google semi-silently released their gmail call feature last week. *free* IP calling from your desktop to the US / canada. browser-based, simple, and just works. no mobile client, but hey, skype took it in rear w/ respect to android by only releasing a client for verizon, and then at an added cost.
it takes a great deal of faith for you to believe in the christian god, when a majority of the world believes in non-christian gods. why aren't you worshipping all of them, just to hedge your bets when judgement day comes?
And very few people have the bandwidth to stream 1080p anyway, so who cares?
everyone who has cable or dish or an OTA HD antenna gets at least 1080i. that's their competition, so yes, a lot of people care i guess. they paid top $ for the big flat panel TV for a reason.
So to you people who FEEL good when you hear politicians talking about taxing, regulating businesses - YOU pay more.
the problem is that it has been proven not to the other way around. lowering taxes does not reduce consumer prices. businesses *always* maximize profits. if we are paying $50 / month for broadband, and we cut taxes for the provider, they aren't going to lower our bill. they will take the $ and run.
on the other hand, you are right, they may use higher taxes as an *excuse* to raise consumer prices. but that's all it is, an excuse. never mind that record profits are being reaped. that's why we need tougher oversite into such things, for businesses that provide vital services, like broadband.
i'm confused. are you comparing babies shitting all over in public to breastfeeding?
the difference, if you can't figure it out, is that having shit all over the place is a health hazard. where breast feeding can't harm anyone. or maybe you like crying screaming hungry babies better than seeing part of a breast? not to mention, there are a lot more public bathrooms than there are public breast feeding rooms. and no, it's not possible to breast feed in a bathroom considering the state of most public restrooms.
waste of time to make a machine with those properties, biological machines already exist and can be replicated cheaply with unskilled labor.
let's see. off the top of my head.
1. run orders of magnitude faster 2. run in parallel with copies of itself (i.e., copy one go off and read a book, copy two learn how to fix the roof) 3. vastly improved memory capacity 4. immortality (pretty big one here)
not to mention the opportunity to "fix" things that are wrong with biological brains.
5. infallible memory 6. no degradation w/ age 7. impervious to disease (well, biological disease anyway) 8. near instantaneous input / output with other digital brains and other digital mediums 9. biological disease research (our ability to poke the neurons of diseased bio-brains is pretty limited)
Get of that moral high-horse - you never sold your car second hand? Did you declare it?
FWIW, in the US, anyone that sells a car needs to write the price paid on the title transfer. if that's done, the buyer has to pay the taxes on the sale.
of course, people just write down a cost that's less than the actual sale price, lowering the taxes.
Now, she's basically being punished for being honest.
maybe when a 5-year old does something wrong and owns up to it, you take it a little easier on them because they made the right choice owning up to the crime. we shouldn't expect that to happen when we are adults. she's not being punished, she's getting treated according to the law.
it's not really that it's a problem to make exceptions here and there, it's the overhead on doing so. she was tagged by some software check. i don't want to pay the taxes to employ real live humans to audit this type of thing.
This is like the kid's lemonade stand that got shut down by the health department in Washington or Oregon earlier this month.
and if someone got salmonella from that lemonade stand, those depts would be taking a ton of flack for it. there is a reason why people go through training and licensing before they can serve food.
There is no artificial sentience on earth, why is it supposed that machines can be made sentient?
yep right, it doesn't exist now, why should we think it will ever exist? i won't bother with the hundreds of significant counterexamples to that i could think of off the top of my head.
if you sufficiently understand the brain, a computer can model it, exactly. there is no difference. that of course is the no-imagination retort to your argument, assuming that the human brain is the only path to sentience.
Google, AFAIK, implemented a subset of Java, so software developed on other systems might not run on Google's, which really only hurts Google.
that's not true, unfortunately.
the android SDK is not a strict subset of the JDK. while it does implement less than the complete JDK, it also adds things like an entirely new GUI framework, openGL, JSON parsing, and other things i can't remember now. an app developed for android has no chance of being compiled with the JDK.
whereas Google took Java, possibly embraced and extended, BUT did NOT call it Java - there can be no confusion over the resultant code being able to run everywhere there is a JRE - but also created a cross-compiler which took Java [source] and converted it to their version.
i'm on a few android aliases, and this question comes every week or so. developers are constantly confused, so i think it's a bit of an overstatement to say "there can be no confusion".
oracle is suing because they hold many patents that are expressed in sun's (their) JVM/JDK, but also expressed in android / dalvikVM. that's the thing about patents, it doesn't matter if they aren't using something called "java", they are using a lot of ideas behind java.
