There is a big difference between trolling in a shooter and stealing other peoples stuff in a survival MMO. it's not "being a dick", it's part of the game - just as shooting your opponent in the back in a shooter is not "being a dick".
Publishers are not "proxys for authors". They are another obsolete industry group fighting the inevitable for their survival, no different than the RIAA.
Assume there is a world where I as an author can contract with a third party for proofreading and editing at a fixed cost, and then "self publish" to Amazon and other eBook providers, without a man in the middle publisher eating up my profits, I can sell the books far cheaper and interact directly with my audience. Many authors are flocking to self-publish nowadays and the number is just going to keep growing.
The threat of repercussions â" say, for example, prison â" might keep them from acting out. Such disincentives do not exist in virtual worlds. Absent a sense of empathy, you're free to rob and kill at will. What we do with this reveals something about us.
Or, it doesn't reveal jack squat because the people know they are playing a video game and thus behave a lot differently than they would if this was real life.
Say there was a bug in VMWare that caused Windows 8 to crash when running inside it (this actually happened). Do you expect Microsoft to provide support for this issue and fix this bug? No of course not - VMWare should fix it.
I don't see why this is any different with OpenStack. RedHat has no idea what you have done to your custom home-grown OpenStack build, how can they possibly support you running their software inside it. If you can prove that the issue is in their software, then they will look at it - but until that point bugger off.
They will not all be charging stations but a lot of them will be.
I love how you are proclaiming that rolling out charging infrastructure (which is actually already widespread in many large cities) is not feasible while completely washing aside the rolling out of hydrogen infrastructure, which is much more cost prohibitive.
During the day most cars will be plugged in at the office During the evening most cars will be plugged in either at home or at the shopping center.
The only time a car would NOT be plugged in in this future smart grid would be while it is in active use. The vast majority of cars in a city are not in active use all at the same time. That is why this theoretical system works so well.
You're making an assumption that the electricity movement from the grid to electric cars is one way.
Most visions of wide-scale electric car charging infrastructure use the cars as a form of load-curve smoothing... when the power plant makes surplus power (for example if you have a large scale solar buildout in your state, you make a lot of power during the day, not much at night), it goes into the cars. During periods of peak demand, the grid is able to draw from cars plugged into it to help with the demand and reduce or totally eliminate brownouts. In this way the cars are actually part of the grid itself.
Look - at the end of the day, these are both electric vehicles. The only difference is the method of storage of the electricity. One company is looking to a battery that directly stores the electricity, the other to hydrogen which is converted into electricity via a fuel cell.
The biggest problem with direct-charge electric is there is no infrastructure for charging the cars. This is the high challenge Tesla is trying to tackle using its Supercharger strategy. The good thing is, the distribution and production infrastructure for electricity already exists everywhere in the world.
The problem with hydrogen is worse however. Not only is there is no hydrogen refueling infrastructure (and the existing gas one can not be re-used for hydrogen, at all) - there is also nowhere near the distribution and production infrastructure needed to make the hydrogen and move it all around the continent.
To me, this is why hydrogen is at a large disadvantage, no matter how much faster the refueling is.
"With a group of more than 1,800 study participants â" all undecided voters in India -- the research team was able to shift votes by an average of 12.5 percent to favored candidates by deliberating altering their rankings in search results, Epstein said. "
Which is exactly why Google does not manually manipulate their search result rankings for any reason, no matter who complains about it. Someone brings a lawsuit against Google for their search rankings seemingly every day. No one ever wins.
The rankings are decided by an algorithm that for the most part gives very appropriate results. Unless someone shows me evidence that Google is manually manipulating rankings then this is a non-story to me.
Yes, and that works perfect when you need to generate your password on your phone and later use it on your PC. Or generate your password at your office (where you are not allowed to install software), and then use it on your tablet at home.
Password generators are a giant fail. They work in a very small subset of conditions but are not useable in the situations most consumers find themselves day to day. I am so sick of geeks like myself trotting out password managers as a solution - they are not. The solution is wider adoption of unified identity systems like OpenID so that consumers don't have to have so many goddamned passwords to begin with. The idea that I need a different login and password for Hulu, Netflix, and Pandora is asinine. All these systems need to know is that I am who I claim I am - they should not need to know about passwords, store them, or care about them at all.
The only thing that keeps me on my Lennovo convertible ultrabook (Yoga) is the fact that when I unfolded it it has a REAL keyboard. So I can use it in my lap on the couch, inverted on a bed, wherever and whenever without needing a flat surface to put it on. Whoever at Microsoft thought this horrible surface non-keyboard was a good idea should be let go. It is the whole reason the platform suffers sales wise... everyone who sees it dismisses it, and rightfully so because it is so limited.
There are pros and cons to a monoculture in code, but the pros vastly outweigh the cons.
