nay DEMAND, that our TAXPAYER FINANCED public networks be available under the most non-descriminatory conditions that can be arranged. This is not negotiable.
While Whitacre and his ilk are busy partying away megamillions, and brazenly demanding even more even though little has been done since 2000 to extend broadband reach here, other countries are passing us by to benefit from our investments.
A modest suggestion: AT&T, try plowing a billion or two back into the infrastructure in this country instead of whining for the ability to double/triple dip on connection charges, and you'll likely notice that your market grows without customers wanting to tar/feather/dismember you and piss on your grave.
Back to another old refrain: I support the copyrights of content creators to profit from their work. For A Limited Time.
What I don't understand at this point is how John Lennon is being harmed after 40 years by Bob making a copy of "With a Little Help From My Friends" for Susie? As far as I can tell he's still quite dead. I'd have no particular objection even to a short extension of rights (5-10 years) to next-of-kin when the holder dies prior to normal copyright expiry, to help reduce possible hardship cases in families of artists with more modest levels of success/$. But the normal expiry should be no longer than 25 years at the absolute most. That's a typical career length.
Re watermarking or metadata in these songs, gimmeabreak. Every song ever put on a CD is most likely already on hundreds of torrent sites, what's the difference at this point? Who cares? A few dumb@$$3z will probably put files up with their own metadata and get whacked. A few miscreants/jokesters will put up songs with falsified metadata to implicate someone else, like Susie after she dumps Bob, or RIAA execs, and we'll get a few laughs from it. It's a trivial thing.
I like the idea of metadata in my music so I can use it to personalize my own listening in new ways, and I expect to be able to edit it in ways which make sense to me. Tools exist or will be made to do this.
TFA says the solid water is at high pressure AND temperature. So no, not ordinary ice.
These announcements are seemingly routine now, but I find them fascinating. We can't even image these directly, yet are able to infer all this from the effects on the central stars in these systems. Bravo to the people involved.
I've submitted an idea to Apple before, suggesting that windows be resizable along any edge by pressing a modifier key as you click on the edge. Never had a response, and obviously it was never implemented. NIH is still an issue at Apple, though less so than the past, and curiously the reduction in NIH coincides with rising inconsistency in the MacOS X UI.
Cool. An actual use for lawyers has been found. "Legal Assaulted" is a perfect premise for a show on Spike or G4 cable channels./me runs to copyright the idea.
Poor Benjamin Franklin is about to be deprived of the legitimate compensation owed him. How is the fellow supposed to make a living? He's only been dead 217 years. Surely copyright on his works ought to be retained for awhile yet. Now those communist pinko linux f@9$ have really gone over the line.
I'm not sure if the poster was being serious or not, but imo there may be something to the idea in any case. The current generations are accustomed after dozens of space operas to seeing what amounts to "bling in space" on their fictional astronauts. The real thing and NASA seem stodgy and dull by comparison. Catching the imagination of the masses today is not going to happen with stuff that looks like the 60s.
The spacesuits are one area where it might pay dividends to (quietly) approach apparel designers to get some ideas, if these can be reconciled with the safety and utility that must always come first. Even some gratuitous high tech looking items might be useful for marketing. These needn't even necessarily go up in the spacecraft, just demo it on the ground.
The IT field has a couple of "tribes" that go back a long ways. There's a tribe of traditionally trained university folk, and there's a tribe of hobbyists-gone-professional. There is some overlap and/or fuzzy edges between, but some of the hobbyists are just louder and easy to notice in these sorts of discussions.
Feeding into the stereotypes, the geek crowd often wouldn't have a much better university experience than high school - poor social skills, massive hours spent with 'pute instead of hanging out with friends, etc. As a result, whether or not they completed their studies, many would come away with negative attitudes toward college, and surprise, since they spend much of their time on the internet, their opinions circulate widely.
Also, non-grads often have some insecurity about this, and devaluing college education is a defense mechanism. Similarly, some grads believe their achievement should outweigh real-world IT experience and get snotty.
