MySpace was never anywhere as big as Facebook is today, so Facebook's decline will be quite a longer process. (Still possible within 10 years though.)
Microsoft isn't likely to make the same "stuff up" as Windows 8 in the next 10 years, because Windows 8 was the first step in a move toward faster and lighter upgrades, modern designs, and modern application models and APIs. Windows 10 2026 may look different from Windows 10 2016 but the journey there will be 20 small hills instead of 4 large mountains. I think they will start to once again build on their strengths instead of putting so much focus on the unknown.
Apple's ability to create shiny has diminished. It used to be easier to convince me that an upgrade was warranted sooner, now I don't see the point. Software is still an area they can improve but they refuse to in so many ways. (It's 2016, let me put a damn icon on the bottom-right corner!) But some people have accounts set aside for every September, regardless of what is brought up on the stage, so Apple isn't going away either.
When someone goes to the bookstore and buys a book, he/she does not own the copyright of the book as a result of the deal. However he/she does own a (single) copy of the book. The copyright owner has absolutely no rights to restrict the book owners usage of this book. If the book is a murder mystery, the reader is free to read the last page first to find out who did it. Or use the pages as toilet paper. Or burn the book publicly in protest. Or anything else he/she want to, completely independently of what the copyright owner likes or not.
These analogies don't quite line up with what is happening here. The book is an instruction manual, and the owner corrects an error in his copy.
It is still absurd that this is illegal just because the medium is digital.
you are wrong in claiming that the copy of the software can not be owned
Indeed, and some app stores (such as the Windows Store) even say "You own this app." I'm quite surprised that they would so openly use that terminology.
I do recognice that there is a difference between buying and renting a book, and that restrictions might apply for renting.
Similarly there would also be a case against reselling the modified copy (I'm talking about complete ownership transfer of your copy). Although I would be surprised if any publisher would actually go after someone for reselling their corrected instruction manual.
The more people you invite, particularly when it's a richer country inviting poorer people, the more funding is needed for social programs just to keep the status quo. The folks who pay into those programs don't care for them (paying more for no improvements), and recipients from those programs don't want to risk the programs being reduced to help compensate for the influx. Jobs rarely if ever increase by as much as 1:1 for every immigrant. The economy can't grow if the immigration program outpaces any gains.
Frankly, the governments these people are fleeing from should be held to a higher standard. Poor people don't move just because they're poor, but because they're oppressed and/or have no opportunity. Oppression is a direct result of bad government. Lack of opportunity is typically a problem of poor economic or social decisions at the government level. (I say this not because I know the right answer, but just to point out that all this "blame" being placed on the country of asylum is really misdirected and should first be placed on the country the refugees are fleeing.)
I live in a college town, and it provides a place to study or just hang out while being more affordable than Starbucks (we make no profit so the prices are just based on costs plus bills).
I say get rid of pennies, nickels, and dimes. I volunteer at a coffee house whose prices (incl. tax) are all multiples of $0.25. Both customers and volunteers love it. (They accept lower denominations as payment, but don't keep them in the register.)
As someone who likes Windows 10 and thinks more people should upgrade and give it a chance... no, I'm not cool with overwriting the options you knowingly set.
I can't imagine that the google lawyers would let the engineers code the software to drive that way OR to come as close to pedestrians that were jaywalking here and there.
But when the tech becomes more mainstream, those conditions will change. The cars will talk to each other and take turns. Imagine if every car in NYC could communicate with every other, and determine an optimized traffic strategy throughout the city that reduces or eliminates jams.
The hard part will be the interim... how do we get to 100% automation without going through 10%, where these cars would cause more issues than they solve? I think the tech will pick up in rural areas and small cities first. I'm sure most autonomous cars (to begin with) will allow the human driver to take control, so they could do so when going into the city. The city may devote certain streets or areas to autonomous vehicles in an effort to relieve congestion. Eventually we get to 100%, as the city bans human drivers except in emergencies.
A lot of steps have to happen. Of course, I assume these autonomous vehicles are really as great as we would like them to be. If you are optimistic, this could become the most fundamental change to transportation since the invention of the automobile... inner city or not.
Agreed that using NULL is typically better than using magic numbers, but NULL isn't a perfect solution either. It has different semantics in different languages, and comparisons are often confusing and/or undefined.
It's really easy for me to "get into" a performance and to stay focused, especially when it gets to the climax scenes, but this totally took me out. I was actually mad when this happened, and it was hard to get back into the movie before it was finished.
