Record profits for oil companies while roads crumble is the America Way (trademarked, copyrighted, guaranteed Communist free, known to cause cancer in California, all rights reserved). Jesus loves profits, hates poor people and drives a big ass Hummer so he doesn't feel the potholes.
And what happens when you go to renew your contract with your upstream provider, and he decides to turn the screws on you, and even worse, any other potential upstream provider is doing the same or worse? I applaud you for your efforts, but you're still a middle man.
The problem here is that the telecommunications tends towards natural monopolies. The costs of rolling out large area copper or fiber means the market will almost inevitably favor those who get in early. The only reason that cable ever was competitive was because it started out as an entirely different service than telephone, and it was only very late in the game that both cable and telco lines started being used for large scale data transmission.
Then you go to wireless. Well, there's only so much useful spectrum out there, and unlicensed bands are far too filled with clutter to be of much use, so again, you're left the companies who get on in early dominating the market, with the costs of creating a competing network, even where you have spectrum, or at least there are protocols in place to share the spectrum, new players are not likely to come along very often. For even most moderate sized cities, there are only a handful of meaningful broadband competitors.
So the only real option you're left with is some sort of government-imposed regulations.
The problem with what you're saying is the word "into". It still suggests that there is some medium into which the universe expands. It's another form of the famous Hawking problem "What's north of the north pole?" If there is nothing, then the universe is not expanding into it. It is simply expanding.
As much as anything, it is a problem that while expressable mathematically, is, at least to most peoples' brains (mine included) something impossible to imagine. It is just another way in which our common every day perceptions of the world around us don't model every aspect of reality well.
The universe could be a compact manifold, in which case it isn't expanding into anything. That would fit with the essential notion that it is space itself that is expanding.
A Device Tree description is a helluva easier to roll out than a newly compiled kernel for every device. I agree it's not ideal, but the ARM ecosystem is a bloody complicated one, and it's likely the best we can expect until that little piece of the Wild West is tamed. And maybe it never will be, as the attraction of ARM is precisely in its non-one-size-fits-all way of doing things.
If I'm looking at porting my kernel and software stack to some new ARM device, I'll take some comfort in the fact that the bulk of getting it running will be a spec file, and not having to do a kernel configure and compile. I've wasted enough hours of my life doing that sort of thing.
Heinlein got pretty bloody weird in his old age, and some of his later stuff got pretty depraved, but I don't think he ever reached the depths that Hubbard and now Card are plumbing.
No, I wasn't referring to Ender's Game directly. Back then, it just seemed a good story, albeit with a lot of prepubescent male nudity. After Card decided to spell out just how much he loathes and fears homosexuals, well, a lot of the subtext of Ender's Game starts to make more sense.
Perhaps you could work in how great the Mormons are and how bad homosexuals are. That would certainly typify Orson Scott Card, perhaps the most loathsome man to write science fiction since L. Ron Hubbard.
Can it save the film from the "SOMETHING HAPPENS... nothing much happening... SomeThinG HappeNs... nothing much happening... SOMeTHiNG HAPPpENs... nothing much happens... SOMETHING COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED HAPPENS... the end" that typifies his films?
How that guy was ever let near a camera, let alone given the power to command where one was pointed is beyond me. He is sort of like the anti-Michael Bay, and like all polar opposites, exhibits completely different and yet completely kinds of suckage.
I dunno. I'm kind of impressed. A social networking site for sociopaths and monomaniacs. Perhaps they could build one for Aspergers-wannabes, you know, where you get scored based on what a insufferable cunt you are.
The FCC told them they could use it if it did not interfere. Everyone who understood radio knew it was going to interfere, but LS insisted on going ahead. Don't blame the FCC or GPS for LS's arrogance and stupidity.
Because of the founding legal precept that all that is not explicitly disallowed is allowed. It is a foundational notion of the clComnon Law and indeed of liberty.
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You do know the currency and the crisis of which I speak, right?
A currency crisis is causing bankruptcy. The welfare state is a useful target for those wishing to remove credit and market excesses from blame.
Except Europeans like their health care and don't seem to view sociopathy as a positive character trait.
Record profits for oil companies while roads crumble is the America Way (trademarked, copyrighted, guaranteed Communist free, known to cause cancer in California, all rights reserved). Jesus loves profits, hates poor people and drives a big ass Hummer so he doesn't feel the potholes.
