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This is all just wild speculation, as I haven't used the software personally, but the P2P software could be built into the FireFox add-on. There are Bittorrent FF Add-ons; I can't see why a P2P implementation of this service would be impossible.
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There's always the chance that this service doesn't take any significant centralized resources to keep running, as in the users are made to contribute the bandwidth and CPU resources needed to keep it running.
Have you actually used Maemo? Technically, Maemo is the bee's knees, but as far as usability goes, they have a LONG way to go. Responding to your rhetorical question, it's in Maemo's usability that Nokia has a lot of catching up to do.
Retail and distribution. Classified ads. Matchmaking/dating. Socializing and people finding. These are just a few of the sectors where the web has quickly risen to dominance, representing a large portion of the economy.
Enter WebGL, recently released as a draft spec by Kronos Group, the people who maintain the OpenGL standard; that problem is close to being solved as well. The only remaining question is whether device vendors will provide web browsers running on their platforms access to OS and hardware APIs on par with the native SDKs.
One of the stipulations that Google managed to have placed in the FCC license for commercial 4G LTE spectrum is open device access, which is absent in current wireless spectrum licenses. They did this by getting approval for a clause that if a certain minimum bid for the spectrum was met, that that open device access rule would go into effect, then they bid that amount, and then proceeded to let Verizon outbid them, ensuring that clause would go into effect. Carriers may have been able to get away with this type of draconian control over their networks in the past, but it seems that's coming to an end with the shift to 4G LTE already underway. With this open device access regulation, actual user-accessible open source handsets may finally be able to see widespread use.
On the Mac, the bumpers are removable, so the kids can eventually learn to play like the big boys at their leisure. The iPhone has them welded in place, requiring no small amount of effort to pry them loose.
Personally, I predict that pre-speech recognition will be about as far as most people will be comfortable interfacing with their brains; at least you can somewhat control your pre-speech. Direct and comprehensive neural activity scanning raises much more privacy concerns, as much of it is involuntary, and it can yield much more personal information than semi-controlled (with training) pre-speech.
The problem with what you're saying is that faith is diametrically opposed to the scientific method. "Faith" is simply incompatible with building a world view on solid foundations that all people can be made to agree on, and in the end, simply represents submitting your will to another person who themselves have no objective basis for their faith, or even worse, who abuse faith in others to accomplish their financial or political goals. As such, faith inevitably leads to divisiveness as people choose to place their faith in competing ideologies with no way to see eye-to-eye, as there is no logical progression that leads to their positions, simply large leaps of faith that are made purely for social reasons. As someone who respects critical thought and rationalism, I simply find it impossible to trust the judgment of a person who is capable of placing their faith in ideas without objective support. The ideal for me is that everything, every scrap of information we're fed, should be questioned and challenged, and that the value of any given idea is defined by the objective support behind it. Ideology without support is without any value to me. It frustrates me that people try to build complex social systems on flimsy, indefensible foundations, and I often wish we would simply discard all of this obsolete cultural baggage and re-factor localized social fabric on a more simple and humble foundation that most non-sociopaths could actually agree on.
I'm done ranting, for now, but my point is that you can't pick and choose when to be rational AND keep my respect. If you can't be made to see the unsupported and untrustworthy nature of most religious mythology, then you have too many blind spots to be trusted as a rational person. That doesn't make you a bad person, or someone I would necessarily strive to avoid, it simply makes you naive and irrational. I don't deny that religion can be useful in giving comfort and happiness, but if it comes at the expense of your ability to reason, then that's too high of a price to pay as far as I'm concerned.
Software is not the same as movie and music content. The consumer expects the music and movies they buy to be playable on a wide variety of devices for the foreseeable future, and to be able to lend it to a friend or family member. Someone buying software expects it to work on a particular computer OS version or console platform, often tied to a serial number or service account that can only be used by a single person at any given time, and they expect that it will cease to function within a few years. It's dangerous to compare distribution schemes for these two widely divergent content markets.
That actually kind of is the case for me. Since I typically hold the iPhone in my right hand in the vertical orientation, my body has learned where the virtual keys are relative to the edges of the device. It does usually take a quick glance to be comfortable with my position, but in a pinch, I've become fairly accurate even blind. That being said, it still does require a proof-read to make sure the auto-correct didn't do something stupid like "correct" "its" to "it's" in the wrong situation, or foul up some other word. But yeah, it's the standardized location of the virtual keys with respect to the device that you learn the feel of, not the (non-existent) feel of keys themselves, obviously.
The reason Google can't publish their algorithms is due to the huge SEO market, and people continuously reverse-engineering and exploiting it, leading to Google throwing in a new twist, lather, rinse, repeat. Google's results would quickly become irrelevant if their algorithms were known. Competing search engines barely even register as a concern in this case.
It's called voting for presidential candidates and congressmen who promise to shut down the TSA. Hint: you'll need to look beyond the two main parties.
There are no unlocked iPhones for sale in the US. There are *unsubsidized* ones that work with AT&T planless pay-as-you-go contracts, but you're still locked to AT&T.
Note that the story is referring to public high school textbooks. Universities make far too much profit from their yearly edition scam with publishers to even consider switching to free/open textbooks.
Actually, I wonder if you could sue a John Doe for stealing your phone, and then subpoena the current GPS info from the carrier in order to prosecute...
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This is all just wild speculation, as I haven't used the software personally, but the P2P software could be built into the FireFox add-on. There are Bittorrent FF Add-ons; I can't see why a P2P implementation of this service would be impossible.
