Yes, to blame all Chinese for the actions of the few is painting with too broad a brush. My bad. I will be curious to see if Google is pursued with more significantly more vigor than other, smaller profile, IP offenders. The PRC haveing a very different set of IP rules for foreign companies could have deep consiquences for innovation coming form multinationals.
As for all the other stuff, there are lots of smaller DSL ISPs here, just they don't have advertising budgets as Rogers is a mega corporation here. They own radio stations, cable tv networks, cable tv distribution, voip, internet and cell phones. They can get away with it.
Pretty soon, we will be trapped by the trash floating around the planet...Right around the same time the environment undergoes rapid, cataclysmic changes
if we are trapped by a layer of space junk, wouldn't that block enough of the sun's raditation to counter global warming? I think we are far cry from having orbit so crowded as to prevent spacecraft from getting through.
you still need to spend the energy to get off earth first, and that's a lot of energy
yes there ae many obstacles to overcome before we can build a space elevator, but the energy needed once we have a tech that is that efficient is not the huge amount of energy we have to spend currently.
I actually wouldn't have a problem with this if international emmigration were within the means of the average Turk, and as long as the government is honest about their censoring. Then, if people want to live in a country with such pride that insulting sites are censored, great, move to Turkey, but if you find government censoring onerous, fine move elsewhere. A global version of the US idea of "states rights" . Of course freedom of travel and emmigration is the troublesome key factor.
The next thing we here is that it is the fault of humans that this is happening.
The argument over natural vs. manmade warming is rediculous. It's about as relevent to real life as Britney Speares's haircut. We can't reverse it now even with a zero manmade CO2 output. I think that when the effects really start hitting, all this talk of "fault" will be overwhelmed with the talk and action of "adaptation".
You know how in some old sci-fi, there would be underwater cities in giant bubbles? This seems like the right time to start building those bubbles. Particularly in Florida. All new contruction must be waterproof to 200 feet.
Unfortunately it is all too common to see a giant business overrun a small business, but the RIAA was the giant business. They had the opportunity to lead the market, but they just repeatedly dropped the ball over and over. There wasn't much in the way of innovation that you could have done to save your online book sales, but the RIAA only wants to innovate in ways that alienate their customers (lots of R&D to the DRM). They have made such an amazing series of bad decisions it should be used in business school text books as "what not to do". I don't see how the upper management of most major labels havn't all been fired and replaced by those with a clue.
I actually meant good for the humans who survive. or at least good for their ancestors. Yes in 10,000 years the Earth might not be so habitable for modern mammals, and in a million years might not be habitible for anything. I was talking about 200 years after a global warming triggered flood/ecosystem change. If 90% of humanity died off, and our knowledge and technology survived, that might be a good thing down the line: more space per person + smaller nations + better resource usage + a bit more enlightenment than we have now = a better world than what we have now.
2) They have the privilege of getting paid for service, even if you use zippo energy. Like phone companies, they get to charge surcharges and basic fees and other crap.
So in essence the power compnay become like an ISP, they don't supply much of the content but you still pay them to be connected the system.
Not to worry, Mother Earth will not expire. A significant portion of humanity might expire, but the Earth will be just fine. As for the patents, when the waters start rising and the crops start failing any and all artificial obstructions to technological solutions wil vanish. Hey, global warming could turn out to be a good thing, in the long term.
I don't think the X-Men display features any color, so this is probably doable today.
I would almost feel sorry for anyone who went through the trouble of building one, without running fiber optics up each pin. The color part should be easy compared to the hydraulics part.
Star Trek has predicted other aspects of communication/information well enough, I don't see why predicting useful GUIs would be out of character for the series. Aside from the obvious cell phone = communicator, we also saw Uhura's bluetooth earbud, and between MRIs, spectrometers, and NASA's NUGGET (Neutron/Gamma Ray Geologic Tomography) we are working our way to a proper tricorder.
Well since Global Warming is just a matter of too much energy in the system, maybe Global Calming would mitigate some of the weather pattern effects. (yes I know you being humorous)
There was this game called Outcast, that worked the persoanlity thing well too. You had a reputation with the locals, and that really effected the game.
