For instance the US spends more than twice as much on heath care per citizen as the UK
An alternative way of putting that however, is that the health care costs twice as much per citizen. Factually, the two statements are equivalent, but consider the different implications.
There're many other factors... Such as amount of money spend on health care... For instance the US spends more than twice as much on heath care per citizen as the UK (and the US doesn't even cover all of their citizen).
That's according to OECD: http://tinyurl.com/cr9753
How about just taking an existing satellite, after all isn't that how piracy works?
(I'm joking of course).
Operating for a ship in international waters is a lot cheaper and just as hard to stop, if not harder... And with such an approach you'd also be able to use any wireless frequency you see fit...:)
- Am I wrong?
As you pass a certain number of cores, modern operating systems will need to be redesigned to handle extreme SMP.
Assuming you want one... operating system running all cores... When the number of cores starts sky rocking, shared memory between all cores is going to be impossible anyway...
In a distant future where Linux needs a rewrite, we will be doing distributed computing... not SMP... Face it, even if we could do SMP, no one would be able to program it...
college investment pays off only about half the time.
Making it better than many other investments today.
A college degree is not (only) an investment in a single student as is indicated when the return is measured in increased earnings... Where I live the government pays all education (and substitutes students during education), because it is not only an investment in a single student... But an investment in the society... In terms of future research and development.
Measuring the return on investments in education in terms of increased earnings... Is like building a house and measuring the investment in terms of brick prices... - It's not the bricks that have value, but what they are used to build...
This scare tactic will probably backfire on them...
Wouldn't that require that their customers knowns the difference between, the ZoneAlarm popup and one of the five other popups provided Symantec, AVG free and Avast... All of which are likely installed and peacefully generating popups at appropriate intervals...
- Seriously, how many tech savvy users runs Windows, sorry I mean... How many tech savvy users runs anti virus software... let alone ZoneAlarm...:)
Okay... I admit I could find anything in their privacy policy... I seriously doubt that is their motive...
In fact I wouldn't be surprised if they promised not to use your phone number for anything else... Google does appear to be quite serious about cloud based apps...
One old light bulb factory Vs. saving billions of dollars in terms of energy... Not that I even need to mention the environmental benefits...
I would actually argue that the switch from light bulbs to energy efficient alternatives is one of the things the free market will not do by itself...
No, they don't! The "police" have no special powers other than exactly what statutes give them under special circumstances (arrest, crime in progress, etc). Since I do not know of any statute granting GPS powers, the only way the police can do this legally is because everyone can.
But are you allowed to walk into someones garage/driveway, isn't that considered tress-passing ?
Also, if you attach a GPS device, aren't you modifying the car, and what is the difference between modifying and destroying ?
If I may leave a GPS device on your car in your driveway, how does this differ from leaving a DVD player? (and if I can leave a DVD player, how about a broken DVD player or other garbage?)
That's said, isn't this just some random journalist who really wants to be heard... and thus making a lot of noise of nothing? (I've seen it way too often, from American journalist)
Luckily I don't live in the US... I have a queen who delegates power, and trust me, if she gets political the government will organize a revolution:)
I've watched a few episodes of the daily show... And from what I can tell, "it's not trendy in America to be logical about government and police practices!":)
What ever they make from showing me ads... Seriously that can't be much...
And if the money went directly to content creators as some sort of micropayment, I might even pay more...
Government is the only business which holds the special right to employ coercion (meaning physical force or threat thereof) against you in order to achieve its goals.
The government is not a business.
At least in my country the government is an entity in place to serve its citizen. Not a business with the goal of generating revenue...:)
That being said, the government should be transparent... So yes, I agree... Government use of secrets should be very restricted...
Bash, all you want... But I'm waiting for the final announcement, if any...
Seriously, it might be necessary to prioritize traffic on wireless broadband, imagine calls getting lost because some punk thinks downloading Big Buck Bunny in Full HD to his Android is great idea...:)
I'm just saying that when it comes to wireless broadband the argument that ISPs doesn't have the bandwidth available may be valid. And for wireless broadband it my not even be technically possible to deliver such bandwidth, it's at least questionable with 3G.
