What about open source babies(whatever that means)?
The missionary position is hardly protected by copyright or patent. Unless you choose to make your baby using some proprietary method for fertilzing an egg (artificial incemination? patented sex positions?) I think your baby can be considered open source.
My brother and the other guys in his shop ran their own CAT5 throughout several shops on his carrier so they could game on their personal PCs -- some of them even brought desktops on board.
You're assuming everyone is either "rich" or "poor". Even IF the poor won't have devices that can take advantage of this, there will still be plenty of non-rich people who do.
I cannot imagine the American people will accept romney as a president
Don't be so sure. Bush was elected to a second term. Ignorance was a valid claim for the first, but no one can say "gee, I didn't know" about his second term. Never underestimate the stupidity of large groups of people acting together.
The chances that something would happen right then in the time-frame that the cloud provider fails and you make another copy with another provider are incredibly low.
Noticing that your backups have failed isn't the time to go searching for another backup solution.
That's fine it you're using it to make your files more accessible, but he is suggesting that it be used for backups. If you need to access the data, it means you probably don't have a local copy.
The good sides of online cloud backup far outweights the negative ones
Until your cloud backup provider goes out of business or stops offering the service. You think rsync is a lot of work? Try keeping current on the status of Dropbox and SkyDrive services so you can pull your data before they disappear. I guarantee you that a properly stored external drive will outlive either of them.
Oh, and if you were trolling with that first post, kudos on playing it out so long.
If you're taking tests where you can copy the answers directly out of a book, then your instructor has failed. A successful test should reveal a person's understanding of the subject matter, not a person's ability to recollect details without applying them.
Text is a visual pattern that we recognize just like an icon. When we read "Save" or "Format" from a menu, we're not processing and deciphering that text. We recognize the word just as instantaneously as we recognize a stop sign. Within limits, different fonts and colors do nothing to impede our recognition because we're only working with 26 basic building blocks (letters). Once we "learn" a new word -- that is, once the word becomes visual symbol in our minds rather than a string of letters to be interpreted -- we instantly recognize it in any application that displays it in a menu.
Icons, however, are not made up of universal building blocks. They do not become instantaneously recognizable symbols until we learn them. Sure, we all recognize the universal Save disk or Paste clipboard that most every application uses. But what about Archive? Merge? Format? Uncomment? Outside of a few universal icons, every app is different, and until we learn that app's symbology we're wasting time interpreting (or worse, looking up) the icons. For. Every. Single. App. We. Use.
So why use icons at all? They save space, save time (fewer mouse clicks), and CAN be easily recognizable -- but only if we take the time to learn them. I don't want to bother when I already recognize a symbol for the same thing -- a one-word description of the task.
Symbols made up of 26 basic building blocks which I already recognize, and which can be unambiguously interpreted when I don't recognize the symbol as a whole? Win.
Symbols made up of arbitrary lines, curves and colors that I need to learn for each app? Epic fail.
Agreed. In a split second I can recognize text in a wide variety of fonts. Don't make me take an extra second to think about what your specific icon does -- or far, far, worse, make me take an extra four seconds to hover the mouse over it for a tool tip because you wanted to get super creative with the icons.
First it was Microsoft and replacing text menus for the ribbon, now Google and replacing text on Gmail buttons with icons. There's a war on usability and its instigators are UI designers.
How about, mind your own damn business until it actually affects you?
Because we have a reasonable expectation that it WILL affect us. With irrevocable consequences. You've already acknowledged that someone who "may have to pay for the consequences" should have a say in what is allowed behavior:
let them work out what they're allowed to do with their insurance company that may have to pay for the consequences
The potential consequence to the insurance company is a cash payout. The potential consequence to me is pain, death, or dismemberment. In both cases they are potential consequences. No one disputes that. But they are consequences that have happened before, and we have a reasonable expectation they will happen again.
Have you thought through the enforcement regime required to ensure people don't have "unapproved" applications loaded on their car computer? Are we talking an annual inspection of their data, or what, you must be a government approved vehicle computer system or application provider? Gee, the possibilities for abuse are just endless, aren't they?
