Governmental action should be deliberate, carefully considered, and with many opportunities for feedback, criticism, and discussion.
In theory I agree, but it doesn't look like thats how it works from the outside.
It doesn't feel like our representatives are representing us in pretty much any decision these days and so clearly more control by the population over the representatives is needed beyond getting to vote them out every 4-5 years by which time the policitians have got do nothing jobs lined up with the corporations they helped during office and the new guys you vote in are just a slight different shade of the same color.
The shopping lens will pass every search string you make using the default search box onto canoncial who will then pass it on to amazon (supposedly anomymized) or whoever else they decide they want to in the future.
I.e. if you search for something on your local computer, using your local machine to do the search, you would normally expect that search to remain local, but you now have to take extra steps to ensure that an offline search remains offline.
The point I suggested you missed is that line between online and offline is not as well defined as it should be and so its not just a case of choosing to not do stuff online.
Not so fast! You have to explicitly sign up for G+ to use it
All new gmail sign ups are automatically signed up for G+ at the same time, there is no option to not enable it at that point.
Once you've created the new Gmail account you then have to go back into the murky depths of account management and cancel your account to G+ if you don't want it.
Any solution to this nightmare will by necessity have to enable companies to retain the invested value of their patent portfolio and licensing while being universally applied to all jurisdictions around the world
That would seem easy enough, every patent and copyright mark as a limited time frame already.
Just stop issuing new patents and stop extending the rights on existing patents and let those existing patents and copyrights run their natural course.
Companies don't lose anything that they already have and are free to monetise those assets in whatever way they see fit, but within 20-100 years all these problems go away, and it's not like that 20-100 years isn't enough time to find some other business model.
Personally, I wouldn't want to see the end of patents or copyrights, but I do think the copyrights are far far too long and patents, at 20 years, could probably be reduced a bit.
They already have reasonable information about audiences without needing to track individuals across sites.
For example, on this site, advertise geek stuff, gadgets, programming languages, OS's etc.Car Sites, advertise car stuff.
For the most part, websites have a self-selecting audience so you already have the ability to provide ads at people who are likely to find particular categories useful.
Tracking only becomes useful if you are a very large catch all website or ad provider looking for an edge over the competition.
Provide ads for the website audience, not the individual.
Microsoft have been selling expensive products for years now. They were never a price oriented company.
MS never had to be price oriented, they held a monopoly on consumer and enterprise desktops, and had a pretty good market share of servers. To the point where competitors effectively had to be free to compete, not because of technical superiority but because of how the market was stacked against them.
The trouble for MS is it doesn't have that lead in the mobile space. Its now forced, whether it acknowledges it or not to compete on:
Cost
UI
Technical Merit
Cost and UI matter to regular consumers, Cost and Technical Merit (maybe including a bit of UI as it relates to funcationality rather than prettiness/bragging rights) matter to techies.
MS's problem is the first group aren't going to be impressed with Notro compared to Apple or Android, especially if the devices are going to cost significantly more. The second group remember enough about MS's business practices from the 90's and 00's as to be warey of accepting them.
There is another possibility, maybe it's not the MS license knocking up the price, ASUS might not be expecting big sales from these devices and so are hoping to cover R&D costs with a smaller number of sales by bumping up the unit price?
"When you mention GPS to me, my first thought is the ability of surface or air unit to accurately calculate it's own grid position with minimal input from outside sources."
Do you know the S in GPS stand for Satellite?
The Satellite is just providing a beacon at a known location with a way of accurately measuring distance. The satellite is not providing any computations to the GPS units on the ground beyond whats necessary to send a very simple signal which is what I meant by minimal input, all the position calculations are local to the unit. So long as the unit has some means of tracking multiple fixed points accurately it would work even without any further infrastructure.
If it weren't for air distortions and sunlight, you could just use stars instead, it's just radio is a better medium than light in that application.
Why wouldn't the data be downloaded to the device?
I'm not talking about mapping of terrain and fixed features, I'm simply refering to relative positions of 2 mobile groups, I'm simply referring to the ability of a device to calculate it's position anywhere on the surface of a planet.
