mm... implement skype protocol in an open source client that also supports sip/xmpp, use sip/xmpp between those clients... well, not likely, but i may hope for it, right ?:)
mm, if they wanted to be distinctive from other phone makers, they probably should have gone with meego platform and developed cool, unique, usable and highly customisable applications.
if it only had some "desktop sharing" or more like "presentation" mode... that would be perfect:)
in an ideal case there might be two options - read-only desktop viewing and emulated "display" so one could use presenter plugin from oo.org/lo to show slides to the remote host & presenter screen locally...
If someone seriously and repeatedly complains that following the process kills their passion, it is due either to a failure of that analysis or them being in the wrong organization.
sometimes it even sounds like "stop finding bugs in my code, that just slows me down !";)
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i would be quite interested in a crossplatform solution with great linux support. opensource highly preferred.
Finally, Douglas dealt with the classic example of a man "falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." In order to explain why someone could be legitimately prosecuted for this, Douglas called it an example in which "speech is brigaded with action." In the view of Douglas and Black, this was probably the only sort of case in which a person could be prosecuted for speech.
hmm. fuck. "disturbing" isn't the correct word for it (even disturbing is the though that this was way, way more common when cameras were not placed almost everywhere...)
even more disturbing is the small amount of publicity any abuse of power actually gets.
"artificial monopoly" refers to the fact that there is no real world cost or restriction on reproducing an intangible work - as opposed to stealing a physical entity. thus a codified, artificial monopoly has been created.
next, every work depends on the work done before the author. no work is ever born in an empty place, there's always an inspiration from previous work. there's also dependency on the equipment (like musical instruments), or just environment, like ability to get food easily and cheaply. i don't see food producers requiring royalty on anything created while consuming their food. or maybe producers of the musical instruments requiring royalty from any works created by using their creation, which often is fairly artistic on it's own - like fancy guitars used in shows or videos.
and of course there are lots of other arguments that anybody interested in the topic surely has heard before - like cultural background which every person born contributes to and currently is limited from fully participating from. there's also the supply being way, way bigger than demand, so the argument is easily overturned as "if you don't like contributing to the cultural baggage, go do something useful".
but if one would resort to silly namecalling, i could label you as an industry shill - an industry which seems to be fighting for the crown of the world, but possibly is just grasping for the straws to survive in the face of it becoming obsolete.
why should everybody be bent on paying on an artificial monopoly, introduced to motivate people to create more artistic works, and initially limited to way shorter term than has happened to be today ? you make it sound like people should be better begging for money to guarantee income for another group of people, who... frankly speaking, are not useful to the society. there, i said - society as a whole would be better off with those people doing more productive work, as art and entertainment would be produced always, just as it has been always produced.
i've met some people who were fully into volunteer work and charity. even so that they didn't have anything left for themselves. i'm somehow thinking that they might have been more useful to the society than somebody who is buying a right to listen to music.
changes usually appear on http://open.mapquest.com/ quite quickly, and that includes both rendering and searching. not too surprising, given that they employ some key osm project developers;)
as for the "map maker", i guess the issue is that google would like to get the edits of their users and not give them to anybody else, including the contributors themselves;)
of course, there's always the fact that "map maker" was available in multiple other countries before "opening" it for usa. which means others have had a chance to ask "why do this if there's osm" already;) http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Kompa/diary/10047
so i would like to invite everybody to join http://osm.org/:)
why some company being business - just like that - is a good thing ? did they have some right to never fail ? or they were given guarantees that they will always be in business ?
good cars is great - but it's not like nobody else would be incapable of creating them...
I don't think the GM bailout was the best thing, but many good things have come from it, far more then other industries that the government has bailed out in the past.
as an european, i'd have to ask - what are those good things ? (trying to ignore "then-than" fuckup...)
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mm... implement skype protocol in an open source client that also supports sip/xmpp, use sip/xmpp between those clients... :)
well, not likely, but i may hope for it, right ?
i'm running opera just fine on 733mhz/512mb system. on slackware, though
mm, if they wanted to be distinctive from other phone makers, they probably should have gone with meego platform and developed cool, unique, usable and highly customisable applications.
so talking about this might slightly change the society so that sex wouldn't be a reason for blackmail ? :)
yay. who fucked whom, again ?
if it only had some "desktop sharing" or more like "presentation" mode... that would be perfect :)
in an ideal case there might be two options - read-only desktop viewing and emulated "display" so one could use presenter plugin from oo.org/lo to show slides to the remote host & presenter screen locally...