What science fiction novel are you living in? Have you thought it through yourself? Drunk driving laws have been on the books for years and no one is clamoring for an Orwellian enforcement regime to ensure that people don't have "unapproved" beverages in their car. Police check behavior when looking for drunk drivers. No one inspects our cars annually for beer cozies, Jägermeister empties, or keg taps. We don't have breathalyzers attached to our ignitions unless we've already driven drunk. And rounding out the analogy, our alcohol providers -- retail stores and bars -- require government approval, with very little burden to the consumer.
we should be way more liberal with permanent revocations of peoples' driver's licenses
Just prepare to be way more liberal with social support and criminal justice systems, too. Outside of a few major cities, public transportation in the US ranges from impractical to non-existent. In many places, no license == unemployed == government checks OR crime. I'm not advocating for letting dangerous drivers remain on the road, but we do need to consider the whole picture before making policy changes that have far-reaching repercussions.
It's to sell them to those law-abiding companies that already have their domains in.com/.net/.org, and who want to protect their trademark investment
This is why new TLDs are of little value to anyone. Instead of treating it as a namespace that makes more domain names accessible, companies treat their second level domain as a TLD, making the TLD just about as significant as the "www" in front. Purveyors of domain names don't help, they actively promote the practice. Porn sites were up in arms when.XXX was in the news, claiming "it will only cost us more to register the new domain name and protect our trademark." These folks are missing the point of creating new TLDs. They are namespaces which serve to increase the number of second-level domains that are available to the community. All this "protecting my trademark" whining has to stop before internet DNS turns into the US patent system.
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What about open source babies(whatever that means)?
The missionary position is hardly protected by copyright or patent. Unless you choose to make your baby using some proprietary method for fertilzing an egg (artificial incemination? patented sex positions?) I think your baby can be considered open source.
This might come close: http://www.localmotors.com/
My brother and the other guys in his shop ran their own CAT5 throughout several shops on his carrier so they could game on their personal PCs -- some of them even brought desktops on board.
OK. I get "highstreet" and "till," but what are "keyboard stories" called in American?
You're assuming everyone is either "rich" or "poor". Even IF the poor won't have devices that can take advantage of this, there will still be plenty of non-rich people who do.
I cannot imagine the American people will accept romney as a president
Don't be so sure. Bush was elected to a second term. Ignorance was a valid claim for the first, but no one can say "gee, I didn't know" about his second term. Never underestimate the stupidity of large groups of people acting together.
The chances that something would happen right then in the time-frame that the cloud provider fails and you make another copy with another provider are incredibly low.
Noticing that your backups have failed isn't the time to go searching for another backup solution.
That's fine it you're using it to make your files more accessible, but he is suggesting that it be used for backups. If you need to access the data, it means you probably don't have a local copy.
The good sides of online cloud backup far outweights the negative ones
Until your cloud backup provider goes out of business or stops offering the service. You think rsync is a lot of work? Try keeping current on the status of Dropbox and SkyDrive services so you can pull your data before they disappear. I guarantee you that a properly stored external drive will outlive either of them.
Oh, and if you were trolling with that first post, kudos on playing it out so long.
Damn, Slashdot ate my Unicode beamed eighth notes.
Privacyyyy, at the Zuckerberg wedding / Who would have thought... it figures
And a slide-rule built into the bezel. Nice.
You haven't visited a car dealership lately, have you?
allow the surgeon to use it without removing their hands from their work... I'd suggest a set of foot pedals
Personally, I'd prefer that my surgeon not be standing on one foot while wielding a scalpel.
He has to move the photos from one computer to another using sneakernet? How archaic.
If you're taking tests where you can copy the answers directly out of a book, then your instructor has failed. A successful test should reveal a person's understanding of the subject matter, not a person's ability to recollect details without applying them.
Text is a visual pattern that we recognize just like an icon. When we read "Save" or "Format" from a menu, we're not processing and deciphering that text. We recognize the word just as instantaneously as we recognize a stop sign. Within limits, different fonts and colors do nothing to impede our recognition because we're only working with 26 basic building blocks (letters). Once we "learn" a new word -- that is, once the word becomes visual symbol in our minds rather than a string of letters to be interpreted -- we instantly recognize it in any application that displays it in a menu.
