1) Privacy and possibility of identity theft. 2) 7.5 gigs is nothing for 20 years of email - unless you do not use attachments. If you upgrade, you also share your real name and credit card etc. with Google. 3) Your email address probably changed multiple times over those 20 years - do you want to change all emails in the sense that the email address needs to be changed?
That a juror has already formed his opinion before the end of the trial is a common problem in all jury based law systems. A system with (multiple) full-time judges avoid some of those errors, but opens another can of worms.
In one documented case, a surprise common factor was a quality control person who didn't know the non-sterile swabs still couldn't be touched before packaging..
Microsoft, why don't you just write some QUALITY software for the iPad instead of trying to go head on in competition? That way, the more iPads Apple sells, the more software you sell. It's win-win.
But we, the consumers would lose. Without a healthy competition, there is no pressure to lower prices. And, there is no pressure to innovate on the existing iPad for Apple. So, yes, I would love to see many tablets - some with an Apple OS, some with Windows, and some with Android. What could be better than having the choice?
The country maps cost extra, often quite a lot extra, and become outdated fairly quickly.. If you aren't planning on spending a lot of time in a specific country then the cost of roaming data might actually be less than buying the maps.
Either you have no idea about what data roaming costs those days or you have a provider which offers very good international data roaming (note: not voice roaming), or you just use your maps very seldom. If you use it for a whole city to city tour of some hours, you are nearly bust.
I'd say that it is free. You would have bought the phone anyway, and there's (effectively) zero marginal cost to add the extra navigation features.
Does it not need a data connection? Try this is some rural parts. Or, try this in a foreign country with roaming fees going through the roof. Paying for the maps at TomTom or Garmin is cheap compared to the roaming fee excesses from your kind provider.
Your phone company keeps records of where you are at any time based on which towers your attached to. Law enforcement can get that data.
Bad enough. But why should Apple, Nokia, LG, RIM, etc. get that data too? After all, they could ask me whether I want to help them by sending this data - just making it mandatory to accept their rules if you want to use the GPS in the iPhone does not sound like a fair choice to me. And, btw, nobody told me when I got the iPhone - it has been disclosed now, and not really to me as the customer, but to the congress.
If you have a problem with it then - and I'll even bold the text so you don't miss it - TURN IT OFF!
OK, so I am using Google maps and allow the Google Map App to access the GPS. Fine, now Google knows the data. Why is this data later also send to Apple? What kind of choice is this? Apple has absolutely no rights (legally maybe, but not legitimately) to that data.
Honestly, I am baffled. I know that the iPhone always asks if an app wants to access the localization service, which I though is just the GPS receiver in the phone. It makes sense to ask, if you do not trust the app (or you know, it will send that information somewhere). But that Apple is harvesting this data is news to me - and I do not take that lightly. What right do they have to get the data, when I use the internal GPS receiver of the iPhoned? Next, they get my browsing history, or what?
If computers are bought by the school, they hinder education, because this money (for the purchase of those computers but also their continued maintenance and the training of the teachers) could have spent better (e.g. in laboratory equipment to let pupils experiment first-hand; in books; in an invitation of some outside speakers etc.).
I was hindered by 'traditional' education. Maths was the best example, they gave us a sheet with 100 sums of the same type. I solved the first 5 on paper, the next 5 in my head. And the rest I skipped. Of course performance was measured by the amount of sheets you had finished.
Of course, I forgot: Instead to invest in computers and other stuff, the school should first invest into good teachers. What you describe is a worst-case school - and computers only helped you to not listen to courses. That's equivalent to say that the best education would be no school at all.
If computers are bought by the school, they hinder education, because this money (for the purchase of those computers but also their continued maintenance and the training of the teachers) could have spent better (e.g. in laboratory equipment to let pupils experiment first-hand; in books; in an invitation of some outside speakers etc.).
If the question is whether the pure existence of a computer in a household hinders or helps the education, the answer is "doesn't matter".
NTP solved this ages ago by distributing atomic clock accuracy through the network.
The only problem this will solve is where it is a private network not connected to public NTP servers (or organizations that do not trust public NTP). In that case, they would most likely be able to afford a atomic clock.
NTP solved this ages ago by distributing atomic clock accuracy through the network.
If it is your (internally documented) trade secret, and somebody else invents the same, he can patent it. You cannot prevent the patent by pointing to your trade secret, because it has not been published and is therefore not eligible as prior art. However, if you can prove that your secret invention predates the filing date of patent, nobody can force you to pay royalties if you use your invention.
For sites that have been compromised by malware, it's absolutely necessary to inform visitors that they're exposing their computers to risk by visiting.
And, therefore, everybody should send every URL that they visit to Google or any other service? That's the most insane privacy setting that you can enable on your computer.
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It is absolutely insane to migrate an existing XP installation to a Windows 7 installation on the same box. However, when you get new PC hardware anyway, I would opt to install Windows 7 instead of XP unless you have really big issues with the software that you are using.
