What did they need to do? Apart from the huge technical advantages of Symbian (like a battery life worth something) what was its terrible sin? An inconsistent GUI and terrible development SDK (ever tried to write symbian C++?). They were going over both with Qt. Now you could deploy your application really on every Nokia phone with just a few clicks. They even killed Symbian^4 for this, a wonderful decision in my opinion. They finally convinced me it was worth targeting current platforms because I would be able to release my apps on the future ones. Guess if I will continue development for Symbian now?
Yeah, but let's restrict to farming only. No automation means everyone has his needs but unfortunately has to work all day. If we automate everything let's say 50% of the labor is not necessary, let's also imagine for now that no other work field is open. Now there are 50% people that do not work. Unless you give hem the stuff for free (after all you produce at much less cost) they are now much worse and no one else gained.
Even if you complicate the things a lot, there is a point where the labor cannot move, not even on a generational scale, because 100% needs are fulfilled by only a small part of the workforce. How this dynamics works out can be difficult, but the stationary case can only be fair if the unemployed are given things for free. I suspect that on the global scale we have already passed the point where everyone's work is necessary and we just failed to see it.
After such a point the concept itself of money (a placeholder for work hours) starts to fail because it cannot describe the total wealth of the human race. There is a wonderful essay of Asimov on automation (post 1974 IIRC) where he discusses unemployment and layoffs due to automation with his always lucid vision. There is also a short story based on that (galley slave).
I always wondered if our system is such that 50% of the human race produces enough for 100% can't other people just get stuff for free? Something does not sum up...
Actually the law is that they should police what they distribute, at least in this part of the globe. Of course this would destroy the app-store model, so companies have chosen to have agreements with developers. The agreements do not lift the responsibility from Apple, they means however that companies can charge any damage they incur on the pirate developers because they breached their end of the contract. The general principle in the law is that you cannot pass responsibility through an agreement with a third party.
Because they are distributing it? And getting money from it? To supreme irony (or bad taste, your choice) they could file a valid DMCA complaint to Apple. The fact that they did not yet means they are being very reasonable.
I think people get an unpleasant feeling when Big Media Corporations(TM) get protection from the FBI while at the same time they apply to Small Artists(CC-BY-NC-SA) exactly the same treatment. Remember that Apple takes a cut off the pirated copy price. One way or the other, you choose.
Moreover there is a flaw in your complaints. When one argues against a law it does not mean he should act as if the law did not exist. In this case I can ask for the copyright terms to be reduced while keeping my rights under the current law. For the hyperbole: if I advocate for a tax rise it does not mean I have to start paying before the others: I am advocating it for everyone. The same way one can support gay marriage without being gay, you know.
Agreed, how can I read anything from a mobile phone? And of course it is still too heavy for a mobile connection. And while we are there the fake popup for login confuses the hell out of a few browsers that don't ask me to save the password. I hope it gets fixed soon.
This is a troll because there is no evidence that Google tried to pin anyone.
Google used the Apache Software License, which is not the same as attributing the code to the Apache Foundation. Then the apache foundation felt necessary to clarify the difference and did not "disown" the code, because no one said they owned it at all. They also clarified that using the ASL is encouraged and perfectly normal.
It is a lot like finding that Windows 2k was partially built with GNU make. No wrongdoing at all. Only a troll would imply what is written in the summary.
Using the apache software license is not the same as attributing code to the apache software foundation, you know just like people is not giving their copiright to Berkeley or MIT or the GNU project... Seriously, this is the second story from this troll in a couple of days... This is not even flamebait, if so at least I could enjoy the show, instead: why post it?
Was not. But people started to think this way long ago, even geeks. The Acid tests are assumed to come out pixel perfect. Slashdot requires me to scroll horizontally on my cell phone.
It does not need to be total annihilation either. It would be easily won if they could actually behave as if they conquered the country and start a real occupation. With immigration, new buildings, structures and making the rules etc. If they could plan for permanent (not indefinite: permanent) occupation it would be simpler. Even without more violence thing they could really rebuild Iraq infrastructures.
However they cannot do that and must leave a lot of power to a puppet government. They are "always on the verge to go away" and cannot do anything long-term. The big fuck-up was beginning a war that US can easily win, but MUST NOT win because it would simply be a land grab, and unquestionably evil.
