I was under the impression this is for handing out DWIs, not for furthering the war on drugs. Would you call arresting drunk drivers part of the neo-prohibition movement?
I'm guessing Live records the results of matches somewhere, so they can be verified by a third party. They could always charge a higher service fee for false disputes.
Radio Shack has become a stale brand, they aren't losing much from a name change. The next generation (I'd say anyone under 30) has a pretty low opinion of radios - it's what you have to listen to when you can't afford a CD player or iPod. I don't blame them for wanting to get rid of that from their name.
I'm not a huge fan of the new name (a shack? seriously? that's the name of the dive bar down the street from me), but I think they *need* to take some gambles if they want to survive the next ten years. I'm amazed the internet hasn't destroyed them yet, actually.
If it's bit torrent with enough people in the swarm, each person only needs to download a small part of the file, and then share that part with everyone else.
You are talking about IE, I am talking about the Windows kernel and core dlls. Yes, IE is a buggy POS, but the Windows NT kernel is extremely mature, and any bugs in it would only hinder applications.
I'm sure the researchers will be running some buggy versions of IE 6, but my comment was about WINE specifically.
I certainly hope AT&T isn't claiming it is the most reliable 3G network, because that wouldn't just be misleading - it would be lying.
I can see their point though; in some areas of the country, I know Verizon is clearly not the most reliable network. Their claim is misleading, but I find it funny that of all companies AT&T decided to get into all this.
"Since the *target* of WINE is to emulate Windows"
I hope I'm not missing your point, but WINE stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator". It's a compatibility layer, and I'm sure it wouldn't keep any bugs that exist in Windows. Code that is required to run legitimate software is not a bug.
Don't you think it's a problem that a lot of people have never heard of Zeus? I would agree with you if Conficker was the only computer worm/virus out there.
I'd agree with you if Rock Band hadn't sold one billion dollars worth of games during the current recession. Given that, revenue being down 50% is still very impressive for a video game franchise.
That said, you are partially right. According to this article (http://stuff.tv/news/Guitar-Hero-and-Rock-Band-sales-down-but-downloads-soar/12842/), now that people have their hardware, and now that the innovation in games has ended, people are downloading tons of games. So the equipment is a barrier to entry, but it doesn't spell the death of the genre.
Do you realize those solutions would all lead back to more coal? Subsidies and taxes are there partly to encourage us to be less dependent on technologies that throw tons of CO2 into the air. CO2 pollution is an externality, which means the parties that profit off it are negatively impacting others. This is an inefficient setup; surprisingly, taxes may be the best way to make it efficient by revealing the hidden costs of various technologies.
You misunderstand Obama's energy plan. He is a realist, and he knows new nuclear energy can't be a big part of our nation's energy supply in the near-term future (next 10-15 years) Meanwhile, the country's energy usage continues to be uncomfortably close to its supply.
We are sitting on tons of coal, large parts of the country are bathed in wind, our buildings are inefficient, our grid is a mess, and battery technology isn't ready for mainstream electric cars.
His energy plan attacks the present problems without committing to any single solution for the future. He believes that *over-reliance* on a single technology that isn't proven ready is a bad idea. I agree with him.
Not to mention that Jupiter's orbit keeps it close to a lot of asteroids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InnerSolarSystem-en.png). Kind of beautiful: the Sun basically has a huge, sparse ring around it.
And here's a deep thought: if the asteroid belt had been closer to the Sun, there is a good chance we wouldn't be alive to wish it weren't;)
"What we would like to do is leverage existing wikis by augmenting our internal wiki with an external wiki"
What does that even mean? If you want to design something, you'll have to use more precise language. And for god's sake, stop using the word leverage without thinking about it. You used it backwards - if you are augmenting your internal wiki with external wikis, you are leveraging your internal wiki with the external wikis. You leverage a boulder with a lever, but you don't leverage a lever with a boulder.
"Please, if the CIA, or NSA maybe FBI, wanted to print their own money they would just duplicate the machines from the U.S. Mint "
Yes, that is one reason why the accusations are being made. Look up "superdollars" - the bills are considered virtually indistinguishable from real dollars. It is plausible that the CIA has an exact copy of the money making machines used by the bureau of printing and engraving to sidestep the need for external funding.
If true, this is kind of like the time the US accused North Korea of creating really authentic-looking counterfeit 100 dollar bills, and then it turned out that they are probably coming from within the US - possibly from the CIA to fund covert operations.
I hate to say it, but maybe Kim Jong Il isn't crazy when he claims the Western governments are part of a big conspiracy to falsely ruin his image (hah!)
Regarding this: "There's no way to square this with his original comments"
I do not believe Garcia is being inconsistent; I would probably have a similar reaction. I put almost all my photographs under the creative commons license, and I am very flattered when anyone considers my photographs good enough to use for anything. Still, I consider this part of the license absolutely essential: "you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor". I took the energy to take and share my photograph with others, so I think the license I put it under should be respected.