I thought he channeled a Tea Party voter quite nicely. He wasn't that much more absurd than Glenn Beck.
And what happens when you go to renew your contract with your upstream provider, and he decides to turn the screws on you, and even worse, any other potential upstream provider is doing the same or worse? I applaud you for your efforts, but you're still a middle man.
The problem here is that the telecommunications tends towards natural monopolies. The costs of rolling out large area copper or fiber means the market will almost inevitably favor those who get in early. The only reason that cable ever was competitive was because it started out as an entirely different service than telephone, and it was only very late in the game that both cable and telco lines started being used for large scale data transmission.
Then you go to wireless. Well, there's only so much useful spectrum out there, and unlicensed bands are far too filled with clutter to be of much use, so again, you're left the companies who get on in early dominating the market, with the costs of creating a competing network, even where you have spectrum, or at least there are protocols in place to share the spectrum, new players are not likely to come along very often. For even most moderate sized cities, there are only a handful of meaningful broadband competitors.
So the only real option you're left with is some sort of government-imposed regulations.
There is a large amount of neurological heavy lifting that goes into interpreting sensory input.
The problem with what you're saying is the word "into". It still suggests that there is some medium into which the universe expands. It's another form of the famous Hawking problem "What's north of the north pole?" If there is nothing, then the universe is not expanding into it. It is simply expanding.
As much as anything, it is a problem that while expressable mathematically, is, at least to most peoples' brains (mine included) something impossible to imagine. It is just another way in which our common every day perceptions of the world around us don't model every aspect of reality well.
The universe could be a compact manifold, in which case it isn't expanding into anything. That would fit with the essential notion that it is space itself that is expanding.
A Device Tree description is a helluva easier to roll out than a newly compiled kernel for every device. I agree it's not ideal, but the ARM ecosystem is a bloody complicated one, and it's likely the best we can expect until that little piece of the Wild West is tamed. And maybe it never will be, as the attraction of ARM is precisely in its non-one-size-fits-all way of doing things.
If I'm looking at porting my kernel and software stack to some new ARM device, I'll take some comfort in the fact that the bulk of getting it running will be a spec file, and not having to do a kernel configure and compile. I've wasted enough hours of my life doing that sort of thing.
We're boned.
Heinlein got pretty bloody weird in his old age, and some of his later stuff got pretty depraved, but I don't think he ever reached the depths that Hubbard and now Card are plumbing.
No, I wasn't referring to Ender's Game directly. Back then, it just seemed a good story, albeit with a lot of prepubescent male nudity. After Card decided to spell out just how much he loathes and fears homosexuals, well, a lot of the subtext of Ender's Game starts to make more sense.
I'm no Will Smith fan, but comparing him to Adam Sandler, that is totally uncalled for.
"Ali"?
Perhaps you could work in how great the Mormons are and how bad homosexuals are. That would certainly typify Orson Scott Card, perhaps the most loathsome man to write science fiction since L. Ron Hubbard.
Can it save the film from the "SOMETHING HAPPENS... nothing much happening... SomeThinG HappeNs... nothing much happening... SOMeTHiNG HAPPpENs... nothing much happens... SOMETHING COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED HAPPENS... the end" that typifies his films?
How that guy was ever let near a camera, let alone given the power to command where one was pointed is beyond me. He is sort of like the anti-Michael Bay, and like all polar opposites, exhibits completely different and yet completely kinds of suckage.
I dunno. I'm kind of impressed. A social networking site for sociopaths and monomaniacs. Perhaps they could build one for Aspergers-wannabes, you know, where you get scored based on what a insufferable cunt you are.
Look at 1929-1933. That's what a government hoping the free market will right itself produces.
Sometimes pragmatism has to win out over ideology, otherwise, how is Libertarianism any different than Communism?
Society's interests surely outweigh any business's, no?
And when the banks fail and suddenly you cant pay your rent or put gas in your car, you think that is an improvement?
The FCC told them they could use it if it did not interfere. Everyone who understood radio knew it was going to interfere, but LS insisted on going ahead. Don't blame the FCC or GPS for LS's arrogance and stupidity.
That may be so, but I do not remember the developers of torrent P2P protocols being hauled into court.
Because of the founding legal precept that all that is not explicitly disallowed is allowed. It is a foundational notion of the clComnon Law and indeed of liberty.