Lithium battery production is hardly a carbon neutral set of processes and most of the world's electricity is generated by coal, oil or gas burning. I for one will welcome the failure of the electric car, the hybrid car and the hydrogen car. Farm waste sourced biocrude is the only short-term solution that can be rolled out quickly enough to make a difference and will actually solve more than just the CO2 and peak oil problems. It took 50 years and 2 world wars to create the petroleum infrastructure we take for granted, electric and hydrogen transport just throw that infrastructure away requiring a whole new, totally incompatible infrastructure.
Truth be told, I'd be glad to see the private car die altogether.
I scan for viruses when I boot my Mac into Windows, but I gave up scanning my Mac under Mac OS X for viruses years ago. There are no viruses for Mac OS X. None that work anyway. So, the net result in my home, if an ISP required me to install AV software on my Mac is I'll make the case that Macs don't get viruses, and if they don't accept that, I'll keep looking for an ISP that does accept that as sufficient security. Failing that, I get enough internet on my iPhone, and the so-called "Walled Garden" is antivirus enough for anybody, surely.
Frankly, if my Mac ran iOS4 AND the current crop of productivity apps I have on it, I'd rejoice. Like Windows, Mac OS has become an overly complex house of cards. More stable than Windows, mostly, better integrated with hardware, I guess, but the original ease of use vanished with the release of Mac OS X. Don't get me wrong, I love my Mac, there are no media tools of the kind I use which come close to Garage Band's or Final Cut's ease of use. Just the same, it takes me less time to make a basic multitrack, overdub recording on my iPhone using Multitrack (I have all the necessary adapters to do this:-) than it does to get to the same basic, raw 16 track stage with Garage Band, and don't even bother having a race with Logic. iOS is what 99% of the world needs from an OS, anything else is probably a Microsoft-World-View of what we "need." (And 99% of the world don't need what developers need, either, BTW.)
Send it where you sent all your old floppies, that's pretty much how relevant the PCI family of buses is. USB's almost obsolete, really, especially at the pace wireless technologies are moving. In the future, the air is your peripheral bus.
I am neither constrained nor controlled in my use of my iPhone. It does exactly everything I want it to, if there was any feature I required, I would have gone with another platform. You're an idiot and you don't know what you're talking about. "Whinge whinge, I can't program in Flash, whinge whinge, I can't release any old shit code that bypasses the recommended safeguards." I've read all the arguments "against" iPhone and having used one for nearly 5 months (I was a resistor, I thought it a wank) I can honestly say, all the "walled garden/police state" whining is bullshit. If you must program in Flash or Java, go and rot in the Ovi store world, I wouldn't be using your apps if I was on that platform, either.
If murder is wrong, why is murdering the murderer considered to be OK?
Ghandi summed it up nicely, for me. If we take an eye for an eye we will all go blind.
Copyright only applies to the method of expressing an idea, not an idea itself. This is where copyright is coming unstuck.
If you create some expression of an idea, you may sell a licence to use that expression of the idea, you may even assign that licence as an exclusive right to use the expression of the idea. This what people are mixing up, the delineation between idea and expression.
Anybody can have an idea. I have several ideas for software I'd like to see written, but don't have the coding skills (or time to learn them) to express those ideas as software. In short, those ideas are worthless, whereas, the expression of them is the tangible value.
So, along comes Big Greedy Mega Corp, and they have "an idea." They contract Joe Coder to realise that idea. Joe had no idea that BGM's idea might be worth something before he was offered the contract, but he did have the skills to realise an idea - skills BGM didn't have on the payroll.
Knowing that their idea is worthless without expression, but valuable beyond measure if expressed, they protect their idea with a contract. They can't copyright their idea, so when they contract Joe, they ensure that he understands that he is contracted to licence his expression of their idea, exclusively to them. Joe needs to feed the family, the terms are financially rewarding, so he agrees.
Does BGM own Joe's code? Practically, as far as usage goes, it feels like they do, but they actually don't. Joe still owns it, BGM just manage it for him and pay him some of the wealth (or buy-out his royalty at the end of his coding contract.)
The problem is BGM "feel like" they own the code, and because they control the use of the code by way of the contract with the coder, everybody else feels like BGM own it.
Thus the body of this debate, coupled with how one deliniates fact from presentation simply proves to me that copyright is broken and it was the application of law which broke it.
