Joe Sixpack has one question: WTF you are talking about, who is centralized, and why should I care? Seriously, geeks are 1% of Facebook audience, 99% couldn't care less about "decentralization".
I am European, and I think that fast Internet for free should be available to anyone in EU, as part of basic human rights. I don't care how it is technically done, but this should be long-term goal, especially for social parties, in order to prevent new kind of illiteracy of poor people.
Yeah, it was not about rounded corners so much like about US court and jury _obviously_ protecting US company (evil, but saint in media) against Asian (default evil) company.
I wonder why Samsung wouldn't just leave US market, after all, it is only some 20% of worldwide smartphone market and shrinking. Just like Google left China with search engine nad let Chinese eat their own Baidu dogfood, US market is broken, so it is better left to Apple alone.
It doesn't make any sense at all. HDTV is already "retina" resolution, for distance (>=2m) between TV and you. Adding resolution will not be noticed by 99% users, but it will increase power consumption of TV chipset. For me, I am happy that cheap consumer 4K PC monitors will be great, because I am waching at it from short distance, as oppose to TV set.
The truth is, from EU perspective, that unfair trials and abusing law system (Gitmo, Manning) is comparable in US to Russia (Chodorkovskij, Kasparov, Pussy Riot). Unfortunate truth is: from GWB days, USA lost ability to protest against human rights violations anywhare, which is sad.
Samsung's point is not that Apple was stealing, but that Apple was suing others for "stealing", while "stealing" themselves. Both cases (Fidler. vs. Apple, Apple vs. Samsung) are pretty much nonsense, as anyone working in technology can see, no stealing actually happened at all, it was "stealing" as in broken law system.
it is very simple and straightforward to cover heat wave peaks with solar energy. Demand from air conditioning is proportional to production from solar panels and with sun intensity. It sounds really stupid to use nuclear, coal, or any other type of electricity)for air-conditioning peaks.
I consider games not to be "software" for some time, it became part of entertainment industry, like films or music. It is created by large studios where programmers are only one ever smaller part of team. For this reason, I consider Steam equivalent of YouTube: channel that enables me to consume commercial entertainment, on my free OS, that remains fully GPL (minus GPU driver).
Its eve worse for WSJ. While US government invented and financed underlying protocols (100%, no private company was involved), Web was invented by socialist (that is by European standards, which is more like "communist" for USA) research institute CERN, consuming billions of taxpayer dollars like there is no tomorrow. And on top of that, guy that invented WWW was not even doing anything related to his job (physics) that he was paid for by HARD WORKING TAXPAYERS, he was researching unrelated computer hypertext transport in his WORK TIME!
I work as developer of specialized Enterprise Android applications. So, we order tablets with pure ICS and we put selection of our apps that we need to have there. Yes, for end-users it is "locked", but it is not locked by Google, it is locked by anyone who wants to create such tablet, and it is locked in way end-user demands. If there is demand for whatever style of tablet, however open, there is company that will provide it, Android is fully open-source, there is no limit to customization. And I am not talking about 'jailbreaking" here, Chinese cheap and fully customizable (including hardware!) tablets are completely legal (minus nonsense on rectangular shape in US, etc.).
some of the leadership did condemn the attacks but that's as far as it went.
What else should they to? After all, it was only one building and few thousand victims of attack. Comparing to hundrends of thousend civilians killed and wounded by US Army. If Iranian condemnation of attack (they were not involved in) is too little, what is Obama supposed to do in Iraq, about mindless attacks he is directly responsible for?
And what sort of Diplomacy are we supposed to use when "Stern Letter Writing", "UN Inspections" and threats fail?
As an EU person, may I suggest to our US friends another option: when "Stern Letter Writing" and "UN Inspections" threats fail in Iran, to provide healthcare for poor people in US?
So, Iran with its 70+ million population, is sanctioned for building reactor, while in USA individual private companies. Makes sense in global media idiocracy we live in!
Here is thought I had the other day: assume mathematical "function" that defines our universe and underlying physics (function that "theory of everything" is trying to find), works in _reverse_ direction of time. So that every particle (or whatever) at t is calculated from local state at (t+1). We usually thinks of laws of physics going in "natural" direction of time.
Now, after the inevitable final end of intelligent civilizations in this universe, surely there will be some artifacts made by durable nanomaterials, that persists long after stars and even black holes evaporate into 'nothing".
Universe calculated from backwards will therefore have such "intelligently designed" artifact at the _beginning_, as sort of input parameter, so it have to find a mathematically plausible way going forward (which is backwards in time for us) how these artifacts were created. Intelligent life and physical laws supporting intelligent life might be _result_ of something strange at the function input.
That means if you have function where random "state" is input and set of equations ("laws of physics") is output, as soon as you put something looking improbable at input, say set of large prime numbers, function might find it is easier to create universe with intelligent civilization, which created this prime numbers, then to create universe where laws of physics created such improbable outcome by chance.
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If only he tried to look like crazy dictator little less.
Joe Sixpack has one question: WTF you are talking about, who is centralized, and why should I care? Seriously, geeks are 1% of Facebook audience, 99% couldn't care less about "decentralization".
I am European, and I think that fast Internet for free should be available to anyone in EU, as part of basic human rights. I don't care how it is technically done, but this should be long-term goal, especially for social parties, in order to prevent new kind of illiteracy of poor people.
