You do not understand free markets. You are describing monopolized or oligarchized markets. Now go back and read your economics book but pay attention this time.
I think you raise a deep issue than you intended. The law is indeed anything but "black and white". Robots do have a way around this, fuzzy logic. However, let's for the moment assume there is a black and white component of the law. Then the result would be range of possible outcomes that the robot must feel its way around fuzzily. Since courts require a verdict, the robot will necessarily be forced to choose. The "fuzzy programming" though is just another word for bias. So we now have a biased robot. And just creates that bias? Either humans overtly or it is hidden in the fuzzy programming but we are unable to pin down exactly where it occurs. Then we are back to arguing over the robots bias...by what, other robots? I think not since other robots won't care. We're right back to humans arguing over the law...I'm shocked!
Wow, cool. So other than some monetary issues, we will now finally get to shoot all the lawyers without facing murder charges. I'm all for it, where's my 50 cal...
Come to think of it, how is HP doing in those areas. Most of us are damning them for a revolving CEO and their PC madness. However, if the rest of their product line is holding their own, then maybe there's more to HP management than we've been telling ourselves.
That said, their printers have gone downhill. No doubt to keep up with the...what's Jones in Chinese...Wangs. Their mid-range line is built to last until the product warranty expires, but not beyond.
In a smoke filled conference room, Sun and Oracle are meeting. The officers of Sun are anxious to get on with the transfer of booty to their personal coffers. Oracle asks about Java and how come Sun couldn't monetize it. Sun's lawyers and Mr. Schwartz blink at each other and Mr. Schwartz quickly opines: Oh, we simply are lining up our ducks...there are beeelllions and beeellllions of Google money just waiting for us. Now, if y'all could finishing signing right down there on the dotted line, we'll get on down to the martini bar and celebrate. Tell Eric and Larry we said "hi".
Apple isn't worried about Hackintoshes, regardless of how you'd like to believe it. They do, however, seem to go out of their way to piss on Linux. As a example, their implementation of Boot Camp implies they only expect Windows to ever be dual booted with OS X. Put in a Linux Live DVD and the boot device selection will render the name of that DVD as Windows.
It isn't just Linux and Intel, try Ubuntu and 6630M from Radeon (ATI). Near as I can tell, there is no support for that card in Ubuntu 11.04 or the current beta of 11.10. The 6630M is used in laptops and the more expensive version of the new Mac Mini (non-server...as if the Mac Mini could be considered a server).
Just take 5 pounds Sterling out of every person's paycheck for every new document the generate. This will stop both the need for iPads and the need for paper.
ARM isn't a single architecture, it is a Balkanized playing field where each manufacturer gets to twiddle with architecture to emphasize the things they wish their system to do well at.
Why would that kill your desire for Windows on a tablet. Personally, I'm a Mac guy and maybe that has colored my view of tabs, but isn't the usual interfaces for Windows apps inappropriate for tablets? If so, then at least the interfaces will need to be redone even if only to conform to Windows 8 for tabs. The non-gui stuff could probably be recompiled. With sufficient hardware abstraction, the internals shouldn't need a massive restructuring, at least not if they are not power hogs.
Group theory, set theory, type theory, category theory....all mathematical theories. Your distinction between axiomatic theories and natural theories correct, but axiomatic theories are just that, theories.
MS not patent trolling? What about the noises they made about Linux violating their patents? That's sounds like trolling. Or the way they've strong-armed Android phone manufacturers into coughing up for patents. What do you think they were going to do if those manufacturers had turned them down? Gone away muttering obscenities or sueballing them?
They could also be including in their cloud local atmospheric phenomena like a cloud that is only company wide. That might satisfy IT yet still move functions off the PC. It used to be called thin clients, but clouds are so post-aughts.
What you describe, i.e., the dirty snowball effect happening to smaller systems as they get inflated, doesn't necessarily need a narrow programming language for it to occur. It occurs quite frequently in C and even hardware. To be fair, put yourself in a salesman/manager shoes. You have a perspective client, but it is only one. You want to give them what they want but you cannot afford a brand new development to do it. The customer relationship might blossom into big money later but you cannot know that now. So you look over your flock of systems and realize if you were to modify one of them, you could get a shot a satisfying a new customer. So engineering gets told not what to build, but how to build it, thus creating the first layer of the snowball. It is a downward slope from there. It is management's job to understand when the rewards towards a new development will match the cost. However, management has so many incentives to push this point as far into the future as they can. Meanwhile the snowball accumulates more layers.
Then, the snowball falls apart. Management, having failed in their job, will attempt to pass blame onto engineering because no one manager will find it within him/herself to fall on their sword. Relying on engineering to tell them when the snowball has reached unsustainability will not help management because engineering will always see how they can do a better job on any system given a chance to start anew.
This scenario happens over and over because of Business School Product which believes they are selling widgets, any widgets will do, and engineers who cannot be arsed to learn the business side of the business. What is needed are people who can walk both sides of the fence...and those are very hard to find.
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Wow! So MS is getting $146 Billion a year from Android. Neat, that's more than their entire yearly revenue. How do they do it?
Uh...try under Clinton. Janet Reno, Clinton's Attorney General made the decisions at Waco, not Bush.
You do not understand free markets. You are describing monopolized or oligarchized markets. Now go back and read your economics book but pay attention this time.
Apparently it is also profitable for Microsoft as well.