I agree people will start moving to wave if it's integrated with legacy services...
In fact when they started showing demos of Wave, saying how extensions for almost anything could be made for Wave... I was wondering why they didn't have proper integration of e-mail and IM... At least XMPP/GTalk, GMail, IRC and other open standards, but no...
Also an installable client, so that waves would be accessible when offline, would have been a killer features... Apps in browsers are just never going to really cut it... They'll always have small annoying obscurities...
So uh, what exactly is their legal standing for keeping it up there?
A guess, common sense:)
If an image for an FBI badge cannot be reproduced for educational use in an encyclopedia something is wrong. When Wikipedia is sued by the FBI, the story will get attention, and when a bad law gets attention it's likely changed... If not I suppose there's a fancy legal term for commonsense, which can be used as a valid argument in court. Just, a guess...
A “Standard Interface” means an interface that either is an official standard defined by a recognized standards body, or, in the case of interfaces specified for a particular programming language, one that is widely used among developers working in that language.
I would argue that if a plugin uses a webservice, then the webservice needs not be released under GPL. As it is used through a "Standart Interface".
Also, how many proprietary wordpress plugins is there? It's php so the source is available, it may be licensed incorrectly, but that's all... And I doubt that the webservices interfaced need to be GPL'ed.
Or how about beer with alcohol in it. Introducing the native Americans to alcohol worked out pretty well, for the Europeans.:)
Well, how about trying their pipe then... I'm sure opium is pretty common around there... I'm sure that'll work out pretty well for the Taliban, they're already stoned...:)
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For instance the US spends more than twice as much on heath care per citizen as the UK
An alternative way of putting that however, is that the health care costs twice as much per citizen. Factually, the two statements are equivalent, but consider the different implications.
True :)
There're many other factors... Such as amount of money spend on health care... For instance the US spends more than twice as much on heath care per citizen as the UK (and the US doesn't even cover all of their citizen).
That's according to OECD: http://tinyurl.com/cr9753
That wouldn't happen to be the "Convention of Children's Rights" which the US haven't ratified... See: http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-11&chapter=4&lang=en
How about just taking an existing satellite, after all isn't that how piracy works?
:)
(I'm joking of course).
Operating for a ship in international waters is a lot cheaper and just as hard to stop, if not harder... And with such an approach you'd also be able to use any wireless frequency you see fit...
- Am I wrong?
Did they? My experience tells me it takes a lot more capital and resources to make good software than what most, especially small, companies invest.
Or talent... Throwing money at software doesn't necessarily make it better...
Was just about to mention it... :)
As you pass a certain number of cores, modern operating systems will need to be redesigned to handle extreme SMP.
Assuming you want one... operating system running all cores... When the number of cores starts sky rocking, shared memory between all cores is going to be impossible anyway...
In a distant future where Linux needs a rewrite, we will be doing distributed computing... not SMP... Face it, even if we could do SMP, no one would be able to program it...
Making it better than many other investments today.
A college degree is not (only) an investment in a single student as is indicated when the return is measured in increased earnings... Where I live the government pays all education (and substitutes students during education), because it is not only an investment in a single student... But an investment in the society... In terms of future research and development.
Measuring the return on investments in education in terms of increased earnings... Is like building a house and measuring the investment in terms of brick prices...
- It's not the bricks that have value, but what they are used to build...
This scare tactic will probably backfire on them...
Wouldn't that require that their customers knowns the difference between, the ZoneAlarm popup and one of the five other popups provided Symantec, AVG free and Avast... All of which are likely installed and peacefully generating popups at appropriate intervals... :)
- Seriously, how many tech savvy users runs Windows, sorry I mean... How many tech savvy users runs anti virus software... let alone ZoneAlarm...
Okay... I admit I could find anything in their privacy policy... I seriously doubt that is their motive...
In fact I wouldn't be surprised if they promised not to use your phone number for anything else... Google does appear to be quite serious about cloud based apps...