The IT department should now how to phase in Windows 7 computers in a formerly XP environment. You cannot migrate all employees at the same time (if you have enough employees).
The difference between 6L/100km and 3.8L/100km just isn't *that* significant, and certainly isn't significant enough to justify spending another $15,000 on a car that probably won't see 100,000km in its entire 5 year lifetime before I trade it in for a new one. The price of gas would have to be 7x what it currently is for that to have become an economical proposition.
Assuming, of course, that you will not be able to the get back some of the additional $15k when you sell your car after 5 years.
Basically, you can attain levels of experience that you can then use to demonstrate to potential new employers that you have experience, and skills used in industry.
Cool. Like getting modded up at/. Can I trade in my Karma?
Seems logical that a venture capitalist would see the absurdity in software patents. After all, how many venture capitalists are investing in all the fresh innovations and inventions coming out of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, etc.
Seems logical, I agree. However, most venture capitalists that I know would not agree - or actually would only "partially" agree. My experience is: In a VC funded startup, the VCs are pressing to file as many patents as possible. They see - and probably quite correctly so - patents as some tangible currency, when the startup will be sold or floated. It has nothing (or nearly nothing) to do with securing the innovations of the start-up, but much to do with making innovations explicit to the outside - so they see it rather as a marketing expense.
Filing patents have actually very high costs, if you also include the opportunity costs of what the engineer could have done during the time spent on the patent description and all the calls with the patent lawyer. Add to this all the money that goes to the patent lawyer and also the the patent office (additionally to the filing fee comes a yearly fee - and this for all regions where your patent should be valid). A VC knows all those costs - and nevertheless wants you to file as many patents as possible.
So, ias long as patents can be filed, a VC wants you to file patents. However, if nobody (in the sector) can file patents, this might be interesting as well - since this virtual currency must be no longer acquired under the high costs as described above. And, at the same time, if patents would no longer exist in your sector it removes a lot of legal uncertainty of the investement.
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Very bad idea:
1) Privacy and possibility of identity theft.
2) 7.5 gigs is nothing for 20 years of email - unless you do not use attachments. If you upgrade, you also share your real name and credit card etc. with Google.
3) Your email address probably changed multiple times over those 20 years - do you want to change all emails in the sense that the email address needs to be changed?
That a juror has already formed his opinion before the end of the trial is a common problem in all jury based law systems. A system with (multiple) full-time judges avoid some of those errors, but opens another can of worms.
In one documented case, a surprise common factor was a quality control person who didn't know the non-sterile swabs still couldn't be touched before packaging..
Happened actually in Germany:
Germany's Phantom Serial Killer: A DNA Blunder
Microsoft, why don't you just write some QUALITY software for the iPad instead of trying to go head on in competition? That way, the more iPads Apple sells, the more software you sell. It's win-win.
But we, the consumers would lose. Without a healthy competition, there is no pressure to lower prices. And, there is no pressure to innovate on the existing iPad for Apple. So, yes, I would love to see many tablets - some with an Apple OS, some with Windows, and some with Android. What could be better than having the choice?
The country maps cost extra, often quite a lot extra, and become outdated fairly quickly.. If you aren't planning on spending a lot of time in a specific country then the cost of roaming data might actually be less than buying the maps.
Either you have no idea about what data roaming costs those days or you have a provider which offers very good international data roaming (note: not voice roaming), or you just use your maps very seldom. If you use it for a whole city to city tour of some hours, you are nearly bust.
I'd say that it is free. You would have bought the phone anyway, and there's (effectively) zero marginal cost to add the extra navigation features.
Does it not need a data connection? Try this is some rural parts. Or, try this in a foreign country with roaming fees going through the roof. Paying for the maps at TomTom or Garmin is cheap compared to the roaming fee excesses from your kind provider.
Your phone company keeps records of where you are at any time based on which towers your attached to. Law enforcement can get that data.
Bad enough. But why should Apple, Nokia, LG, RIM, etc. get that data too? After all, they could ask me whether I want to help them by sending this data - just making it mandatory to accept their rules if you want to use the GPS in the iPhone does not sound like a fair choice to me. And, btw, nobody told me when I got the iPhone - it has been disclosed now, and not really to me as the customer, but to the congress.
I prefer my screen without an anti-glare coating outside.
He too, but he wants to use his shiny Apple ...
If you have a problem with it then - and I'll even bold the text so you don't miss it - TURN IT OFF!
OK, so I am using Google maps and allow the Google Map App to access the GPS. Fine, now Google knows the data. Why is this data later also send to Apple? What kind of choice is this? Apple has absolutely no rights (legally maybe, but not legitimately) to that data.
Honestly, I am baffled. I know that the iPhone always asks if an app wants to access the localization service, which I though is just the GPS receiver in the phone. It makes sense to ask, if you do not trust the app (or you know, it will send that information somewhere). But that Apple is harvesting this data is news to me - and I do not take that lightly. What right do they have to get the data, when I use the internal GPS receiver of the iPhoned? Next, they get my browsing history, or what?
