People don't realize this when buying DRM-ed apps and songs on iTunes or Amazon.com (or whatever other service), but how do you eventually divide it? This is shared property, but cannot be sold off or divided. So you're sitting on several thousands of dollars worth of iTunes songs and iPhone/iPad apps purchased via a single account (you didn't buy the same song twice from yours and your spouse's account just in case, right?).
As more of our assets are moving to the digital domain, DRM protected, the bigger the problem will get.
Exactly this. Too many unnecessary vaccines. Sometimes I wonder if the government-mandated vaccination schedule is there to care for the children or to ensure profits for Big Pharma. I am suspicions about the "good intentions" of a government that takes billions of dollars/year from lobbyist and special interests to ensure their well-being.
Another problem is that parents cannot choose to do only a portion of the vaccines or deviate from the schedule - you either go all the way or nothing at all. The law does not allow for middle ground. For example, the school requires vaccinations, but you can get a waver for religions reasons. However, you cannot do just a few vaccines or a different schedule, because your vaccination record would be incomplete, and you cannot claim religious reasons, because you already did some.
It can be argued that if you retained the "original" MP3, what you sold must have been a "copy", and selling a "copy" of copyrighted work is counterfeiting.
FB is the One Entity that knows about everything that happens in peoples lives. FB can do a lot more with the type of information they have than Google. I'm not saying it's moral, but nothing can stop FB from using the information any way they can make money, especially with new ownership (after the IPO).
Examples:
- Political parties spent $120+ on a vote last elections. How much would a political party pay FB to know the names and contact info of undecided voters or voters who seem to be able to influence others?
- Your dishwasher just broke, you complain about it on FB. How much Sears or BestBuy would pay to be notified this same instance about your misfortune?
- You buy a vacation with Travel Agent 1, go there to find out the hotel is a dump, you bitch about t on FB. How much would TA2 pay to know about this and contact you with an alternative offer?
The possibilities are endless, especially for the new owners with zero moral standards like Goldman Sachs and the likes. The growth will not come from more subscribers, but with ever increasing ways to analyze the information flow.
Privacy is not for shameful things only. I do not want my child to see the web pages I and my wife browsed for Christmas presents.
In a family with kids, each tablet/smart phone will be used by them - there is no such thing as mine or hers. I am not concerned about privacy from my wife, but from my kids.
It's not that you cannot prevent people from using the device (lock the device).
The problem is that the device is not sharable (in the family).
Here is why I returned mine:
- No password protection for purchases - anyone can push the "buy" button for digital purchases (books, magazines, music, videos, apps) and it immediate gets purchased without prompting for password. There isn't even an "are you sure?" prompt. Imagine this in the hands of a 6 year-old.
- Last browsed pages stay first in the carousel, with page preview - anybody can see, right there on first page, what I browsed last.
All this can be fixed with software, and I may buy it again when it gets fixed, but until then iPad rules the home.
What you don't realize is that the politicians will get you shooting at each other over gay rights, abortion rights, religious believes, skin color, immigration status, etc, and the military doesn't even have to fire a bullet to get you all eliminated.
It's the cost of the diploma, not the education that has gone up.
The diploma costs a lot, because exclusive universities have become frat houses for socializing, networking and establishing connection for the future oligarchs - something far more important to success and wealth than actual skills in the high tier of the society.
"'The advantage of using speech over other interaction paradigms is that we have honed its use over thousands of years..."
This is a fallacy - voice is the most inefficient way to communicate: very error prone and dependent on enunciation and hearing, not repeatable (information is altered every time its repeated), requires additional activities like body language for proper interaction.
Just because we used it for thousands of years doesn't mean it's the best - we didn't have a choice, because all other means of communication require mass education, and this is not something humanity has a good track record with over the centuries.
I can read faster than I can speak. I can sometimes type faster than I can speak. I cannot repeat twice the same sentence over 10 words without major effort. I need to engage in body language to be understood. I have to share the same communication medium with others.
On the other hand - voice is the least common denominator. Whether voice will popularize the communication between the lowest human denominator and machines, yest I get, it will.
>.... if Americans did not demand low prices, much of that manufacturing would have stayed in America.
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More like "if Americans did not demand low prices, shareholders would have demanded more profit and the jobs would have gone to China anyway."
You are correct about measles. But why do I need to get vaccinated for rubella and chicken pox in order to get the measles vaccine?
