I don't know if it's unreasonable (visibly it's safer), but your post shows you don't have a macintosh, or else you have forgotten: as much as I'm considering abandoning Apple*, I have had macs since the Apple II and the only virus I remember dates from the time of the 400K disks, before internet... H. (*) and guess what, the reason is the convergence between OSX and the walled, locked, sandboxed iMachines. My only trouble in fact (but abysmal) is that the only alternative with a real software ecosystem is Android, which I feel even more monopolistic than Apple being Google's... (to those of you that would mention other systems: no, I'm not trend-obsessed with tablets, I don't even own one --I just can see app developers *already have* migrated to tablets. That some linux distros will follow is certain, but this leads to apps available in two years...
Exactly! All they need to do is quote the new law's text on their first page, and state that anyone offended just can reedit the text, *as a compliance to the law*!
+1 for Maple that really changed the world (of both mathematicians and engineers) and set the standard of formal maths years and years before its pale private copy Mathematica...
While things may well turn exactly the way you describe, I see the situation quite differently.
To me the Playbook happens to be the last independent platform in front of Apple/Google duopoly*.
And just for that reason, I'll buy one as soon as they are available here in France.
That less applications are available on it is almost a non-issue to me. Time is now to the Cloud, as they say, which is even more monopolistically gobbled by Google/Apple.
In that area I am intensively searching for php/mysql apps that I, independently, can install in reasonable cooperative server hosts, of which many do exist but only propose ridiculous "your site here" services for now. I already have been using for years calendars, wikis, document hosting; I recently discovered a bayesian-filtering RSS aggregator that's really punchy --and none of them needs anything more than a good browser.
Because RIM has an excellent experience in establishing safe links between servers and devices, I believe it is at least imaginable that they offer this for precisely the kind of "independent cloud apps" I am dreaming for.
That's why I definitely will drop my $500 or so, whenever I see a Palybook here.
I can do this, I can't do more. I won't cry of I lose the bet.
H.
(*) I believed for some time in the Wetab, http://wetab.mobi/en --even though it really had all the German technical impetus behind it, in the end it was clear that one newcomer just coundn't fund it all, and the resulting quality showed poor. In contrast, yes RIM can;-)
One of my recurring worries relates to my system-wide ad-filter (you know, these things that act like a proxy and just apply a range of remappings to 127.0.0.1 for all known adservers). They are very cool, allowing you to benefit from filtering from any browser, including RSS agregators that show html pages, html emails with ads etc.
I suspect they'll develop more and more, and add features quite like the one described here, killing links to sites that I usually avoid to click, etc.
And yes I'm worried. Indeed we may be nearing a bifurcation where internet will shift from an access to "more than before", to a protected access to just people, infos and opinions like yours...
There is already a lot of public info about you in your friend/foe list, that indeed is used by/. to actively filter this very discussion; Google could very well profile that. The day they manage to correlate this profile with your gmail viewing usage may come; at that time, they'll know who is 1u3hr (even though you don't publish it) and they'll directly mail you proposing a better filter here:-/
I always dreamed to get something like what is used at Panoptickick ( http://panopticlick.eff.org/ ). They obviously work with enormous efficiency to identify you in an unique way, but for the good (they want to *warn* you).
Having a public wifi setup with Panopticlick tools would allow tracking anonymous users, and ban their profile as soon as some 'unfair' use is detected (here you decide what you put, wrong port numbers, excessive throughput during too long a time, watever)
A setup like that, which would be openly distributed, would I believe allow both helping passers-by and demonstrably banning 'unfair users'.
(Then comes the contractual terms of their ISP provider, which most generally will explicitly forbit this anyway, but this is yet another issue...)
Also, an interesting feature of Nasa's call to propositions is it allows for more innovative designs, like the possibility of splitting the required delta-V between two separate crafts. You now can consider leaving Mars for a return flight with a barebone orbiter that did come up there with all the "snowball effects" related to accelerating for leaving Earth, braking when reaching Mars, then reaccelerating to leave it. If in these conditions if you need to bring one more ton of fuel to brake on Earth again, the system just becomes almost impossible for mass reasons (you need exponentially large masses of fuel just to accelerate/brake/reaccelerate this last fuel).
