The current UIs sticking around is hardly unthinkable: Windows 95 came out 13 years ago, and someone who is used to 95 would find it extremely easy to pick up windows xp or vista.
Well, for a trivial example, wheels are not patented; anybody can make them, and mega corps can make them extremely cheaply. The original inventors of the wheel probably is not well compensated at all, but there is enough mega corps who make wheels to ensure that prices is low. Things don't get problematic as long as there is more then one mega corp. And for something easy to make, it would be hard for any mega corp to lock any other mega corp out.
You know, of course, that most OSS software makes it to the windows world, right? So in the windows world, you just hunt down that same piece of software and use it.
Curiously enough, a truly privacy-free world would be better for the person in question. It would easy enough for him to find out who robbed him if no one had any privacy. If we are allowed to assume that all people are rational actors, then no one would rob him.
Assuming, of course, that the US simply don't just hire away all of their best and brightest, like it have been for a long time now. How do you think those professors got here in the first place?
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Microsoft is doing some good work at MS research. Shame that it is always the monopolies that is doing good research.....
The current UIs sticking around is hardly unthinkable: Windows 95 came out 13 years ago, and someone who is used to 95 would find it extremely easy to pick up windows xp or vista.
Well, for a trivial example, wheels are not patented; anybody can make them, and mega corps can make them extremely cheaply. The original inventors of the wheel probably is not well compensated at all, but there is enough mega corps who make wheels to ensure that prices is low. Things don't get problematic as long as there is more then one mega corp. And for something easy to make, it would be hard for any mega corp to lock any other mega corp out.
For extremely parallel code, why not?
Most likely some sort of NAT service. That is where multiply people share one IP address, and you use port addresses to tell apart whos who.
That would imply that dems would win all of the elections, as only 30% have this gene.
However, if you ever bothered to read the constitution, you would find a definition of treason, and it does not agree with you.
You know, of course, that most OSS software makes it to the windows world, right? So in the windows world, you just hunt down that same piece of software and use it.
The united states. Most houses get 15 amps. In the US, power is usually 120 watts. That works out to 1800 watts, peak.
Look up CDMA and GSM
There are a lot of technical reasons preventing any phone from being used on any network.
doubtful. Typically, stuff don't much cheaper when you get much below the mainstream stuff.
Not always. Suppose if I do something like this:
void *ptr = malloc(1000);
foo(ptr+4);
Now, in foo, the correct answer to the size of array being passed to it is 996. But the language does not know that.
I don't seem to recall any actual money being spent bailing out bear sterns.
The martial arts is not effective against guns - there is a reason why the army issues its soldiers guns instead of martial arts training.
Looking though the numbers, you seem to be assuming that the average person drives 70 miles in a day. That seems to be a high ball number.
Well, I suppose you can overwhelm it and then send a more accurate missile to take it out. Or you can just fire a lot more at it.
Well, Nader is to the left of the political compass. He have not had a record of getting that many votes.
Enforce the laws that says that others are not allowed to copy it.
Why is killing general education a bad thing?
Curiously enough, a truly privacy-free world would be better for the person in question. It would easy enough for him to find out who robbed him if no one had any privacy. If we are allowed to assume that all people are rational actors, then no one would rob him.
Assuming, of course, that the US simply don't just hire away all of their best and brightest, like it have been for a long time now. How do you think those professors got here in the first place?
Breaking it up cost more energy then we get from burning the coal/oil in the first place. Counter productive to say the least.
when there is no scarcity, who gets what is a purely academic exercise.
alternatively, we can just lazily sit around and get the computers to do all of the work.