Not vote multiple times, but if the people of the assembled group wanted to base their vote on a collective decision, then there isn't anything that should stop such a thing. The campaign finance issue holds water in the same respect. The people of the group have allocated their resources and given control over those resources to a few elected leaders (the board). They trust the board to do good things with that money in order to act on their behalf and in their interest.
I think the point of the GP is that you haven't really "solved the problem", but rather came up with a close approximation, whereas those super computers are solving the problem absolutely.
The only way to get root CURRENTLY on these phones are via the methods you mentioned. In many, if not most of those cases, the people who wrote the root are using exploits to get root access. The is no reason to think that similar exploits may not be developed to gain root without the methods you mentioned. There is also the layer of social engineering. Just like people click stupid things and get viruses, it's very reasonable to think that an exploit in which a user gets a text message that says it's from 'Verizon support' and that they just need to click here and do that...
But people get health insurance for more than just emergency events. So, enough people have health insurance that we can, theoretically, cover these costs. This doesn't work with fighting fires. In general, either your house is on fire, or it isn't. If every fire station had to respond to fires as a matter of law, then there would be no incentive to pay these fire fees and, therefore, no money to cover the cost of fighting these fires.
Except that Amazon has one item to leverage, bundling. I know my Droid came with the Amazon MP3 market place on the home screen by default. SOME developers will go there. Maybe not all, maybe not the best, but that app store will be populated. Add in a few deals with some bigger publishers, maybe a special kick back for some of the more popular apps. Suddenly the average consumer doesn't know the difference between the Android Marketplace and the thing called app store on their desktop that was there from day one.
Wait, so because you don't like the price, it's ok to download it without paying for it? Man up, if you don't want to pay for it, find something else to read.
Am I the only one stunned that we think eBooks may die because they only have 6% market share!? EBook readers have been around for a long time, but ebook sales didn't really take off until the Kindle in 2007. In ~3 years ebook sales have stolen almost 6% of market share (a guess that market share for ebooks was close to negligible pre-Kindle, but I bet it's not THAT far off). Are we so immune to technology churn that we expect a new technology to steal the market every 2 years? I think it's a sign that it's more than just technophiles buying books, and that there is a solid market for ebooks.
As for cost, don't forget that almost all book are formatted and edited for printing on paper, currently. To create an ebook copy, they need to go through more rounds of formatting and editing to make sure it displays correctly in assorted ebook formats, and there is a cost associated with that. However, I think most of their pricing is based on trying to avoid cannibalizing their print sales. Sooner or later a non-establishment publisher will realize that they aren't as important as they used to be, and become a service to authors for editing, printing, and perhaps some marketing, and the prices will come down accordingly.
I bet many people will sign up for it, and less than 10% will stick with it, because it's inconvenient. About the 4th time they have to dig through their bag to find their phone so they can log in and check their email, they'll disable it. I do like the ability however, perhaps they could even sell it as a service to banks, etc, where people might not be so averse to the extra steps.
That would be an excellent service. Google can pre-filter email accounts and only pull out the accounts likely to be owned by a person with significant disposable income or high credit rating. It would save the phishers from having to try hundreds of dead-ends!
You're assuming the comment the kid made to a newspaper is the entire content of his email. It was stated by the police that the email contained abusive and threatening content. Threatening content is likely what got him banned. He is a citizen of the UK, he doesn't have a right to come to the US, and if he did threaten the President of the US, it's likely a short fuse until they mark you on the list of people they'd rather not come over here. The government does have the exclusive powers of securing our border.
I think you'll find that teaching facts rather than insights isn't traditional. It's a product of modern education wherein we need lots of teachers, and an unfortunate side effect is that most of these teachers don't really understand what led up to the fall of the Berlin wall, and so they have to generate tests that test the only things they truly understand, rote memorization and basic facts.
Just because there are a lot of people who don't do it, doesn't mean it's hard... Really, it isn't THAT hard to look at one's expenses and then set a good ballpark budget. The hard part is not being delusional about the kind of things you can afford.
Three things:
1) I suspect the data "soldered on" is likely to be OS data for something like fast boot, or high capacity cache. Likely less to do with your personal files.
2) They're should make this socketed, like RAM so upgrading it would be relatively easy.
3) This does have applications in embedded systems, like MP3 players and phones that can now have significantly more storage space.
Whereas, if we take the steps necessary to unbind ourselves from earth, and begin colonizing the local solar-system, nearby stars, etc, we may actually, as a species, live considerably longer, and be around for a significant amount of universe time.
It likely is a safety issue. I know I'm taking a leap here, but I'm assuming the license requires the homeowner to purchase a permit to install the pool, which should have been inspected. Builders in any line who don't use permits aren't neccssarily putting their employees and clients at risk, but there is a reason we have a permit and inspection process, because some builders do. And those who have decided to skirt this process are undermining the process as a whole.