Are there no US regulatory legal authorities that look out for people's interests?
There are plenty of authorities that look out for the interests of people in the US. Surely you're aware that corporations are "people" too? And they are "people" that donate large sums of cash, hookers, dope, etc. to our esteemed leaders, thereby earning the advancement of their interests.
Oh, you meant ordinary taxpaying citizens? They/we have influence proportional to our campaign contributions. Approximately zero. Voting might be a helpful remedy to this, but for the small problem outlined above.
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If I had mod points today, you sir would get one. This is also why Apple is both one of the most admired and despised of modern companies. Some people will like what Apple comes up with, others (maybe most) with different views won't. Down the road many years, most will look back and say, "They got it pretty much right." This is a recurring theme.
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So many people/companies think the way to a great product is just to cram as many line items as possible from a feature checklist into a thing for the lowest cost. Fortunately for them, plenty such monstrosities of featurosis can be found anywhere today. There are also always people who take it personally when whatever new product nearly matches their wish list, but omits their ONE pet feature, and start flaming/trolling out of frustration.
Then of course, there are the
Re human intelligence - you must be new to this planet... Other than that, I agree somewhat. Sooner or later we will be able to build systems of comparable complexity to the human brain. At that point, if the machines are truly intelligent, they'll do away with us, at least most of us anyway.
Well put, but I just have to point out that you spelled "disballing" incorrectly.
With this administration, I'd say the 12th of Never. Put the Dems back in charge of the executive branch, and it'll get done maybe a day earlier.
Re #1, AT&T is posting multibillion dollar profits. I admit to being confused as to exactly how they're suffering so terribly. Give me a taste of their suffering, please! #2 While not advertised, many ISPs already do this. That's unlikely to change regardless of NN. #3 Since {AT&T | Comcast | Verizon | etc} has concluded that the current multibillions in profit are insufficient to support infrastructure in this country comparable to other theoretically developed nations, they want to collect per stream in addition to per pipe. Why should we expect that even allowing this would provide them enough incentive to improve US broadband? They were already paid via a bevy of tax breaks and outright subsidies to roll out these services nationwide, and they just redefined "nationwide" as "Those few spots with enough rich clueless folk who'll pay through the nose for service still well below that of numerous other countries." No amount of corporate welfare appears to be enough for these parasites. A stinking government telecom monopoly could hardly be worse than what we have right now.
Has to do with direction of money transfer. Visualization: Corporation --> SHIT (proposed corporate welfare law) --> Add BAG (of $$$$$$) --> Congresscritter Congresscritter --> Open BAG (go snort cocaine off prostitute's chest) --> pass SHIT (Superior Hi-speed Internet Telecommunications legislation) into law.
I can't think of much less funny than the prospect of something analogous to this. Shitbags like Whitacre should be called out for their disgustingly open money grabs. As should their associated bagshits in Congress. Make it loud and clear: the US pioneered the internet, and users here expect, nay DEMAND, that our TAXPAYER FINANCED public networks be available under the most non-descriminatory conditions that can be arranged. This is not negotiable.
While Whitacre and his ilk are busy partying away megamillions, and brazenly demanding even more even though little has been done since 2000 to extend broadband reach here, other countries are passing us by to benefit from our investments.
A modest suggestion: AT&T, try plowing a billion or two back into the infrastructure in this country instead of whining for the ability to double/triple dip on connection charges, and you'll likely notice that your market grows without customers wanting to tar/feather/dismember you and piss on your grave.
Back to another old refrain: I support the copyrights of content creators to profit from their work. For A Limited Time.
What I don't understand at this point is how John Lennon is being harmed after 40 years by Bob making a copy of "With a Little Help From My Friends" for Susie? As far as I can tell he's still quite dead. I'd have no particular objection even to a short extension of rights (5-10 years) to next-of-kin when the holder dies prior to normal copyright expiry, to help reduce possible hardship cases in families of artists with more modest levels of success/$. But the normal expiry should be no longer than 25 years at the absolute most. That's a typical career length.
