There's more to it than that. You're not supposed to hold your hand in front of your face and make fine movements for long periods of time. You're supposed to have your elbows pointed mostly downward with your wrists mostly parallel to the floor; the further up you lift them the more you're going to injure yourself with repetitive usage of fine motor skills.
Big media: quit saying "XYZ is dead" every time you're starved for attention.
No matter how good a smartphone gets, that doesn't mean that old technology people still benefit from should suddenly disappear. My phone has a built-in keyboard; I can text so fast it startles people and any flashy features my phone doesn't have would be all the better with it. Give us more functionality, not tell us we should settle for less.
Web 1.0: some guy uploads content, everyone else just watches quietly as if it were TV.
Web 2.0: some guy uploads a set of scripts, which receive and display content passed contributed by end users.
The big money takeover is just a fact of life. All of the older media had their own time before big money; just because George Lucas can top the charts by passing gas into a microphone doesn't mean the common producer can't make his own movies.
It's moronic of you to believe it hasn't helped. Reality, with it's actual events and consequences, proves you wrong.
Well it hasn't. This is akin to you living in the country, me reading a list of what you ate for dinner and watched on TV that night, and Mugabe spinning that as atrocious treason worthy of capital punishment. I may have been a jerk, but Mugabe is the one to blame for these actions.
Blame the transgressors. This shouldn't be some fringe extremist concept.
It doesn't necessarily mean that what Tsvangirai is doing is illegal or immoral. Mugabe is just misrepresenting information and using it to fuel his own propaganda machine. Wikileaks isn't at fault either; they're not passing judgment on anyone.
It seems like what is happening here is that Tsvangirai is trying to cooperate with 'western' governments, and Mugabe is painting this as an evil action which needs to be stopped.
Microsoft has had every opportunity to establish themselves as the Robin Hood of the group who charges into battle with the vendors to protect the users.
Microsoft's own market dominance is built on giving the vendors everything they want, as well as restricting the users' ability to break away from MS products. It's not about whether you choose Windows or an alternative, it's whether you can swim hard enough to beat the current that drags you down to Windows. I don't mean to hop on some bandwagon of hatred here, but don't expect MS to be the hero for the little guy in the face of this mass corporate takeover.
This isn't about regulating the internet, it's about preventing private regulation; if you hate people telling you what you can and cannot do then you should support preventing ISPs from being able to decide how your connection can be used.
As long as people are tied to their service providers then they're at the provider's mercy unless it is illegal to impose such controls. "Regulating the internet" would be telling users what to do; that's exactly what would happen if ISPs could shape traffic and they wouldn't have to release you from your contract.
Maybe the big players in the market will realize that allowing private ownership of the idea of 1s and 0s was not such a great idea after all.
Then the lobbyists who once bribed congress for tougher IP laws will change their tune and then the rest of us can have a more liberated market to do business with.
A denial of service attack means launching junk traffic at a site to temporarily monopolize its serving capacity and thus deny the service to legitimate users; the service can resume as soon as the cannons stop firing.
Censorship means using force to permanently remove suppress something as a means of dictating what is and isn't allowed.
The FCC doesn't "control" the internet. It is merely prohibiting ISPs from controlling their customers' access to the internet. The electric company sells you electricity, they don't get to tell you how you can and can't use it - that's the nature of net neutrality.
In an environment of "the customer is always right," the market can be trusted to deliver exactly what is in the customers' best interests without any form of outside interference.
In an environment of telco monopolies, multi-year contracts, terms which the provider can change at will, and more; it becomes necessary to restrict what providers can and cannot do because the customers are left powerless other than as voters who tell the government what they want.
Well it didn't work in the way you would think it worked.
It worked in the sense that it probably flagged a few businesses which MS could audit, at the businesses' own expense, and then slap with fees because some cubicle drone was fooling around with something he wasn't supposed to have been.
They know it won't stop intentional piracy because the intentionally pirated versions now come packaged with circumvention measures. But if they can keep charging businesses those fees, then they still make a hefty profit.
Some people here weren't even alive when Terminator 2 came out. Those people have lived their entire lives seeing flashy special effects in movies, therefore it is nothing special to them.
If you want to impress people, then stop churning out cookie cutter sequels and start using some fresh stories that will keep people interested.
A few years ago there was a bee scare in which there were a lot of places where you could find piles of dead bees wherever you went. It caused a lot of fear for the agricultural industry because bees pollinate a lot of the crops and a pesticide which gets rid of the bees is highly counter-productive in that regard.
Insects' nervous system works a lot differently from mammals, which is how pesticides can be made to be so devastating to bugs yet effectively harmless to humans. This means it's also a challenge to avoid killing non-pests, which is one thing the EPA is supposed to be on the lookout for.
In a few more words: we're not going to see what we saw with Wintel because people actually have to go out and select Android. Wintel was what you got when you walked into a store and walked out with a computer; most people didn't even know what an operating system was until it was far too late.
Make it a private and isolated operation devoted to powering energy-intensive industries. One killer app for this would be making residential solar panels; instead of spreading out across the Sahara you distribute the production all over the world. All that's needed is a good cheap design that doesn't depend on too many exotic materials.
Slashdot Mirror
Now I demand that McDonalds, Burger King, Carls Jr, and all the small business delis in the western hemisphere pay me royalties.
There's more to it than that. You're not supposed to hold your hand in front of your face and make fine movements for long periods of time. You're supposed to have your elbows pointed mostly downward with your wrists mostly parallel to the floor; the further up you lift them the more you're going to injure yourself with repetitive usage of fine motor skills.
Big media: quit saying "XYZ is dead" every time you're starved for attention.