I am all against DMCA but the stance of geohot is completely irrelevant. It is like RIAA saying that DRM is made to protect the rights of the customers, when we all know what it actually does.
It's a long time before anyone starts to use nullptr. NULL is still shorter to type and too entrenched in the documentation. What I do not understand is why tey kept NULL there.
Is there any reason not to break backward compatibility? If there is any of that in some legacy code you can split your codebase in two and compile with different versions. Other languages break legacy code at every version and still manage to stay around. I think this is because every code big enough that you cannot rewrite is probably modular. I am usually against patching instead of fixing, especially on something that should be used by everyone. Of course I never designed a language, so maybe I am wrong...
Yes, hot-heads are everywhere, this is why the leaders should be very careful with words and discourage this instincts. Instead it seems that Palin caters to the worst impulses and gives these guys the idea that she would applaud violence. I do not find a similar behavior in the democratic party, do you?
I am questioning the leaders' behavior. Inciting the mobs is not ethical. Maybe they are careful with rhetorics and could claim that they never said "she/he should be dead" directly, but this is the message they pass to the followers.
If they are hundreds of millions they do not need to be armed at all. What keeps North Korea there is not that the governement is better armed, it is because they avoid opposing people to meet and organize they stop ways of gathering consensus and to peacefully show the government crimes. This way the opposition to the governement will always be fragmented and powerless.
Criticizing the government, protesting and even hating is not a problem. Violence and incitement to violence is the problem. I do not know a poster similar to the crosshair one against Bush. Surely not endorsed by a democrat governor (or VP candidate!). Nothing like this either: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2011/1/8/13371/41091/21#c21
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What did they need to do? Apart from the huge technical advantages of Symbian (like a battery life worth something) what was its terrible sin? An inconsistent GUI and terrible development SDK (ever tried to write symbian C++?). They were going over both with Qt. Now you could deploy your application really on every Nokia phone with just a few clicks. They even killed Symbian^4 for this, a wonderful decision in my opinion. They finally convinced me it was worth targeting current platforms because I would be able to release my apps on the future ones. Guess if I will continue development for Symbian now?
Yeah, but let's restrict to farming only. No automation means everyone has his needs but unfortunately has to work all day. If we automate everything let's say 50% of the labor is not necessary, let's also imagine for now that no other work field is open. Now there are 50% people that do not work. Unless you give hem the stuff for free (after all you produce at much less cost) they are now much worse and no one else gained.
Even if you complicate the things a lot, there is a point where the labor cannot move, not even on a generational scale, because 100% needs are fulfilled by only a small part of the workforce. How this dynamics works out can be difficult, but the stationary case can only be fair if the unemployed are given things for free. I suspect that on the global scale we have already passed the point where everyone's work is necessary and we just failed to see it.
After such a point the concept itself of money (a placeholder for work hours) starts to fail because it cannot describe the total wealth of the human race. There is a wonderful essay of Asimov on automation (post 1974 IIRC) where he discusses unemployment and layoffs due to automation with his always lucid vision. There is also a short story based on that (galley slave).
I always wondered if our system is such that 50% of the human race produces enough for 100% can't other people just get stuff for free? Something does not sum up...
Actually the law is that they should police what they distribute, at least in this part of the globe. Of course this would destroy the app-store model, so companies have chosen to have agreements with developers. The agreements do not lift the responsibility from Apple, they means however that companies can charge any damage they incur on the pirate developers because they breached their end of the contract. The general principle in the law is that you cannot pass responsibility through an agreement with a third party.
Because they are distributing it? And getting money from it? To supreme irony (or bad taste, your choice) they could file a valid DMCA complaint to Apple. The fact that they did not yet means they are being very reasonable.
They hold rights to the art. And Apple is violating it, since they get a cut from the sales of the pirated version. Apple is not a third party.
I think people get an unpleasant feeling when Big Media Corporations(TM) get protection from the FBI while at the same time they apply to Small Artists(CC-BY-NC-SA) exactly the same treatment. Remember that Apple takes a cut off the pirated copy price. One way or the other, you choose.
