From the governments point of view, it's how public services are going to be delivered in the future.
In Britain we use a combination of local town council offices and Post Offices to provide information and be a point of contact for requesting and recieving various public services. That requires staff and some sort of office in pretty much every single town and village which is really expensive.
From the point of view of requesting services and information, a single desktop PC running as a webserver could replace all those staff for an entire region, but to replace all those staff and the associated offices everyone has to be using the web, universal network access is the first step and convincing everyone to use it is the second (perhaps harder - at least in the short term).
But Avasts free product is pretty good as well, and the only 2 features that the pro version has that the free version doesn't is
Faster updates
Lets you safely browse suspicious websites or applications
Neither of which seem like killer features to me. The free version of Avast does however require you to go to their website and register, enter the licence key into the product and repeat when the license expires.
I wonder if the scale of this pirating shows that people prefer a simpler solution (see Note #1) more than it shows that people prefer a free solution?
Note #1: At least 1 step in the process is removed, the registration step. Possibly the next step as well, the pirate version may not require the install to enter the license number either, although I've not used the pirate version so could say for sure.
Except I was wrong, what NASA actually announced was a Bacteria which could successfully use Phosphuros and Arsenic interchangably in it's DNA structure but most importantly seems to still be part of the same Lineage as all other Bacteria.
Therefore the announcement has no impact on how common life might be because we still only have evidence of live starting once. What it does do is increase the range of environments where we can look for life which isn't quite the ground breaking Astrobiology announcement that NASA pre news release made it out to be.
Strawberries are the low hanging fruit, if you'll excuse the pun:)
The robot has to have the video cameras anyway in order to be able to pick the fruit, so you might as well use the same hard to both identify the fruit to be picked and to accurately position the picker arm. One less sensor to build, calibrate and integrate with the rest of the system.
The only person who is Guilty of passing classified documents to persons without clearence is Bradley Manning since he is the only American citizen publically acknowledge to be involved, except maybe staff at the NYT although they maybe protected as journalists. Julian Assange has simply received information and has not broken any law while in US jurisdiction.
This is different from say the case of Gary McKinnon who hacked into a US File Servers and as such his crime is considered to be in the US.
You are arguing that US law extends to everyone outside of the US borders (that would make the Internet so much easier to control wouldn't it).
I'm not saying that Julian Assange hasn't commited a crime, but that if he has, it would be an Austrialian law he has broken, probably setup in a reciprocal treaty with the US. Notice, the US has not requested his arrest and extridiction despite the fact that he is in the UK which has extridiction treaty with the US.
Thats one possibility, but there is a second possibility which is what I think NASA would be so excited about if true. What if it's not a mutation in Bacteria which used Phosphorus, but a completely seperate lineage of life, with no common ancestor.
If that were true, it doesn't mean it has to be Extraterrestial, it could be direct evidence that life on Earth started at least twice, under different conditions in different places and times. It would have huge implications in terms of how likely life is to start else where in the Solar System/Galaxy/Universe if the environmental conditions are right.
Would Gutenberg not be allowed produce the copy now, hold on to that digital copy until the copyright expires, and then publish it?
After all, it is distribution which RIAA/MIAA sue people for, not format shifting which I believe is considered a fair use. Of course since Gutenberg isn't an individual it may face different rules.
Could it be same situation as broadband suppliers? they sell more capacity to a group than they actually have under the belief that none of the houses will try to use all of it at the same time.
i.e. Each house is wired for 200amps, but the local transformer can only supply an average of 50 amps to each house it connects to?
Rescue involves being directed to a point where you know an injuryed man is, identifing the only object there which reasembles an injured human, grabbing/lifting and moving back to a predefined point. All the while being watched over by a human who can overide wrong decisions because it would a relatively slow operation
Using a robot as infantry means making realtime decisions in path planning, finding cover, identifying objects which are probably under cover and at distance and even when you spot a human you have to identify it as friendly/neutral/foe before you can engage and being able to counter against an intelligent target which doesn't want to be attacked.
The 2 roles are complete different. One being not so different from what warehouse robots can already do prehaps with the addition of off-road navigation compared to a concrete floor of a warehouse. The other something which has never even been demostrated.
My previous company made me redundant, twice, in both cases I had been there for a few months but in both cases they had hired someone recently (3 weeks the first time, 1 week the second time) before making them redundant.
Their excuse was that the Board sprung the need to cut costs on the CEO at very short notice and they used a last in first out approach to the redundancies but it feels like they were using me like a contractor without paying contractor rates.
As far as I'm concerned, either management were incompetent or malicous in hiring me as a permanent employee.
Not to mention it's rather unprofessional to conduct your personal business while you're on the clock and certainly a sign of poor time management.