...In the same way that ATMs were just a snazzy front-end to the personal tellers. Except it allowed the bank to be incredibly efficient and allowed customers to do banking at their convenience. In the same way the Internet was just a snazzy front-end to all the back-end banking processes that were already running on mainframes, except it went even further than the ATM. The smart phone market is no different. The business and it's processes are in place, it's just giving users a new way to access them. It isn't a discredit to the technology, and it's a lot more than a twirling icon.
Except the pricing for actually printing books is awfully low, almost negligible. I believe it's less than 3 dollars for a standard hardback, and much less for paperbacks. So the main cost of physical books is in royalties to the author, publishing house costs (editing, marketing, etc), and then distribution and retailing. See the following: http://futurismic.com/2009/10/02/ebooks-cost-a-lot-of-money-to-make-will-no-one-explain-why-that-has-to-be-so/.
eBooks actually make matters worse right now, because with each format, there is a new round of editing that needs to go on. There are many cases where the ebook costs the publisher significantly more for far less return. That said, there are some wonderful publishers doing good things with eBooks right now. OReilly and Pragmatic bookshelf are putting out good technical books in DRM free form for good prices. New, many of the ebooks are almost half the cost of the dead tree versions. It's these books that I find most useful. I travel, and it's very convenient to carry 3 technical books on my eReader and also have them search-able and accessible on my laptop than it is to carry 3 500+ page books.
Unfortunately, while the United States DOES have a lot of ocean coast, we aren't plumbed for salt water (and it would be a nightmare to maintain). Then, add in all the inland states. So, 99%+ of Americans will only have access to clean, fresh, drinking water to put through something like this. As such, it needs to be assumed, and planned for.
Blackberry still holds the lion's share in the enterprise, but I don't think it's at the exclusion of the iPhone anymore. I've seen, in my business interactions, many more iPhones popping up. They are becoming just as useful for road warriors (sans the amazing keyboards...) as the Blackberry, plus they aren't as clunky (read big) and can do other neat and interesting things.
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Not vote multiple times, but if the people of the assembled group wanted to base their vote on a collective decision, then there isn't anything that should stop such a thing. The campaign finance issue holds water in the same respect. The people of the group have allocated their resources and given control over those resources to a few elected leaders (the board). They trust the board to do good things with that money in order to act on their behalf and in their interest.
I think the point of the GP is that you haven't really "solved the problem", but rather came up with a close approximation, whereas those super computers are solving the problem absolutely.
Except the steak isn't likely to show up 9 months later and demand child support.
The only way to get root CURRENTLY on these phones are via the methods you mentioned. In many, if not most of those cases, the people who wrote the root are using exploits to get root access. The is no reason to think that similar exploits may not be developed to gain root without the methods you mentioned. There is also the layer of social engineering. Just like people click stupid things and get viruses, it's very reasonable to think that an exploit in which a user gets a text message that says it's from 'Verizon support' and that they just need to click here and do that...
A culture supported by lawyer politicians or the lawyer judiciary?
But people get health insurance for more than just emergency events. So, enough people have health insurance that we can, theoretically, cover these costs. This doesn't work with fighting fires. In general, either your house is on fire, or it isn't. If every fire station had to respond to fires as a matter of law, then there would be no incentive to pay these fire fees and, therefore, no money to cover the cost of fighting these fires.
Read the article, the fire department isn't from the same town as the guy. They don't have any authority to place liens on his property.
Not in NYC...
Except that Amazon has one item to leverage, bundling. I know my Droid came with the Amazon MP3 market place on the home screen by default. SOME developers will go there. Maybe not all, maybe not the best, but that app store will be populated. Add in a few deals with some bigger publishers, maybe a special kick back for some of the more popular apps. Suddenly the average consumer doesn't know the difference between the Android Marketplace and the thing called app store on their desktop that was there from day one.
Wait, so because you don't like the price, it's ok to download it without paying for it? Man up, if you don't want to pay for it, find something else to read.
Am I the only one stunned that we think eBooks may die because they only have 6% market share!? EBook readers have been around for a long time, but ebook sales didn't really take off until the Kindle in 2007. In ~3 years ebook sales have stolen almost 6% of market share (a guess that market share for ebooks was close to negligible pre-Kindle, but I bet it's not THAT far off). Are we so immune to technology churn that we expect a new technology to steal the market every 2 years? I think it's a sign that it's more than just technophiles buying books, and that there is a solid market for ebooks.