Rubella and chicken pox are generally harmless and with good nutrition and modern medicine to mitigate possible secondary infections, they are a little more than a nuisance (I had varicella and rubella as a child and so did everyone else).
The problems is that children today receive too many vaccine injections - about 30 shots till age 6. Can you proof that quantitative accumulations go not lead to qualitative changes?
The problems is that important vaccines are bundled with unimportant vaccines.
For example, the only way to get measles (rubeola) vaccine, is to get MMVR vaccine, which also includes mumps, varicella and rubella.
Measles is serious, but rubella, mumps and varicella (chicken pox) generally have very good prognosis with healthy and nourished children (I had them all as a child and all my friends did, and no one had any complications).
Parents should have a choice to do individual vaccines. Measles is always a good idea to vaccinate against. Rubella, mumps and varicella - only necessary for malnourished and/or children with health issues, or when the parents do not want to deal with the nuisance of a sick child.
I hope it gets enacted and all loopholes for avoiding the 9.75% sales tax are closed.
Only then will Californians realize that the 9.75% sales tax is too much. For as long as online shopping is tax-free, Californians will only mildly complain about high sales tax, but do nothing about it. Eliminate that, and they will get up in arms over it.
In other words, software written to run on Win7 runs on Win7.
If I run a malware and it infects my files, is this MS problem? And what is a malware - is Symantec Antivirus malware - it sure does slow my computer down.
Did any malware infect system files without user permission - this is the question. There is no answer...
If HFCS gets renamed to "sugar", then regular sugar should be renamed to "sucrose".
HFCS and regular sugar are not the same chemical compound, so they need to be called differently.
People are confusing the technology with the stock. Just because they can make cars doesn't mean the stock is worth anything - see General Motors for reference.
As for the stock, the upside is unknown (new technology, new market, etc.). The downside is guaranteed by the taxpayer and the government (at least this is what investors are assuming in this "bailout era") - Tesla received a $465 million stimulus money from the government.
To understand MPG one needs to understand American culture. The price of gasoline has never been an issue in this country. Americans do not care how much gas or how much it costs, they care about how far can they go with a gas tank. Fill up stops are more annoying to Americans than the price of gasoline, even with the recent price increases.
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As more of our assets are moving to the digital domain, DRM protected, the bigger the problem will get.
Exactly this. Too many unnecessary vaccines. Sometimes I wonder if the government-mandated vaccination schedule is there to care for the children or to ensure profits for Big Pharma. I am suspicions about the "good intentions" of a government that takes billions of dollars/year from lobbyist and special interests to ensure their well-being. Another problem is that parents cannot choose to do only a portion of the vaccines or deviate from the schedule - you either go all the way or nothing at all. The law does not allow for middle ground. For example, the school requires vaccinations, but you can get a waver for religions reasons. However, you cannot do just a few vaccines or a different schedule, because your vaccination record would be incomplete, and you cannot claim religious reasons, because you already did some.
It can be argued that if you retained the "original" MP3, what you sold must have been a "copy", and selling a "copy" of copyrighted work is counterfeiting.
Examples:
- Political parties spent $120+ on a vote last elections. How much would a political party pay FB to know the names and contact info of undecided voters or voters who seem to be able to influence others?
- Your dishwasher just broke, you complain about it on FB. How much Sears or BestBuy would pay to be notified this same instance about your misfortune?
- You buy a vacation with Travel Agent 1, go there to find out the hotel is a dump, you bitch about t on FB. How much would TA2 pay to know about this and contact you with an alternative offer?
The possibilities are endless, especially for the new owners with zero moral standards like Goldman Sachs and the likes. The growth will not come from more subscribers, but with ever increasing ways to analyze the information flow.
Privacy is not for shameful things only. I do not want my child to see the web pages I and my wife browsed for Christmas presents. In a family with kids, each tablet/smart phone will be used by them - there is no such thing as mine or hers. I am not concerned about privacy from my wife, but from my kids.
It's not that you cannot prevent people from using the device (lock the device). The problem is that the device is not sharable (in the family). Here is why I returned mine: - No password protection for purchases - anyone can push the "buy" button for digital purchases (books, magazines, music, videos, apps) and it immediate gets purchased without prompting for password. There isn't even an "are you sure?" prompt. Imagine this in the hands of a 6 year-old. - Last browsed pages stay first in the carousel, with page preview - anybody can see, right there on first page, what I browsed last. All this can be fixed with software, and I may buy it again when it gets fixed, but until then iPad rules the home.