I agreed with most of what you said, except this point. These smart phones are being brought by companies to allow employees access to information outside of the office and they know that doesn't just mean people travelling because they are being brought for people who are based at a single location, it includes people picking up email etc out of normal office hours. In that case, when are you on the clock and when are you off the clock?
I would imagine the first thing they would do when they seize something like a laptop is take the HD out and do a bit by bit copy of the entire disk without executing any code from the original machine. Even if you have something which wipes the disk if you boot in the wrong way, they will have a full bit prefect copy for them to try again.
You would need a way which wipes the data before the disk can be copied which means a way of wiping the data if the HD is removed, you joked about putting an explosive charge in but I think it would have to be some sort of bespoke hardware hack.
They create a series of films based around a charismatic lead character named UV Resistant Dundee who was raised by locals but finds himself out of his depth looking after an Earthling in a series of fish out of water situations, just like Australia.
Not just mobile technology, if a cheap, high density, high capacity energy storage could be manufactured, alternative energy becomes far more feasible because you can flatten off the supply of power for variable power sources.
How can a company of that size grind to a total innovative halt like that?
I think you anwsered your own question. I think MS just became too big.
They thought they could be everything to everyone, different parts of MS all trying to keep their own customer base happy and so all the different parts of MS trying to pull products in different directions.
Actually I think there was another reason MS failed with Vista, but that has nothing to do with the innovation within MS.
The thing about e-ink is it only draws a charge when it changes something on the screen, if you don't update any pixels you don' draw any current. For reading static text that means once a refresh every 1..10 minutes, but if you stick video on the display causing 30 frames per second refreshes to be drawn you can kiss the battery life goodbye.
There appear to be no plans in that direction, and it's an industry that makes absolutely no sense for Google to get into.
No, I can't see any reason why a company would like to be able to see all the transcations that a person makes, online or offline. Nope, no reason for google to get into that market at all.
What are they worried about? The risk that this might lead to customers sucessfully using their service?
That a free to use service would compete against mobile apps which they may themselves may produce in the future and/or paid for apps which others may produce which they can charge commercial licenses for (made by real companies not which they can have proper business relations with, not a lone guy in a bedroom producing a paid for app).
I really expect an app from National Rail to be arriving any time now based on the squirming exhibted in the corrspondense.
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From the governments point of view, it's how public services are going to be delivered in the future.
In Britain we use a combination of local town council offices and Post Offices to provide information and be a point of contact for requesting and recieving various public services. That requires staff and some sort of office in pretty much every single town and village which is really expensive.
From the point of view of requesting services and information, a single desktop PC running as a webserver could replace all those staff for an entire region, but to replace all those staff and the associated offices everyone has to be using the web, universal network access is the first step and convincing everyone to use it is the second (perhaps harder - at least in the short term).
But Avasts free product is pretty good as well, and the only 2 features that the pro version has that the free version doesn't is
Neither of which seem like killer features to me. The free version of Avast does however require you to go to their website and register, enter the licence key into the product and repeat when the license expires.
I wonder if the scale of this pirating shows that people prefer a simpler solution (see Note #1) more than it shows that people prefer a free solution?
Note #1: At least 1 step in the process is removed, the registration step. Possibly the next step as well, the pirate version may not require the install to enter the license number either, although I've not used the pirate version so could say for sure.
Are you sure they are eating too much food and not just eating High Calorie / Nutriant Poor food which is typical cheaper than high quality food?
Except I was wrong, what NASA actually announced was a Bacteria which could successfully use Phosphuros and Arsenic interchangably in it's DNA structure but most importantly seems to still be part of the same Lineage as all other Bacteria.
Therefore the announcement has no impact on how common life might be because we still only have evidence of live starting once. What it does do is increase the range of environments where we can look for life which isn't quite the ground breaking Astrobiology announcement that NASA pre news release made it out to be.
Strawberries are the low hanging fruit, if you'll excuse the pun :)
The robot has to have the video cameras anyway in order to be able to pick the fruit, so you might as well use the same hard to both identify the fruit to be picked and to accurately position the picker arm. One less sensor to build, calibrate and integrate with the rest of the system.
The only person who is Guilty of passing classified documents to persons without clearence is Bradley Manning since he is the only American citizen publically acknowledge to be involved, except maybe staff at the NYT although they maybe protected as journalists. Julian Assange has simply received information and has not broken any law while in US jurisdiction.
This is different from say the case of Gary McKinnon who hacked into a US File Servers and as such his crime is considered to be in the US.
You are arguing that US law extends to everyone outside of the US borders (that would make the Internet so much easier to control wouldn't it).
I'm not saying that Julian Assange hasn't commited a crime, but that if he has, it would be an Austrialian law he has broken, probably setup in a reciprocal treaty with the US. Notice, the US has not requested his arrest and extridiction despite the fact that he is in the UK which has extridiction treaty with the US.
