Today most homes is either hooked directly up on fiber or hook up on cobber with translation to fiber not very far away... I'm guessing here, but I think ad hoc wireless networks, would be crazy unreliable, slow, insecure and have an extreme latency...
Why would they waste the processing horsepower? It would eat the battery if it was even at all possible.
Data transmission vs. CPU cycles... I'm pretty sure CPU cycle is most battery friendly.
They can do higher quality recognition on their servers anyway
According to wikipedia, iPhone 4S ships with an 800MHz dual core processor, on a server you might have a little more, but it's shared with a lot of other users... Also there's the round trip time when you're using a server...
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I doubt it, apple likes the attention and hype... So you can at least be sure they'll wait till the dust settles, before they blow it up again:)
Cutting top tax rates from 70%+ to 40% or so made the startup bet much more attractive
I disagree... I don't think anybody worries about top taxes when they're building a startup... Top tax rates might affect ordinary workers, who without top tax would work 60 hours a week instead of 37... But that's a matter of moving the bar for top tax up...
And likewise if I post something to a site in Germany the information would be available to the German authorities.....
.... The US is hardly the only nation to feel that way and make use of it.
Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc... are all doing business in Europe, whether they're selling services or ads... Granted sometimes the servers are located in the US, (sometimes it's the EU, or both, who knows?), nevertheless I doubt user agreements have any significant legal standing in most of Europe, the common man cannot be expected to understand 5 pages for legal nonsense, especially not when written in a foreign language. So why shouldn't Twitter, Facebook , Google etc. be fined for violating European privacy laws?
I realize it would put these companies between a rock and a hard place, as the US would force them to deliver the information... But if we in Europe put these companies in this position, they'll probably buy, sorry lobby, some US politician to come up with better privacy laws, that respects users in foreign countries...
Obviously, this would be a somewhat extreme action to take:)
But when you do business in EU your subject to our laws... I don't hope the EU starts fining companies for complying with court orders, search warrents, or requests under an obscure "stored communications act" in the US right away, but starting a discussion about what's okay and how to handle violations would be a good thing...
By the way, isn't it kind of arrogant (and stupid) to go to court for information about an MP in a foreign country? What can they possibly learn from her twitter account anyway:)
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No, were 5 years behind schedule because the governments response to that situation in the past has been "Oh. Well here's some more money. Let see if that helps."
As oppose to here - oh, well too bad... Now we don't get any new fighter jets? (which implies that the current investment is lost).
When contracts like this goes bad, it's loose -- loose situation... I mean what could they have done?
Surely, it's possible that the project have been poorly managed or that major private commercial entities have lied about their cost estimates to get contracts (that's just capitalism, deal with it or revolutionize)... But the thing is that development of fighter jets is a risky investment, and assuming you want new fighter jets, you have to make such a risky investment.
My country (Denmark) have also invested an awful lot of money (if measured per citizen) in this project. IMO it would have been better if we'd just bought some of the cheap gripen jets that Saab in Sweden is making... Obviously, they're not as cool as the F-35, but for the kind of wars we're participating in (typically UN sanctioned international conflicts where the Americans always does the hard stuff - thank by the way) they're probably fine. But when our politicians wants to have the newest high tech fighter jets, well, then there's a risk and we've got to accept that. What else can we do?
My German isn't very good, but I did a quick search on a mobile.de for a car from 2011 going at about 1100 EURO (approx 1500 USD), and no kidding this is all you'll get for 1500 USD.
I know car prices are 3x that of Germany where I live (Denmark), but a new car at 1500 USD, I don't even think that's possible in Germany...
(The cars around 1100 EURO looks a bit like this and it is from 1982 and has driven more that 300.000 km).
This is how it works. Tiny few become really rich, most barely make a living. Some better, some worse. It's not a casino, and it's not limited to app store.
This is probably true for most software mainstream software companies... But for other industries, where sales is bounded by a finite supply, the free marked is less of a casino. So you might wonder if pay-per-download is the right licensing model (maybe there should be an upper bound on how much you can make).
If you want a healthy app ecology you might need competing apps...
...and then your mutilated corpse is found hanging from a freeway overpass. This is not some schoolyard fight.
You would think a group called anonymous would avoid getting caught... In fact I'd be surprised if many of them were living in Mexico...
This is not some schoolyard fight.
Which is probably why they are backing down (I'm not saying anonymous are kids), but rather that you should choose your fights, and given what they have been fighting so far. This is probably not their fight.
Besides, drugs aren't transported over the internet, they can't attack their primary interests.