Android uses the Java language syntax, sorta!
actually the android SDK is based on the java language, exactly.
but, but, but.... that guy applying for a job said something mean 20 years ago! We can't hire him, what if he is the same as he was when he was seven years old? Our company can't take that chance!
that's logical, but when faced with a hoard candidates, past indiscretions are just one more way to narrow the field.
it's a lot like having committed a felony. if you have ever committed a felony, the chance that you will again commit a felony are much greater than if you have never committed one. it shows that there are legal lines you are willing to cross. you may have changed since you posted pictures of your butt on facebook at 19 years old, but maybe not. why should the employer risk it.
you might counter that posting a picture of your butt on facebook is not on the same level as a felony, but that sort of behavior at work is serious business potentially costing a company millions in legal fees.
thank god they didn't hace facebook when i was younger....
no, i said "punished for having the potential [to commit] a crime". quoting you,
It's only a matter of time before the same punishment is inflicted on the children and grandchildren of anyone with a DWI - after all, alcoholism runs in families.
How is someone looking at NSFW content worse than someone reading/. ? Does it somehow mean that the person is working even less because it's also amoral to you?
because NSFW content offends other people, and if allowed to go on can result in sexual harassment lawsuits. not saying i agree, just telling to from the lawyers' points of view.
Also what about valet parking? Need to kill it and restart the car or the valet can go to jail for starting the car?
convicted DUI offenders won't be able to use valet parking? oh! the humanity!
And why are the monthly fees + install why can you just buy this? What about the day when car comes with this build in?
there are monthly fees because there's also a service behind it to monitor and report infractions. there's an installation fee because they don't trust convicted DUI offenders to install a device that will limit their freedom. these people have a vested interest in circumventing a the device.
I'm sad to say but I dated a girl who had one of these and it really did destroy the relationship because she could only drive to work and home from work. I would have to drive out and pick her up since she had a restricted license after getting a DUI.
no offense, but indicates it probably wasn't a strong relationship to begin with. i don't think it's fair to blame the breathalyzer.
I avoid it by using public transportation in DC when I drink but not everyone has that option.
everyone has the option of drinking at home or not drinking or getting a friend to drive them or calling a cab.
If you have a dui, is the legal limit for driving lowered for some reason that I'm not aware of.
in CA, if you have a prior conviction, the legal limit is reduce to something like 0.01... meaning, if you have had anything to drink in the last 24 hours you'd better not get in your car. it's effectively zero tolerance.
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google semi-silently released their gmail call feature last week. *free* IP calling from your desktop to the US / canada. browser-based, simple, and just works. no mobile client, but hey, skype took it in rear w/ respect to android by only releasing a client for verizon, and then at an added cost.
it takes a great deal of faith for you to believe in the christian god, when a majority of the world believes in non-christian gods. why aren't you worshipping all of them, just to hedge your bets when judgement day comes?
And very few people have the bandwidth to stream 1080p anyway, so who cares?
everyone who has cable or dish or an OTA HD antenna gets at least 1080i. that's their competition, so yes, a lot of people care i guess. they paid top $ for the big flat panel TV for a reason.
So to you people who FEEL good when you hear politicians talking about taxing, regulating businesses - YOU pay more.
the problem is that it has been proven not to the other way around. lowering taxes does not reduce consumer prices. businesses *always* maximize profits. if we are paying $50 / month for broadband, and we cut taxes for the provider, they aren't going to lower our bill. they will take the $ and run.
on the other hand, you are right, they may use higher taxes as an *excuse* to raise consumer prices. but that's all it is, an excuse. never mind that record profits are being reaped. that's why we need tougher oversite into such things, for businesses that provide vital services, like broadband.
i'm confused. are you comparing babies shitting all over in public to breastfeeding?
the difference, if you can't figure it out, is that having shit all over the place is a health hazard. where breast feeding can't harm anyone. or maybe you like crying screaming hungry babies better than seeing part of a breast? not to mention, there are a lot more public bathrooms than there are public breast feeding rooms. and no, it's not possible to breast feed in a bathroom considering the state of most public restrooms.
waste of time to make a machine with those properties, biological machines already exist and can be replicated cheaply with unskilled labor.
let's see. off the top of my head.
1. run orders of magnitude faster
2. run in parallel with copies of itself (i.e., copy one go off and read a book, copy two learn how to fix the roof)
3. vastly improved memory capacity
4. immortality (pretty big one here)
not to mention the opportunity to "fix" things that are wrong with biological brains.
5. infallible memory
6. no degradation w/ age
7. impervious to disease (well, biological disease anyway)
8. near instantaneous input / output with other digital brains and other digital mediums
9. biological disease research (our ability to poke the neurons of diseased bio-brains is pretty limited)
and so on.
the $300 is not a tax, it's a license fee.
It seems absurd that one should have to get permission from the city before one can write a blog on their home computer.
it's not about blogging, it's about blogging for profit, which she was ... even though she made very little money.
Get of that moral high-horse - you never sold your car second hand? Did you declare it?
FWIW, in the US, anyone that sells a car needs to write the price paid on the title transfer. if that's done, the buyer has to pay the taxes on the sale.
of course, people just write down a cost that's less than the actual sale price, lowering the taxes.
Now, she's basically being punished for being honest.
maybe when a 5-year old does something wrong and owns up to it, you take it a little easier on them because they made the right choice owning up to the crime. we shouldn't expect that to happen when we are adults. she's not being punished, she's getting treated according to the law.
it's not really that it's a problem to make exceptions here and there, it's the overhead on doing so. she was tagged by some software check. i don't want to pay the taxes to employ real live humans to audit this type of thing.