Thats one possibility, but there is a second possibility which is what I think NASA would be so excited about if true. What if it's not a mutation in Bacteria which used Phosphorus, but a completely seperate lineage of life, with no common ancestor.
If that were true, it doesn't mean it has to be Extraterrestial, it could be direct evidence that life on Earth started at least twice, under different conditions in different places and times. It would have huge implications in terms of how likely life is to start else where in the Solar System/Galaxy/Universe if the environmental conditions are right.
I'd sign up as a resident for a floating city in a heartbeat.
You've just wiped out a vast amount of the namespace available because it's no longer possible to have the same domainname in different domains.
Would Gutenberg not be allowed produce the copy now, hold on to that digital copy until the copyright expires, and then publish it?
After all, it is distribution which RIAA/MIAA sue people for, not format shifting which I believe is considered a fair use. Of course since Gutenberg isn't an individual it may face different rules.
Could it be same situation as broadband suppliers? they sell more capacity to a group than they actually have under the belief that none of the houses will try to use all of it at the same time.
i.e. Each house is wired for 200amps, but the local transformer can only supply an average of 50 amps to each house it connects to?
Low hanging fruit.
Rescue involves being directed to a point where you know an injuryed man is, identifing the only object there which reasembles an injured human, grabbing/lifting and moving back to a predefined point. All the while being watched over by a human who can overide wrong decisions because it would a relatively slow operation
Using a robot as infantry means making realtime decisions in path planning, finding cover, identifying objects which are probably under cover and at distance and even when you spot a human you have to identify it as friendly/neutral/foe before you can engage and being able to counter against an intelligent target which doesn't want to be attacked.
The 2 roles are complete different. One being not so different from what warehouse robots can already do prehaps with the addition of off-road navigation compared to a concrete floor of a warehouse. The other something which has never even been demostrated.
My previous company made me redundant, twice, in both cases I had been there for a few months but in both cases they had hired someone recently (3 weeks the first time, 1 week the second time) before making them redundant.
Their excuse was that the Board sprung the need to cut costs on the CEO at very short notice and they used a last in first out approach to the redundancies but it feels like they were using me like a contractor without paying contractor rates.
As far as I'm concerned, either management were incompetent or malicous in hiring me as a permanent employee.
I agreed with most of what you said, except this point. These smart phones are being brought by companies to allow employees access to information outside of the office and they know that doesn't just mean people travelling because they are being brought for people who are based at a single location, it includes people picking up email etc out of normal office hours. In that case, when are you on the clock and when are you off the clock?
The other way round surely, a higher level of intelligence allows you to learn new stuff quicker. i.e. Intelligence amplifies education.
I would imagine the first thing they would do when they seize something like a laptop is take the HD out and do a bit by bit copy of the entire disk without executing any code from the original machine. Even if you have something which wipes the disk if you boot in the wrong way, they will have a full bit prefect copy for them to try again.
You would need a way which wipes the data before the disk can be copied which means a way of wiping the data if the HD is removed, you joked about putting an explosive charge in but I think it would have to be some sort of bespoke hardware hack.
They create a series of films based around a charismatic lead character named UV Resistant Dundee who was raised by locals but finds himself out of his depth looking after an Earthling in a series of fish out of water situations, just like Australia.
It's already being planned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
Not just mobile technology, if a cheap, high density, high capacity energy storage could be manufactured, alternative energy becomes far more feasible because you can flatten off the supply of power for variable power sources.
I think you anwsered your own question. I think MS just became too big.
They thought they could be everything to everyone, different parts of MS all trying to keep their own customer base happy and so all the different parts of MS trying to pull products in different directions.
Actually I think there was another reason MS failed with Vista, but that has nothing to do with the innovation within MS.
The thing about e-ink is it only draws a charge when it changes something on the screen, if you don't update any pixels you don' draw any current. For reading static text that means once a refresh every 1..10 minutes, but if you stick video on the display causing 30 frames per second refreshes to be drawn you can kiss the battery life goodbye.
No, I can't see any reason why a company would like to be able to see all the transcations that a person makes, online or offline. Nope, no reason for google to get into that market at all.
Network Rail can not deliver the timetable you have requested at this time due to the wrong type of snow on the line.
That a free to use service would compete against mobile apps which they may themselves may produce in the future and/or paid for apps which others may produce which they can charge commercial licenses for (made by real companies not which they can have proper business relations with, not a lone guy in a bedroom producing a paid for app).
I really expect an app from National Rail to be arriving any time now based on the squirming exhibted in the corrspondense.
Ford Fiesta Van?
Vauxhall Vectra Van?
There are lots of car based commercial vechicles around
Admittedly, I don't think any of those have the option of rear side windows which I would like in addition to your list.