Perhaps "the cooperation of every government in the world" shall take the form of the Berne Convention. If the video contains anything copyrighted by the Indian government or by a corporation friendly to the Indian government, then anyone hosting the video is liable for copyright infringement. Not all countries recognize fair use to the same extent.
With so many people using laptops these days, all the sudden additional heat, blowing fans and lack of battery life would become immediately obvious.
BitTorrent really isn't something you do while connected to cellular Internet or public Wi-Fi. And if you have home Wi-Fi, you probably use the laptop with the charger plugged in, so an app's publisher can probably mine cryptocurrency unnoticed so long as it pauses while on battery.
Some publishers have the idea that customers who are willing to pay for something are statistically more likely to buy other things, making them better leads for advertisers. That's why cable TV has ads, satellite TV has ads, Hulu Plus has ads, and The New York Times has ads.
I'm not familiar with how user session management works on OS X. Say you copy an application to the Applications folder, and you open a document. Then you get a power outage or you have to restart for a security update. How does the application register itself to restart when the Mac does? I imagine that an "installer" allows the application to put a shortcut in Startup Items to check whether it had been open and reopen itself if so.
What's the advantage of distributing binaries other than binaries of GCC?
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Past abuse of bidirectional override control characters to spoof comment scores. Details
The original Xbox OS was derived from Windows 2000
Contrary to popular belief, Windows XB wasn't a fork of NT 5 any more than CE or NT was a fork of Windows 9x. (Source: Xbox Engineering)
A game able to run on a mobile phone will look just GREAT on a PC
Sarcasm detected. But people play GameCube and Wii games on PCs using the Dolphin emulator, which performs upscaling by tricking games into rendering the scene to a larger output surface. Some games benefit from high-definition replacement textures even if they don't add mesh detail. There's also an "HDNes" emulator that plays NES games with high-definition replacements for CHR ROM.
Of course, sometimes putting something in a gap just creates two new gaps either side, leaving you +1 on gaps.
True, trying to bridge gaps with an island will double the number of gaps, per Zeno's paradox. But once the gaps have been made small enough that the average end user can cross a gap unaided, mission accomplished.
Last time I checked, Sun was a corporation selling pro-level branded hardware and insanely expensive services (like they all do), being bought out by Oracle and Mozilla was a FOSS orgranisation watching over branding and provided guidance to a set of web- and mobile-centric FOSS projects.
Those two things couldn't be more wider apart.
As for Mozillas market and mindshare being eaten by Google: That is due to Google releasing the awesome Chrome browser, because the web is too important an income vector to them, so they decided to pull it inhouse and cut out the policy middleman. Mozilla itself is ten git commits away from switching from Gecko to Blink, and the devs could probalby do this in a weekend. Probalby have been doing it privately already just for the kicks. So no big deal, it's all free and replacable anyway.
The one big thing that Mozilla has going for them is their branding, and as far as I can tell that is going pretty well. Right now, anything standing between a totalitarian Googlezied control of the web and freedom loving citizens is Mozilla - at least in most peoples perception and if they continue playing their cards right, relyably drumming the hip and flashy but yet still underdog/freedom theme, they'll continue to do just fine.
IMHO Firefox OS was a bit of a stretch, but if they manage to keep things simple and intuitive in that ecosystem, having a mobile plattform that puts web-technology front and center could be just exactly the right thing a continuingly fragmented mobile space needs.
As for the browser: Google-independant "Hello" voicechat by Telefonica, Search by Yahoo, neat, google-independant environment syncing, etc. All these things aren't too bad. In fact they're all pretty interesting to me. And I am an IT opinion leader, as we all are. That should have Apple and Google raising their eyebrows.
What we need is a replacement for the Google online suite of apps, and if Mozilla can manage to pull yet another underdog of the industry in to help build that, we have a free-free competitor to all the Google stuff. Desperately needed!
Meantime, Mozilla IMHO is doing just fine making neat celebrative movies and playing to the hippster independant "we are different and free" crowd. That's what made apple big. Apple, however, is a PLC, dependant on profit. Google is too. Mozilla, OTOH, is mostly a FOSS organisation. They can all go on vacation 10 years and then come back and everything will still be the same for them. What does that have to do with revenue and eval problems Sun had back when Oracle scooped them up?
I see Mozilla as a hip web-zentric play of the old and bland EFF & GNU organisations with a solid focus on branding (very smart btw.). They'll do just fine if they don't spread themselves to thin and wait for the big boys get all paniky about profits somewhere down the line.
I've got FF in everyday use and will continue to use it. If they build an independant contacts application for mobile and web alongside a calendar and perhaps some simple docs management, preferably all of it encrypted, I'll be on board from day one.
Google doesn't have to get *that* big or know everything.
My 2 cents.
What kind of shitty country do you live in with no public transport on Sundays?
Some parts of the United States. (Source)
I missed applying for a German ID at the age of 16 which would've automatically made me a German citizen. I could've kept my amercian citizenship. I had to renunciate it when I wanted to become a German as a grown up. It's a bit of a shame I couldn't get my lazy teenage ass to go to the citizens bureau for 20 minutes to pick up my ID a few years earlyer. If I still were american, I'd have zero hassles entering the US whenever I want to.
I am glad to be German, Germany has quite a few upsides, especially these days. But it would be cooler to have both citizenships. No suprise here.
If you can get U.S. citizenship for your kids without needing to renunciate their other citizenship(s), by all means do it.
On the other hand, ditching a perfectly neat european citizenship for a U.S. citizenship is something I probalby wouldn't do.
Quite a few countries public don't allow for multiple citizenships, but in pratice they let them slip (who's going to find out anyway?). If you can sneak into a dual-citizenship for your children without to much of a legal risk, do it. Just tell them when they're grown up, and tell them not to advertise it at every occasion, especially not at US customs(!!!).
Ask other swedish/belian people in simular situations and try to find out how belgium/sweden handles dual citizenships and if there are any serious legal pitfalls.
Good luck.
There have been a few proposals recently to abolish SIMs. They were created back in the days of rented carphones so that people could move their phone number and contacts between phones easily. Now, they basically serve the same purpose as a WiFi password. It wouldn't be too difficult to provide the keying material in a QR code or similar so that when you get a new phone you just photograph it and have an app provide it to the baseband processor.
Carriers are very hostile to this, because if the SIM isn't a physical device there's no constraint on the number that can exist in one phone - you could easily have an app that would select the best rate from a dozen or so pre-pay virtual sims for whatever country you happened to be in.
Without a driver's license, how does one get to and from work on a Sunday, when public transportation has the day off?
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