Photo-voltaic solar is a deader end than dead dinosaur oil. While everybody runs around calling silicon the most abundant material on earth, they're forgetting that the chemicals which turn silicon from an almost perfect insulator into a photovoltaic semiconductor are some of the rarest and the solar indistries are heavily dependent on the aluminium and oil industries for these elements.
How about Peak Oil coming by 2015? That's going to put the brakes on the number of cores in our computers. Won't matter what we call it. When the energy runs out, there'll be no food, let alone new computers.
I find it hilarious that Macroslop would care either way. If Windows 7 is as good as they claim, comparisons to Mac OS won't provide any advantage, but they will not cause any disadvantage, either. The clampdown on Mac OS comparisons is a bit ginger, at best. At worst, it shows a marketing department terrified of the alternative OS. Something they should have no need to be.
Yes, I'm a Mac OS X user.
I would have thought Google were perfectly placed to provide a means for unsigned artists to sell there stuff directly, but instead they're going with label artists. Everybody wants their cut of the slave trade music industry, nobody really wants to get behind actual music.
What right? The right vested in them by the Parliament of Australia, bound in the act which establishes the CSIRO to develop science and technology for the benefit of the Australian people. CSIRO's annual budget isn't all that big, most of its research is funded by patent licences and royalties. Australian taxpayers benefit by being a source of science an technology on a world scale, by having brain-rich universities and by attracting world-class minds to our research centres.
Meh. It is what it is. I think the article is a little tongue in cheek when it claims the double slash has "infuriated" web surfers. There may have been a little confusion amongst windows users early on, but these days people just accept it and most browsers don't require the protocol and double slash for standard hypertext locations, anyway. Get over it, Tim, we forgive you.
Morse is not such a silly thing. Teach the history of tech in simple hands on ways, build a morse buzzer, then a cystal radio, connect 2 telephones with a battery, then improve the signal with a bridge to isolate the battery, program a Z80, look at the basics of how computers move data, look at how the cellular network works. (A great explanation of the last item can be founds at tidbits.com.) Look at what grows from all this simple tech, have fun brainstorming the possibilities of the future. Most of all, make fun and inclusive. Teach it this way, and you're teaching them to "plug, play, break and fix" which is they way we techies get savvy. Those who are afraid to have to do a reboot, never learn how far they can push a tech toy.
Really, until governments the world over rediscover that the term "licence" actually means "a privilege", not "a right", and starts issuing licences accordingly (ie making them harder to get and harder to keep), then stupid people will continue to want to use the mobile in the car by any means.
In a car, you're hurtling down the highway inside a box that weighs between 1000kg an 2000 kg, with barely the illusion of control. Driving is a dangerous activity that should only be allowed for people who appreciate and understand that.
This sort of thing continues to push the line that safety is not the driver's responsibility. In many parts of the world the death tolls are pretty much the same percentage as back in the fifties. People drove these old beasts more cautiously, it was harder to get a licence and it was harder to afford a car.
Now, thanks to the safer cars make safer roads mentality to infests every corner of the world, motorists have become more selfish and irresponsible. Cars are sold as racing machines, police blame victims in crashes (cyclist or pedestrian, for example) and the roads have become like something out of a prequel to Mad Max/Road Warrior.
Safer cars is only one quarter of the equation. The other 75% has to be put into making licences harder to get and keep, and making cars harder to own.
Oh great, now the blackhats will just start using "ant" tech to create their botnets. One will find a big cache of bank data, start shouting, "hey guys, here's a goldmine!" and they'll go nom nom nom all over our computer networks. Sheesh, just require admin password for the installation and first run of ALL executable code.
I can't help feeling people will hate these as much as Segways for the same reason - they make you look like a tosser. I mean, what's with the bent knees, legs spread posture? Please! This won't switch me from my bicycle yet.
We never have had control over our information. That was the lesson of the Doomsday Book, and it is the lesson taught by gossip undermining reputation. Information doesn't simply want to be free, it's a fighter for its freedom!