Moreover there is a flaw in your complaints. When one argues against a law it does not mean he should act as if the law did not exist. In this case I can ask for the copyright terms to be reduced while keeping my rights under the current law. For the hyperbole: if I advocate for a tax rise it does not mean I have to start paying before the others: I am advocating it for everyone. The same way one can support gay marriage without being gay, you know.
We still have to see if the sellers (i.e. amazon) cave in. If they do the users will not notice anything.
Agreed, how can I read anything from a mobile phone? And of course it is still too heavy for a mobile connection. And while we are there the fake popup for login confuses the hell out of a few browsers that don't ask me to save the password. I hope it gets fixed soon.
The Sashdot response to the "today computers are fast enough for everyone" problem.
Because I would not be able to assemble a laptop? Let's start from the basics: where can I buy a new empty laptop case for assembling?
As far as the Apache blog post explaiins, they just used the Apache Software License. They did not attribute the code to Apache.
This is a troll because there is no evidence that Google tried to pin anyone.
Google used the Apache Software License, which is not the same as attributing the code to the Apache Foundation. Then the apache foundation felt necessary to clarify the difference and did not "disown" the code, because no one said they owned it at all. They also clarified that using the ASL is encouraged and perfectly normal.
It is a lot like finding that Windows 2k was partially built with GNU make. No wrongdoing at all. Only a troll would imply what is written in the summary.
Using the apache software license is not the same as attributing code to the apache software foundation, you know just like people is not giving their copiright to Berkeley or MIT or the GNU project... Seriously, this is the second story from this troll in a couple of days... This is not even flamebait, if so at least I could enjoy the show, instead: why post it?
Could you tell me how a *scam* targets an OS? I thought the Nigerian Prince thing was cross platform...
Was not. But people started to think this way long ago, even geeks. The Acid tests are assumed to come out pixel perfect. Slashdot requires me to scroll horizontally on my cell phone.
To be fair, he would be citing Crichton, the guy who penned the sentence, not the guy who uttered it.
It does not need to be total annihilation either. It would be easily won if they could actually behave as if they conquered the country and start a real occupation. With immigration, new buildings, structures and making the rules etc. If they could plan for permanent (not indefinite: permanent) occupation it would be simpler. Even without more violence thing they could really rebuild Iraq infrastructures.
However they cannot do that and must leave a lot of power to a puppet government. They are "always on the verge to go away" and cannot do anything long-term. The big fuck-up was beginning a war that US can easily win, but MUST NOT win because it would simply be a land grab, and unquestionably evil.
Right, about that, where exactly is Israel's signature on the non-proliferation treaties, it must be well hidden because I never find it...
Apart from the fact that it would not be Open Source, you mean?
I am all against DMCA but the stance of geohot is completely irrelevant. It is like RIAA saying that DRM is made to protect the rights of the customers, when we all know what it actually does.
It's a long time before anyone starts to use nullptr. NULL is still shorter to type and too entrenched in the documentation. What I do not understand is why tey kept NULL there.
Is there any reason not to break backward compatibility? If there is any of that in some legacy code you can split your codebase in two and compile with different versions. Other languages break legacy code at every version and still manage to stay around. I think this is because every code big enough that you cannot rewrite is probably modular. I am usually against patching instead of fixing, especially on something that should be used by everyone. Of course I never designed a language, so maybe I am wrong...
Yes, hot-heads are everywhere, this is why the leaders should be very careful with words and discourage this instincts. Instead it seems that Palin caters to the worst impulses and gives these guys the idea that she would applaud violence. I do not find a similar behavior in the democratic party, do you?
I am questioning the leaders' behavior. Inciting the mobs is not ethical. Maybe they are careful with rhetorics and could claim that they never said "she/he should be dead" directly, but this is the message they pass to the followers.
If they are hundreds of millions they do not need to be armed at all. What keeps North Korea there is not that the governement is better armed, it is because they avoid opposing people to meet and organize they stop ways of gathering consensus and to peacefully show the government crimes. This way the opposition to the governement will always be fragmented and powerless.
Criticizing the government, protesting and even hating is not a problem. Violence and incitement to violence is the problem. I do not know a poster similar to the crosshair one against Bush. Surely not endorsed by a democrat governor (or VP candidate!). Nothing like this either: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2011/1/8/13371/41091/21#c21