How many news you see like that coming from muslim in western countries ? Because, in the name of Christianity, women are mutilated, virgin are raped by HIV positive believer, rape victim are excommunicated,...
Shit countries are shit: police is corrupt, justice is not fair, army fights its people, democracy is subverted, and religion a tool.
Actually, the stronger possibility is it's the kind of story you'd expect the Mail on Sunday
70 Mph (112 km/h) is the speed limit in the UK and is significantly smaller than most countries in EU (120-130 km/h). Speeding is national sport everywhere in EU, there is no way the EU would make a serious proposition to electronically prevent car to go about 90% of the current speed limit without making the top news in about every country. Something in this news has been distorted to flamebait level.
When you allow software algorithms to be locked away in patents
Actually that is not the biggest problem. That would be fair enough if those algorithm required years of R&D. What we are talking about here is stuff that is normal everyday problem to solving for the engineer in charge of developing the feature.
Patent are supposed to expose secrets in exchange for a temporary monopol. However, if nobody look at the patents to find those secrets and yet manage to reinvent them, what exactly is the value of those patent ? If you have a patent system where people need to search for the patent to license after they have made their product, your patent system is broken at a fundamental level.
Not to rain on your parade, but yes those 3 elements are show stopper for private enterprise, especially the unquantified bit. Getting the government covering your asses for some/all of those aspect is what it takes to kick start a market. Once the unquantifiable has been quantified, that's when the fun begin.
For example, did you see a boom in private space exploration in the 70's ?
Seems to me here that the only disagreement is to know if we have passed the threshold that make commercial colonisation of space viable or not. Tyson thinks more leg work needs to be done by the government (you know killing people, crashing a few billion on a rock). Musk is of the opposite opinion. Both have very good basis to talk as they are.
We will see, there have been many many claim of commercial operation in the space. It is only very recently that a tiny bit of it has actually materialised. I'm still waiting for my Moon resort and my orbit hotel that were promised in the 90's.
There a subtlety there... you see if not answering question was a crime, they would allow a lawyer to be present. They don't and the reason is that it is a crime not to answer question related to terrorism, however it is fair game to refuse to answer non-terrorist related question.
Even assuming you know you rights, that is not a game you want to play without a lawyer present to back you up in court.
There were people saying the same thing about their dec alpha a few years back. Market did not leave them much choice. I still need to work for the next 30 years or more if I cannot afford to retire. I also pay the premium to type on mechanical keyboard, but I won't bet that keyboard/mouse customer will still be the prime use case that far in the future.
That wasn't said before, but DCP also negociate a key everytime you need to play the movies, also requiring connection to the authentication server.
Converting DCP content into something else would require the proper licensing from the movie companies. Stripping DRM is a tough business to get license for.
Now, I'm not saying it is a good idea to develop on a tablet nowadays. But then consumer grade stuff have a tendency to invade the professional world, so it may be forced upon us at some point.
Funny side effect, have you noticed that the correct answer to "where do you see yourself in 5 years" is always something along the line "not doing this shitty job".
Also that is very much domain specific. I have rarely heard somebody saying that he would rather have heart surgery by a fresh out of school surgeon whose career goal is to manage hospital staffing in Excel.
Guns and current combustion engine share the same principle. If you can print a gun that fires reliably, you are much closer to be able to print an engine. The design of a printed engine could be radically different compared to one that need to be assembled and maintained.
Just illustrating your point. But to add one of my own. Today, you can machine a gun using a lathe and a few other low tech tools, yet it seems that everybody is nevertheless finding real factory made gun: drug lord, petty thief, terrorist, 13 year old kid in Africa,...
They got everybody hyped-up and then let Vista be installed on machine incapable of running it decently. Added to that, the whole Vista Ready vs Vista Capable.
That is a major communication fuck up. Even Apple which would hype a dull steak knife into a samurai sword is very very clear what will not run on what machine when they announce an iOS upgrade.
Vista was not a first for MS. They hyped, most of the time involuntarily, stuff they would never deliver or promises they would break. Nowadays, in market where MS is not the leader, that bites them big time in the ass.
Well, the normal response for the US is to judge Snowden, allowing him an attorney, probably sending him in jail for a few years.
The reason the US looks bad is that they cannot guarantee that, not after having legalised torture, not closed gitmo, or handle Manning confinement,...
It does not make the US worse than China or Russia, similarly as a cop caught stealing an apple does make him worse than a child rapist. It is however a massive PR slap in the face.
He just meant he is happy to lower his standard to medieval level in order to avoid accepting the difficult truth that maybe a cheaper iphone every year is not worth raping the funding principle of his country.
The alternative is to do a benchmark of the performance that the user will really get. What's the point knowing the potential of the phone when at the end of the day it is configured in such a way that you will never reach them.