One old light bulb factory Vs. saving billions of dollars in terms of energy... Not that I even need to mention the environmental benefits...
I would actually argue that the switch from light bulbs to energy efficient alternatives is one of the things the free market will not do by itself...
I would say that fear of government and police in Denmark is very modest...
:)
That said, it's probably easier to get a Swedish citizenship, their internet is also faster, so that would be my recommendation...
No, they don't! The "police" have no special powers other than exactly what statutes give them under special circumstances (arrest, crime in progress, etc). Since I do not know of any statute granting GPS powers, the only way the police can do this legally is because everyone can.
But are you allowed to walk into someones garage/driveway, isn't that considered tress-passing ?
:)
Also, if you attach a GPS device, aren't you modifying the car, and what is the difference between modifying and destroying ?
If I may leave a GPS device on your car in your driveway, how does this differ from leaving a DVD player? (and if I can leave a DVD player, how about a broken DVD player or other garbage?)
That's said, isn't this just some random journalist who really wants to be heard... and thus making a lot of noise of nothing? (I've seen it way too often, from American journalist)
Luckily I don't live in the US... I have a queen who delegates power, and trust me, if she gets political the government will organize a revolution
I've watched a few episodes of the daily show... And from what I can tell, "it's not trendy in America to be logical about government and police practices!" :)
Or he's left it off and is growing worms...
What ever they make from showing me ads... Seriously that can't be much...
And if the money went directly to content creators as some sort of micropayment, I might even pay more...
I would guess that the law also says that the editor in chief is responsible for the content published...
Government is the only business which holds the special right to employ coercion (meaning physical force or threat thereof) against you in order to achieve its goals.
The government is not a business.
:)
At least in my country the government is an entity in place to serve its citizen. Not a business with the goal of generating revenue...
That being said, the government should be transparent... So yes, I agree... Government use of secrets should be very restricted...
Yeah, somehow I get the feeling that any such negotiations are non-public... :)
But that doesn't mean they're there...
Bash, all you want... But I'm waiting for the final announcement, if any...
:)
Seriously, it might be necessary to prioritize traffic on wireless broadband, imagine calls getting lost because some punk thinks downloading Big Buck Bunny in Full HD to his Android is great idea...
I'm just saying that when it comes to wireless broadband the argument that ISPs doesn't have the bandwidth available may be valid. And for wireless broadband it my not even be technically possible to deliver such bandwidth, it's at least questionable with 3G.
I agree people will start moving to wave if it's integrated with legacy services...
In fact when they started showing demos of Wave, saying how extensions for almost anything could be made for Wave... I was wondering why they didn't have proper integration of e-mail and IM... At least XMPP/GTalk, GMail, IRC and other open standards, but no...
Also an installable client, so that waves would be accessible when offline, would have been a killer features... Apps in browsers are just never going to really cut it... They'll always have small annoying obscurities...
So uh, what exactly is their legal standing for keeping it up there?
A guess, common sense :)
If an image for an FBI badge cannot be reproduced for educational use in an encyclopedia something is wrong. When Wikipedia is sued by the FBI, the story will get attention, and when a bad law gets attention it's likely changed... If not I suppose there's a fancy legal term for commonsense, which can be used as a valid argument in court. Just, a guess...
A “Standard Interface” means an interface that either is an official standard defined by a recognized standards body, or, in the case of interfaces specified for a particular programming language, one that is widely used among developers working in that language.
I would argue that if a plugin uses a webservice, then the webservice needs not be released under GPL. As it is used through a "Standart Interface".
Also, how many proprietary wordpress plugins is there? It's php so the source is available, it may be licensed incorrectly, but that's all... And I doubt that the webservices interfaced need to be GPL'ed.
Or how about beer with alcohol in it. Introducing the native Americans to alcohol worked out pretty well, for the Europeans. :)
Well, how about trying their pipe then... I'm sure opium is pretty common around there... I'm sure that'll work out pretty well for the Taliban, they're already stoned... :)
Let me know if I'm totally wrong here... :)