With the possibility of in-flight refueling, you can design your return orbiter "naked", with just the fuel to deorbit Mars, then plan an encouter with another, separate orbiter that basically will just leave Earth to bring you that famous last ton of fuel. And as this second bird just doesn't need to brake on Mars and restart, it simply won't have a snowball effect.
The mass gain is huge: basically, it allows so much extra delta-V that one can design the mission to end in low Earth orbit, instead of performing what is now timidly called the "aerothermodynamic" entry (ie, a design where you just aim at Earth with a big, megawatt/m2-Mach-twentysomething shield in front of you, expect all your kinematic energy to be dissipated in the atmosphere, and pray;-)
I'm a bit worried, but from your wikipedia ref, about Gracenote "many listing contributors believed that the database was open-source", which it never was.
Openstreetmap is.
You can even, like me, enter the supporting Foundation: rather than just donating, you'll get some control, you'd be able to vote against openness change if it ever comes (currently, the recent licence evolutions are definitely towards more openness in fact)
But indeed, OSM is geared so that legally speaking, each single streetpoint you may add cannot but be open, with a CC-BY-SA Creative common license. This is *intended* so that no one, nowhere, never can buy or sell OSM data.
Within a few years, like the large, private and costly encyclopedias did in front of Wikipedia, the private GPS map resellers will slowly vanish.
Indeed, my next GPS definitely will be based on Openstreetmap. Whatever the cost. Map upgrades will be free, and will incorporate all I personally added in. If in addition the hardware too could be "less monopoly" (ie, not Apple nor Android nor win-based) this would be perfect, alas, I fear I dream here -and moreover will be flamebait-modded by you android users;-)
at least at its point of impact, I think the Huygens probe (that Cassini dropped on Titan) did identify water ice (plus lots of organic compounds). I sort of remember the "pebbles are water ice that'll never flow" story...
I remember Apple designing a way for a document to publish a part of it, and for other documents from other applications to be capable to subscribe to it, even without having the original application around. All publications were automatically updated when the original document was modified, and all the subscriptions too upon opening the document that contained them.
This then was silently abandoned, maybe around the time the "MacOS" turned to Unix...
To me at the time this publish/subscribe way definitely was a revolution, that died.
Er, do I understand correctly that this "maquetta" is a closed version of the open, W3C-compliant Amaya software that exists since 1996? http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
I recently shifted from ordinary disposable filters (that cost an arm and a leg per year for the average family here in Europe) to a swiss-made ceramic-based one that can be cleaned after a while, and is expected to last years (I indeed used it for one year now without wear). I understand this method is more for bacterias etc. rather than ions, so maybe the crab-related thingie could be set just after;-) For this now I also have a carbon flter that removes some ions (chlore among others) but certainly not radioactive iodine:-D All in all I feel I now have a more durable system, without throwing aways kilograms of disposable filters every year... H.
mod parent up. While our time saw the death of the only supersonic passenger plane (the french/british Concorde), years ago already, it also saw the dawn of superfast trains, from the japanese shinkansen to the french TGV to the german ICE.
The french experience is, when you set up a fast train on a 500-km-like destination, you just shift 90% of the air traffic down to land.
Fast trains are still slower than aircrafts, but if you factor in starting, and arriving, straight in city centers -and generally a much lower travel cost, this is definitely a move ongoing in many parts of the world.
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I don't know if it's unreasonable (visibly it's safer), but your post shows you don't have a macintosh, or else you have forgotten: as much as I'm considering abandoning Apple*, I have had macs since the Apple II and the only virus I remember dates from the time of the 400K disks, before internet...
H.
(*) and guess what, the reason is the convergence between OSX and the walled, locked, sandboxed iMachines. My only trouble in fact (but abysmal) is that the only alternative with a real software ecosystem is Android, which I feel even more monopolistic than Apple being Google's...