Why? the whole point is to avoid launching heavy parts like antennas and solar panels... Because they are heavy, not because they're expensive to buy...
one of the primary drivers of the high cost is the launch costs,
It's interesting todo because the antennas and solar panels makes up quite a lot of the launch costs... they're not talking about reusing everything, just the heavy parts:)
I doubt the company have a secret agenda about pushing to Finland. Why?
Manufacturing costs in Scandinavia is a lot higher, it's not uncommon for unskilled factory workers to make 25 USD per hour, not counting overtime, late hours etc.
From the article:
Henrik Fisker said the U.S. money has been spent on engineering and design work that stayed in the U.S., not on the 500 manufacturing jobs that went to a rural Finnish firm, Valmet Automotive.
Seriously in the process of spending half a billion how much is 500 manufacturing jobs?
I'd rather have my advanced UI that lets me do whatever I want with my workstation, thank you very much.
Ubuntu never had an advanced UI. Ubuntu have always been easy and simple to use, without too many settings... When was Ubuntu geared towards developers?
Ubuntu have always been aiming broad, if super easy doesn't suit you (perhaps you wan't super efficient) then there's probably an Ubuntu derivative for you...
.... use of language, or friends, in order to predict certain cultural preferences, or ad susceptibility. That's perfectly believable, and no, you probably aren't entitled to it. If you don't want them building models of you, don't submit your information.
Under EU privacy laws they must, upon request, provide you with all the information they have about you. And upon request they must also delete any personal information.
If there's really anything to this story (and facebook doesn't back down), I think facebook will loose in court...
My understanding is that they are overworked. There are too many patent applications to spend even ten minutes reviewing each one
I'm wondering if they have a must-approve-rate or if we should equip slashdotters with a red DENIED stamp and send them of to work at the USPTO for free...
The 1% already control everything......Just about the only way I can think of to wrest power away from these folks is if the 99% were to stop buying everything for more than 90 days.
Or you could do a good old fashion socialist revolution, raise taxes to 80%, decapitate a few people and nationalize big cooperations with defacto monopolies.
</sarcasm>
Okay, maybe that's crazy talk, but some less aggressive form of wealth redistribution is what it takes, and as evident from most other western democracies you can do that without decapitating people...
Just because a world where everybody has to pay for everything is a bad place to live doesn't mean that the exact opposite is any better.
Probably not... extremes are rarely good...
There may be massive room for reform in our current system but it's not software/music/movie pirates that keep these industries alive, it's the people who pay for the privilege of consuming their products.
Yes and no, money doesn't drive every discovery, but they do drive some...
Hardly. Unlike real property which you can hire people with guns to protect, Imaginary Property....
Nice definition:)
But there aren't many civilized countries in the world where you can hire people with guns... I don't hope that makes physical property imaginary...
The copy of copyright and patent supporters is to prevent systems like the internet from being founded........... It is quite obvious that the greater good is of no concern to IP supporters, only their own profits
No, they just believe that if everybody pays for everything that makes everything better. I think it might just be some form of super extreme capitalism...
I know a student who suffers from dyslexia, because of his disability the educational support board (a government institution) have lent him laptop with expensive reading programs and stuff... They've also granted him some money (5000 USD) for getting books scanned at 3 USD per page, because none of his books are available in digital format without DRM that makes text-to-speech impossible.
IMO, these publishers should be fined, obviously they have digital versions of their books, but because of DRM they must be scanned at 3 USD per page (And yes, of course there's a new edition of the books every year). Though, the state maintains a library of scanned books, and he can use an earlier version, this is still a gigantic waste of resources, all because of DRM.
Note: In my country of residence the government is by law obliged to cover additional expenditures that people with disabilities may experience.
and I wouldn't be surprised if this was specifically designed to hurt Wikipedia.
This is in no way a direct attack against Wikipedia, they have resources to relocate, just because it's in Italian doesn't mean it needs to be hosted in Italy. Sure they might loose the.it top-level domain, but that's probably the worst case...
If anything, this might be aimed at bloggers and newspapers, I not saying this is better, much more likely...
- This just Wikipedia taking a political stand, that said it's a sad reality when it comes to this.
...allowed in the European Union?
Because the European court of human rights might just set things straight.
Anyways, remember this is just proposed legislation, who knows how seriously it's being proposed.
How many other evil things can we thing of to patent to prevent people from actually doing them?
We could include a collision detection device in the GPS that automatically calls a vendor sponsoring hospital, even though it might be faster to call 911 and get the closest hospital...
As a side effect the system will also call hospitals whenever you brake hard, which of course is something you'll pay a decent fee for...
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Today most homes is either hooked directly up on fiber or hook up on cobber with translation to fiber not very far away... I'm guessing here, but I think ad hoc wireless networks, would be crazy unreliable, slow, insecure and have an extreme latency...