No matter how good a smartphone gets, that doesn't mean that old technology people still benefit from should suddenly disappear. My phone has a built-in keyboard; I can text so fast it startles people and any flashy features my phone doesn't have would be all the better with it. Give us more functionality, not tell us we should settle for less.
Web 1.0: some guy uploads content, everyone else just watches quietly as if it were TV.
Web 2.0: some guy uploads a set of scripts, which receive and display content passed contributed by end users.
The big money takeover is just a fact of life. All of the older media had their own time before big money; just because George Lucas can top the charts by passing gas into a microphone doesn't mean the common producer can't make his own movies.
It's moronic of you to believe it hasn't helped. Reality, with it's actual events and consequences, proves you wrong.
Well it hasn't. This is akin to you living in the country, me reading a list of what you ate for dinner and watched on TV that night, and Mugabe spinning that as atrocious treason worthy of capital punishment. I may have been a jerk, but Mugabe is the one to blame for these actions.
Blame the transgressors. This shouldn't be some fringe extremist concept.
It doesn't necessarily mean that what Tsvangirai is doing is illegal or immoral. Mugabe is just misrepresenting information and using it to fuel his own propaganda machine. Wikileaks isn't at fault either; they're not passing judgment on anyone.
It seems like what is happening here is that Tsvangirai is trying to cooperate with 'western' governments, and Mugabe is painting this as an evil action which needs to be stopped.
Microsoft has had every opportunity to establish themselves as the Robin Hood of the group who charges into battle with the vendors to protect the users.
Microsoft's own market dominance is built on giving the vendors everything they want, as well as restricting the users' ability to break away from MS products. It's not about whether you choose Windows or an alternative, it's whether you can swim hard enough to beat the current that drags you down to Windows. I don't mean to hop on some bandwagon of hatred here, but don't expect MS to be the hero for the little guy in the face of this mass corporate takeover.
This isn't about regulating the internet, it's about preventing private regulation; if you hate people telling you what you can and cannot do then you should support preventing ISPs from being able to decide how your connection can be used.
As long as people are tied to their service providers then they're at the provider's mercy unless it is illegal to impose such controls. "Regulating the internet" would be telling users what to do; that's exactly what would happen if ISPs could shape traffic and they wouldn't have to release you from your contract.
Let's all have one big group prayer that this method of creating a human-like face doesn't end up becoming the property of some patent troll.
Maybe the big players in the market will realize that allowing private ownership of the idea of 1s and 0s was not such a great idea after all.
Then the lobbyists who once bribed congress for tougher IP laws will change their tune and then the rest of us can have a more liberated market to do business with.
A denial of service attack means launching junk traffic at a site to temporarily monopolize its serving capacity and thus deny the service to legitimate users; the service can resume as soon as the cannons stop firing.
Censorship means using force to permanently remove suppress something as a means of dictating what is and isn't allowed.
As we've learned with the recent round of attacks in the news, the effects are brief and leave no long-term impact on the targets.
The threat to free speech isn't DDoS, it's censorship.
The FCC doesn't "control" the internet. It is merely prohibiting ISPs from controlling their customers' access to the internet. The electric company sells you electricity, they don't get to tell you how you can and can't use it - that's the nature of net neutrality.
In an environment of "the customer is always right," the market can be trusted to deliver exactly what is in the customers' best interests without any form of outside interference.
In an environment of telco monopolies, multi-year contracts, terms which the provider can change at will, and more; it becomes necessary to restrict what providers can and cannot do because the customers are left powerless other than as voters who tell the government what they want.
Every week or so we have another "XYZ is dead" article.
I've come to think this is simply what magazines, bloggers, or corporate know-nothings resort to when they're starved for attention.
Well it didn't work in the way you would think it worked.
It worked in the sense that it probably flagged a few businesses which MS could audit, at the businesses' own expense, and then slap with fees because some cubicle drone was fooling around with something he wasn't supposed to have been.
They know it won't stop intentional piracy because the intentionally pirated versions now come packaged with circumvention measures. But if they can keep charging businesses those fees, then they still make a hefty profit.
Regulating the internet means telling people what they can and cannot use.
Regulating ISPs means preventing them from telling people what they can and cannot use.
You can save money by leaving out the three colors which aren't actually used.
How do we keep people from amassing their own arsenals of homebrew ballistic missiles?
Some people here weren't even alive when Terminator 2 came out. Those people have lived their entire lives seeing flashy special effects in movies, therefore it is nothing special to them.
If you want to impress people, then stop churning out cookie cutter sequels and start using some fresh stories that will keep people interested.
A few years ago there was a bee scare in which there were a lot of places where you could find piles of dead bees wherever you went. It caused a lot of fear for the agricultural industry because bees pollinate a lot of the crops and a pesticide which gets rid of the bees is highly counter-productive in that regard.
Insects' nervous system works a lot differently from mammals, which is how pesticides can be made to be so devastating to bugs yet effectively harmless to humans. This means it's also a challenge to avoid killing non-pests, which is one thing the EPA is supposed to be on the lookout for.
What about surveying sites like the battle of Midway for bugs like this? It could probably yield some very interesting information.
...which will then be promptly shot down by patent trolls.
In a few more words: we're not going to see what we saw with Wintel because people actually have to go out and select Android. Wintel was what you got when you walked into a store and walked out with a computer; most people didn't even know what an operating system was until it was far too late.
My proposal:
Make it a private and isolated operation devoted to powering energy-intensive industries. One killer app for this would be making residential solar panels; instead of spreading out across the Sahara you distribute the production all over the world. All that's needed is a good cheap design that doesn't depend on too many exotic materials.