If this gets attention from other companies who pay facebook for advertising placement, it could make facebook's advertisment revenues fall quite a lot. Click fraud is a really big deal.
The Note, believe it or not, fits more comfortably in my hand, the keyboard is FAR easier to use, the display is much easier to read - and it still fits in my pocket with no problems whatsoever.
This. I used to deliberately buy thicker phones (when I was using feature phones) because they were easier to hold when talking on them. When I started shopping for smartphones, I quickly discovered that I could quite comfortably hold a much thinner phone, provided it was large. My Galaxy SII is both the largest and thinnest phone I've ever had by a big margin, but it is also the easiest and most comfortable to hold.
Best would be to spoof the ISP's identification mechanisms so that IP addresses belonging to MPs, ISP executives, music and film industry executives, etc appear in their logs.
I've never really been clear on the need for TLDs in the first place. Why wouldn't I want to just go to http://tech.slashdot/story/ or http://google/ or http://whitehouse/ ? What use does slapping a ".com" (or at random, ".org" instead) on the end really have?
Why is it wrong? I can think of several reasons that someone might consider it wrong to redistribute umodified copies of a copyrighted work without license to do so. Which one motivates you?
Unprivileged remote code execution bug in web browser (or anything else that deals with data that comes from somewhere else) + privilege escalation bug in ANYTHING = rootkit. With the security you describe, rootkit on one inside machine = rootkit on all inside machines. Then, you wake up one morning and your entire corporate network is a giant kiddie porn server farm!
No, one of the advantages of open source is that YOU can make the software work in the way that you want it to, not that some other person will necessarily sacrifice their time and ingenuity to make you comfortable for zero compensation. If you want it to run on your old hardware, you're free to get the code and make it do so, which is not generally possible with closed code.
Speed is, and always has been, limited by the capabilities of the hardware in between source and destination. Nobody has ever thought that "unlimited" meant "unlimited speed". Nobody sane, anyway.
Well, the article appears to be stating the exact opposite of what you have just asserted, to wit, that the US government IS paying private companies to "spy" on activists. Either you or the article must be wrong, since you are making incompatible assertions. Unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the patience to go through the documents in question on wikileaks in order to determine whether the article's depiction of affairs is accurate, based on those documents (and the presumption that they are themselves reliable).
So, what you're saying is that if you buy Apple's hardware and purchase additional software and hardware to complement it, that the barrier to switching to another handset manufacturer's products is in fact higher than the same barrier if you had not started out with Apple. That is.... exactly what lock-in means.
Imagine I bought an iPhone today. In order to do many useful things with it, I would desire to purchase various apps, and I might even purchase extra chargers, an alarm clock dock, a speaker dock for my living room, etc. Now, suppose that HTC comes out with a new handset that I think is really the best thing ever, and I decide I'm going to shell out the money to switch. Suddenly, all the money that I spent on secondary things has to be spent all over again because of "incompatible technologies" and "historically-justified exceptions". I'll probably decide not to switch to the new HTC handset I really liked, and I'll buy a new iPhone instead.
Now imagine I had bought a Samsung phone to start with. In order to do many useful things with it, I would purchase various apps, and I might even purchase extra chargers, an alarm clock dock, a speaker dock for my living room, etc. Now, suppose that HTC comes out with a new handset that I think is really the best thing ever, and I decide I'm going to shell out the money to switch. Suddenly, all the money that I spent on secondary things... doesn't have to be spent all over again, because the handset manufacturer is decoupled from compatibility with those secondary things. I'll probably switch manufacturers, and if Samsung wants to regain my business, they'd better make a better phone than HTC next time around.
The reasons for the lock-in might be justified historical accidents, and they might be deliberate and malicious. It doesn't matter. They still cause lock-in, and lock-in is still unpleasant at best.
You appear to be out of touch with reality in that what you have just said is patently untrue. For instance: T-Mobile offers "value" or "bring your own phone" contracts that allow you to use whatever handset you like with whatever software and OS you like on their network. You even pay less per month (but don't get a handset subsidy) for this.
Samsung (the handset manufacturer) sells an unlocked version of my phone on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Unlocked-Smartphone-Internal-Touchscreen/dp/B004QTBQ2C/ref=sr_1_1?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1330470133&sr=1-1
It's more expensive when you don't buy the carrier subsidy, but finding legitimate unlocked phones is easy to do. T-Mobile actually offers a set of contracts ("value" or "bring your own phone" plans) that do not come with subsidized phones, but that are cheaper by the month to compensate. Unlocked phones are a reality, whether you like it or not.
What are the shortcomings of LaTeX that it is not in this converstation? Honest question, not snarking. What does book publishing require that LaTeX doesn't/can't do?
Good thing they had enough cash to buy that land then. Not everybody would have. It's not surprising that environmentalists get turned into bogeymen, since they turn everything and everyone else into bogeymen for a living.
Constant vigilance against and hypersensitivity to the police state is a very good way to avoid becoming a police state. I'm quite GLAD that we don't know what a real police state is like and think that a little thing like this is police state-esque. It's a good thing.
Medical accelerators, materials research, heat-shrink tubing. There are a lot of possibilities for real commercial use of accelerators. TFS mentioned some 30k commercial accelerators already in use. Maybe you should ask the people running them what they are using them for. If you make them cheaper and more available, the uses can only expand.
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If this gets attention from other companies who pay facebook for advertising placement, it could make facebook's advertisment revenues fall quite a lot. Click fraud is a really big deal.
The Note, believe it or not, fits more comfortably in my hand, the keyboard is FAR easier to use, the display is much easier to read - and it still fits in my pocket with no problems whatsoever.