Why would they waste the processing horsepower? It would eat the battery if it was even at all possible.
Data transmission vs. CPU cycles... I'm pretty sure CPU cycle is most battery friendly.
They can do higher quality recognition on their servers anyway
According to wikipedia, iPhone 4S ships with an 800MHz dual core processor, on a server you might have a little more, but it's shared with a lot of other users... Also there's the round trip time when you're using a server...
I doubt it, apple likes the attention and hype... So you can at least be sure they'll wait till the dust settles, before they blow it up again :)
Cutting top tax rates from 70%+ to 40% or so made the startup bet much more attractive
I disagree... I don't think anybody worries about top taxes when they're building a startup... Top tax rates might affect ordinary workers, who without top tax would work 60 hours a week instead of 37... But that's a matter of moving the bar for top tax up...
And likewise if I post something to a site in Germany the information would be available to the German authorities.....
.... The US is hardly the only nation to feel that way and make use of it.
Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc... are all doing business in Europe, whether they're selling services or ads... Granted sometimes the servers are located in the US, (sometimes it's the EU, or both, who knows?), nevertheless I doubt user agreements have any significant legal standing in most of Europe, the common man cannot be expected to understand 5 pages for legal nonsense, especially not when written in a foreign language.
:)
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So why shouldn't Twitter, Facebook , Google etc. be fined for violating European privacy laws?
I realize it would put these companies between a rock and a hard place, as the US would force them to deliver the information... But if we in Europe put these companies in this position, they'll probably buy, sorry lobby, some US politician to come up with better privacy laws, that respects users in foreign countries...
Obviously, this would be a somewhat extreme action to take
But when you do business in EU your subject to our laws... I don't hope the EU starts fining companies for complying with court orders, search warrents, or requests under an obscure "stored communications act" in the US right away, but starting a discussion about what's okay and how to handle violations would be a good thing...
By the way, isn't it kind of arrogant (and stupid) to go to court for information about an MP in a foreign country? What can they possibly learn from her twitter account anyway
No, were 5 years behind schedule because the governments response to that situation in the past has been "Oh. Well here's some more money. Let see if that helps."
As oppose to here - oh, well too bad... Now we don't get any new fighter jets? (which implies that the current investment is lost).
When contracts like this goes bad, it's loose -- loose situation... I mean what could they have done?
Surely, it's possible that the project have been poorly managed or that major private commercial entities have lied about their cost estimates to get contracts (that's just capitalism, deal with it or revolutionize)...
But the thing is that development of fighter jets is a risky investment, and assuming you want new fighter jets, you have to make such a risky investment.
My country (Denmark) have also invested an awful lot of money (if measured per citizen) in this project. IMO it would have been better if we'd just bought some of the cheap gripen jets that Saab in Sweden is making... Obviously, they're not as cool as the F-35, but for the kind of wars we're participating in (typically UN sanctioned international conflicts where the Americans always does the hard stuff - thank by the way) they're probably fine.
But when our politicians wants to have the newest high tech fighter jets, well, then there's a risk and we've got to accept that.
What else can we do?
My German isn't very good, but I did a quick search on a mobile.de for a car from 2011 going at about 1100 EURO (approx 1500 USD), and no kidding this is all you'll get for 1500 USD.
I know car prices are 3x that of Germany where I live (Denmark), but a new car at 1500 USD, I don't even think that's possible in Germany... (The cars around 1100 EURO looks a bit like this and it is from 1982 and has driven more that 300.000 km).
Have you tried recent versions of qtcreator or monodevelop? Actually pretty good, the only thing they lack is package generation.
This is how it works. Tiny few become really rich, most barely make a living. Some better, some worse. It's not a casino, and it's not limited to app store.
This is probably true for most software mainstream software companies... But for other industries, where sales is bounded by a finite supply, the free marked is less of a casino. So you might wonder if pay-per-download is the right licensing model (maybe there should be an upper bound on how much you can make).
If you want a healthy app ecology you might need competing apps...
You would think a group called anonymous would avoid getting caught... In fact I'd be surprised if many of them were living in Mexico...
This is not some schoolyard fight.
Which is probably why they are backing down (I'm not saying anonymous are kids), but rather that you should choose your fights, and given what they have been fighting so far. This is probably not their fight.
Besides, drugs aren't transported over the internet, they can't attack their primary interests.
Why? the whole point is to avoid launching heavy parts like antennas and solar panels... Because they are heavy, not because they're expensive to buy...
one of the primary drivers of the high cost is the launch costs,
It's interesting todo because the antennas and solar panels makes up quite a lot of the launch costs... they're not talking about reusing everything, just the heavy parts :)
Maybe pushing work back to the home region?
