In Mexico, when the army comes in, they line the few honest politicians against the wall and then steal the trucks.
And why wouldn't they? They have the guns.
The system in places like Mexico makes perfect sense to me. Everyone looking after their own interests. What amazes me is that things work so well in the west. It is a deeply embedded cultural notion to "do the right thing". Very odd.
Indeed. Install as Root is the killer of both *nix and Windows. What is the point of having a permission system if every program we run needs to have root on install.
IOS taught us the right way. That we should be able to install third party software and not give it complete control of our systems. Well, almost...
Back before Android, they could have licensed IOS to the other major vendors at reasonable prices. There would be different versions, at different price points, including something for the low end.
Then they would own the whole market. Android would not exist. Everything would sell through the App store. Who would want anything else on a phone if IOS was available and had all the apps. And they could prevent Samsung competing with them at the top end through licensing restrictions.
As it is, they are fantastically profitable. But Android is clipping at their heals. Today, Apple's physical phones are no better, there software not much better, and the Apple brand is softening as people have choices.
They pulled two rabbits out of the hat. iPod and iPhone. It is unlikely that they will pull out a third.
So I forecast a long slow decline. The Android cat is out of the bag. They do not control the market. They have no presence in the bottom and middle. And soon they will not even dominate the top end. Android undermining IOS will be similar to the way that Microsoft came in under IBM, HP, DEC etc. and eventually ate their lunch.
But Apple started as a hardware company, just like Microsoft started in software, and Nokia in timber. Most things die like they were born.
The original game was created by anti-monopolist Elizabeth Magie to awaken people to the danger of uncontrolled capitalism -- in the game money always goes to money. But the effect was exactly the opposite, it encouraged capitalistic thinking.
This game should be called "the Joy of Fake News".
Incidentally, I wish the SJWs would never have coined the term, and would stop using it. Trump et. al. has done an excellent job of turning it around to mean anything they disagree with.
Wasn't there a big court case recently when Oracle tried to sue Google over the Java API.
That was copyright. Patents expire after 20 years, so the 64bit issues should be coming to a head real soon. (It is from time of filing, not time of release in a product.)
Indeed, I would be wary of any move to multimedia content.
The text content is accessible and editable and has high density, fact oriented which suites Wikipedia as a nerd's reference.
How do you diff contributions to multi media? (OpenStreatMap has this problem.) Images also provide enough headaches over copyright as it is.
A multimedia focused education site might be a good thing, but I do not think it is Wikipedia.
I think some support for Open Street Map might be a good use of some of that $80 million though.
Amazingly, Wikipedia has survived special interest groups, government trolls etc. Fascist editors are a problem pushing content out, but despite all the anarchic system works amazingly well.
It is testament to the fact that, surprisingly, there is more good in the world than bad.
Gates himself once said that we tend to overestimate what we can achieve in one year, yet underestimate what we can achieve in ten years.
Insightful.
Yet he seems blind to what we are likely to achieve in 50..200 years. Namely machines that can really think. Machines that can program themselves. Machines that no longer need us.
Why would such machines want to support parasitic humans? And how could they in the ongoing battle for existence?
So, what is your experience? Would be good to hear.
The cynic in me says that we should focus on services. Like banking, law, public service and fashion. Leave actually making things to those that can do it better.
Xi Jinping has been concentrating power, and doing everything he can to squash even the mildest forms of dissent. As he gets holder, he will likely get more conservative.
The Confucian ethic obeys authority. But then we have this strong contradictory force of entrepreneurial energy. And a large and growing body of middle class Chinese that have spent time in the west, outside the great firewall.
It is unstable and frightening. Hopefully it will resolve peacefully, but if Xi (or his heirs) digs in then it could get very ugly.
What sort of Frenchman would put ultra processed rubbish in their mouths? Unlike the English, the French care about what they eat. Not for health (heaven forbid) but for pleasure. They think that there is more to eating than just filling the gut.
The type of Frenchman that puts rubbish in their guts is probably not French at all. Maybe Arabs or English Tourists or some other type of depraved soul. So correlation is not necessarily causation.
Then, when you use Google to query, it should trigger a pop up along the lines
"Do you want to accept Content from Google, press OK to continue."
99% of people will click yes. Google ads are through on all platforms. Other ad vendors need to figure out their own way of tricking people to accept them. And of course, the accepting message has to come from a page on the same site as the signature cert.
The chart shows that they did the right thing in the 1930s. Did not matter how deep the depression got, they always balanced the books. Worked real good.
