Except that in the case of earthquakes we're practically blind. It would be like a dog catching a ball but not being able to look up. So unless there is some sort of relationship between the average number of Buzzfeed posts in a given week to seismic activity in Brunei you can't accurately predict earthquakes from our very limited information. So far this hasn't been demonstrated.
It's not just economics it also strikes at the heart of whether or not the system actually *works*. If I create an algorithm that predicts an earthquake every 30 days in every major earthquake prone region I'll be right every single month because there is a major earthquake in one of the regions every month. It's like putting a bet on every horse in a race. You're guaranteed to win!
Never had CC DRM fail. Don't know anyone who has had a license problem with CC. Do you even have Creative Cloud or are you just listening to the people who heard it from someone who heard it from someone who thinks CS6 is good enough?
What I have seen is that Adobe now releases a RED SDK update on a regular schedule instead of waiting 12 months for them to support the latest R3D features.
Silverlight still runs on Windows Phone. I have "ancient" Windows Phone apps that still run on my phone from Windows Phone 7.
In the U.S., the vast majority of electricity still comes from Coal.
If my address was 1153 U.S. Street that would mean something. Meanwhile in Washington State where I live:
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Renewables:
Hydroelectric: 76.6%
Nuclear: 8.0%
Wind: 5.6%
Biomass: 1.4%
Fossil Fuels
Natural Gas: 4.7%
Coal: 3.2%
?Other: 0.5%?
Also incredibly important on top of that, lots of people had a personal interest it succeeding:
- Red Hat, Novell etc on the software front.
- Also companies like HP needed a *nix and BSD was currently engulfed in FUD.
If you want your product to succeed you're far more likely to be successful when other people can profit as well from your project's success. "What's in it for me?" is the rally cry of any potential investor of time or money. In the case of Linux there was a lot in it for a lot of people.
The people who most profited from BSD (AT&T, IBM etc) were dinosaurs who history has proven have been bad at reacting quickly, at least in the 90s and early 00's. IBM is getting more nimble but the parties who profited from a successful BSD turned out to be the least suitable advocates.
There are practical considerations though. Currently if you release a film you can get a german distributor a french distributor a british distributor and a spanish distributor. Each country's distributor is responsible for marketing as well as selling the product. So who would get the royalties in this instance? While the EU is a common market if you go to France a BMW will not cost the same as it costs in Germany.
My prediction is that this will go nowhere. It sounds great in theory to say that you should sell a movie download of The Avengers in Spain for the same price as The Avengers in Germany but The Avengers is really being resold. It would be like you expecting every supermarket in Europe to sell milk for the same price! "It's all milk! I should be able to buy milk for 2 Euros in Germany or 2 Euros in Greece!"
If anything they'll simply remove geo blocking for content you already managed to purchase. So if you buy a film in Germany you'll be able to still watch it in France. But that's not I believe what most people are hoping this to accomplish.
There is no demand for a crappy head mounted 3D screen
That's because they've been crappy. If it was effectively as immersive as going to the movie theater or IMAX there clearly is a market for giant screen experiences even in 2D.
Also great would be on airplanes. I brought my Oculus on my last intercontinental flight and it was great to just get out of the 'claustrophobia' of being around 300 other people. Put on your VR headset and load up a movie in a "theater" with noise cancelling headphones and you're instantly transported into a more relaxing environment. It's not really "VR" but just head tracking a 3D Screen eliminates motion sickness from turbulence etc.
You could... you know... remove the wristband or whatever and then move away. However if they are trying to separate you from your PC quickly they might not notice a mono-filament line. You however could easily slip off said monofilament before going to pee.
1) Photoshop
2) Full Office
3) World of Warcraft
4) All productivity software.
Who said "Desktop" the point is to get these onto Smartphones and Tablets. The fact that it'll also run on the desktop is sort of besides the point.
Because then you wouldn't be able to use any platform specific features. Also BB didn't exactly profit from that approach. If they re-compile for the native platform they are more likely to actually add a few specific features as they go like live tiles while they've got it 'open' so to speak.
No it's 'disruptive' aka the buzzword that Silicon Valley douches use about their latest fart app.
In this instance if a bunch of payment terminals were set up, the government would just ban it and it would go back to the fringes.
They aren't replacing the local Peso with Bitcoin. They're just using Bitcoin as a transactional currency to run an unregulated currency exchange. Bitcoins in this instance are essentially a proxy for US dollars.
If I have $100 USD and I want to convert it to Pesos I can either go to a regulated currency exchange which apparently is attempting to combat inflation by keeping the peso value low or you can exchange your $100USD for say 0.5 bitcoins on the open bitcoin market. Then you find someone who wants "bitcoins" aka USD and you sell them your bitcoins in exchange for pesos at market rates.
The person who sold you pesos for Bitcoins really just wants USD (or Euros).
Now doing this is almost certainly illegal if the government has mandated exchange rates since all you're doing is adding an intermediary step but ultimately performing a currency exchange illicitly. All you've done is employed Bitcoin as an escrow service.
But as the article points out... it's really just a way to streamline an existing black market in money changing. And the reason the black market has to exist at all is because legal money changing it a bad deal.
So as soon as bitcoin actually becomes popular enough to disrupt the existing black-market it'll also be popular enough to attract government intervention as has been done to the banks.
Essentially all this article is saying is "Look at this awesome black market full of illicit goods! Look at how great it is!" Which is true of every black market until it actually grows large enough to warrant a response from the government.
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.
