Posts by Frankee Llonnygog 1433 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2012
Surely only a matter of weeks before the ePetitions website disrupts the need for government at all - just a matter of linking it to the Kickstarter and HMRC APIs. Yes, there is a slight danger of ISIS hacking Sharia law into being for the UK, or Millwall fans starting World War III to show they're well hard, but upsetting old orders is never risk-free.
You're not really comparing like with like. From a transport efficiency point of view it doesn't make much difference if taxis have drivers or not. It only affects whether your money goes to Google or Uber (academic if Google buys Uber...). But you're comparing an intelligent system (using the net to dynamically match taxi supply and demand) with a dumb one (forecast demand and run buses on fixed routes at fixed times to meet it). A municipality could run (Note, I dont' say 'own') a fleet of minibuses and operate more or less door-to-door on demand, given an intelligent demand management system.
Hmm... I smell a software business opportunity
Or, as I prefer to call them, consumers. Which is absolutely fine, but does contradict the point made by the article. And that's my point. It's a bit like the difference between making a music streamer from a Raspberry Pi or buying a Western Digital. One is more fun and more configurable - but you have to read the docs. The other is a consumer product
The Ark? Do you also believe Linus created Linux in six days and had a good kip on the seventh?
I'm no Windows advocate (my first comment prefixed it with 'perhaps') but it at least goes some way towards a coherent design.
Linux does many, many things very well but the article talked of 'fit and polish'. Just to give one example of the lack, linux font rendering still makes everything look like it was knocked up by the bloke who sign writes for kebab shops.
"the Linux desktop hit a level of polish and sophistication that quite frankly, well, surpasses what's available from Windows 8 or OS X Yosemite"
In much the same way, once I had resprayed my Vauxhall metallic turd brown, fitted some leopard-skin seat covers and halogen headlamps, it's easily as good as a BMW. After all, a car is just a vehicle to get from A to B, via KwikFit and Halfords.
Dear Payment Card Industry - get stuffed! What will you do if I don't comply? Force me to use PayPal instead? Hey Mr Foot, meet Mr Gatling Gun.
You are the people who invented the laughable 3D Secure standard. Your complete failure to come to grips with security is just one factor that will lead to your inevitable and sudden doom.
You have actually acheived the impossible and made Bitcoin look like a viable alternative.
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