Then that evil Rosevelt ran up a huge deficit just because there was a war on. Crippled the country. The depression was over, no more dirt cheap labor.
Moving on, we see the deficit from Obama during the Global Financial Crisis. Weak. He should have been tough like Hover in the depression. When the economy shrinks you tighten your belt. Stands to reason. Then we could have had another result like the 1930s.
Reaganomics, on the other hand, is clear and purposeful. Cut taxes, increase military spending so you can create a crisis and then cut those socialist services that rot the morality of the working man.
What they did not do is solve the real problem of understanding how C. Elegan's nervous system actually works. The connectome has been known for a long time. And building some sort of net with connectome is not interesting.
Any article which does not distinguish between Artificial neural networks and real neurons is bullshit. The latter are much more complex individually.
Being able to understand how C. Elegans really works has been a goal for a long time. We have had the connectome for ages. But these people have just built some Artificial neural net that is vaguely related to C. Elegans. Uninteresting.
In complex systems some parts depend upon other parts. So it is very difficult to change those at the bottom without upsetting everything.
So the solution is to work around the core issues. For example, a web based banking interface does not attempt to store additional information in the ancient COBOL core. Instead, it copies information into its own database, and then syncs via complex protocols. Over time more and more of these work arounds make the system harder and harder to change.
This is why a small, new bank, with a tiny IT staff and clean, new systems can compete with a large established bank with huge staff. (Plus Parkinson's law of course.)
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In Mexico, when the army comes in, they line the few honest politicians against the wall and then steal the trucks.
And why wouldn't they? They have the guns.
The system in places like Mexico makes perfect sense to me. Everyone looking after their own interests. What amazes me is that things work so well in the west. It is a deeply embedded cultural notion to "do the right thing". Very odd.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with thieves.com getting a code signing cert that validates that their malware is genuine thieves.com malware.
The user then gets a message
Do you trust gobbldy gook ... press OK if you want to get on with your work.
They press OK.
That said, I recently got a cert and the checks were essentially meaningless.
And that 1 foot is not 0.75 miles.
But yes, back of the envelope calculations are a fine way to sort truth from bullshit.
Since when is one foot = 0.75 of a mile?
And a better approach would be the surface area of a sphere, 4 pi r ^ 2.
4 * pi * 6378 * 6378 = 500,000,000 km^2 according to my trusty slide rule.
Volume of 1 m coverage is 500,000,000,000,000 m^2 or 500,000 giga tonnes of water if I have not slipped a few zeros.
My Citroen bleats at any grass, so I generally ignore it. But fortunately it does not stop me driving.
Indeed. Install as Root is the killer of both *nix and Windows. What is the point of having a permission system if every program we run needs to have root on install.
IOS taught us the right way. That we should be able to install third party software and not give it complete control of our systems. Well, almost...
Indeed.
One of the first robots ever built was probably the self guided torpedo. Used a gyroscope to follow a predefined course at a pre defined depth.
So the laws were violated before they were even written.
Back before Android, they could have licensed IOS to the other major vendors at reasonable prices. There would be different versions, at different price points, including something for the low end.
Then they would own the whole market. Android would not exist. Everything would sell through the App store. Who would want anything else on a phone if IOS was available and had all the apps. And they could prevent Samsung competing with them at the top end through licensing restrictions.
As it is, they are fantastically profitable. But Android is clipping at their heals. Today, Apple's physical phones are no better, there software not much better, and the Apple brand is softening as people have choices.
They pulled two rabbits out of the hat. iPod and iPhone. It is unlikely that they will pull out a third.
So I forecast a long slow decline. The Android cat is out of the bag. They do not control the market. They have no presence in the bottom and middle. And soon they will not even dominate the top end. Android undermining IOS will be similar to the way that Microsoft came in under IBM, HP, DEC etc. and eventually ate their lunch.
But Apple started as a hardware company, just like Microsoft started in software, and Nokia in timber. Most things die like they were born.
If the E.Coli breeds along with its data, who do you sue?
Much more important question than those of mere technical possibility.
The original game was created by anti-monopolist Elizabeth Magie to awaken people to the danger of uncontrolled capitalism -- in the game money always goes to money. But the effect was exactly the opposite, it encouraged capitalistic thinking.
This game should be called "the Joy of Fake News".
Incidentally, I wish the SJWs would never have coined the term, and would stop using it. Trump et. al. has done an excellent job of turning it around to mean anything they disagree with.
Wasn't there a big court case recently when Oracle tried to sue Google over the Java API.