Why is this presented as an issue of copyright instead of trademark? It seems, to me, that the amount of copyright infringement falls well within fair use. But I could definitely see some trademark issues.
As for a spiritual successor for the Surface... this gets me wondering... are they going to try for an Intel x86 type of computer running W10 in a smartphone form factor? If they could pull this off running a real x86 version of Windows 10 and all Windows applications, it would be a game-changer.
There is some demand for it, as evidenced on several tech forums, blogs, etc. IF they could get it into a form-factor similar to today's smartphones, without extra heat and with low energy consumption (at least when not plugged in)... then I would be very interested. I'm personally OK with it not being as powerful as a gaming rig; I would have a separate machine for that.
But it would still have to be a great smartphone, and I wouldn't be willing to give up more than about 50% extra thickness over common models today.
It did. Microsoft debuted Windows Mobile (then called Pocked PC) in 2000. Microsoft was one of the most successful mobile "smart device" companies before 2007.
Their problems, common to many of their consumer offerings at the time, were built upon complacency and lack of innovation that I believe is the ultimate legacy of Ballmer. He loved his monopolies, and sat on them well past the point of staleness. Good thing for consumers that other companies decided enough was enough and came out with substantially better products.
I don't fault Microsoft for being mobile focused now, I just fault them for waiting so long.
Not sure. I'm from the US and I think this is a misinterpretation of the phrase on our bills, "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private." Only debts are covered, not all transactions. That phrase doesn't obligate anyone to become a lender, or to allow you to become indebted to them. It doesn't mean they have to sell you anything.
Also it is legal in the US for businesses to refuse to accept particular types of currency, such as refusing pennies or large bills.
A hybrid system may be more promising. You vote directly when you care about the issue, but your appointed representative votes in your place when you don't care.
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MySpace was never anywhere as big as Facebook is today, so Facebook's decline will be quite a longer process. (Still possible within 10 years though.)
Microsoft isn't likely to make the same "stuff up" as Windows 8 in the next 10 years, because Windows 8 was the first step in a move toward faster and lighter upgrades, modern designs, and modern application models and APIs. Windows 10 2026 may look different from Windows 10 2016 but the journey there will be 20 small hills instead of 4 large mountains. I think they will start to once again build on their strengths instead of putting so much focus on the unknown.
Apple's ability to create shiny has diminished. It used to be easier to convince me that an upgrade was warranted sooner, now I don't see the point. Software is still an area they can improve but they refuse to in so many ways. (It's 2016, let me put a damn icon on the bottom-right corner!) But some people have accounts set aside for every September, regardless of what is brought up on the stage, so Apple isn't going away either.
Before long the country will be renamed People's Republic of America.
Which causes you to spin.
So long as we can call the British "UKGBNI-ians".
When someone goes to the bookstore and buys a book, he/she does not own the copyright of the book as a result of the deal. However he/she does own a (single) copy of the book. The copyright owner has absolutely no rights to restrict the book owners usage of this book. If the book is a murder mystery, the reader is free to read the last page first to find out who did it. Or use the pages as toilet paper. Or burn the book publicly in protest. Or anything else he/she want to, completely independently of what the copyright owner likes or not.
These analogies don't quite line up with what is happening here. The book is an instruction manual, and the owner corrects an error in his copy.
It is still absurd that this is illegal just because the medium is digital.
you are wrong in claiming that the copy of the software can not be owned
Indeed, and some app stores (such as the Windows Store) even say "You own this app." I'm quite surprised that they would so openly use that terminology.
I do recognice that there is a difference between buying and renting a book, and that restrictions might apply for renting.
Similarly there would also be a case against reselling the modified copy (I'm talking about complete ownership transfer of your copy). Although I would be surprised if any publisher would actually go after someone for reselling their corrected instruction manual.
A postage stamp directly in front of your eye would have an apparent size that is several times larger than an 85" TV at any typical viewing distance.
Or Slashdot could step into the 21st century and provide an edit mechanism.
Even if is timed to a few minutes, it would be very helpful.
The more people you invite, particularly when it's a richer country inviting poorer people, the more funding is needed for social programs just to keep the status quo. The folks who pay into those programs don't care for them (paying more for no improvements), and recipients from those programs don't want to risk the programs being reduced to help compensate for the influx. Jobs rarely if ever increase by as much as 1:1 for every immigrant. The economy can't grow if the immigration program outpaces any gains.