I thin[k] it's safe to say the tri-croder can use it's initial reference point on the planet and do the necessary calculations?
Inertia based positioning systems are certainly possible, subs use/used them a lot, but they aren't as accurate as taking regular fixes from known positions because errors in calculations accumlate, the longer you rely on inertia systems the less accuracy it has.
they often look at a device and say "They are this way."
But is that a GPS system? aren't they just picking up on 'life signs' or unusual energy readings etc.
The tri-corder has a limited range, even if it could detect life signs 10 miles away, what if the other ground team is 11 miles away but as mentioned else where in the thread the communicators seem to be planet wide. Either party could ring up and say "where are you" but without a GPS(ystem) the other side would not be able to give any meaningful information about location beyond a description of their immediate surroundings and hoping you can identify that from a static map in the tri-corder.
It might be easy if you are standing at the only ox-bow lake within 200 miles, but standing somewhere in a 200 mile wide forest and describing what the trees look like doesn't help at all.
They had the capability to pinpoint the away team with an accuracy sufficient to teleport them back to the ship from anywhere on the planet without leaving any bits behind or inadvertently picking up bits of other bystanders or objects.
That was an ability of a ship to accurately scan the planet surface and locate objects of interest.
When you mention GPS to me, my first thought is the ability of surface or air unit to accurately calculate it's own grid position with minimal input from outside sources.
The difference being, if the ship ever left orbit, the ground crew are lost (in terms of where they are, not in terms of lost to an energy cloud of unimagable power and a deep feeling of malice to red shirts), they wouldn't even be able to orientate themselves to other ground crews nearby without referencing local landmarks like south of the mountain with a pointed peak and shouting out or firing phasers in the air as they get close to each other.
No ground crew ever seem to have the ability to say "We are at co-ordinate xx'xxx xx'xxx, which is 3 miles on a bearing of 15 degrees from your position"
The fact is you force merchants to pay a percentage of your transaction in a "merchant service fee" or bank interchange fee in some countries
While thats true, you are forgetting that handling cash is not free for the merchant either.
It has to be handled by staff that can lose or steal it, it has to be transported around the store securely and transported to a bank to be paid in to an account (banks charge businesses for pay cash into an account) so the business can use the money for purchasing of supplies, paying rents and mortgage etc.
Credit Card fees look scary for the merchant because the fee is stated upfront in the contract with the Credit Card Provider but cash has costs as well, possibly hugely variable costs compared to a stated percentage per transaction.
I am truly fucking tired of the BULLSHITS from you moslem apologists !!!
You know what?
I was going to mark this post as a troll to at least partially hide it from the world, but sometimes people need to be exposed as the retards they are so I've decided to let more people see the post to let them make up their own minds about you.
Doesn't matter how many people might have drawn a Glowing Arch to look like an M, only MacDonalds can use it as a Trademark once registered, at least in the Fast Food Industry.
The best thing about this is how effective the platform can be for developers.... you get the good audience (rich smartphone uses with not as much competition as iPhone or Android)
eh? Does Windows Phone some how exist in a completely different market and so not competing with every other smartphone competitors are releasing?
That would just mean we aren't as close to doing this as we think, it would simply buy us a bit more time until the exact same ethical question of "whether we should do it just because we can" have to be anwsered.
how can it be counterfeiting? it has samsung written on the front and no apple logo's or other trademarks in sight.
Counterfeiting is about trying to pass 1 product off as another. They certainly look alike but without trying to pass it off as an apple product it can't be counterfeiting.
I thought they could do a reversal for those who changed their minds?
Tthey can attempt to reverse the procedure but it's around 80% successful for getting viable sperm in the ejaculate and about 75% percent successful for get a pregancy after reversal.
except you don't have space for 1000 fruit, you have pretty close to infinite space and you are artificially limiting selection to 1000 apples... also, don't you dare try to slip an orange in there, everyone knows apples are the king of fruits and everyone should therefore be happy to be restricted to just apples.
Tape is great for reading or writing sequential data but trying to access random files would suck, which is exectly how it would access files if you are trying to access movies while writing other data to it.
