7 years ago I tried to start a project to allow customers to pay through the ad networks. IE rather than seeing ads, you'd see something saying how much you were providing to the web page owner. I've so far been unable to actually build it though.
Yes, and when I bought CDs back in the 90s I didn't really expect to be listening to them 25 years later. My tastes change over time.
On the other hand I'm a little confused what you mean by the format going away in 5 years. The format is sufficiently open that anyone can write a player for it (in theory). Unless I lose all copies of the files, there shouldn't be any reason it won't continue to exist as long as I like listening to it.
I buy .m4a files from Apple and download them, then copy them from my laptop to my Android Phone. At this point they're so disconnected from the Apple infrastructure, I don't see any way they could pull it out from under me.
I think the server would be able to encrypt with the user's public key, that way they wouldn't be able to read it. They'd have to send the encrypted data to the client to be decrypted with the private key there
I'm suddenly imagining a hydrogen balloon-plane at take off that uses up the hydrogen in the balloon as it flies, until the balloon has been fully reeled back into the plane and it lands on a runway like a normal plane, with reserve hydrogen in its wing-tanks.
We might be able to start using this as a way to specify planets, rather than the arbitrary number-by-discovery. Try StarName(with catalog info)#log(approximate radius of orbit)
Earth would we Sol#0
Kepler-90#-1.3, Kepler-90#-1.1, out to Kepler-90#0 for the outermost one on his graph.
That way, finding a new planet doesn't require either renumbering to specify where the planet is relative to the star. (BTW, I'm not real happy about using AU as the base measurement. It might be better to use Megameters since you're less likely to end up with negative log)
For that matter, the app could just record every time it "sees" an object and when you mark it lost, it tells you where it was the last time (GPS coordinates and all) it "saw" it.
I'm more interested in this "one-way valve" they're talking about. While they seem to talk mostly about blowing, the valve seems to be the actual invention.
> This is the case in every country. Those at the top will take an inordinate amount of time to make rules that benefit themselves and their friends.
It's actually a bit simpler than that. Any set of rules will allow certain segments to rise to the top. Once there, they have great interest in keeping the rules in their favour, but they don't have to take all that much time making the rules favour them in the first place.