When I bought my new car the dealer threw in a roof rack for free to try and persuade me to buy the car. By your logic I shouldn't be allowed to sell the roof rack with the car when I sell it?
Absurd. Android's fragmentation looks like this. It's not reduced at all, nor do you explain how it's reduced. To the contrary, the business model for many of these companies is not to support a model of phone with updates but instead make you buy a new model six months later. That's why top-selling Samsung phones that are only months old won't get Android 4.0.
You state that Google "actually removes fragmentation" because they give away a free OS, but you don't explain how that is true. We're not seeing what you are claiming should be happening--what we're seeing is that each company is doing exactly what Schmidt is describing, customizing the OS with their own software and selling phones with large differences in hardware capability. That is the fragmentation.
And yet I just published an app last night that works on all versions of Android all the way back to 1.5, this covers 99.97% of people who use the Market to get their apps.
So is taxing matter. My issue wasn't that it's wrong, but that it's indirect. If you want to tax Gas, then tax Gas, not some broad category that includes many other things.
If you want to reduce gas consumption (reduce oil imports, reduce green house gasses, etc.,) levy a carbon tax, don't increase gas mileage. Do it directly – not indirectly.
No. if you want to tax gas consumption directly, then tax gas. Taxing the carbon is just as indirect as what you are complaining about.
Not sure what version of BASIC you're talking about, but the version of BASIC that I was first using didn't even have functions, much less local variables. Every variable had global scope - in fact, they didn't even go away when your program ended. You could use nested GOSUB-RETURN blocks, and BASIC managed a stack for those internally, but you couldn't actually use that stack - i.e. for local variables or parameters to the subroutines.
VB.Net for one. Basic has come a long way. The people who call others idiots because they use BASIC don't seem to understand that things change.
What is the value of something that can be replicated forever.. Perfectly. For what can be considered zero cost.
Is it zero as some believe?
Is it thousands of dollars as the media mafia believe?
Who's being greedy here... Everyone?
The value of something is whatever someone is willing to pay for it at the time. The person selling has virtually no influence on the value of something, they can generally only set the price, which is different from the value.
The difference is that automatic updates are optional for Ubuntu, so if you've turned them on you have already opted in to Canonical managing your system.
Right, Good when Linux does it, Bad when Windows does it. Got it.
Wow, I didn't know Lord Haldane was still alive.
"The aeroplane will never fly." -- Lord Haldane, Minister of War, Britain, 1907
I didn't say it'll never happen, just that you shouldn't expect it in your lifetime. Every space elevator plan I have ever seen involves going out and capturing an asteroid to use on the orbital side of the tether. We can barely haul our asses to the moon and back. I'll expect this to happen right after flying cars become street legal.
Is the magic missing technology required to construct a functional space elevator?
Of all the things needed to make a space elevator, the only thing missing is the magic. And pretty much everything else. Don't expect to see one in your lifetime, or probably even your children's lifetime. It's just way too impractical.
No, the scammers convinced the victim's phone company to transfer the number to a different account. Meaning they then had control of the second factor.
I'd argue that an account doesn't satisfy the intent of the "something you have" part of 2 factor authentication. "Something you have" seems like it should be something physical, not a non-physical entity such as a phone account. If it could be tied to the physical cell phone via hardware ID it could work.
If this is just an application of the same ESRB ratings to mobile games (which is suggested with "The CTIA Mobile Application Rating System with ESRB will utilize the well-known and trusted age rating icons that ESRB assigns to computer and video games to provide parents and consumers reliable information about the age-appropriateness of applications." in the press release), then this doesn't warrant a story, as smartphones and their ilk are computers (however hobbled by their small form and bad service providers).
If they'll instead use a new set of rating categories or descriptors, then it's wasted effort, as they could've just applied the ESRB ones to these games since they're becoming more and more like computer and console games (partly because, well, smartphones are computers). In this case, it not only doesn't warrant a story but does warrant a point-and-laugh for the repetitive noobs they are.
Also, slapping A Capitalized Slogan(R) in front of your name more than once per page, as if to be part of it, is highly loathsome and annoying; and I want to physically harm whoever made "onboard" a verb.