The only way I see it working would be to have a HD or SSD acting as a cache between the tape drive and the network.
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In theory I agree, but it doesn't look like thats how it works from the outside.
It doesn't feel like our representatives are representing us in pretty much any decision these days and so clearly more control by the population over the representatives is needed beyond getting to vote them out every 4-5 years by which time the policitians have got do nothing jobs lined up with the corporations they helped during office and the new guys you vote in are just a slight different shade of the same color.
The shopping lens will pass every search string you make using the default search box onto canoncial who will then pass it on to amazon (supposedly anomymized) or whoever else they decide they want to in the future.
I.e. if you search for something on your local computer, using your local machine to do the search, you would normally expect that search to remain local, but you now have to take extra steps to ensure that an offline search remains offline.
The point I suggested you missed is that line between online and offline is not as well defined as it should be and so its not just a case of choosing to not do stuff online.
Some how I think you've missed the point.
Maybe I just didn't notice the option last time I setup a new account.
All new gmail sign ups are automatically signed up for G+ at the same time, there is no option to not enable it at that point.
Once you've created the new Gmail account you then have to go back into the murky depths of account management and cancel your account to G+ if you don't want it.
Cooling tower walls are surprisingly thin, measured in tens of centimeters rather than meters.
Sure, you and your car aren't going to look pretty after hitting it but I reckon you are going to damage the structure.
Concrete Containment Vessels on the other hand...
That would seem easy enough, every patent and copyright mark as a limited time frame already.
Just stop issuing new patents and stop extending the rights on existing patents and let those existing patents and copyrights run their natural course.
Companies don't lose anything that they already have and are free to monetise those assets in whatever way they see fit, but within 20-100 years all these problems go away, and it's not like that 20-100 years isn't enough time to find some other business model.
Personally, I wouldn't want to see the end of patents or copyrights, but I do think the copyrights are far far too long and patents, at 20 years, could probably be reduced a bit.
They already have reasonable information about audiences without needing to track individuals across sites.
For example, on this site, advertise geek stuff, gadgets, programming languages, OS's etc.Car Sites, advertise car stuff.
For the most part, websites have a self-selecting audience so you already have the ability to provide ads at people who are likely to find particular categories useful.
Tracking only becomes useful if you are a very large catch all website or ad provider looking for an edge over the competition.
Provide ads for the website audience, not the individual.
Wow, just wow.
MS never had to be price oriented, they held a monopoly on consumer and enterprise desktops, and had a pretty good market share of servers. To the point where competitors effectively had to be free to compete, not because of technical superiority but because of how the market was stacked against them.
The trouble for MS is it doesn't have that lead in the mobile space. Its now forced, whether it acknowledges it or not to compete on:
Cost and UI matter to regular consumers, Cost and Technical Merit (maybe including a bit of UI as it relates to funcationality rather than prettiness/bragging rights) matter to techies.
MS's problem is the first group aren't going to be impressed with Notro compared to Apple or Android, especially if the devices are going to cost significantly more. The second group remember enough about MS's business practices from the 90's and 00's as to be warey of accepting them.
There is another possibility, maybe it's not the MS license knocking up the price, ASUS might not be expecting big sales from these devices and so are hoping to cover R&D costs with a smaller number of sales by bumping up the unit price?
According to http://investors.geek.net/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=697536. Group Revenue for 2012-Q2 is $23.1M.
Is the summary about your own company wrong?
I would guess they are mostly owned by the record publishers, at least indirectly, not the artists themselves.
How many artists do you know who get rich then stay rich?
The Satellite is just providing a beacon at a known location with a way of accurately measuring distance. The satellite is not providing any computations to the GPS units on the ground beyond whats necessary to send a very simple signal which is what I meant by minimal input, all the position calculations are local to the unit. So long as the unit has some means of tracking multiple fixed points accurately it would work even without any further infrastructure. If it weren't for air distortions and sunlight, you could just use stars instead, it's just radio is a better medium than light in that application.
I'm not talking about mapping of terrain and fixed features, I'm simply refering to relative positions of 2 mobile groups, I'm simply referring to the ability of a device to calculate it's position anywhere on the surface of a planet.