I doubt the company have a secret agenda about pushing to Finland. Why?
Manufacturing costs in Scandinavia is a lot higher, it's not uncommon for unskilled factory workers to make 25 USD per hour, not counting overtime, late hours etc.
From the article:
Henrik Fisker said the U.S. money has been spent on engineering and design work that stayed in the U.S., not on the 500 manufacturing jobs that went to a rural Finnish firm, Valmet Automotive.
Seriously in the process of spending half a billion how much is 500 manufacturing jobs?
Which begs the question: will there be a replacement for it? Are there other code search services out there?
koders.com, I think... I'm not even sure Google Code Search was the first, so I'm sure there's others out there...
I'd rather have my advanced UI that lets me do whatever I want with my workstation, thank you very much.
Ubuntu never had an advanced UI. Ubuntu have always been easy and simple to use, without too many settings... When was Ubuntu geared towards developers?
Ubuntu have always been aiming broad, if super easy doesn't suit you (perhaps you wan't super efficient) then there's probably an Ubuntu derivative for you...
.... use of language, or friends, in order to predict certain cultural preferences, or ad susceptibility. That's perfectly believable, and no, you probably aren't entitled to it. If you don't want them building models of you, don't submit your information.
Under EU privacy laws they must, upon request, provide you with all the information they have about you. And upon request they must also delete any personal information.
If there's really anything to this story (and facebook doesn't back down), I think facebook will loose in court...
My understanding is that they are overworked. There are too many patent applications to spend even ten minutes reviewing each one
I'm wondering if they have a must-approve-rate or if we should equip slashdotters with a red DENIED stamp and send them of to work at the USPTO for free...
The 1% already control everything... ...Just about the only way I can think of to wrest power away from these folks is if the 99% were to stop buying everything for more than 90 days.
Or you could do a good old fashion socialist revolution, raise taxes to 80%, decapitate a few people and nationalize big cooperations with defacto monopolies.
</sarcasm>
Okay, maybe that's crazy talk, but some less aggressive form of wealth redistribution is what it takes, and as evident from most other western democracies you can do that without decapitating people...
Just because a world where everybody has to pay for everything is a bad place to live doesn't mean that the exact opposite is any better.
Probably not... extremes are rarely good...
There may be massive room for reform in our current system but it's not software/music/movie pirates that keep these industries alive, it's the people who pay for the privilege of consuming their products.
Yes and no, money doesn't drive every discovery, but they do drive some...
Hardly. Unlike real property which you can hire people with guns to protect, Imaginary Property....
Nice definition :)
But there aren't many civilized countries in the world where you can hire people with guns... I don't hope that makes physical property imaginary...
The copy of copyright and patent supporters is to prevent systems like the internet from being founded........... It is quite obvious that the greater good is of no concern to IP supporters, only their own profits
No, they just believe that if everybody pays for everything that makes everything better. I think it might just be some form of super extreme capitalism...
I copyright was 5 years, we would all be running obscure hacked versions of Windows Xp :)
Oh, what horrors - Things would crash all the time...
I know a student who suffers from dyslexia, because of his disability the educational support board (a government institution) have lent him laptop with expensive reading programs and stuff... They've also granted him some money (5000 USD) for getting books scanned at 3 USD per page, because none of his books are available in digital format without DRM that makes text-to-speech impossible.
IMO, these publishers should be fined, obviously they have digital versions of their books, but because of DRM they must be scanned at 3 USD per page (And yes, of course there's a new edition of the books every year).
Though, the state maintains a library of scanned books, and he can use an earlier version, this is still a gigantic waste of resources, all because of DRM.
Note: In my country of residence the government is by law obliged to cover additional expenditures that people with disabilities may experience.
and I wouldn't be surprised if this was specifically designed to hurt Wikipedia.
This is in no way a direct attack against Wikipedia, they have resources to relocate, just because it's in Italian doesn't mean it needs to be hosted in Italy. Sure they might loose the .it top-level domain, but that's probably the worst case...
If anything, this might be aimed at bloggers and newspapers, I not saying this is better, much more likely...
- This just Wikipedia taking a political stand, that said it's a sad reality when it comes to this.
...allowed in the European Union?
Because the European court of human rights might just set things straight.
Anyways, remember this is just proposed legislation, who knows how seriously it's being proposed.
How many other evil things can we thing of to patent to prevent people from actually doing them?
We could include a collision detection device in the GPS that automatically calls a vendor sponsoring hospital, even though it might be faster to call 911 and get the closest hospital...
As a side effect the system will also call hospitals whenever you brake hard, which of course is something you'll pay a decent fee for...