What you don't realize is that the politicians will get you shooting at each other over gay rights, abortion rights, religious believes, skin color, immigration status, etc, and the military doesn't even have to fire a bullet to get you all eliminated.
Cognitive Dissonance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
It's the cost of the diploma, not the education that has gone up. The diploma costs a lot, because exclusive universities have become frat houses for socializing, networking and establishing connection for the future oligarchs - something far more important to success and wealth than actual skills in the high tier of the society.
Yes, but the premise is stronger or weaker for different currencies. In the case of bitcoin, the premise was very weak.
"'The advantage of using speech over other interaction paradigms is that we have honed its use over thousands of years..." This is a fallacy - voice is the most inefficient way to communicate: very error prone and dependent on enunciation and hearing, not repeatable (information is altered every time its repeated), requires additional activities like body language for proper interaction. Just because we used it for thousands of years doesn't mean it's the best - we didn't have a choice, because all other means of communication require mass education, and this is not something humanity has a good track record with over the centuries. I can read faster than I can speak. I can sometimes type faster than I can speak. I cannot repeat twice the same sentence over 10 words without major effort. I need to engage in body language to be understood. I have to share the same communication medium with others. On the other hand - voice is the least common denominator. Whether voice will popularize the communication between the lowest human denominator and machines, yest I get, it will.
The knowledge of a civilization now in the hands of a corporation(s) thanks to DRM and a society that sold freedom for convenience.
>.... if Americans did not demand low prices, much of that manufacturing would have stayed in America. > More like "if Americans did not demand low prices, shareholders would have demanded more profit and the jobs would have gone to China anyway."
You are correct about measles. But why do I need to get vaccinated for rubella and chicken pox in order to get the measles vaccine? Rubella and chicken pox are generally harmless and with good nutrition and modern medicine to mitigate possible secondary infections, they are a little more than a nuisance (I had varicella and rubella as a child and so did everyone else). The problems is that children today receive too many vaccine injections - about 30 shots till age 6. Can you proof that quantitative accumulations go not lead to qualitative changes?
The problems is that important vaccines are bundled with unimportant vaccines. For example, the only way to get measles (rubeola) vaccine, is to get MMVR vaccine, which also includes mumps, varicella and rubella. Measles is serious, but rubella, mumps and varicella (chicken pox) generally have very good prognosis with healthy and nourished children (I had them all as a child and all my friends did, and no one had any complications). Parents should have a choice to do individual vaccines. Measles is always a good idea to vaccinate against. Rubella, mumps and varicella - only necessary for malnourished and/or children with health issues, or when the parents do not want to deal with the nuisance of a sick child.
Education is virtually free (the library, the web, used books). A diploma costs money.
... is where it all began
I hope it gets enacted and all loopholes for avoiding the 9.75% sales tax are closed. Only then will Californians realize that the 9.75% sales tax is too much. For as long as online shopping is tax-free, Californians will only mildly complain about high sales tax, but do nothing about it. Eliminate that, and they will get up in arms over it.
The PC Pro survey says that professionals prefer matte screens. This doesn't mean that the dilettantes don't like glossy.
In other words, software written to run on Win7 runs on Win7. If I run a malware and it infects my files, is this MS problem? And what is a malware - is Symantec Antivirus malware - it sure does slow my computer down. Did any malware infect system files without user permission - this is the question. There is no answer...
If HFCS gets renamed to "sugar", then regular sugar should be renamed to "sucrose". HFCS and regular sugar are not the same chemical compound, so they need to be called differently.
This doesn't mean anything. G.W. Bush has IQ of 129.
People are confusing the technology with the stock. Just because they can make cars doesn't mean the stock is worth anything - see General Motors for reference. As for the stock, the upside is unknown (new technology, new market, etc.). The downside is guaranteed by the taxpayer and the government (at least this is what investors are assuming in this "bailout era") - Tesla received a $465 million stimulus money from the government.
Tesla is the government's sweetheart and this is what investors are betting on. Piling losses and insolvent CEO don't matter, as long as the government and the taxpayer have your back. Too "green' to fail? http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/cars-transportation/tesla-funding-460609
To understand MPG one needs to understand American culture. The price of gasoline has never been an issue in this country. Americans do not care how much gas or how much it costs, they care about how far can they go with a gas tank. Fill up stops are more annoying to Americans than the price of gasoline, even with the recent price increases.