Inertia based positioning systems are certainly possible, subs use/used them a lot, but they aren't as accurate as taking regular fixes from known positions because errors in calculations accumlate, the longer you rely on inertia systems the less accuracy it has.
But is that a GPS system? aren't they just picking up on 'life signs' or unusual energy readings etc.
The tri-corder has a limited range, even if it could detect life signs 10 miles away, what if the other ground team is 11 miles away but as mentioned else where in the thread the communicators seem to be planet wide. Either party could ring up and say "where are you" but without a GPS(ystem) the other side would not be able to give any meaningful information about location beyond a description of their immediate surroundings and hoping you can identify that from a static map in the tri-corder.
It might be easy if you are standing at the only ox-bow lake within 200 miles, but standing somewhere in a 200 mile wide forest and describing what the trees look like doesn't help at all.
That was an ability of a ship to accurately scan the planet surface and locate objects of interest.
When you mention GPS to me, my first thought is the ability of surface or air unit to accurately calculate it's own grid position with minimal input from outside sources.
The difference being, if the ship ever left orbit, the ground crew are lost (in terms of where they are, not in terms of lost to an energy cloud of unimagable power and a deep feeling of malice to red shirts), they wouldn't even be able to orientate themselves to other ground crews nearby without referencing local landmarks like south of the mountain with a pointed peak and shouting out or firing phasers in the air as they get close to each other.
No ground crew ever seem to have the ability to say "We are at co-ordinate xx'xxx xx'xxx, which is 3 miles on a bearing of 15 degrees from your position"
While thats true, you are forgetting that handling cash is not free for the merchant either.
It has to be handled by staff that can lose or steal it, it has to be transported around the store securely and transported to a bank to be paid in to an account (banks charge businesses for pay cash into an account) so the business can use the money for purchasing of supplies, paying rents and mortgage etc.
Credit Card fees look scary for the merchant because the fee is stated upfront in the contract with the Credit Card Provider but cash has costs as well, possibly hugely variable costs compared to a stated percentage per transaction.
You know what? I was going to mark this post as a troll to at least partially hide it from the world, but sometimes people need to be exposed as the retards they are so I've decided to let more people see the post to let them make up their own minds about you.
Prior art is for patents, not Trademarks.
Doesn't matter how many people might have drawn a Glowing Arch to look like an M, only MacDonalds can use it as a Trademark once registered, at least in the Fast Food Industry.
eh? Does Windows Phone some how exist in a completely different market and so not competing with every other smartphone competitors are releasing?
I know, I know, don't feed to shills
As a shot across the bows of other companies who might also be going beyond the law to prevent bogus copyright infringment, it is worth pursuing.
That would just mean we aren't as close to doing this as we think, it would simply buy us a bit more time until the exact same ethical question of "whether we should do it just because we can" have to be anwsered.
how can it be counterfeiting? it has samsung written on the front and no apple logo's or other trademarks in sight.
Counterfeiting is about trying to pass 1 product off as another. They certainly look alike but without trying to pass it off as an apple product it can't be counterfeiting.
Tthey can attempt to reverse the procedure but it's around 80% successful for getting viable sperm in the ejaculate and about 75% percent successful for get a pregancy after reversal.
except you don't have space for 1000 fruit, you have pretty close to infinite space and you are artificially limiting selection to 1000 apples... also, don't you dare try to slip an orange in there, everyone knows apples are the king of fruits and everyone should therefore be happy to be restricted to just apples.
But one thing does stand out from that site
Assuming they are using the same fuel tank for both on road and in air, that gives a easy comparison of fuel economy.
Tank Size: ~26 Gallons (750 miles / 28 mpg)
Air MPG: ~8.5-12 MPG
That doesn't look too impressive to me, it's on par with fully loaded big rigs while transporting a tiny fraction of the load.
Tape is great for reading or writing sequential data but trying to access random files would suck, which is exectly how it would access files if you are trying to access movies while writing other data to it.
The only way I see it working would be to have a HD or SSD acting as a cache between the tape drive and the network.