(to those of you that would mention other systems: no, I'm not trend-obsessed with tablets, I don't even own one --I just can see app developers *already have* migrated to tablets. That some linux distros will follow is certain, but this leads to apps available in two years...
...by posting AC you prevent me to filter you up for next time :(
At least from my average french window, this info is absolutely unknown here in the ordinary news :-/ /.
Thanks
Exactly!
All they need to do is quote the new law's text on their first page, and state that anyone offended just can reedit the text, *as a compliance to the law*!
The single thing that prevented me to buy a playbook upon appearing was, no ad filtering possible. Did this change?
all is in the title, indeed... capable of working both the normal GSM way and with various levels of encryption...
Various evolutions and models since then, like for instance
http://www.thalesgroup.com/Press_Releases/Markets/Security/2011/Thales_launches_Every_Talk,_the_first_ruggedized_high-speed_smartphone_for_security_forces/?pid=15928
+1 for Maple that really changed the world (of both mathematicians and engineers) and set the standard of formal maths years and years before its pale private copy Mathematica...
I remember this, relatively old:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/s5-intro.html
Wen'll we have a simple GUI to create slides like this?
While things may well turn exactly the way you describe, I see the situation quite differently.
To me the Playbook happens to be the last independent platform in front of Apple/Google duopoly*.
And just for that reason, I'll buy one as soon as they are available here in France.
That less applications are available on it is almost a non-issue to me. Time is now to the Cloud, as they say, which is even more monopolistically gobbled by Google/Apple.
In that area I am intensively searching for php/mysql apps that I, independently, can install in reasonable cooperative server hosts, of which many do exist but only propose ridiculous "your site here" services for now.
I already have been using for years calendars, wikis, document hosting; I recently discovered a bayesian-filtering RSS aggregator that's really punchy --and none of them needs anything more than a good browser.
Because RIM has an excellent experience in establishing safe links between servers and devices, I believe it is at least imaginable that they offer this for precisely the kind of "independent cloud apps" I am dreaming for.
That's why I definitely will drop my $500 or so, whenever I see a Palybook here.
I can do this, I can't do more. I won't cry of I lose the bet.
H.
(*) I believed for some time in the Wetab, http://wetab.mobi/en --even though it really had all the German technical impetus behind it, in the end it was clear that one newcomer just coundn't fund it all, and the resulting quality showed poor. In contrast, yes RIM can ;-)
... exactly my concern indeed...
... Maybe we'll find s/he wears a Purple Sarong?
One of my recurring worries relates to my system-wide ad-filter (you know, these things that act like a proxy and just apply a range of remappings to 127.0.0.1 for all known adservers).
They are very cool, allowing you to benefit from filtering from any browser, including RSS agregators that show html pages, html emails with ads etc.
I suspect they'll develop more and more, and add features quite like the one described here, killing links to sites that I usually avoid to click, etc.
And yes I'm worried. Indeed we may be nearing a bifurcation where internet will shift from an access to "more than before", to a protected access to just people, infos and opinions like yours...
There is already a lot of public info about you in your friend/foe list, that indeed is used by /. to actively filter this very discussion; Google could very well profile that. :-/
The day they manage to correlate this profile with your gmail viewing usage may come; at that time, they'll know who is 1u3hr (even though you don't publish it) and they'll directly mail you proposing a better filter here
"Notation"
... we give second-graders "35+42",
which they immediately write as:
35
42
------
and then apply the + function to the stack, exactly like they were told to do ;-)
I always dreamed to get something like what is used at Panoptickick ( http://panopticlick.eff.org/ ).
They obviously work with enormous efficiency to identify you in an unique way, but for the good (they want to *warn* you).
Having a public wifi setup with Panopticlick tools would allow tracking anonymous users, and ban their profile as soon as some 'unfair' use is detected (here you decide what you put, wrong port numbers, excessive throughput during too long a time, watever)
A setup like that, which would be openly distributed, would I believe allow both helping passers-by and demonstrably banning 'unfair users'.
(Then comes the contractual terms of their ISP provider, which most generally will explicitly forbit this anyway, but this is yet another issue...)