I think they want to cover things like how data is collected and other privacy things that the ESRB doesn't cover.
A patent is going to expire. The company responds with marketing and by lowering it's price.
That's just horrid~ Someone is working to hard to find ills.
What's that? there are going to create a generic version of the drug they created? OMG!!1!!!
I doubt it's the lower price people have a problem with. It's more likely it's the insurance deals where the instance will refuse to pay for the generic version.Or the part where they want to block mail order generics.
I honestly don't understand how this supposed to work. If you introduce some unfit mutant males into the population, the unfit strain will die out in one generation or so. That's natural selection. And then you are left where you started. It seems like you would have to release a number of unfit males which is comparable (or perhaps larger than) the number of fit males already present in nature in order to really effect genocide. I don't see how that is possible.
Because half of the mosquitoes born from the first first generation will be male and carry on the bad gene to those they mate with, and so on. Nature will automatically make more.
It's through Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures company, with info here and I'm told they're actively looking for people to build the things -- but bear in mind that IV's whole business plan is to come up with great ideas and make money off licensing them, so it might not be cheap.
They would get much more funding if they could somehow get the mosquito to burst in to flames leaving a mosquito sized mushroom cloud in it's place when hit by the laser instead of just... dieing.
how far away is this detectable? this may be how you find other earth-like blue orbs
until of course, they find the liquid ammonia planet that schumann resonates like nobody's business, populated by little mr. cleans and scrubbing bubbles i suppose
My guess is, that since it's eletromagentic, it follows the inverse-square law.
Ah yes. Microsoft's anti-virus offerings so far have been......less than impressive and their malware detection is a memory hog that detects nothing. (Except sometimes antivirus software.)
That's funny, because every test I've seen online shows it finding the same number, or more viruses as the independent software. So far It's been using far fewer resources than Comodo on my machine. Comodo routinely uses 3-7% CPU at idle, while MSSE is almost always hovering around 1%.
So pretty much the exact opposite of what you said.
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When I bought my new car the dealer threw in a roof rack for free to try and persuade me to buy the car. By your logic I shouldn't be allowed to sell the roof rack with the car when I sell it?
Leave,don't use twitter for a month. No users no advertisers, No advertisers no twitter. Same goes for facebook. Power To The People!!
I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the 20,000 people who just joined twitter this hour.
Ohh crap, I just realized that anyone who reads that is pirating the movie. Sorry guys.
I don't know of any data compression method that will let you put a feature length movie into 140 characters.
Here ya go... The Perfect Storm compressed to less than 140 characters: "They all die"
If it's non-intrusive why would they need a warrant?
A use for all those annoying neighborhood children.
Absurd. Android's fragmentation looks like this. It's not reduced at all, nor do you explain how it's reduced. To the contrary, the business model for many of these companies is not to support a model of phone with updates but instead make you buy a new model six months later. That's why top-selling Samsung phones that are only months old won't get Android 4.0.
You state that Google "actually removes fragmentation" because they give away a free OS, but you don't explain how that is true. We're not seeing what you are claiming should be happening--what we're seeing is that each company is doing exactly what Schmidt is describing, customizing the OS with their own software and selling phones with large differences in hardware capability. That is the fragmentation.
And yet I just published an app last night that works on all versions of Android all the way back to 1.5, this covers 99.97% of people who use the Market to get their apps.
Taxing gas *is* taxing carbon.
Sheesh.
So is taxing matter. My issue wasn't that it's wrong, but that it's indirect. If you want to tax Gas, then tax Gas, not some broad category that includes many other things.
If you want to reduce gas consumption (reduce oil imports, reduce green house gasses, etc.,) levy a carbon tax, don't increase gas mileage. Do it directly – not indirectly.
No. if you want to tax gas consumption directly, then tax gas. Taxing the carbon is just as indirect as what you are complaining about.
That includes Windows Phone devices too? Or this is one more example of /. "journalism"?
The big android logo on the story didn't give you a heads up?