That is a good point. People that cares about their firearms not getting used by their kids or others is a small fraction of the market that can be interested in the SmartGuns. However, for those people there are many other options available: Not owning a gun, or leaving it at the fire range. Proper safety - like disabling the gun, or having a safe. Strict gun education in the family. All of those compete with the Smart Guns.
Compared to those solutions, Smart Guns do not really bring much value. Smart Gun are simply not smart enough to be interesting.
Also, Windows is not a public service, it is only created to maximise revenue. And yes, that means replacing features with some with ROI for Microsoft. Doing differently would be commercial suicide.
I guess people have forgotten that the only reason Windows has been required to show some fairness and restraint in the past was because it was a monopoly.
They got away with torturing people in Guantanamo. It is even used as a running joke "you will be sent to guantanamo, lol".
At this stage, Obama could get away shooting a school bus in France by simply saying "I don't care about foreign kids preventing a missile serving justice to a hideous pirate causing some grief to my wealthy friends in Hollywood." Of course France would moan a little, but nothing else significant would happen. You just don't mess with an army that alone has the budget of a large first world nation.
VPN are used for often in Europe to access US service like Hulu, Netflix.
So such services are despised both by national security and national/big companies interests. I have always been amazed that a VPN service with entry point in the US with a decent bandwidth has been allowed to exist at all.
You check to get back in sync with current economic realities. The time when you walked out of a job to get another one next door with better condition are over. Especially for low level jobs, but even for qualified job if you are not in a major city.
Do you really thing that China was all trusty of made-in US before ? China is just having a bit of PR fun at the US right now but in practice nothing change: the US tries to spy China and China try to spy the US. That's the job of the NSA after all.
What you just learned is confirmation that the US was also lying to its own citizen. Also you learned that when it comes to spying a Chinese national, a Taliban general or a French plumber have exactly the same rights for the US: none. That is not completely unexpected, but especially for European and other first world citizen and allies of the US, they just learned the hidden price of the free service provided by the various US companies like Google.
Also, unlike European, US citizen have a built-in distrust for their government. I see regularly people that think that the obligation to wear your seatbelt in a car is infringing their freedom. That is amazing that people are not in the street asking for the Government heads on a pike right now.
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So you don't think there is enough prior art ?
How many news you see like that coming from muslim in western countries ? Because, in the name of Christianity, women are mutilated, virgin are raped by HIV positive believer, rape victim are excommunicated, ...
Shit countries are shit: police is corrupt, justice is not fair, army fights its people, democracy is subverted, and religion a tool.
Let's be realistic - if the problem was Islam, with its 1.6 billion followers (1 person out of 4), you would be dead.
Actually, the stronger possibility is it's the kind of story you'd expect the Mail on Sunday
70 Mph (112 km/h) is the speed limit in the UK and is significantly smaller than most countries in EU (120-130 km/h). Speeding is national sport everywhere in EU, there is no way the EU would make a serious proposition to electronically prevent car to go about 90% of the current speed limit without making the top news in about every country. Something in this news has been distorted to flamebait level.
When you allow software algorithms to be locked away in patents
Actually that is not the biggest problem. That would be fair enough if those algorithm required years of R&D. What we are talking about here is stuff that is normal everyday problem to solving for the engineer in charge of developing the feature.
Patent are supposed to expose secrets in exchange for a temporary monopol. However, if nobody look at the patents to find those secrets and yet manage to reinvent them, what exactly is the value of those patent ? If you have a patent system where people need to search for the patent to license after they have made their product, your patent system is broken at a fundamental level.
Not to rain on your parade, but yes those 3 elements are show stopper for private enterprise, especially the unquantified bit. Getting the government covering your asses for some/all of those aspect is what it takes to kick start a market. Once the unquantifiable has been quantified, that's when the fun begin.
For example, did you see a boom in private space exploration in the 70's ?
Seems to me here that the only disagreement is to know if we have passed the threshold that make commercial colonisation of space viable or not. Tyson thinks more leg work needs to be done by the government (you know killing people, crashing a few billion on a rock). Musk is of the opposite opinion. Both have very good basis to talk as they are.
We will see, there have been many many claim of commercial operation in the space. It is only very recently that a tiny bit of it has actually materialised. I'm still waiting for my Moon resort and my orbit hotel that were promised in the 90's.
There a subtlety there ... you see if not answering question was a crime, they would allow a lawyer to be present. They don't and the reason is that it is a crime not to answer question related to terrorism, however it is fair game to refuse to answer non-terrorist related question.
Even assuming you know you rights, that is not a game you want to play without a lawyer present to back you up in court.
There were people saying the same thing about their dec alpha a few years back. Market did not leave them much choice. I still need to work for the next 30 years or more if I cannot afford to retire. I also pay the premium to type on mechanical keyboard, but I won't bet that keyboard/mouse customer will still be the prime use case that far in the future.