Frankly, the governments these people are fleeing from should be held to a higher standard. Poor people don't move just because they're poor, but because they're oppressed and/or have no opportunity. Oppression is a direct result of bad government. Lack of opportunity is typically a problem of poor economic or social decisions at the government level. (I say this not because I know the right answer, but just to point out that all this "blame" being placed on the country of asylum is really misdirected and should first be placed on the country the refugees are fleeing.)
I live in a college town, and it provides a place to study or just hang out while being more affordable than Starbucks (we make no profit so the prices are just based on costs plus bills).
I say get rid of pennies, nickels, and dimes. I volunteer at a coffee house whose prices (incl. tax) are all multiples of $0.25. Both customers and volunteers love it. (They accept lower denominations as payment, but don't keep them in the register.)
As someone who likes Windows 10 and thinks more people should upgrade and give it a chance... no, I'm not cool with overwriting the options you knowingly set.
I can't imagine that the google lawyers would let the engineers code the software to drive that way OR to come as close to pedestrians that were jaywalking here and there.
But when the tech becomes more mainstream, those conditions will change. The cars will talk to each other and take turns. Imagine if every car in NYC could communicate with every other, and determine an optimized traffic strategy throughout the city that reduces or eliminates jams.
The hard part will be the interim... how do we get to 100% automation without going through 10%, where these cars would cause more issues than they solve? I think the tech will pick up in rural areas and small cities first. I'm sure most autonomous cars (to begin with) will allow the human driver to take control, so they could do so when going into the city. The city may devote certain streets or areas to autonomous vehicles in an effort to relieve congestion. Eventually we get to 100%, as the city bans human drivers except in emergencies.
A lot of steps have to happen. Of course, I assume these autonomous vehicles are really as great as we would like them to be. If you are optimistic, this could become the most fundamental change to transportation since the invention of the automobile... inner city or not.
And even if transparent overlays were treated as a special case, all they would have to do is set the ad to 1% opacity.
The object could be a black hole, which theorists have predicted but observers have never seen.
Minimal compared to what they would have paid to send the messages by SMS (before unlimited plans).
And how many exoplanets discovered to date are the result of handling data incorrectly?
And how has that information influenced scientific research?
Agreed that using NULL is typically better than using magic numbers, but NULL isn't a perfect solution either. It has different semantics in different languages, and comparisons are often confusing and/or undefined.
Use a flag instead.
Except for the involuntary "resistance is futile" thing or the part where you can't think as an individual any more.
Mine was "Anakin, you're breaking my heart!"
It's really easy for me to "get into" a performance and to stay focused, especially when it gets to the climax scenes, but this totally took me out. I was actually mad when this happened, and it was hard to get back into the movie before it was finished.
Why is this presented as an issue of copyright instead of trademark? It seems, to me, that the amount of copyright infringement falls well within fair use. But I could definitely see some trademark issues.
As for a spiritual successor for the Surface... this gets me wondering... are they going to try for an Intel x86 type of computer running W10 in a smartphone form factor? If they could pull this off running a real x86 version of Windows 10 and all Windows applications, it would be a game-changer.
There is some demand for it, as evidenced on several tech forums, blogs, etc. IF they could get it into a form-factor similar to today's smartphones, without extra heat and with low energy consumption (at least when not plugged in)... then I would be very interested. I'm personally OK with it not being as powerful as a gaming rig; I would have a separate machine for that.
But it would still have to be a great smartphone, and I wouldn't be willing to give up more than about 50% extra thickness over common models today.
the stupid tablet interface is really just going to piss people off.
Then I guess it's a good thing they got rid of their tablet-only interface before Windows 10.
It did. Microsoft debuted Windows Mobile (then called Pocked PC) in 2000. Microsoft was one of the most successful mobile "smart device" companies before 2007.
Their problems, common to many of their consumer offerings at the time, were built upon complacency and lack of innovation that I believe is the ultimate legacy of Ballmer. He loved his monopolies, and sat on them well past the point of staleness. Good thing for consumers that other companies decided enough was enough and came out with substantially better products.
I don't fault Microsoft for being mobile focused now, I just fault them for waiting so long.
Not sure. I'm from the US and I think this is a misinterpretation of the phrase on our bills, "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private." Only debts are covered, not all transactions. That phrase doesn't obligate anyone to become a lender, or to allow you to become indebted to them. It doesn't mean they have to sell you anything.
Also it is legal in the US for businesses to refuse to accept particular types of currency, such as refusing pennies or large bills.
(Individual states may have laws which differ.)
A hybrid system may be more promising. You vote directly when you care about the issue, but your appointed representative votes in your place when you don't care.