Synergy!
I flashbacked to 1999.
Synergy!!!
The doctors recomends it!
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You must not mix the abstraction and the architecture.
Abstractions : Mutex, Semaphores,Threading, Messaging
Architecture : Shared-Memory or Distributed Memory
The abstraction may or may not map well to the Architecture. The shared-memory architecture may make it possible to efficiently run some algorithms that cannot be run efficiently on a distributed-memory architecture (Algorithms where each compute node needs to access the whole problem state; certainly something in Quantum Mechanics falls into that area)
The threading idea is a rather messy thing anyway.
How about transactional memory as used in Clojure? Try Erlang or Linda. How about parallel Prolog? The possibilities are vast.
You can currently spend a lifetime reading totally free books that are pretty current. Or "consume" music that you can get for free. Or install software that has only a transport fee on it.
"Content producers" take themselves far too seriously. Often they are just the vehicle to stuff a channel with the "new thing" or are riding a fad to fast riches. Or not. They then expect a lifetime of rent from the stuff they did or expect to be handed property überpowers
Bizarredly, I don't get rent for all the programs I write at work. How is that?
Which is what?
There seems to be some adherence to the labor theory of value here ("I put time and sweat into it, so it's worth X"). Which leads to calls for government redistribution schemes, forced taxation and what-have you.
Wrong.
If you get pennies, it's worth pennies. If you can't find the paying public, it's worth nothing.
This is why the marketing industry exists, and this is why distribution gets the lion share.
And this is why artists should take more control of their distribution channels.
Additionally comparing the Intellectual Property Output of East Germany with anything, then say that it's low because there was no IP enforcement is, like, you know, pretty weak. Lots of ripping going on over there, right?
Isn't Bretton Woods down the toilet? Aren't we off the gold standard since Nixon needed to print money to wage the Vietnam war?
Aren't these "federal assets" that could be sold off to make some much-needed paper money?
Or are the playas in charge actually secretly aware that the greenback is not worth a continental and hoarding in anticipation of the crack-up boom?
That was why Krugman was going on about whipping up a Space Aliens Menace to kickstart the economy through war spending.
He knew it!
I KNEW it!
And the US doesn't have a Project Orion, a Space Shuttle fleet or a warehouse full of Gamma Ray Lasers to show them. We are gonna lose to four-legged Space Pizarro.
Yes, billing is hard. It's also practically the core business. You basically outsource the rest to Nokia-Siemens Networks.
Get with the program.
Gotta go. Yes, mine's the one with the golden parachute stipulating how many customers I have to have in the database by date X.
It would show that Android user are afraid of the dark and had a childhood marred by authoritarian parents, which makes them prone to vote conservative, own guns, protest income taxes, listen to speeches of Michelle Bachmann or doubt the amerricanosity of Obama.
They should all be re-educated in fresh, new white buildings built in the beautiful green fields of Montana.
Who then?
Attorneys, yes, sure. Politicians like to push them as that brings in envelopes. But otherwise?
The mythical Dyson-like inventor in his garage? Enough of that blue-eyed fairy tale already.
I can't think of anybody.
Or is the meaning here that Florian Müller defending patents for Big Biz?
....someone "stole" a picture and no-one looked at it?
...what if it wasn't republished??
...what if no-one noticed??
...what if it was exactly the same picture, but restaged???
The BBC should really get with the IP program as long as it's there and make its own images or source them appropriately or even better CC its own stock, but seriously, all this "these photons are all mine" crap is just another form of corporate subsidy. "Hidden agendas". As if!
"Both devices have rounded corners and feature a flat surface centred within, and surrounded by, a metallic frame. When switched on, the text continues, both devices present an array of icons as shown in the image."
Both are also "Universal Apple Machines" as described by Mr. Apple in his groundbreaking paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Appleication to the iScheidungsproblem".
Clearly, there is IP to protect.
1) A Virtual Machine with its own bytecode (not bitcode) instruction set (One would have hoped the 'compiled code' would just be the parse tree result, which gives you lots of flexibility, but noo...)
2) A sandboxing implementation
3) A way of porting of "native code" between machines (Why?! People compiling to native should get what they deserve - either high performance or utter irrelevance.)
4) All of the above packed into a "browser"
Sounds like extreme complexity about to give people bad hair days.
Sounds good though one has await until confirmation comes in that the marketing chicken has indeed managed to cross the reality road.
"Does anyone have a punch card reader...?"
No, but I'm sure one an A-Team could wire one up over the weekend, with pure optical lecture and all. In the future, I would expect that to pull a physical image of the 2000-year-old disk you found behind the plaster wall into memory at 1nm³ voxel size should be possible with your handheld tricorder.
And then it turns it it contains porn.
"So Google sponsors front groups, think tanks, academic's legal departments, all waging the fight against copyright and patents."
Oh noes! Koch-brother-style astroturfing! What if they convince us? WHAT IF THEY ARE RIGHT!
"Why don't you give your book away for free?"
Wrong question.
The correct one is: what will keep me from grabbing your book for free?
What will keep me from doing that is: 1) Can buy at amazon in two clicks 2) If I'm interested I consider shelling out the correct thing to do.
Not 2) is not your market anyway.
State-Guaranteed IP protection stopping me from doing so? Not so much.
"The first problem is that key distribution doesn't always work, so the team found users frequently get cut out and have to ask the rest of the group to switch off encryption for the duration of the operation."
Reminds me of Generation Kill where the guys in Humvees don't have the keys for the Cavalry Division's Choppers and so cannot either find out what they are doing dropping bombs just in front of them or massacring civvies. Can't remember which. Upon which general gallic shrugging ensues.
Open-sourced RSA solutions?
That's for smart people.
"Where IP isn't effectively policed, the business soon falls into the hands of the (real) mafia."
As opposed to the other (real) mafia of the IP-enforcing government?
Look, are there any real problems that might need solving? Who buys fake Vodka or fake pharmaceuticals? Well, the latter case I understand what with our IP-enforcers and legislators keeping stuff expensive or off-market if not hidden behind an MD-paywall.
"55 per cent of respondents found a link between IP crime and benefit fraud"
What's that then? Distillers applying for stimulus money?
1) Expensive hardware
2) Expensive OS (Minix doesn't count)
3) Expensive GUI (shell out extra for the Motif Widget set an a C compiler? Sure)
4) Expensive Applications ("get a quote from our salesdroid by call 1-800-military-industrial-only")
5) There was no O'Reilly or amazon and a rare Internet Access Point so... no docs!
Lock in? Hell yeah.
1) It is illegal in Iowa to dismember a corpse in order to hide a crime.
2) With Caylee's Law (i.e. the anti-Casey-Anthony law), it will be illegal to NOT call police if you haven't seen your brat for 48h and he/she turns up dead afterwards.
It's like a series of Monty Python's Flying Circus, only more real.