You can also ignore the myriad of requests for help or errands that they ask for, but again you will be well served if you don't. Some are side events, some more related to the bigger and central tasks at hand, but you may not always know which is which. More than that, if you help then the Talan will like you. Which is a good thing, because your reputation will determine exactly how helpful they are regarding your endeavours. If they like you enough, and you undertake the right tasks, you can even convince them to stop riis production, mining, and several other key production tasks which support Kroak's soldiers. This will in turn have a direct effect upon the soldiers. A lack of food makes them weaker, and no raw minerals makes their weapons degrade. All of which lead to easier foes when it comes to doing battle.http://www.quandaryland.com/jsp/dispArticle .jsp?index=753
It probably wasn't that terribly complex a thing compared to much of today's AI, but the direct, slowly developing effects on the game made it very immersive. By halfway through the game I cared about my relationship withthe locals as much as the game objectives.
Yes YoutTube has more active continous maintaince than most "products", but a "service" requires much more manpower and individual attention than YouTube could possibly provide and still remain free and open to the masses. If they were to start charging to post content, or only allowed content from a limited number of approved providers, they would cease to be YouTube and just be bad television. EBay doesn't scan local police reports for stolen goods when something is posted for auction, but Christie's auction house will take the time to verify the authenticity of a Picasso up for bid. They are both auctioneers, but one is a tool for everybody and the other is a service for the elite.
Youtube built a system that facilitates copyright infringment.
And Ferrari builds cars that facilitate wreckless driving, and SpyderCo builds knives that facilitate stabbings, and Harmon Kardon builds speakers that facilitate listening to pirated MP3's. YouTube is a tool. Yes it can be used for something illegal, but so can most tools. It is the responsiblity of the user to obey the applicable laws.
So you're saying you'd be ok with my opening up my murder factory? Where you drop the "product" into a shoot at one end and through an automated process the "product" is shot, stabbed, sliced, diced, electrocuted, drowned, whipped, ground, fricasseed, grated, steamed, boiled, broiled, fried and finally spit out the other end in neat little individually wrapped packets.
Yes. It is perfectly legal for you to own a wood chipper. It is not legal for you to put people in your wood chipper. The manufactuer of the wood chipper is not responsible for the deaths of anyone you put in the wood chipper.
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Yes, to blame all Chinese for the actions of the few is painting with too broad a brush. My bad. I will be curious to see if Google is pursued with more significantly more vigor than other, smaller profile, IP offenders. The PRC haveing a very different set of IP rules for foreign companies could have deep consiquences for innovation coming form multinationals.
Did I read this right, to understand that the Chinese are complaining about someone stealing IP ?
As for all the other stuff, there are lots of smaller DSL ISPs here, just they don't have advertising budgets as Rogers is a mega corporation here. They own radio stations, cable tv networks, cable tv distribution, voip, internet and cell phones. They can get away with it.
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At least for now. Big companies that treat their customers like criminals are starting to feel the heat though. http://www.freedomforip.org/2007/04/this-just-in.
Remembering the purpose of being in the industry in the first place - selling entertainment to people.
Fixed that for ya.
yes, it would make a nice tool for you to administer your systems. or for anyone out there to "administer" for you.
I miss the days when I gave my computer commands not suggestions. This whole "protected area" stuff just pisses me off.
Pretty soon, we will be trapped by the trash floating around the planet...Right around the same time the environment undergoes rapid, cataclysmic changes
if we are trapped by a layer of space junk, wouldn't that block enough of the sun's raditation to counter global warming? I think we are far cry from having orbit so crowded as to prevent spacecraft from getting through.
you still need to spend the energy to get off earth first, and that's a lot of energy
yes there ae many obstacles to overcome before we can build a space elevator, but the energy needed once we have a tech that is that efficient is not the huge amount of energy we have to spend currently.
I actually wouldn't have a problem with this if international emmigration were within the means of the average Turk, and as long as the government is honest about their censoring. Then, if people want to live in a country with such pride that insulting sites are censored, great, move to Turkey, but if you find government censoring onerous, fine move elsewhere. A global version of the US idea of "states rights" . Of course freedom of travel and emmigration is the troublesome key factor.
The next thing we here is that it is the fault of humans that this is happening.
The argument over natural vs. manmade warming is rediculous. It's about as relevent to real life as Britney Speares's haircut. We can't reverse it now even with a zero manmade CO2 output. I think that when the effects really start hitting, all this talk of "fault" will be overwhelmed with the talk and action of "adaptation".