That was copyright. Patents expire after 20 years, so the 64bit issues should be coming to a head real soon. (It is from time of filing, not time of release in a product.)
Indeed, I would be wary of any move to multimedia content.
The text content is accessible and editable and has high density, fact oriented which suites Wikipedia as a nerd's reference.
How do you diff contributions to multi media? (OpenStreatMap has this problem.) Images also provide enough headaches over copyright as it is.
A multimedia focused education site might be a good thing, but I do not think it is Wikipedia.
I think some support for Open Street Map might be a good use of some of that $80 million though.
Amazingly, Wikipedia has survived special interest groups, government trolls etc. Fascist editors are a problem pushing content out, but despite all the anarchic system works amazingly well.
It is testament to the fact that, surprisingly, there is more good in the world than bad.
Also, wood is stronger than structural steel by weight, so not that hard to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Gates himself once said that we tend to overestimate what we can achieve in one year, yet underestimate what we can achieve in ten years.
Insightful.
Yet he seems blind to what we are likely to achieve in 50..200 years. Namely machines that can really think. Machines that can program themselves. Machines that no longer need us.
Why would such machines want to support parasitic humans? And how could they in the ongoing battle for existence?
http://www.computersthink.com/
(I actually sent Gates a copy of the book, he evidently did not read it.)
So, what is your experience? Would be good to hear.
The cynic in me says that we should focus on services. Like banking, law, public service and fashion. Leave actually making things to those that can do it better.
And indeed, that is the point.
Xi Jinping has been concentrating power, and doing everything he can to squash even the mildest forms of dissent. As he gets holder, he will likely get more conservative.
The Confucian ethic obeys authority. But then we have this strong contradictory force of entrepreneurial energy. And a large and growing body of middle class Chinese that have spent time in the west, outside the great firewall.
It is unstable and frightening. Hopefully it will resolve peacefully, but if Xi (or his heirs) digs in then it could get very ugly.
What sort of Frenchman would put ultra processed rubbish in their mouths? Unlike the English, the French care about what they eat. Not for health (heaven forbid) but for pleasure. They think that there is more to eating than just filling the gut.
The type of Frenchman that puts rubbish in their guts is probably not French at all. Maybe Arabs or English Tourists or some other type of depraved soul. So correlation is not necessarily causation.
It is not funny. It is true.
Lots of people drown.
Nobody under 20 uses it. They use whatever proprietary messaging app their friends use this year. And they are getting older every year.
Middle aged women use Facebook messenger.
Email is dead. Get over it.
Without JavaScript, senders cannot control their content. Like to say different things at different times. To enforce DRM. To self destruct.
Just like anything else.
Then, when you use Google to query, it should trigger a pop up along the lines
"Do you want to accept Content from Google, press OK to continue."
99% of people will click yes. Google ads are through on all platforms. Other ad vendors need to figure out their own way of tricking people to accept them. And of course, the accepting message has to come from a page on the same site as the signature cert.
An no Google specific monopoly hard coded.
The chart shows that they did the right thing in the 1930s. Did not matter how deep the depression got, they always balanced the books. Worked real good.
Then that evil Rosevelt ran up a huge deficit just because there was a war on. Crippled the country. The depression was over, no more dirt cheap labor.
Moving on, we see the deficit from Obama during the Global Financial Crisis. Weak. He should have been tough like Hover in the depression. When the economy shrinks you tighten your belt. Stands to reason. Then we could have had another result like the 1930s.
Reaganomics, on the other hand, is clear and purposeful. Cut taxes, increase military spending so you can create a crisis and then cut those socialist services that rot the morality of the working man.
What they did not do is solve the real problem of understanding how C. Elegan's nervous system actually works. The connectome has been known for a long time. And building some sort of net with connectome is not interesting.
Any article which does not distinguish between Artificial neural networks and real neurons is bullshit. The latter are much more complex individually.
The article does sound like bullshit.
Being able to understand how C. Elegans really works has been a goal for a long time. We have had the connectome for ages. But these people have just built some Artificial neural net that is vaguely related to C. Elegans. Uninteresting.
In complex systems some parts depend upon other parts. So it is very difficult to change those at the bottom without upsetting everything.
So the solution is to work around the core issues. For example, a web based banking interface does not attempt to store additional information in the ancient COBOL core. Instead, it copies information into its own database, and then syncs via complex protocols. Over time more and more of these work arounds make the system harder and harder to change.
This is why a small, new bank, with a tiny IT staff and clean, new systems can compete with a large established bank with huge staff. (Plus Parkinson's law of course.)