Laboratory equipment such as distance measured by Sonar, or any periodic electrical signal by oscilloscope.. uhuh, no way could computers be useful for that.
A computer in a laboratory is quite useful; a computer for each pupil is not (for educational purpose).
If computers are bought by the school, they hinder education, because this money (for the purchase of those computers but also their continued maintenance and the training of the teachers) could have spent better (e.g. in laboratory equipment to let pupils experiment first-hand; in books; in an invitation of some outside speakers etc.).
I was hindered by 'traditional' education. Maths was the best example, they gave us a sheet with 100 sums of the same type. I solved the first 5 on paper, the next 5 in my head. And the rest I skipped. Of course performance was measured by the amount of sheets you had finished.
Of course, I forgot: Instead to invest in computers and other stuff, the school should first invest into good teachers. What you describe is a worst-case school - and computers only helped you to not listen to courses. That's equivalent to say that the best education would be no school at all.
If computers are bought by the school, they hinder education, because this money (for the purchase of those computers but also their continued maintenance and the training of the teachers) could have spent better (e.g. in laboratory equipment to let pupils experiment first-hand; in books; in an invitation of some outside speakers etc.).
If the question is whether the pure existence of a computer in a household hinders or helps the education, the answer is "doesn't matter".
I was already laughing after reading this 3 word introduction "SCO's ex-CEO's brother, ..."
NTP solved this ages ago by distributing atomic clock accuracy through the network.
The only problem this will solve is where it is a private network not connected to public NTP servers (or organizations that do not trust public NTP). In that case, they would most likely be able to afford a atomic clock.
NTP solved this ages ago by distributing atomic clock accuracy through the network.
Wrong. How could this be modded insightful?
Performance differences between NTP and RADclock in accuracy and stability: http://www.cubinlab.ee.unimelb.edu.au/radclock/performance.php
If it is your (internally documented) trade secret, and somebody else invents the same, he can patent it. You cannot prevent the patent by pointing to your trade secret, because it has not been published and is therefore not eligible as prior art. However, if you can prove that your secret invention predates the filing date of patent, nobody can force you to pay royalties if you use your invention.
For every uninformed church-going conservative, there's an uninformed liberal who watched Al Gore's movie, ...
This would be heaven.
Now you know, why the US and Nato went to Afghanistan in the first place. And why the Sowjets went there some 20 years ago. Are you surprised?
I foresee TrueCrypt's website will be getting a lot of new visitors soon.
You know that in this case, you can be detained until you surrendered the password?
For sites that have been compromised by malware, it's absolutely necessary to inform visitors that they're exposing their computers to risk by visiting.
And, therefore, everybody should send every URL that they visit to Google or any other service? That's the most insane privacy setting that you can enable on your computer.
It is absolutely insane to migrate an existing XP installation to a Windows 7 installation on the same box. However, when you get new PC hardware anyway, I would opt to install Windows 7 instead of XP unless you have really big issues with the software that you are using.
The IT department should now how to phase in Windows 7 computers in a formerly XP environment. You cannot migrate all employees at the same time (if you have enough employees).
The difference between 6L/100km and 3.8L/100km just isn't *that* significant, and certainly isn't significant enough to justify spending another $15,000 on a car that probably won't see 100,000km in its entire 5 year lifetime before I trade it in for a new one. The price of gas would have to be 7x what it currently is for that to have become an economical proposition.
Assuming, of course, that you will not be able to the get back some of the additional $15k when you sell your car after 5 years.
Basically, you can attain levels of experience that you can then use to demonstrate to potential new employers that you have experience, and skills used in industry.
Cool. Like getting modded up at /. Can I trade in my Karma?
The RIAA claims that if it wasn't for those meddling Limewire, they'd made more money than the entire population and industry of Canada in a year.
OK. Let's blame Canada.
Seems logical that a venture capitalist would see the absurdity in software patents. After all, how many venture capitalists are investing in all the fresh innovations and inventions coming out of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, etc.
Seems logical, I agree. However, most venture capitalists that I know would not agree - or actually would only "partially" agree. My experience is: In a VC funded startup, the VCs are pressing to file as many patents as possible. They see - and probably quite correctly so - patents as some tangible currency, when the startup will be sold or floated. It has nothing (or nearly nothing) to do with securing the innovations of the start-up, but much to do with making innovations explicit to the outside - so they see it rather as a marketing expense.
Filing patents have actually very high costs, if you also include the opportunity costs of what the engineer could have done during the time spent on the patent description and all the calls with the patent lawyer. Add to this all the money that goes to the patent lawyer and also the the patent office (additionally to the filing fee comes a yearly fee - and this for all regions where your patent should be valid). A VC knows all those costs - and nevertheless wants you to file as many patents as possible.
So, ias long as patents can be filed, a VC wants you to file patents. However, if nobody (in the sector) can file patents, this might be interesting as well - since this virtual currency must be no longer acquired under the high costs as described above. And, at the same time, if patents would no longer exist in your sector it removes a lot of legal uncertainty of the investement.