It is no different than any other code-reuse system, from functions that are called from many places in a system, to common libraries, to open-source software running 1/2 the internet. Yes, if there is a bug in a widely-used piece of code, it affects a lot of parts of the system - and the more places it is used the worse the bug is - TEMPORARILY.
The upside is, because this code is used in so many parts, these bugs are rarely missed because of the ramifications. And, when they do happen to be missed and are later discovered, when you fix the bug, the fix "fixes" the whole system at once, not just a piece of it and then you need to go check all the other pieces of the system to see if you need to make the same fix elsewhere.
If the web used many different SSL libraries, some open and some closed, that is not a solution, it is just opening more vectors for attacks and bugs. The more eyes on the code and the more people using it, the fewer the bugs will be. Reducing your attack surface is a HUGE part of security, in fact one of the #1 things. Reuse of code libraries is a major way to reduce that vector.
Most highly read sites are using layouts like this now because they adapt well to both Mobile and Tablets, which is how more and more people are viewing the web nowadays. Browsing the web with a keyboard and mouse with a monitor is going the way of the dinosaur very rapidly.
- Yes it is $1600 and 4MP. Do you know how much the first DSLRs were with only 1MP? Technology evolves.
- Why do you need interchangeable lenses when you can focus on or apply lens effects on whatever you want after the fact? You would not care about lenses with this kind of technology at all - in fact, the elimination of lenses means this technology could result in large cost savings over the long haul.
$200 is irrelevant to the GDP of Walmart so I guess I should not feel guilty about lifting an iPod either.
Heck, in fact I guess we now have license to commit theft whenever the market cap of a company goes over a certain threshold. What is that threshold? 10 million? 100 million?
Please enlighten me when it is OK to steal from a company and when it is not.
IE, a polling organization conducts a poll for a vendor with a cost of one million dollars to the vendor to see which is the preferred widget, X or Y. Then, some third party comes along and points out a flaw in their testing methodology, thus invalidating all of the collected data.
That third party has "rendered that data meaningless, useless, or ineffective" and thus could be found guilty under this statute as worded.
This is just off the top of my head with 5 seconds thinking on it, I am sure many many such scenarios could be created. Data is not the same as physical property, you can't just take a property law and replace the word "property" with "data" and expect it to make sense (see the original "mischief" section above in the law).
Whoever got this on the books should be drawn and quartered.
Hearing aids are still crazy overpriced, but perscription glasses can be easily purchased online for $10 or even for free. Before I got my LASIK a few years ago I got a new pair two of glasses for free every few months using coupon codes from Goggles4U or clearly contacts.
It seems a lot more feasible to me to build a permanent off-world habitat on Europa beneath the water, than to build one on Mars. The ice and water would shield you from the radiation normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere and ionosphere. You can extract oxygen easily from water using known processes. And there is no need to MAKE water since it is everywhere. Furthermore, we are already well-versed in making underwater habitats and the habitat would be easily testable here, so there are fewer unknowns.
You would not even need to sink the habitat very deep to protect from the radiation, it could achieve neutral boyancy somewhere in the middle of the water column, and then rotate itself in the water to achieve 1G via centripetal forces.
Facebook explicitly says they do not allow you to delete your account. They simply DO NOT ALLOW IT. And all data you post on facebook is theirs, they claim ownership of it. So no wonder they don't allow you to delete it.
Google allows you to delete your account and tells you exactly what happens when that occurs. http://www.pcworld.com/article... . And they claim ownership of nothing.
The companies attitude toward privacy and accountability are so different it is not even in the same hemisphere.
- Google lets you export ALL OF YOUR DATA, 100%, in full, in open formats.
- Google lets you close your account and delete it, leaving no traces. This includes Google Plus and all posts shared.
- The majority of Google's services offer open APIs and follow open standards and allow third party integrations.
- Heck, many of their products they fully open source and give to the whole community, including Chrome, ChromeOS, Android, GWT, etc
Compare this to facebook. You can't export anything out of facebook in any kind of open format. You can not easily delete your account, even when you do your pictures and images remain on other people's accounts. Facebook offers very few open APIs to integrate with it, they want you to instead write apps that run ON the platform so they can control and monetize everything you create.
The Model S has a 300 mile range so not sure why a ~70 mile round trip would be a problem, or even your quoted 300 mile max trip.
As far as someone who can do work - you need to remember that because it has no gas engine at all, there is little to no matience needed on a Model S. There is no oil to change, nothing to inspect since it monitors itself. You don't need yearly checkups to maintain warranty. And if anything DOES go wrong, and there is no local service, they send a Tesla Ranger TO YOU, not the other way around.
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There is a big difference between trolling in a shooter and stealing other peoples stuff in a survival MMO. it's not
"being a dick", it's part of the game - just as shooting your opponent in the back in a shooter is not "being a dick".