Although I use a different license than Garcia, we both agree that putting something online should not be the equivalent of completely losing ownership/control of our art. Still, we are both flattered when people do want to use our art. These two beliefs are not mutually exclusive.
I'd be interested in what you find if you look into it more. I am basing my information off conversations I've had with some economics people plus some quick Google searches on current prices and subsidies.
The whole topic is pretty controversial, so there's a lot of misinformation out there. I do believe subsidies need to be severely reduced. I just think that the magnitude of the problem is overestimated. Perhaps the current system is pretty close to the optimal arrangement without any subsidies. For example, can our country actually import enough sugar economically to replace corn syrup?
I completely agree with you; the subsidies the US provides do not encourage a healthy American diet. They have drastically affected the supply/demand for a lot of commodities, like sugar VS corn.
But to put it into perspective, US subsidies only equal about 15-25 dollars per person per year (it varies every year, as different farm bills are passed), or about 1% of total food expenditures in the country. Corn and wheat are cheap for several reasons. First, they grow well in the US. Also, the farming system is highly efficient; the sheer magnitude of food that is grown and transported is amazing. For example, a bushel of corn (which I think is around $3.50 right now) weighs 56 pounds. And yes, they are cheap because the US does provide some subsidies, but these subsidies are less than 10% of the current costs.
Please go through the thread you are replying to. The original poster pointed out that the phone/radio service being used for communication could be used to transmit data. I pointed out that the iPhone can do something well, so a cheap computer should also be able to do it. This has nothing to do with sending iPhones to remote villages in India and hoping they somehow find a cell signal.
And Google is pretty decent at parsing real world questions. For specialized common queries, bookmarks could be set up (for example, push this button with a cricket player on it if you want to know the results of today's cricket matches).
It's not just theoretically possible, voice recognition/speech synthesizing technology is very mature, and has been for years. It can run on cheap hardware with decent accuracy.
Anyway, this exercise appears highly impractical to me - remember that it is not actually being done on a wide scale yet, so it is still somewhat theoretical.
I can search google using just voice detection on my iPhone (and it works remarkably well). Then, the iPhone can read everything back to me. If a blind person can use an iPhone to search Google, an illiterate person can too. If an illiterate person can use an iPhone, they should be able to use a desktop computer.
I'm not sure how good Google's Hindi voice detection is, but I'm just saying it is theoretically possible.
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I was under the impression this is for handing out DWIs, not for furthering the war on drugs. Would you call arresting drunk drivers part of the neo-prohibition movement?
Did you try it? When I clicked on the licensing link "Click here for copyright permissions" the URL was tagged with a key: http://license.icopyright.net/3.5721?icx_id=D99RNEOO2
Those numbers appear to be different for each article.
I'm guessing Live records the results of matches somewhere, so they can be verified by a third party. They could always charge a higher service fee for false disputes.
Radio Shack has become a stale brand, they aren't losing much from a name change. The next generation (I'd say anyone under 30) has a pretty low opinion of radios - it's what you have to listen to when you can't afford a CD player or iPod. I don't blame them for wanting to get rid of that from their name.
I'm not a huge fan of the new name (a shack? seriously? that's the name of the dive bar down the street from me), but I think they *need* to take some gambles if they want to survive the next ten years. I'm amazed the internet hasn't destroyed them yet, actually.
If it's bit torrent with enough people in the swarm, each person only needs to download a small part of the file, and then share that part with everyone else.
What about features?
You are talking about IE, I am talking about the Windows kernel and core dlls. Yes, IE is a buggy POS, but the Windows NT kernel is extremely mature, and any bugs in it would only hinder applications.
I'm sure the researchers will be running some buggy versions of IE 6, but my comment was about WINE specifically.
"which rival AT&T called 'misleading'"
I certainly hope AT&T isn't claiming it is the most reliable 3G network, because that wouldn't just be misleading - it would be lying.
I can see their point though; in some areas of the country, I know Verizon is clearly not the most reliable network. Their claim is misleading, but I find it funny that of all companies AT&T decided to get into all this.
"Since the *target* of WINE is to emulate Windows"
I hope I'm not missing your point, but WINE stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator". It's a compatibility layer, and I'm sure it wouldn't keep any bugs that exist in Windows. Code that is required to run legitimate software is not a bug.
They mean that bit torrent users in Somalia were using up so much bandwidth that the cable couldn't be used
Don't you think it's a problem that a lot of people have never heard of Zeus? I would agree with you if Conficker was the only computer worm/virus out there.
Sorry, I mean downloading tons of songs, not games.
I'd agree with you if Rock Band hadn't sold one billion dollars worth of games during the current recession. Given that, revenue being down 50% is still very impressive for a video game franchise.
That said, you are partially right. According to this article (http://stuff.tv/news/Guitar-Hero-and-Rock-Band-sales-down-but-downloads-soar/12842/), now that people have their hardware, and now that the innovation in games has ended, people are downloading tons of games. So the equipment is a barrier to entry, but it doesn't spell the death of the genre.