There's always the chance that this service doesn't take any significant centralized resources to keep running, as in the users are made to contribute the bandwidth and CPU resources needed to keep it running.
At least the robot can't charge you with rape when you ignore its protests...
Have you actually used Maemo? Technically, Maemo is the bee's knees, but as far as usability goes, they have a LONG way to go. Responding to your rhetorical question, it's in Maemo's usability that Nokia has a lot of catching up to do.
Just watch the first one; you'll be hooked. Sometimes, as in this case, video IS the most appropriate medium.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of iPhones, all hammering your server! Ph34r it!
Retail and distribution. Classified ads. Matchmaking/dating. Socializing and people finding. These are just a few of the sectors where the web has quickly risen to dominance, representing a large portion of the economy.
Enter WebGL, recently released as a draft spec by Kronos Group, the people who maintain the OpenGL standard; that problem is close to being solved as well. The only remaining question is whether device vendors will provide web browsers running on their platforms access to OS and hardware APIs on par with the native SDKs.
One of the stipulations that Google managed to have placed in the FCC license for commercial 4G LTE spectrum is open device access, which is absent in current wireless spectrum licenses. They did this by getting approval for a clause that if a certain minimum bid for the spectrum was met, that that open device access rule would go into effect, then they bid that amount, and then proceeded to let Verizon outbid them, ensuring that clause would go into effect. Carriers may have been able to get away with this type of draconian control over their networks in the past, but it seems that's coming to an end with the shift to 4G LTE already underway. With this open device access regulation, actual user-accessible open source handsets may finally be able to see widespread use.
On the Mac, the bumpers are removable, so the kids can eventually learn to play like the big boys at their leisure. The iPhone has them welded in place, requiring no small amount of effort to pry them loose.
Personally, I predict that pre-speech recognition will be about as far as most people will be comfortable interfacing with their brains; at least you can somewhat control your pre-speech. Direct and comprehensive neural activity scanning raises much more privacy concerns, as much of it is involuntary, and it can yield much more personal information than semi-controlled (with training) pre-speech.
Blackberries are fruit too!
More like the value of the dollar...
The problem with what you're saying is that faith is diametrically opposed to the scientific method. "Faith" is simply incompatible with building a world view on solid foundations that all people can be made to agree on, and in the end, simply represents submitting your will to another person who themselves have no objective basis for their faith, or even worse, who abuse faith in others to accomplish their financial or political goals. As such, faith inevitably leads to divisiveness as people choose to place their faith in competing ideologies with no way to see eye-to-eye, as there is no logical progression that leads to their positions, simply large leaps of faith that are made purely for social reasons. As someone who respects critical thought and rationalism, I simply find it impossible to trust the judgment of a person who is capable of placing their faith in ideas without objective support. The ideal for me is that everything, every scrap of information we're fed, should be questioned and challenged, and that the value of any given idea is defined by the objective support behind it. Ideology without support is without any value to me. It frustrates me that people try to build complex social systems on flimsy, indefensible foundations, and I often wish we would simply discard all of this obsolete cultural baggage and re-factor localized social fabric on a more simple and humble foundation that most non-sociopaths could actually agree on.
I'm done ranting, for now, but my point is that you can't pick and choose when to be rational AND keep my respect. If you can't be made to see the unsupported and untrustworthy nature of most religious mythology, then you have too many blind spots to be trusted as a rational person. That doesn't make you a bad person, or someone I would necessarily strive to avoid, it simply makes you naive and irrational. I don't deny that religion can be useful in giving comfort and happiness, but if it comes at the expense of your ability to reason, then that's too high of a price to pay as far as I'm concerned.
Software is not the same as movie and music content. The consumer expects the music and movies they buy to be playable on a wide variety of devices for the foreseeable future, and to be able to lend it to a friend or family member. Someone buying software expects it to work on a particular computer OS version or console platform, often tied to a serial number or service account that can only be used by a single person at any given time, and they expect that it will cease to function within a few years. It's dangerous to compare distribution schemes for these two widely divergent content markets.
So, uh, why would an out-of-state non-driver's-license ID be any easier to fake than an out-of-state driver's license?
That actually kind of is the case for me. Since I typically hold the iPhone in my right hand in the vertical orientation, my body has learned where the virtual keys are relative to the edges of the device. It does usually take a quick glance to be comfortable with my position, but in a pinch, I've become fairly accurate even blind. That being said, it still does require a proof-read to make sure the auto-correct didn't do something stupid like "correct" "its" to "it's" in the wrong situation, or foul up some other word. But yeah, it's the standardized location of the virtual keys with respect to the device that you learn the feel of, not the (non-existent) feel of keys themselves, obviously.
It's called buying SIM-unlocked phones and swapping your SIM card between them.
The reason Google can't publish their algorithms is due to the huge SEO market, and people continuously reverse-engineering and exploiting it, leading to Google throwing in a new twist, lather, rinse, repeat. Google's results would quickly become irrelevant if their algorithms were known. Competing search engines barely even register as a concern in this case.
It's called voting for presidential candidates and congressmen who promise to shut down the TSA. Hint: you'll need to look beyond the two main parties.
10.1 was the free one.
There are no unlocked iPhones for sale in the US. There are *unsubsidized* ones that work with AT&T planless pay-as-you-go contracts, but you're still locked to AT&T.
Note that the story is referring to public high school textbooks. Universities make far too much profit from their yearly edition scam with publishers to even consider switching to free/open textbooks.
Actually, I wonder if you could sue a John Doe for stealing your phone, and then subpoena the current GPS info from the carrier in order to prosecute...
Thankfully for them, they probably won't have to do it for too long before having to find new jobs.