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Lithium battery production is hardly a carbon neutral set of processes and most of the world's electricity is generated by coal, oil or gas burning. I for one will welcome the failure of the electric car, the hybrid car and the hydrogen car. Farm waste sourced biocrude is the only short-term solution that can be rolled out quickly enough to make a difference and will actually solve more than just the CO2 and peak oil problems. It took 50 years and 2 world wars to create the petroleum infrastructure we take for granted, electric and hydrogen transport just throw that infrastructure away requiring a whole new, totally incompatible infrastructure. Truth be told, I'd be glad to see the private car die altogether.
I scan for viruses when I boot my Mac into Windows, but I gave up scanning my Mac under Mac OS X for viruses years ago. There are no viruses for Mac OS X. None that work anyway. So, the net result in my home, if an ISP required me to install AV software on my Mac is I'll make the case that Macs don't get viruses, and if they don't accept that, I'll keep looking for an ISP that does accept that as sufficient security. Failing that, I get enough internet on my iPhone, and the so-called "Walled Garden" is antivirus enough for anybody, surely.
Frankly, if my Mac ran iOS4 AND the current crop of productivity apps I have on it, I'd rejoice. Like Windows, Mac OS has become an overly complex house of cards. More stable than Windows, mostly, better integrated with hardware, I guess, but the original ease of use vanished with the release of Mac OS X. Don't get me wrong, I love my Mac, there are no media tools of the kind I use which come close to Garage Band's or Final Cut's ease of use. Just the same, it takes me less time to make a basic multitrack, overdub recording on my iPhone using Multitrack (I have all the necessary adapters to do this :-) than it does to get to the same basic, raw 16 track stage with Garage Band, and don't even bother having a race with Logic. iOS is what 99% of the world needs from an OS, anything else is probably a Microsoft-World-View of what we "need." (And 99% of the world don't need what developers need, either, BTW.)
Send it where you sent all your old floppies, that's pretty much how relevant the PCI family of buses is. USB's almost obsolete, really, especially at the pace wireless technologies are moving. In the future, the air is your peripheral bus.
I am neither constrained nor controlled in my use of my iPhone. It does exactly everything I want it to, if there was any feature I required, I would have gone with another platform. You're an idiot and you don't know what you're talking about. "Whinge whinge, I can't program in Flash, whinge whinge, I can't release any old shit code that bypasses the recommended safeguards." I've read all the arguments "against" iPhone and having used one for nearly 5 months (I was a resistor, I thought it a wank) I can honestly say, all the "walled garden/police state" whining is bullshit. If you must program in Flash or Java, go and rot in the Ovi store world, I wouldn't be using your apps if I was on that platform, either.
If murder is wrong, why is murdering the murderer considered to be OK? Ghandi summed it up nicely, for me. If we take an eye for an eye we will all go blind.
Copyright only applies to the method of expressing an idea, not an idea itself. This is where copyright is coming unstuck. If you create some expression of an idea, you may sell a licence to use that expression of the idea, you may even assign that licence as an exclusive right to use the expression of the idea. This what people are mixing up, the delineation between idea and expression. Anybody can have an idea. I have several ideas for software I'd like to see written, but don't have the coding skills (or time to learn them) to express those ideas as software. In short, those ideas are worthless, whereas, the expression of them is the tangible value. So, along comes Big Greedy Mega Corp, and they have "an idea." They contract Joe Coder to realise that idea. Joe had no idea that BGM's idea might be worth something before he was offered the contract, but he did have the skills to realise an idea - skills BGM didn't have on the payroll. Knowing that their idea is worthless without expression, but valuable beyond measure if expressed, they protect their idea with a contract. They can't copyright their idea, so when they contract Joe, they ensure that he understands that he is contracted to licence his expression of their idea, exclusively to them. Joe needs to feed the family, the terms are financially rewarding, so he agrees. Does BGM own Joe's code? Practically, as far as usage goes, it feels like they do, but they actually don't. Joe still owns it, BGM just manage it for him and pay him some of the wealth (or buy-out his royalty at the end of his coding contract.) The problem is BGM "feel like" they own the code, and because they control the use of the code by way of the contract with the coder, everybody else feels like BGM own it.
Thus the body of this debate, coupled with how one deliniates fact from presentation simply proves to me that copyright is broken and it was the application of law which broke it.
Rather than the previous comment about sticky stuff in keyboards, this is now the funniest observation and answer on the entire interwebs.