Also, an interesting feature of Nasa's call to propositions is it allows for more innovative designs, like the possibility of splitting the required delta-V between two separate crafts.
You now can consider leaving Mars for a return flight with a barebone orbiter that did come up there with all the "snowball effects" related to accelerating for leaving Earth, braking when reaching Mars, then reaccelerating to leave it.
If in these conditions if you need to bring one more ton of fuel to brake on Earth again, the system just becomes almost impossible for mass reasons (you need exponentially large masses of fuel just to accelerate/brake/reaccelerate this last fuel).
With the possibility of in-flight refueling, you can design your return orbiter "naked", with just the fuel to deorbit Mars, then plan an encouter with another, separate orbiter that basically will just leave Earth to bring you that famous last ton of fuel.
And as this second bird just doesn't need to brake on Mars and restart, it simply won't have a snowball effect.
The mass gain is huge: basically, it allows so much extra delta-V that one can design the mission to end in low Earth orbit, instead of performing what is now timidly called the "aerothermodynamic" entry (ie, a design where you just aim at Earth with a big, megawatt/m2-Mach-twentysomething shield in front of you, expect all your kinematic energy to be dissipated in the atmosphere, and pray ;-)
horror. I posted anonymously. :-D
(and I wasn't surprised by this anti-robot thingie!)
-and now I'll duely be offtopic-downmodded here
I'm a bit worried, but from your wikipedia ref, about Gracenote "many listing contributors believed that the database was open-source", which it never was.
Openstreetmap is.
You can even, like me, enter the supporting Foundation: rather than just donating, you'll get some control, you'd be able to vote against openness change if it ever comes (currently, the recent licence evolutions are definitely towards more openness in fact)
But indeed, OSM is geared so that legally speaking, each single streetpoint you may add cannot but be open, with a CC-BY-SA Creative common license.
This is *intended* so that no one, nowhere, never can buy or sell OSM data.
Within a few years, like the large, private and costly encyclopedias did in front of Wikipedia, the private GPS map resellers will slowly vanish.
(and now I'll be modded fanboi -but I stand by ;-)
Indeed, my next GPS definitely will be based on Openstreetmap. Whatever the cost. Map upgrades will be free, and will incorporate all I personally added in. ;-)
If in addition the hardware too could be "less monopoly" (ie, not Apple nor Android nor win-based) this would be perfect, alas, I fear I dream here -and moreover will be flamebait-modded by you android users
at least at its point of impact, I think the Huygens probe (that Cassini dropped on Titan) did identify water ice (plus lots of organic compounds).
I sort of remember the "pebbles are water ice that'll never flow" story...
I remember Apple designing a way for a document to publish a part of it, and for other documents from other applications to be capable to subscribe to it, even without having the original application around.
All publications were automatically updated when the original document was modified, and all the subscriptions too upon opening the document that contained them.
This then was silently abandoned, maybe around the time the "MacOS" turned to Unix...
To me at the time this publish/subscribe way definitely was a revolution, that died.
Er, do I understand correctly that this "maquetta" is a closed version of the open, W3C-compliant Amaya software that exists since 1996?
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
I recently shifted from ordinary disposable filters (that cost an arm and a leg per year for the average family here in Europe) to a swiss-made ceramic-based one that can be cleaned after a while, and is expected to last years (I indeed used it for one year now without wear). ;-) :-D
I understand this method is more for bacterias etc. rather than ions, so maybe the crab-related thingie could be set just after
For this now I also have a carbon flter that removes some ions (chlore among others) but certainly not radioactive iodine
All in all I feel I now have a more durable system, without throwing aways kilograms of disposable filters every year...
H.
mod parent up.
While our time saw the death of the only supersonic passenger plane (the french/british Concorde), years ago already, it also saw the dawn of superfast trains, from the japanese shinkansen to the french TGV to the german ICE.
The french experience is, when you set up a fast train on a 500-km-like destination, you just shift 90% of the air traffic down to land.
Fast trains are still slower than aircrafts, but if you factor in starting, and arriving, straight in city centers -and generally a much lower travel cost, this is definitely a move ongoing in many parts of the world.