You know how in some old sci-fi, there would be underwater cities in giant bubbles? This seems like the right time to start building those bubbles. Particularly in Florida. All new contruction must be waterproof to 200 feet.
Unfortunately it is all too common to see a giant business overrun a small business, but the RIAA was the giant business. They had the opportunity to lead the market, but they just repeatedly dropped the ball over and over. There wasn't much in the way of innovation that you could have done to save your online book sales, but the RIAA only wants to innovate in ways that alienate their customers (lots of R&D to the DRM). They have made such an amazing series of bad decisions it should be used in business school text books as "what not to do". I don't see how the upper management of most major labels havn't all been fired and replaced by those with a clue.
I actually meant good for the humans who survive. or at least good for their ancestors. Yes in 10,000 years the Earth might not be so habitable for modern mammals, and in a million years might not be habitible for anything. I was talking about 200 years after a global warming triggered flood/ecosystem change. If 90% of humanity died off, and our knowledge and technology survived, that might be a good thing down the line: more space per person + smaller nations + better resource usage + a bit more enlightenment than we have now = a better world than what we have now.
2) They have the privilege of getting paid for service, even if you use zippo energy. Like phone companies, they get to charge surcharges and basic fees and other crap.
So in essence the power compnay become like an ISP, they don't supply much of the content but you still pay them to be connected the system.
will the patents expire before the planet does?
Not to worry, Mother Earth will not expire. A significant portion of humanity might expire, but the Earth will be just fine. As for the patents, when the waters start rising and the crops start failing any and all artificial obstructions to technological solutions wil vanish. Hey, global warming could turn out to be a good thing, in the long term.
I don't think the X-Men display features any color, so this is probably doable today.
I would almost feel sorry for anyone who went through the trouble of building one, without running fiber optics up each pin. The color part should be easy compared to the hydraulics part.
Star Trek has predicted other aspects of communication/information well enough, I don't see why predicting useful GUIs would be out of character for the series. Aside from the obvious cell phone = communicator, we also saw Uhura's bluetooth earbud, and between MRIs, spectrometers, and NASA's NUGGET (Neutron/Gamma Ray Geologic Tomography) we are working our way to a proper tricorder.
Well since Global Warming is just a matter of too much energy in the system, maybe Global Calming would mitigate some of the weather pattern effects. (yes I know you being humorous)
There was this game called Outcast, that worked the persoanlity thing well too. You had a reputation with the locals, and that really effected the game.
It probably wasn't that terribly complex a thing compared to much of today's AI, but the direct, slowly developing effects on the game made it very immersive. By halfway through the game I cared about my relationship withthe locals as much as the game objectives.
Don't you hate it when your torpedoes go off prematurely?
Yeah, that happens alot, What else would inspire me to buy a Hummer?
Yes YoutTube has more active continous maintaince than most "products", but a "service" requires much more manpower and individual attention than YouTube could possibly provide and still remain free and open to the masses. If they were to start charging to post content, or only allowed content from a limited number of approved providers, they would cease to be YouTube and just be bad television. EBay doesn't scan local police reports for stolen goods when something is posted for auction, but Christie's auction house will take the time to verify the authenticity of a Picasso up for bid. They are both auctioneers, but one is a tool for everybody and the other is a service for the elite.
Youtube built a system that facilitates copyright infringment.
And Ferrari builds cars that facilitate wreckless driving, and SpyderCo builds knives that facilitate stabbings, and Harmon Kardon builds speakers that facilitate listening to pirated MP3's. YouTube is a tool. Yes it can be used for something illegal, but so can most tools. It is the responsiblity of the user to obey the applicable laws.
Post a link to their songs. If I like what I hear, I'll go to the concert. If it's a kick ass show, I'll probably even buy a t-shirt.
So you're saying you'd be ok with my opening up my murder factory? Where you drop the "product" into a shoot at one end and through an automated process the "product" is shot, stabbed, sliced, diced, electrocuted, drowned, whipped, ground, fricasseed, grated, steamed, boiled, broiled, fried and finally spit out the other end in neat little individually wrapped packets.
Yes. It is perfectly legal for you to own a wood chipper. It is not legal for you to put people in your wood chipper. The manufactuer of the wood chipper is not responsible for the deaths of anyone you put in the wood chipper.
My Hummer yelled "Yeeee-Haawww" and the car in front of me blew up.