Photo-voltaic solar is a deader end than dead dinosaur oil. While everybody runs around calling silicon the most abundant material on earth, they're forgetting that the chemicals which turn silicon from an almost perfect insulator into a photovoltaic semiconductor are some of the rarest and the solar indistries are heavily dependent on the aluminium and oil industries for these elements.
How about Peak Oil coming by 2015? That's going to put the brakes on the number of cores in our computers. Won't matter what we call it. When the energy runs out, there'll be no food, let alone new computers.
I find it hilarious that Macroslop would care either way. If Windows 7 is as good as they claim, comparisons to Mac OS won't provide any advantage, but they will not cause any disadvantage, either. The clampdown on Mac OS comparisons is a bit ginger, at best. At worst, it shows a marketing department terrified of the alternative OS. Something they should have no need to be. Yes, I'm a Mac OS X user.
I would have thought Google were perfectly placed to provide a means for unsigned artists to sell there stuff directly, but instead they're going with label artists. Everybody wants their cut of the slave trade music industry, nobody really wants to get behind actual music.
What right? The right vested in them by the Parliament of Australia, bound in the act which establishes the CSIRO to develop science and technology for the benefit of the Australian people. CSIRO's annual budget isn't all that big, most of its research is funded by patent licences and royalties. Australian taxpayers benefit by being a source of science an technology on a world scale, by having brain-rich universities and by attracting world-class minds to our research centres.
Call it "free, unlimited energy" and use it to power an electric car. Really, the media are THAT stupid.
Meh. It is what it is. I think the article is a little tongue in cheek when it claims the double slash has "infuriated" web surfers. There may have been a little confusion amongst windows users early on, but these days people just accept it and most browsers don't require the protocol and double slash for standard hypertext locations, anyway. Get over it, Tim, we forgive you.
"If it was up to the **AAs, we would be copying sheet music for our spinets with sharpened quill pens."
PIRATE!!!!!
Morse is not such a silly thing. Teach the history of tech in simple hands on ways, build a morse buzzer, then a cystal radio, connect 2 telephones with a battery, then improve the signal with a bridge to isolate the battery, program a Z80, look at the basics of how computers move data, look at how the cellular network works. (A great explanation of the last item can be founds at tidbits.com.) Look at what grows from all this simple tech, have fun brainstorming the possibilities of the future. Most of all, make fun and inclusive. Teach it this way, and you're teaching them to "plug, play, break and fix" which is they way we techies get savvy. Those who are afraid to have to do a reboot, never learn how far they can push a tech toy.
Really, until governments the world over rediscover that the term "licence" actually means "a privilege", not "a right", and starts issuing licences accordingly (ie making them harder to get and harder to keep), then stupid people will continue to want to use the mobile in the car by any means.
In a car, you're hurtling down the highway inside a box that weighs between 1000kg an 2000 kg, with barely the illusion of control. Driving is a dangerous activity that should only be allowed for people who appreciate and understand that.
This sort of thing continues to push the line that safety is not the driver's responsibility. In many parts of the world the death tolls are pretty much the same percentage as back in the fifties. People drove these old beasts more cautiously, it was harder to get a licence and it was harder to afford a car.
Now, thanks to the safer cars make safer roads mentality to infests every corner of the world, motorists have become more selfish and irresponsible. Cars are sold as racing machines, police blame victims in crashes (cyclist or pedestrian, for example) and the roads have become like something out of a prequel to Mad Max/Road Warrior.
Safer cars is only one quarter of the equation. The other 75% has to be put into making licences harder to get and keep, and making cars harder to own.
Oh great, now the blackhats will just start using "ant" tech to create their botnets. One will find a big cache of bank data, start shouting, "hey guys, here's a goldmine!" and they'll go nom nom nom all over our computer networks. Sheesh, just require admin password for the installation and first run of ALL executable code.
I can't help feeling people will hate these as much as Segways for the same reason - they make you look like a tosser. I mean, what's with the bent knees, legs spread posture? Please! This won't switch me from my bicycle yet.
We never have had control over our information. That was the lesson of the Doomsday Book, and it is the lesson taught by gossip undermining reputation. Information doesn't simply want to be free, it's a fighter for its freedom!
He'll get his time in the sun, he may even win. Science, in the general community, anyway, is dead :-(
I'd like to see him do a cardboard netbook with an ePaper touch screen ;-P~~~~