Do you realize those solutions would all lead back to more coal? Subsidies and taxes are there partly to encourage us to be less dependent on technologies that throw tons of CO2 into the air. CO2 pollution is an externality, which means the parties that profit off it are negatively impacting others. This is an inefficient setup; surprisingly, taxes may be the best way to make it efficient by revealing the hidden costs of various technologies.
You misunderstand Obama's energy plan. He is a realist, and he knows new nuclear energy can't be a big part of our nation's energy supply in the near-term future (next 10-15 years) Meanwhile, the country's energy usage continues to be uncomfortably close to its supply.
We are sitting on tons of coal, large parts of the country are bathed in wind, our buildings are inefficient, our grid is a mess, and battery technology isn't ready for mainstream electric cars.
His energy plan attacks the present problems without committing to any single solution for the future. He believes that *over-reliance* on a single technology that isn't proven ready is a bad idea. I agree with him.
Not to mention that Jupiter's orbit keeps it close to a lot of asteroids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InnerSolarSystem-en.png). Kind of beautiful: the Sun basically has a huge, sparse ring around it.
And here's a deep thought: if the asteroid belt had been closer to the Sun, there is a good chance we wouldn't be alive to wish it weren't ;)
"What we would like to do is leverage existing wikis by augmenting our internal wiki with an external wiki"
What does that even mean? If you want to design something, you'll have to use more precise language. And for god's sake, stop using the word leverage without thinking about it. You used it backwards - if you are augmenting your internal wiki with external wikis, you are leveraging your internal wiki with the external wikis. You leverage a boulder with a lever, but you don't leverage a lever with a boulder.
"Please, if the CIA, or NSA maybe FBI, wanted to print their own money they would just duplicate the machines from the U.S. Mint "
Yes, that is one reason why the accusations are being made. Look up "superdollars" - the bills are considered virtually indistinguishable from real dollars. It is plausible that the CIA has an exact copy of the money making machines used by the bureau of printing and engraving to sidestep the need for external funding.
If true, this is kind of like the time the US accused North Korea of creating really authentic-looking counterfeit 100 dollar bills, and then it turned out that they are probably coming from within the US - possibly from the CIA to fund covert operations.
I hate to say it, but maybe Kim Jong Il isn't crazy when he claims the Western governments are part of a big conspiracy to falsely ruin his image (hah!)
Regarding this: "There's no way to square this with his original comments"
I do not believe Garcia is being inconsistent; I would probably have a similar reaction. I put almost all my photographs under the creative commons license, and I am very flattered when anyone considers my photographs good enough to use for anything. Still, I consider this part of the license absolutely essential: "you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor". I took the energy to take and share my photograph with others, so I think the license I put it under should be respected.
Although I use a different license than Garcia, we both agree that putting something online should not be the equivalent of completely losing ownership/control of our art. Still, we are both flattered when people do want to use our art. These two beliefs are not mutually exclusive.
I'd be interested in what you find if you look into it more. I am basing my information off conversations I've had with some economics people plus some quick Google searches on current prices and subsidies.
The whole topic is pretty controversial, so there's a lot of misinformation out there. I do believe subsidies need to be severely reduced. I just think that the magnitude of the problem is overestimated. Perhaps the current system is pretty close to the optimal arrangement without any subsidies. For example, can our country actually import enough sugar economically to replace corn syrup?
I completely agree with you; the subsidies the US provides do not encourage a healthy American diet. They have drastically affected the supply/demand for a lot of commodities, like sugar VS corn.
But to put it into perspective, US subsidies only equal about 15-25 dollars per person per year (it varies every year, as different farm bills are passed), or about 1% of total food expenditures in the country. Corn and wheat are cheap for several reasons. First, they grow well in the US. Also, the farming system is highly efficient; the sheer magnitude of food that is grown and transported is amazing. For example, a bushel of corn (which I think is around $3.50 right now) weighs 56 pounds. And yes, they are cheap because the US does provide some subsidies, but these subsidies are less than 10% of the current costs.
Please go through the thread you are replying to. The original poster pointed out that the phone/radio service being used for communication could be used to transmit data. I pointed out that the iPhone can do something well, so a cheap computer should also be able to do it. This has nothing to do with sending iPhones to remote villages in India and hoping they somehow find a cell signal.
And Google is pretty decent at parsing real world questions. For specialized common queries, bookmarks could be set up (for example, push this button with a cricket player on it if you want to know the results of today's cricket matches).
It's not just theoretically possible, voice recognition/speech synthesizing technology is very mature, and has been for years. It can run on cheap hardware with decent accuracy.
Anyway, this exercise appears highly impractical to me - remember that it is not actually being done on a wide scale yet, so it is still somewhat theoretical.
I can search google using just voice detection on my iPhone (and it works remarkably well). Then, the iPhone can read everything back to me. If a blind person can use an iPhone to search Google, an illiterate person can too. If an illiterate person can use an iPhone, they should be able to use a desktop computer.
I'm not sure how good Google's Hindi voice detection is, but I'm just saying it is theoretically possible.