I dislike the entire debt-based economy and has for a while. One of the problems with it is that it is based on extracting more dollars from "consumers". You can also see this in DRM for music and video for example. In my Google DoubleClick essay I mentioned Novell and Sun as examples.
I wonder if Eric Schmidt left because of:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
It was related to Minecraft modding being demonstrated and how it was not officially supported (at the time it was written in Java).
I remember the BUILD 2015 debacle.
My essay has gotten little attention: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/...
Even things like this (not covered in the essay) has been hard to find more info about: https://twitter.com/berendjanw...
I mean separating not completely removing these offenses and assigning them different penalties.
This reminds me of the need to separate texting while stopped and texting while moving offences.
"Open License" only requires five.
I remember when Sony bought CBS Records. On DRM, I mentioned before that "Thinking about it, part of the reasons music labels got big is for economy of scale when mass producing CDs for example. Of course, such economy of scale was not needed anymore with the move to digital distribution. This didn't work well with the current debt-based economy where shareholders depends on stocks always going up for things like retirements and companies treat people as "consumers" to be extracted from. I assume that Hollywood has similar problems, right?"
Have an entire paragraph about this in the essay: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2...
I have an essay about one problem: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2...
Note that I deliberately submitted the HN thread for a reason (hint: read the comments).
The iMac led to the release of Disk First Aid 8.2 in mid-1998, which can finally repair the startup disk directly without having to boot from a DIsk First Aid floppy.
Looks like this is an opt-out bill, but one thing I don't like about it is how it literally requires the link to be called "Do Not Sell My Personal Information".
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in "Oath of Fealty"