Icons, however, are not made up of universal building blocks. They do not become instantaneously recognizable symbols until we learn them. Sure, we all recognize the universal Save disk or Paste clipboard that most every application uses. But what about Archive? Merge? Format? Uncomment? Outside of a few universal icons, every app is different, and until we learn that app's symbology we're wasting time interpreting (or worse, looking up) the icons. For. Every. Single. App. We. Use.
So why use icons at all? They save space, save time (fewer mouse clicks), and CAN be easily recognizable -- but only if we take the time to learn them. I don't want to bother when I already recognize a symbol for the same thing -- a one-word description of the task.
Symbols made up of 26 basic building blocks which I already recognize, and which can be unambiguously interpreted when I don't recognize the symbol as a whole? Win.
Symbols made up of arbitrary lines, curves and colors that I need to learn for each app? Epic fail.
Agreed. In a split second I can recognize text in a wide variety of fonts. Don't make me take an extra second to think about what your specific icon does -- or far, far, worse, make me take an extra four seconds to hover the mouse over it for a tool tip because you wanted to get super creative with the icons.
First it was Microsoft and replacing text menus for the ribbon, now Google and replacing text on Gmail buttons with icons. There's a war on usability and its instigators are UI designers.
How about, mind your own damn business until it actually affects you?
Because we have a reasonable expectation that it WILL affect us. With irrevocable consequences. You've already acknowledged that someone who "may have to pay for the consequences" should have a say in what is allowed behavior:
let them work out what they're allowed to do with their insurance company that may have to pay for the consequences
The potential consequence to the insurance company is a cash payout. The potential consequence to me is pain, death, or dismemberment. In both cases they are potential consequences. No one disputes that. But they are consequences that have happened before, and we have a reasonable expectation they will happen again.
Have you thought through the enforcement regime required to ensure people don't have "unapproved" applications loaded on their car computer? Are we talking an annual inspection of their data, or what, you must be a government approved vehicle computer system or application provider? Gee, the possibilities for abuse are just endless, aren't they?
What science fiction novel are you living in? Have you thought it through yourself? Drunk driving laws have been on the books for years and no one is clamoring for an Orwellian enforcement regime to ensure that people don't have "unapproved" beverages in their car. Police check behavior when looking for drunk drivers. No one inspects our cars annually for beer cozies, Jägermeister empties, or keg taps. We don't have breathalyzers attached to our ignitions unless we've already driven drunk. And rounding out the analogy, our alcohol providers -- retail stores and bars -- require government approval, with very little burden to the consumer.
Get a grip.
we should be way more liberal with permanent revocations of peoples' driver's licenses
Just prepare to be way more liberal with social support and criminal justice systems, too. Outside of a few major cities, public transportation in the US ranges from impractical to non-existent. In many places, no license == unemployed == government checks OR crime. I'm not advocating for letting dangerous drivers remain on the road, but we do need to consider the whole picture before making policy changes that have far-reaching repercussions.
He said he wants to watch TV on it. Maybe he wants to watch it from more than two feet away.
It's to sell them to those law-abiding companies that already have their domains in .com/.net/.org, and who want to protect their trademark investment
This is why new TLDs are of little value to anyone. Instead of treating it as a namespace that makes more domain names accessible, companies treat their second level domain as a TLD, making the TLD just about as significant as the "www" in front. Purveyors of domain names don't help, they actively promote the practice. Porn sites were up in arms when .XXX was in the news, claiming "it will only cost us more to register the new domain name and protect our trademark." These folks are missing the point of creating new TLDs. They are namespaces which serve to increase the number of second-level domains that are available to the community. All this "protecting my trademark" whining has to stop before internet DNS turns into the US patent system.
Erroneous link? He's making a subjective prediction, not a factual claim. Facetious, perhaps, but subjective nonetheless. "Erroneous" doesn't apply.
"Maths" with an "s" is a UK thing.
Or born before 1980...