This. I used to deliberately buy thicker phones (when I was using feature phones) because they were easier to hold when talking on them. When I started shopping for smartphones, I quickly discovered that I could quite comfortably hold a much thinner phone, provided it was large. My Galaxy SII is both the largest and thinnest phone I've ever had by a big margin, but it is also the easiest and most comfortable to hold.
Best would be to spoof the ISP's identification mechanisms so that IP addresses belonging to MPs, ISP executives, music and film industry executives, etc appear in their logs.
.corn might even be better. Harder to visually distinguish, and even more likely to have legitimate uses.
I've never really been clear on the need for TLDs in the first place. Why wouldn't I want to just go to http://tech.slashdot/story/ or http://google/ or http://whitehouse/ ? What use does slapping a ".com" (or at random, ".org" instead) on the end really have?
This naming model is bork.bork.bork
Why is it wrong? I can think of several reasons that someone might consider it wrong to redistribute umodified copies of a copyrighted work without license to do so. Which one motivates you?
Unprivileged remote code execution bug in web browser (or anything else that deals with data that comes from somewhere else) + privilege escalation bug in ANYTHING = rootkit. With the security you describe, rootkit on one inside machine = rootkit on all inside machines. Then, you wake up one morning and your entire corporate network is a giant kiddie porn server farm!
The new IPython notebook interface. Certainly matters to me, and !*@# FF3.6 on ^#@! &^%@!^&#^ RHEL 6 can't use it.
No, one of the advantages of open source is that YOU can make the software work in the way that you want it to, not that some other person will necessarily sacrifice their time and ingenuity to make you comfortable for zero compensation. If you want it to run on your old hardware, you're free to get the code and make it do so, which is not generally possible with closed code.
Speed is, and always has been, limited by the capabilities of the hardware in between source and destination. Nobody has ever thought that "unlimited" meant "unlimited speed". Nobody sane, anyway.
Well, the article appears to be stating the exact opposite of what you have just asserted, to wit, that the US government IS paying private companies to "spy" on activists. Either you or the article must be wrong, since you are making incompatible assertions. Unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the patience to go through the documents in question on wikileaks in order to determine whether the article's depiction of affairs is accurate, based on those documents (and the presumption that they are themselves reliable).
My hovercraft is full of eels? Bouncy, bouncy?
So, what you're saying is that if you buy Apple's hardware and purchase additional software and hardware to complement it, that the barrier to switching to another handset manufacturer's products is in fact higher than the same barrier if you had not started out with Apple. That is .... exactly what lock-in means.
Imagine I bought an iPhone today. In order to do many useful things with it, I would desire to purchase various apps, and I might even purchase extra chargers, an alarm clock dock, a speaker dock for my living room, etc. Now, suppose that HTC comes out with a new handset that I think is really the best thing ever, and I decide I'm going to shell out the money to switch. Suddenly, all the money that I spent on secondary things has to be spent all over again because of "incompatible technologies" and "historically-justified exceptions". I'll probably decide not to switch to the new HTC handset I really liked, and I'll buy a new iPhone instead.
Now imagine I had bought a Samsung phone to start with. In order to do many useful things with it, I would purchase various apps, and I might even purchase extra chargers, an alarm clock dock, a speaker dock for my living room, etc. Now, suppose that HTC comes out with a new handset that I think is really the best thing ever, and I decide I'm going to shell out the money to switch. Suddenly, all the money that I spent on secondary things ... doesn't have to be spent all over again, because the handset manufacturer is decoupled from compatibility with those secondary things. I'll probably switch manufacturers, and if Samsung wants to regain my business, they'd better make a better phone than HTC next time around.
The reasons for the lock-in might be justified historical accidents, and they might be deliberate and malicious. It doesn't matter. They still cause lock-in, and lock-in is still unpleasant at best.
You appear to be out of touch with reality in that what you have just said is patently untrue. For instance: T-Mobile offers "value" or "bring your own phone" contracts that allow you to use whatever handset you like with whatever software and OS you like on their network. You even pay less per month (but don't get a handset subsidy) for this.
Samsung (the handset manufacturer) sells an unlocked version of my phone on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Unlocked-Smartphone-Internal-Touchscreen/dp/B004QTBQ2C/ref=sr_1_1?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1330470133&sr=1-1 It's more expensive when you don't buy the carrier subsidy, but finding legitimate unlocked phones is easy to do. T-Mobile actually offers a set of contracts ("value" or "bring your own phone" plans) that do not come with subsidized phones, but that are cheaper by the month to compensate. Unlocked phones are a reality, whether you like it or not.
What are the shortcomings of LaTeX that it is not in this converstation? Honest question, not snarking. What does book publishing require that LaTeX doesn't/can't do?
Glad to know that "cheap-ass, money-grubbing" people no longer deserve the full protection of the law, at least in your eyes.
Good thing they had enough cash to buy that land then. Not everybody would have. It's not surprising that environmentalists get turned into bogeymen, since they turn everything and everyone else into bogeymen for a living.
Are you aware that agiculture is also a "consumptive" use of water, and to an enormously greater degree than nuclear power generation?
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Constant vigilance against and hypersensitivity to the police state is a very good way to avoid becoming a police state. I'm quite GLAD that we don't know what a real police state is like and think that a little thing like this is police state-esque. It's a good thing.
But can someone please innovate around getting a system that increase productivity by NOT requiring retraining.
Nope. What you are thinking of is called "staying the same". Every change, every single little change, is going to require retraining.
I may invest in nokia right now, it may pay off (it probably wont)
And if you don't invest in nokia, it definitely won't pay off.
Medical accelerators, materials research, heat-shrink tubing. There are a lot of possibilities for real commercial use of accelerators. TFS mentioned some 30k commercial accelerators already in use. Maybe you should ask the people running them what they are using them for. If you make them cheaper and more available, the uses can only expand.