Re watermarking or metadata in these songs, gimmeabreak. Every song ever put on a CD is most likely already on hundreds of torrent sites, what's the difference at this point? Who cares? A few dumb@$$3z will probably put files up with their own metadata and get whacked. A few miscreants/jokesters will put up songs with falsified metadata to implicate someone else, like Susie after she dumps Bob, or RIAA execs, and we'll get a few laughs from it. It's a trivial thing.
I like the idea of metadata in my music so I can use it to personalize my own listening in new ways, and I expect to be able to edit it in ways which make sense to me. Tools exist or will be made to do this.
TFA says the solid water is at high pressure AND temperature. So no, not ordinary ice.
These announcements are seemingly routine now, but I find them fascinating. We can't even image these directly, yet are able to infer all this from the effects on the central stars in these systems. Bravo to the people involved.
...a list of 535 people who do no work.
My RAZR already does that.
I've submitted an idea to Apple before, suggesting that windows be resizable along any edge by pressing a modifier key as you click on the edge. Never had a response, and obviously it was never implemented. NIH is still an issue at Apple, though less so than the past, and curiously the reduction in NIH coincides with rising inconsistency in the MacOS X UI.
Oh Noooes!! ScientAAlogy! Body Thetans that are lawyers. We're all doomed.
Is anyone else saddened that the parent post was modded Funny?
I think I speak for the vast majority here when I say this.
Cool. An actual use for lawyers has been found. "Legal Assaulted" is a perfect premise for a show on Spike or G4 cable channels. /me runs to copyright the idea.
Poor Benjamin Franklin is about to be deprived of the legitimate compensation owed him. How is the fellow supposed to make a living? He's only been dead 217 years. Surely copyright on his works ought to be retained for awhile yet. Now those communist pinko linux f@9$ have really gone over the line.
Just in case you're immeasurably thick.
If only it truly was CEOs getting replaced that way. After a few of those, I suspect immigration reform might suddenly be a priority in this country.
The one thing that has really helped MS in the enterprise has been that the sell an entire solution that all works together.
They do? It does? What planet did I wake up on today?
I'm not sure if the poster was being serious or not, but imo there may be something to the idea in any case. The current generations are accustomed after dozens of space operas to seeing what amounts to "bling in space" on their fictional astronauts. The real thing and NASA seem stodgy and dull by comparison. Catching the imagination of the masses today is not going to happen with stuff that looks like the 60s. The spacesuits are one area where it might pay dividends to (quietly) approach apparel designers to get some ideas, if these can be reconciled with the safety and utility that must always come first. Even some gratuitous high tech looking items might be useful for marketing. These needn't even necessarily go up in the spacecraft, just demo it on the ground.
The IT field has a couple of "tribes" that go back a long ways. There's a tribe of traditionally trained university folk, and there's a tribe of hobbyists-gone-professional. There is some overlap and/or fuzzy edges between, but some of the hobbyists are just louder and easy to notice in these sorts of discussions.
Feeding into the stereotypes, the geek crowd often wouldn't have a much better university experience than high school - poor social skills, massive hours spent with 'pute instead of hanging out with friends, etc. As a result, whether or not they completed their studies, many would come away with negative attitudes toward college, and surprise, since they spend much of their time on the internet, their opinions circulate widely.
Also, non-grads often have some insecurity about this, and devaluing college education is a defense mechanism. Similarly, some grads believe their achievement should outweigh real-world IT experience and get snotty.
Are there no US regulatory legal authorities that look out for people's interests?
There are plenty of authorities that look out for the interests of people in the US. Surely you're aware that corporations are "people" too? And they are "people" that donate large sums of cash, hookers, dope, etc. to our esteemed leaders, thereby earning the advancement of their interests.
Oh, you meant ordinary taxpaying citizens? They/we have influence proportional to our campaign contributions. Approximately zero. Voting might be a helpful remedy to this, but for the small problem outlined above.
They're obviously Lieing.
Yep, thought that one up all by myself. Off to stand in the corner now... facing the wall.
On further reflection, NO links, please...