This is like the kid's lemonade stand that got shut down by the health department in Washington or Oregon earlier this month.
and if someone got salmonella from that lemonade stand, those depts would be taking a ton of flack for it. there is a reason why people go through training and licensing before they can serve food.
There is no artificial sentience on earth, why is it supposed that machines can be made sentient?
yep right, it doesn't exist now, why should we think it will ever exist? i won't bother with the hundreds of significant counterexamples to that i could think of off the top of my head.
if you sufficiently understand the brain, a computer can model it, exactly. there is no difference. that of course is the no-imagination retort to your argument, assuming that the human brain is the only path to sentience.
Google, AFAIK, implemented a subset of Java, so software developed on other systems might not run on Google's, which really only hurts Google.
that's not true, unfortunately.
the android SDK is not a strict subset of the JDK. while it does implement less than the complete JDK, it also adds things like an entirely new GUI framework, openGL, JSON parsing, and other things i can't remember now. an app developed for android has no chance of being compiled with the JDK.
whereas Google took Java, possibly embraced and extended, BUT did NOT call it Java - there can be no confusion over the resultant code being able to run everywhere there is a JRE - but also created a cross-compiler which took Java [source] and converted it to their version.
i'm on a few android aliases, and this question comes every week or so. developers are constantly confused, so i think it's a bit of an overstatement to say "there can be no confusion".
That's the thing - THERE IS NO JAVA IN ANDROID!
oracle is suing because they hold many patents that are expressed in sun's (their) JVM/JDK, but also expressed in android / dalvikVM. that's the thing about patents, it doesn't matter if they aren't using something called "java", they are using a lot of ideas behind java.
Android uses the Java language syntax, sorta!
actually the android SDK is based on the java language, exactly.
yes, i think we can all agree that showing up for work drunk is something that most ever employer values. here here.
but, but, but.... that guy applying for a job said something mean 20 years ago! We can't hire him, what if he is the same as he was when he was seven years old? Our company can't take that chance!
that's logical, but when faced with a hoard candidates, past indiscretions are just one more way to narrow the field.
it's a lot like having committed a felony. if you have ever committed a felony, the chance that you will again commit a felony are much greater than if you have never committed one. it shows that there are legal lines you are willing to cross. you may have changed since you posted pictures of your butt on facebook at 19 years old, but maybe not. why should the employer risk it.
you might counter that posting a picture of your butt on facebook is not on the same level as a felony, but that sort of behavior at work is serious business potentially costing a company millions in legal fees.
thank god they didn't hace facebook when i was younger ....
Nothing can touch add-ons like NoScript, AdBlock, etc. (and most of my add-ons and their associated functionality can't be found on Chrome
"notscript" and adblock are available for chrome. agreed, in general there are more add ons for FF but the significant ones are there for chrome.
I thought I had a nut allergy - nope
not discounting your experience, but that's unusual. food allergies are most often a reaction to the specific protein(s) in the food.
Jobs/Apple is giving Adobe payback for treating them like a second class platform for the past decade
wasn't adobe one of very few platforms that kept producing their software suites for apple through their lean years?
no, i said "punished for having the potential [to commit] a crime". quoting you,
It's only a matter of time before the same punishment is inflicted on the children and grandchildren of anyone with a DWI - after all, alcoholism runs in families.
so again, where are the examples of this?
How is someone looking at NSFW content worse than someone reading /. ? Does it somehow mean that the person is working even less because it's also amoral to you?
because NSFW content offends other people, and if allowed to go on can result in sexual harassment lawsuits. not saying i agree, just telling to from the lawyers' points of view.
Also what about valet parking? Need to kill it and restart the car or the valet can go to jail for starting the car?
convicted DUI offenders won't be able to use valet parking? oh! the humanity!
And why are the monthly fees + install why can you just buy this? What about the day when car comes with this build in?
there are monthly fees because there's also a service behind it to monitor and report infractions. there's an installation fee because they don't trust convicted DUI offenders to install a device that will limit their freedom. these people have a vested interest in circumventing a the device.
As far as I am concerned driving is a right, and I would copntinue to do so regarless of what the legal system says licence or not.
no you wouldn't. they don't have cars in jail.
I'm sad to say but I dated a girl who had one of these and it really did destroy the relationship because she could only drive to work and home from work. I would have to drive out and pick her up since she had a restricted license after getting a DUI.
no offense, but indicates it probably wasn't a strong relationship to begin with. i don't think it's fair to blame the breathalyzer.
I avoid it by using public transportation in DC when I drink but not everyone has that option.
everyone has the option of drinking at home or not drinking or getting a friend to drive them or calling a cab.
If you have a dui, is the legal limit for driving lowered for some reason that I'm not aware of.
in CA, if you have a prior conviction, the legal limit is reduce to something like 0.01 ... meaning, if you have had anything to drink in the last 24 hours you'd better not get in your car. it's effectively zero tolerance.