That wasn't said before, but DCP also negociate a key everytime you need to play the movies, also requiring connection to the authentication server.
Converting DCP content into something else would require the proper licensing from the movie companies. Stripping DRM is a tough business to get license for.
It is on other devices like a tablet.
Now, I'm not saying it is a good idea to develop on a tablet nowadays. But then consumer grade stuff have a tendency to invade the professional world, so it may be forced upon us at some point.
Funny side effect, have you noticed that the correct answer to "where do you see yourself in 5 years" is always something along the line "not doing this shitty job".
Also that is very much domain specific. I have rarely heard somebody saying that he would rather have heart surgery by a fresh out of school surgeon whose career goal is to manage hospital staffing in Excel.
Guns and current combustion engine share the same principle. If you can print a gun that fires reliably, you are much closer to be able to print an engine. The design of a printed engine could be radically different compared to one that need to be assembled and maintained.
Just illustrating your point. But to add one of my own. Today, you can machine a gun using a lathe and a few other low tech tools, yet it seems that everybody is nevertheless finding real factory made gun: drug lord, petty thief, terrorist, 13 year old kid in Africa, ...
They got everybody hyped-up and then let Vista be installed on machine incapable of running it decently. Added to that, the whole Vista Ready vs Vista Capable.
That is a major communication fuck up. Even Apple which would hype a dull steak knife into a samurai sword is very very clear what will not run on what machine when they announce an iOS upgrade.
Vista was not a first for MS. They hyped, most of the time involuntarily, stuff they would never deliver or promises they would break. Nowadays, in market where MS is not the leader, that bites them big time in the ass.
Well, the normal response for the US is to judge Snowden, allowing him an attorney, probably sending him in jail for a few years.
The reason the US looks bad is that they cannot guarantee that, not after having legalised torture, not closed gitmo, or handle Manning confinement, ...
It does not make the US worse than China or Russia, similarly as a cop caught stealing an apple does make him worse than a child rapist. It is however a massive PR slap in the face.
He just meant he is happy to lower his standard to medieval level in order to avoid accepting the difficult truth that maybe a cheaper iphone every year is not worth raping the funding principle of his country.
The alternative is to do a benchmark of the performance that the user will really get. What's the point knowing the potential of the phone when at the end of the day it is configured in such a way that you will never reach them.
That's because those equation are "funny". It is tongue in cheek for people school days "when they understood all that stuff"
If the equation look real enough, people will just zone out, or worse, assume that the author opinion must be true since there is a formula.
That is a good point. People that cares about their firearms not getting used by their kids or others is a small fraction of the market that can be interested in the SmartGuns. However, for those people there are many other options available: Not owning a gun, or leaving it at the fire range. Proper safety - like disabling the gun, or having a safe. Strict gun education in the family. All of those compete with the Smart Guns.
Compared to those solutions, Smart Guns do not really bring much value. Smart Gun are simply not smart enough to be interesting.
Also, Windows is not a public service, it is only created to maximise revenue. And yes, that means replacing features with some with ROI for Microsoft. Doing differently would be commercial suicide.
I guess people have forgotten that the only reason Windows has been required to show some fairness and restraint in the past was because it was a monopoly.
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Tell me you won a bet with that.
They got away with torturing people in Guantanamo. It is even used as a running joke "you will be sent to guantanamo, lol".
At this stage, Obama could get away shooting a school bus in France by simply saying "I don't care about foreign kids preventing a missile serving justice to a hideous pirate causing some grief to my wealthy friends in Hollywood." Of course France would moan a little, but nothing else significant would happen. You just don't mess with an army that alone has the budget of a large first world nation.
VPN are used for often in Europe to access US service like Hulu, Netflix.
So such services are despised both by national security and national/big companies interests. I have always been amazed that a VPN service with entry point in the US with a decent bandwidth has been allowed to exist at all.
You check to get back in sync with current economic realities. The time when you walked out of a job to get another one next door with better condition are over. Especially for low level jobs, but even for qualified job if you are not in a major city.
Dude, were you born yesterday ?
Do you really thing that China was all trusty of made-in US before ? China is just having a bit of PR fun at the US right now but in practice nothing change: the US tries to spy China and China try to spy the US. That's the job of the NSA after all.
What you just learned is confirmation that the US was also lying to its own citizen. Also you learned that when it comes to spying a Chinese national, a Taliban general or a French plumber have exactly the same rights for the US: none. That is not completely unexpected, but especially for European and other first world citizen and allies of the US, they just learned the hidden price of the free service provided by the various US companies like Google.
Also, unlike European, US citizen have a built-in distrust for their government. I see regularly people that think that the obligation to wear your seatbelt in a car is infringing their freedom. That is amazing that people are not in the street asking for the Government heads on a pike right now.
C:/ where data goes to die.