Publishers are not "proxys for authors". They are another obsolete industry group fighting the inevitable for their survival, no different than the RIAA.
Assume there is a world where I as an author can contract with a third party for proofreading and editing at a fixed cost, and then "self publish" to Amazon and other eBook providers, without a man in the middle publisher eating up my profits, I can sell the books far cheaper and interact directly with my audience. Many authors are flocking to self-publish nowadays and the number is just going to keep growing.
The threat of repercussions â" say, for example, prison â" might keep them from acting out. Such disincentives do not exist in virtual worlds. Absent a sense of empathy, you're free to rob and kill at will. What we do with this reveals something about us.
Or, it doesn't reveal jack squat because the people know they are playing a video game and thus behave a lot differently than they would if this was real life.
Say there was a bug in VMWare that caused Windows 8 to crash when running inside it (this actually happened). Do you expect Microsoft to provide support for this issue and fix this bug? No of course not - VMWare should fix it.
I don't see why this is any different with OpenStack. RedHat has no idea what you have done to your custom home-grown OpenStack build, how can they possibly support you running their software inside it. If you can prove that the issue is in their software, then they will look at it - but until that point bugger off.
They will not all be charging stations but a lot of them will be.
I love how you are proclaiming that rolling out charging infrastructure (which is actually already widespread in many large cities) is not feasible while completely washing aside the rolling out of hydrogen infrastructure, which is much more cost prohibitive.
Why would most cars ever be unplugged?
During the day most cars will be plugged in at the office
During the evening most cars will be plugged in either at home or at the shopping center.
The only time a car would NOT be plugged in in this future smart grid would be while it is in active use. The vast majority of cars in a city are not in active use all at the same time. That is why this theoretical system works so well.
You're making an assumption that the electricity movement from the grid to electric cars is one way.
Most visions of wide-scale electric car charging infrastructure use the cars as a form of load-curve smoothing... when the power plant makes surplus power (for example if you have a large scale solar buildout in your state, you make a lot of power during the day, not much at night), it goes into the cars. During periods of peak demand, the grid is able to draw from cars plugged into it to help with the demand and reduce or totally eliminate brownouts. In this way the cars are actually part of the grid itself.
Look - at the end of the day, these are both electric vehicles. The only difference is the method of storage of the electricity. One company is looking to a battery that directly stores the electricity, the other to hydrogen which is converted into electricity via a fuel cell.
The biggest problem with direct-charge electric is there is no infrastructure for charging the cars. This is the high challenge Tesla is trying to tackle using its Supercharger strategy. The good thing is, the distribution and production infrastructure for electricity already exists everywhere in the world.
The problem with hydrogen is worse however. Not only is there is no hydrogen refueling infrastructure (and the existing gas one can not be re-used for hydrogen, at all) - there is also nowhere near the distribution and production infrastructure needed to make the hydrogen and move it all around the continent.
To me, this is why hydrogen is at a large disadvantage, no matter how much faster the refueling is.
s/Your feedback/A massive lack of sales
"With a group of more than 1,800 study participants â" all undecided voters in India -- the research team was able to shift votes by an average of 12.5 percent to favored candidates by deliberating altering their rankings in search results, Epstein said. " Which is exactly why Google does not manually manipulate their search result rankings for any reason, no matter who complains about it. Someone brings a lawsuit against Google for their search rankings seemingly every day. No one ever wins. The rankings are decided by an algorithm that for the most part gives very appropriate results. Unless someone shows me evidence that Google is manually manipulating rankings then this is a non-story to me.
Yes, and that works perfect when you need to generate your password on your phone and later use it on your PC. Or generate your password at your office (where you are not allowed to install software), and then use it on your tablet at home.
Password generators are a giant fail. They work in a very small subset of conditions but are not useable in the situations most consumers find themselves day to day. I am so sick of geeks like myself trotting out password managers as a solution - they are not. The solution is wider adoption of unified identity systems like OpenID so that consumers don't have to have so many goddamned passwords to begin with. The idea that I need a different login and password for Hulu, Netflix, and Pandora is asinine. All these systems need to know is that I am who I claim I am - they should not need to know about passwords, store them, or care about them at all.
The only thing that keeps me on my Lennovo convertible ultrabook (Yoga) is the fact that when I unfolded it it has a REAL keyboard. So I can use it in my lap on the couch, inverted on a bed, wherever and whenever without needing a flat surface to put it on. Whoever at Microsoft thought this horrible surface non-keyboard was a good idea should be let go. It is the whole reason the platform suffers sales wise... everyone who sees it dismisses it, and rightfully so because it is so limited.
The layout is adaptive. Load it in your phone and see what it looks like. It will look at lot like browsing articles on Flipboard.
There are pros and cons to a monoculture in code, but the pros vastly outweigh the cons.