(with linux as the host, of course =) )
If someone seriously and repeatedly complains that following the process kills their passion, it is due either to a failure of that analysis or them being in the wrong organization.
sometimes it even sounds like "stop finding bugs in my code, that just slows me down !" ;)
i opened google voice url (https://www.google.com/voice) and was greeted by :
i would be quite interested in a crossplatform solution with great linux support. opensource highly preferred.
wasn't that meant to be "security agent" or somesuch ? at least that's how i read it.
closing the barn door where velociraptors were kept ?
yes the store would be empty soon
i'm having a problem following your analogy. so you are saying the downloaders will empty the internet soon ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
hmm. fuck. "disturbing" isn't the correct word for it (even disturbing is the though that this was way, way more common when cameras were not placed almost everywhere...)
even more disturbing is the small amount of publicity any abuse of power actually gets.
LEVERAGE ! ECOSYSTEM !
yeeeeeeah. that gotta help nokia share price. not really :)
cute namecalling :)
"artificial monopoly" refers to the fact that there is no real world cost or restriction on reproducing an intangible work - as opposed to stealing a physical entity. thus a codified, artificial monopoly has been created.
next, every work depends on the work done before the author. no work is ever born in an empty place, there's always an inspiration from previous work. there's also dependency on the equipment (like musical instruments), or just environment, like ability to get food easily and cheaply. i don't see food producers requiring royalty on anything created while consuming their food. or maybe producers of the musical instruments requiring royalty from any works created by using their creation, which often is fairly artistic on it's own - like fancy guitars used in shows or videos.
and of course there are lots of other arguments that anybody interested in the topic surely has heard before - like cultural background which every person born contributes to and currently is limited from fully participating from. there's also the supply being way, way bigger than demand, so the argument is easily overturned as "if you don't like contributing to the cultural baggage, go do something useful".
but if one would resort to silly namecalling, i could label you as an industry shill - an industry which seems to be fighting for the crown of the world, but possibly is just grasping for the straws to survive in the face of it becoming obsolete.
why should everybody be bent on paying on an artificial monopoly, introduced to motivate people to create more artistic works, and initially limited to way shorter term than has happened to be today ?
you make it sound like people should be better begging for money to guarantee income for another group of people, who... frankly speaking, are not useful to the society. there, i said - society as a whole would be better off with those people doing more productive work, as art and entertainment would be produced always, just as it has been always produced.
well, they will have this smallprint about a monthly limit of a few gb, so you might want to reconsider getting that adapter...
i've met some people who were fully into volunteer work and charity. even so that they didn't have anything left for themselves.
i'm somehow thinking that they might have been more useful to the society than somebody who is buying a right to listen to music.
changes usually appear on http://open.mapquest.com/ quite quickly, and that includes both rendering and searching. not too surprising, given that they employ some key osm project developers ;)
is osm better ? ;)
http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=19.78401&lat=46.77155&zoom=7
if not, you can fix it right away...
as for the "map maker", i guess the issue is that google would like to get the edits of their users and not give them to anybody else, including the contributors themselves ;)
the deliberate errors in maps, commonly known as copyright easter eggs, is a somewhat interesting topic with some history as well : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_Easter_Eggs
very. hopefully people will discover osm and "upgrade" from google - with osm, you can get entire dataset and do nearly anything with it.
several other mapping companies are contributing to osm - http://open.mapquest.com/, even http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2010/08/02/bing-maps-adds-open-street-maps-layer.aspx (although the link in the latter seems to be broken right now :) )
you can find other interesting uses of osm data here : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Services
of course, there's always the fact that "map maker" was available in multiple other countries before "opening" it for usa. which means others have had a chance to ask "why do this if there's osm" already ;) http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Kompa/diary/10047
so i would like to invite everybody to join http://osm.org/ :)
that's coral cache - in case the site would get slashdotted, or just to be nice to site owners, story submitter (or editor) used cache links instead
why some company being business - just like that - is a good thing ?
did they have some right to never fail ? or they were given guarantees that they will always be in business ?
good cars is great - but it's not like nobody else would be incapable of creating them...
I don't think the GM bailout was the best thing, but many good things have come from it, far more then other industries that the government has bailed out in the past.
as an european, i'd have to ask - what are those good things ? (trying to ignore "then-than" fuckup...)
are you referring to energia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia ?
supposedly it's engines (ok, based on) are still powering atlas v, so it's not a complete failure :)
curiously, it was recently pointed out that http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/_(-) contains a gem of "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters." - slashdot, why must you suck so hard ? (try second paragraph of "http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F_(%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)#.D0.98.D0.BD.D1.82.D0.B5.D1.80.D0.B5.D1.81.D0.BD.D1.8B.D0.B5_.D1.84.D0.B0.D0.BA.D1.82.D1.8B") - while google tanslate gives a somewhat funny result, it should be still somewhat readable.