"Your navigation app "Orbiter" was remotely uninstalled, sorry for that, use our new Apple Car Navigation instead".
Yeah, it was not about rounded corners so much like about US court and jury _obviously_ protecting US company (evil, but saint in media) against Asian (default evil) company.
I wonder why Samsung wouldn't just leave US market, after all, it is only some 20% of worldwide smartphone market and shrinking. Just like Google left China with search engine nad let Chinese eat their own Baidu dogfood, US market is broken, so it is better left to Apple alone.
It doesn't make any sense at all. HDTV is already "retina" resolution, for distance (>=2m) between TV and you. Adding resolution will not be noticed by 99% users, but it will increase power consumption of TV chipset. For me, I am happy that cheap consumer 4K PC monitors will be great, because I am waching at it from short distance, as oppose to TV set.
The truth is, from EU perspective, that unfair trials and abusing law system (Gitmo, Manning) is comparable in US to Russia (Chodorkovskij, Kasparov, Pussy Riot). Unfortunate truth is: from GWB days, USA lost ability to protest against human rights violations anywhare, which is sad.
Samsung's point is not that Apple was stealing, but that Apple was suing others for "stealing", while "stealing" themselves. Both cases (Fidler. vs. Apple, Apple vs. Samsung) are pretty much nonsense, as anyone working in technology can see, no stealing actually happened at all, it was "stealing" as in broken law system.
Time to sue YouTube for making them look like idiots.
And what was size of Martian LoC in Earth LoCs? Those are exactly questions this mission is trying to answer.
it is very simple and straightforward to cover heat wave peaks with solar energy. Demand from air conditioning is proportional to production from solar panels and with sun intensity. It sounds really stupid to use nuclear, coal, or any other type of electricity)for air-conditioning peaks.
It is eight. They gave me one for free, but I forgot it on the chair when I left presentation, which was around time, that I got one for free.
I consider games not to be "software" for some time, it became part of entertainment industry, like films or music. It is created by large studios where programmers are only one ever smaller part of team. For this reason, I consider Steam equivalent of YouTube: channel that enables me to consume commercial entertainment, on my free OS, that remains fully GPL (minus GPU driver).
We use Google Calendar for this. It has nice API, which we don't even need (only 20 employees).
I don't own iPhone, but it should comply with EU ruling, that all phones use standard micro-USB charger, or am I missing something?
Its eve worse for WSJ. While US government invented and financed underlying protocols (100%, no private company was involved), Web was invented by socialist (that is by European standards, which is more like "communist" for USA) research institute CERN, consuming billions of taxpayer dollars like there is no tomorrow. And on top of that, guy that invented WWW was not even doing anything related to his job (physics) that he was paid for by HARD WORKING TAXPAYERS, he was researching unrelated computer hypertext transport in his WORK TIME!
I work as developer of specialized Enterprise Android applications. So, we order tablets with pure ICS and we put selection of our apps that we need to have there. Yes, for end-users it is "locked", but it is not locked by Google, it is locked by anyone who wants to create such tablet, and it is locked in way end-user demands. If there is demand for whatever style of tablet, however open, there is company that will provide it, Android is fully open-source, there is no limit to customization. And I am not talking about 'jailbreaking" here, Chinese cheap and fully customizable (including hardware!) tablets are completely legal (minus nonsense on rectangular shape in US, etc.).
In other news, expensive Cuban cigars fall apart, as soon as you try to clean it with kitchen blender.
some of the leadership did condemn the attacks but that's as far as it went.
What else should they to? After all, it was only one building and few thousand victims of attack. Comparing to hundrends of thousend civilians killed and wounded by US Army. If Iranian condemnation of attack (they were not involved in) is too little, what is Obama supposed to do in Iraq, about mindless attacks he is directly responsible for?
And what sort of Diplomacy are we supposed to use when "Stern Letter Writing", "UN Inspections" and threats fail?
As an EU person, may I suggest to our US friends another option: when "Stern Letter Writing" and "UN Inspections" threats fail in Iran, to provide healthcare for poor people in US?
It have adequately big IPS display, attachable keyboard when you need one, and it is not expensive (like $200).
So, Iran with its 70+ million population, is sanctioned for building reactor, while in USA individual private companies. Makes sense in global media idiocracy we live in!
Here is thought I had the other day: assume mathematical "function" that defines our universe and underlying physics (function that "theory of everything" is trying to find), works in _reverse_ direction of time. So that every particle (or whatever) at t is calculated from local state at (t+1). We usually thinks of laws of physics going in "natural" direction of time. Now, after the inevitable final end of intelligent civilizations in this universe, surely there will be some artifacts made by durable nanomaterials, that persists long after stars and even black holes evaporate into 'nothing". Universe calculated from backwards will therefore have such "intelligently designed" artifact at the _beginning_, as sort of input parameter, so it have to find a mathematically plausible way going forward (which is backwards in time for us) how these artifacts were created. Intelligent life and physical laws supporting intelligent life might be _result_ of something strange at the function input. That means if you have function where random "state" is input and set of equations ("laws of physics") is output, as soon as you put something looking improbable at input, say set of large prime numbers, function might find it is easier to create universe with intelligent civilization, which created this prime numbers, then to create universe where laws of physics created such improbable outcome by chance.
They are extracting energy from flying chairs. Ba-Dum-Tssssss