It is no different than any other code-reuse system, from functions that are called from many places in a system, to common libraries, to open-source software running 1/2 the internet. Yes, if there is a bug in a widely-used piece of code, it affects a lot of parts of the system - and the more places it is used the worse the bug is - TEMPORARILY.
The upside is, because this code is used in so many parts, these bugs are rarely missed because of the ramifications. And, when they do happen to be missed and are later discovered, when you fix the bug, the fix "fixes" the whole system at once, not just a piece of it and then you need to go check all the other pieces of the system to see if you need to make the same fix elsewhere.
If the web used many different SSL libraries, some open and some closed, that is not a solution, it is just opening more vectors for attacks and bugs. The more eyes on the code and the more people using it, the fewer the bugs will be. Reducing your attack surface is a HUGE part of security, in fact one of the #1 things. Reuse of code libraries is a major way to reduce that vector.
Most highly read sites are using layouts like this now because they adapt well to both Mobile and Tablets, which is how more and more people are viewing the web nowadays. Browsing the web with a keyboard and mouse with a monitor is going the way of the dinosaur very rapidly.
- Yes it is $1600 and 4MP. Do you know how much the first DSLRs were with only 1MP? Technology evolves.
- Why do you need interchangeable lenses when you can focus on or apply lens effects on whatever you want after the fact? You would not care about lenses with this kind of technology at all - in fact, the elimination of lenses means this technology could result in large cost savings over the long haul.
People are starting to think tha "FIPS Certified" means "has all required NSA backdoors installed".
$200 is irrelevant to the GDP of Walmart so I guess I should not feel guilty about lifting an iPod either.
Heck, in fact I guess we now have license to commit theft whenever the market cap of a company goes over a certain threshold. What is that threshold? 10 million? 100 million?
Please enlighten me when it is OK to steal from a company and when it is not.
IE, a polling organization conducts a poll for a vendor with a cost of one million dollars to the vendor to see which is the preferred widget, X or Y. Then, some third party comes along and points out a flaw in their testing methodology, thus invalidating all of the collected data.
That third party has "rendered that data meaningless, useless, or ineffective" and thus could be found guilty under this statute as worded.
This is just off the top of my head with 5 seconds thinking on it, I am sure many many such scenarios could be created. Data is not the same as physical property, you can't just take a property law and replace the word "property" with "data" and expect it to make sense (see the original "mischief" section above in the law).
Whoever got this on the books should be drawn and quartered.
Hearing aids are still crazy overpriced, but perscription glasses can be easily purchased online for $10 or even for free. Before I got my LASIK a few years ago I got a new pair two of glasses for free every few months using coupon codes from Goggles4U or clearly contacts.
Nuclear. If it can power a sub for years, it can power a station on Europa.
It seems a lot more feasible to me to build a permanent off-world habitat on Europa beneath the water, than to build one on Mars. The ice and water would shield you from the radiation normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere and ionosphere. You can extract oxygen easily from water using known processes. And there is no need to MAKE water since it is everywhere. Furthermore, we are already well-versed in making underwater habitats and the habitat would be easily testable here, so there are fewer unknowns.
You would not even need to sink the habitat very deep to protect from the radiation, it could achieve neutral boyancy somewhere in the middle of the water column, and then rotate itself in the water to achieve 1G via centripetal forces.
Facebook explicitly says they do not allow you to delete your account. They simply DO NOT ALLOW IT. And all data you post on facebook is theirs, they claim ownership of it. So no wonder they don't allow you to delete it.
Google allows you to delete your account and tells you exactly what happens when that occurs. http://www.pcworld.com/article... . And they claim ownership of nothing.
The companies attitude toward privacy and accountability are so different it is not even in the same hemisphere.
- Google lets you export ALL OF YOUR DATA, 100%, in full, in open formats.
- Google lets you close your account and delete it, leaving no traces. This includes Google Plus and all posts shared.
- The majority of Google's services offer open APIs and follow open standards and allow third party integrations.
- Heck, many of their products they fully open source and give to the whole community, including Chrome, ChromeOS, Android, GWT, etc
Compare this to facebook. You can't export anything out of facebook in any kind of open format. You can not easily delete your account, even when you do your pictures and images remain on other people's accounts. Facebook offers very few open APIs to integrate with it, they want you to instead write apps that run ON the platform so they can control and monetize everything you create.
The Model S has a 300 mile range so not sure why a ~70 mile round trip would be a problem, or even your quoted 300 mile max trip.
As far as someone who can do work - you need to remember that because it has no gas engine at all, there is little to no matience needed on a Model S. There is no oil to change, nothing to inspect since it monitors itself. You don't need yearly checkups to maintain warranty. And if anything DOES go wrong, and there is no local service, they send a Tesla Ranger TO YOU, not the other way around.