I think you raise a deep issue than you intended. The law is indeed anything but "black and white". Robots do have a way around this, fuzzy logic. However, let's for the moment assume there is a black and white component of the law. Then the result would be range of possible outcomes that the robot must feel its way around fuzzily. Since courts require a verdict, the robot will necessarily be forced to choose. The "fuzzy programming" though is just another word for bias. So we now have a biased robot. And just creates that bias? Either humans overtly or it is hidden in the fuzzy programming but we are unable to pin down exactly where it occurs. Then we are back to arguing over the robots bias...by what, other robots? I think not since other robots won't care. We're right back to humans arguing over the law...I'm shocked!
Wow, cool. So other than some monetary issues, we will now finally get to shoot all the lawyers without facing murder charges. I'm all for it, where's my 50 cal...
"the only way you get a rootkit is if you go into the menu by hand and authorize it"
And Mr. Clueless CEO will do just that to see the bouncing bunnies.
Anyhow, all these "stand on your head and hop up and down" scenarios for using a non-MS OS are precisely what MS wants.
Come to think of it, how is HP doing in those areas. Most of us are damning them for a revolving CEO and their PC madness. However, if the rest of their product line is holding their own, then maybe there's more to HP management than we've been telling ourselves.
That said, their printers have gone downhill. No doubt to keep up with the...what's Jones in Chinese...Wangs. Their mid-range line is built to last until the product warranty expires, but not beyond.
Because it would be easy to find him and sue his balls off, he has a lot to lose whereas joe-schmoe hasn't got squat.
In a smoke filled conference room, Sun and Oracle are meeting. The officers of Sun are anxious to get on with the transfer of booty to their personal coffers. Oracle asks about Java and how come Sun couldn't monetize it. Sun's lawyers and Mr. Schwartz blink at each other and Mr. Schwartz quickly opines: Oh, we simply are lining up our ducks...there are beeelllions and beeellllions of Google money just waiting for us. Now, if y'all could finishing signing right down there on the dotted line, we'll get on down to the martini bar and celebrate. Tell Eric and Larry we said "hi".
Relax, he was talking about Republican presidential candidates when confronted with Science (Perry, Bachmann) or Economics (Paul).
Apple isn't worried about Hackintoshes, regardless of how you'd like to believe it. They do, however, seem to go out of their way to piss on Linux. As a example, their implementation of Boot Camp implies they only expect Windows to ever be dual booted with OS X. Put in a Linux Live DVD and the boot device selection will render the name of that DVD as Windows.
No, an iPad and any other computer is not Turing complete because it does not have an infinite memory. Look up your definitions.
It isn't just Linux and Intel, try Ubuntu and 6630M from Radeon (ATI). Near as I can tell, there is no support for that card in Ubuntu 11.04 or the current beta of 11.10. The 6630M is used in laptops and the more expensive version of the new Mac Mini (non-server...as if the Mac Mini could be considered a server).
Just take 5 pounds Sterling out of every person's paycheck for every new document the generate. This will stop both the need for iPads and the need for paper.
And yet, the press is replete with stories about how the iPad is being sucked up by the enterprise. Presumably it doing something they wish done.
ARM isn't a single architecture, it is a Balkanized playing field where each manufacturer gets to twiddle with architecture to emphasize the things they wish their system to do well at.
Why would that kill your desire for Windows on a tablet. Personally, I'm a Mac guy and maybe that has colored my view of tabs, but isn't the usual interfaces for Windows apps inappropriate for tablets? If so, then at least the interfaces will need to be redone even if only to conform to Windows 8 for tabs. The non-gui stuff could probably be recompiled. With sufficient hardware abstraction, the internals shouldn't need a massive restructuring, at least not if they are not power hogs.
Group theory, set theory, type theory, category theory....all mathematical theories. Your distinction between axiomatic theories and natural theories correct, but axiomatic theories are just that, theories.
yer right, I think we should let anyone with guns, flamethrowers, bombs, etc. on the plane just 'cuz....errr...why is it we want to do this again?
MS not patent trolling? What about the noises they made about Linux violating their patents? That's sounds like trolling. Or the way they've strong-armed Android phone manufacturers into coughing up for patents. What do you think they were going to do if those manufacturers had turned them down? Gone away muttering obscenities or sueballing them?
MS is a patent troll.
Yeah, the Italian economy is circling the loo.
However, if someone were to be injured or killed because of this fellows actions, I think his reasoning is going to ring a bit hollow.
They could also be including in their cloud local atmospheric phenomena like a cloud that is only company wide. That might satisfy IT yet still move functions off the PC. It used to be called thin clients, but clouds are so post-aughts.
What you describe, i.e., the dirty snowball effect happening to smaller systems as they get inflated, doesn't necessarily need a narrow programming language for it to occur. It occurs quite frequently in C and even hardware. To be fair, put yourself in a salesman/manager shoes. You have a perspective client, but it is only one. You want to give them what they want but you cannot afford a brand new development to do it. The customer relationship might blossom into big money later but you cannot know that now. So you look over your flock of systems and realize if you were to modify one of them, you could get a shot a satisfying a new customer. So engineering gets told not what to build, but how to build it, thus creating the first layer of the snowball. It is a downward slope from there. It is management's job to understand when the rewards towards a new development will match the cost. However, management has so many incentives to push this point as far into the future as they can. Meanwhile the snowball accumulates more layers.
Then, the snowball falls apart. Management, having failed in their job, will attempt to pass blame onto engineering because no one manager will find it within him/herself to fall on their sword. Relying on engineering to tell them when the snowball has reached unsustainability will not help management because engineering will always see how they can do a better job on any system given a chance to start anew.
This scenario happens over and over because of Business School Product which believes they are selling widgets, any widgets will do, and engineers who cannot be arsed to learn the business side of the business. What is needed are people who can walk both sides of the fence...and those are very hard to find.
Galileo did not turn political. Rather the political regime at the time decided what was doing was political. Big difference.