As for cost, don't forget that almost all book are formatted and edited for printing on paper, currently. To create an ebook copy, they need to go through more rounds of formatting and editing to make sure it displays correctly in assorted ebook formats, and there is a cost associated with that. However, I think most of their pricing is based on trying to avoid cannibalizing their print sales. Sooner or later a non-establishment publisher will realize that they aren't as important as they used to be, and become a service to authors for editing, printing, and perhaps some marketing, and the prices will come down accordingly.
I bet many people will sign up for it, and less than 10% will stick with it, because it's inconvenient. About the 4th time they have to dig through their bag to find their phone so they can log in and check their email, they'll disable it. I do like the ability however, perhaps they could even sell it as a service to banks, etc, where people might not be so averse to the extra steps.
That would be an excellent service. Google can pre-filter email accounts and only pull out the accounts likely to be owned by a person with significant disposable income or high credit rating. It would save the phishers from having to try hundreds of dead-ends!
Or Iron Sunrise.
You're assuming the comment the kid made to a newspaper is the entire content of his email. It was stated by the police that the email contained abusive and threatening content. Threatening content is likely what got him banned. He is a citizen of the UK, he doesn't have a right to come to the US, and if he did threaten the President of the US, it's likely a short fuse until they mark you on the list of people they'd rather not come over here. The government does have the exclusive powers of securing our border.
I think you'll find that teaching facts rather than insights isn't traditional. It's a product of modern education wherein we need lots of teachers, and an unfortunate side effect is that most of these teachers don't really understand what led up to the fall of the Berlin wall, and so they have to generate tests that test the only things they truly understand, rote memorization and basic facts.
Just because there are a lot of people who don't do it, doesn't mean it's hard... Really, it isn't THAT hard to look at one's expenses and then set a good ballpark budget. The hard part is not being delusional about the kind of things you can afford.
Three things: 1) I suspect the data "soldered on" is likely to be OS data for something like fast boot, or high capacity cache. Likely less to do with your personal files. 2) They're should make this socketed, like RAM so upgrading it would be relatively easy. 3) This does have applications in embedded systems, like MP3 players and phones that can now have significantly more storage space.
It may be worthwhile to check out which places are best to go and not find the kind of people that use Foursquare and Facebook Places.
Whereas, if we take the steps necessary to unbind ourselves from earth, and begin colonizing the local solar-system, nearby stars, etc, we may actually, as a species, live considerably longer, and be around for a significant amount of universe time.
It likely is a safety issue. I know I'm taking a leap here, but I'm assuming the license requires the homeowner to purchase a permit to install the pool, which should have been inspected. Builders in any line who don't use permits aren't neccssarily putting their employees and clients at risk, but there is a reason we have a permit and inspection process, because some builders do. And those who have decided to skirt this process are undermining the process as a whole.
...In the same way that ATMs were just a snazzy front-end to the personal tellers. Except it allowed the bank to be incredibly efficient and allowed customers to do banking at their convenience. In the same way the Internet was just a snazzy front-end to all the back-end banking processes that were already running on mainframes, except it went even further than the ATM. The smart phone market is no different. The business and it's processes are in place, it's just giving users a new way to access them. It isn't a discredit to the technology, and it's a lot more than a twirling icon.
Except the pricing for actually printing books is awfully low, almost negligible. I believe it's less than 3 dollars for a standard hardback, and much less for paperbacks. So the main cost of physical books is in royalties to the author, publishing house costs (editing, marketing, etc), and then distribution and retailing. See the following: http://futurismic.com/2009/10/02/ebooks-cost-a-lot-of-money-to-make-will-no-one-explain-why-that-has-to-be-so/ .
eBooks actually make matters worse right now, because with each format, there is a new round of editing that needs to go on. There are many cases where the ebook costs the publisher significantly more for far less return. That said, there are some wonderful publishers doing good things with eBooks right now. OReilly and Pragmatic bookshelf are putting out good technical books in DRM free form for good prices. New, many of the ebooks are almost half the cost of the dead tree versions. It's these books that I find most useful. I travel, and it's very convenient to carry 3 technical books on my eReader and also have them search-able and accessible on my laptop than it is to carry 3 500+ page books.
Unfortunately, while the United States DOES have a lot of ocean coast, we aren't plumbed for salt water (and it would be a nightmare to maintain). Then, add in all the inland states. So, 99%+ of Americans will only have access to clean, fresh, drinking water to put through something like this. As such, it needs to be assumed, and planned for.
Blackberry still holds the lion's share in the enterprise, but I don't think it's at the exclusion of the iPhone anymore. I've seen, in my business interactions, many more iPhones popping up. They are becoming just as useful for road warriors (sans the amazing keyboards...) as the Blackberry, plus they aren't as clunky (read big) and can do other neat and interesting things.