Not sure what version of BASIC you're talking about, but the version of BASIC that I was first using didn't even have functions, much less local variables. Every variable had global scope - in fact, they didn't even go away when your program ended. You could use nested GOSUB-RETURN blocks, and BASIC managed a stack for those internally, but you couldn't actually use that stack - i.e. for local variables or parameters to the subroutines.
VB.Net for one. Basic has come a long way. The people who call others idiots because they use BASIC don't seem to understand that things change.
What is the value of something that can be replicated forever.. Perfectly. For what can be considered zero cost.
Is it zero as some believe?
Is it thousands of dollars as the media mafia believe?
Who's being greedy here... Everyone?
The value of something is whatever someone is willing to pay for it at the time. The person selling has virtually no influence on the value of something, they can generally only set the price, which is different from the value.
The difference is that automatic updates are optional for Ubuntu, so if you've turned them on you have already opted in to Canonical managing your system.
Right, Good when Linux does it, Bad when Windows does it. Got it.
Wow, I didn't know Lord Haldane was still alive.
"The aeroplane will never fly." -- Lord Haldane, Minister of War, Britain, 1907
I didn't say it'll never happen, just that you shouldn't expect it in your lifetime. Every space elevator plan I have ever seen involves going out and capturing an asteroid to use on the orbital side of the tether. We can barely haul our asses to the moon and back. I'll expect this to happen right after flying cars become street legal.
Is the magic missing technology required to construct a functional space elevator?
Of all the things needed to make a space elevator, the only thing missing is the magic. And pretty much everything else.
Don't expect to see one in your lifetime, or probably even your children's lifetime. It's just way too impractical.
No, the scammers convinced the victim's phone company to transfer the number to a different account. Meaning they then had control of the second factor.
I'd argue that an account doesn't satisfy the intent of the "something you have" part of 2 factor authentication. "Something you have" seems like it should be something physical, not a non-physical entity such as a phone account. If it could be tied to the physical cell phone via hardware ID it could work.
If this is just an application of the same ESRB ratings to mobile games (which is suggested with "The CTIA Mobile Application Rating System with ESRB will utilize the well-known and trusted age rating icons that ESRB assigns to computer and video games to provide parents and consumers reliable information about the age-appropriateness of applications." in the press release), then this doesn't warrant a story, as smartphones and their ilk are computers (however hobbled by their small form and bad service providers).
If they'll instead use a new set of rating categories or descriptors, then it's wasted effort, as they could've just applied the ESRB ones to these games since they're becoming more and more like computer and console games (partly because, well, smartphones are computers). In this case, it not only doesn't warrant a story but does warrant a point-and-laugh for the repetitive noobs they are.
Also, slapping A Capitalized Slogan(R) in front of your name more than once per page, as if to be part of it, is highly loathsome and annoying; and I want to physically harm whoever made "onboard" a verb.
I think they want to cover things like how data is collected and other privacy things that the ESRB doesn't cover.
A patent is going to expire. The company responds with marketing and by lowering it's price.
That's just horrid~ Someone is working to hard to find ills.
What's that? there are going to create a generic version of the drug they created? OMG!!1!!!
I doubt it's the lower price people have a problem with. It's more likely it's the insurance deals where the instance will refuse to pay for the generic version.Or the part where they want to block mail order generics.
I honestly don't understand how this supposed to work. If you introduce some unfit mutant males into the population, the unfit strain will die out in one generation or so. That's natural selection. And then you are left where you started. It seems like you would have to release a number of unfit males which is comparable (or perhaps larger than) the number of fit males already present in nature in order to really effect genocide. I don't see how that is possible.
Because half of the mosquitoes born from the first first generation will be male and carry on the bad gene to those they mate with, and so on. Nature will automatically make more.
It's through Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures company, with info here and I'm told they're actively looking for people to build the things -- but bear in mind that IV's whole business plan is to come up with great ideas and make money off licensing them, so it might not be cheap.
They would get much more funding if they could somehow get the mosquito to burst in to flames leaving a mosquito sized mushroom cloud in it's place when hit by the laser instead of just... dieing.
how far away is this detectable? this may be how you find other earth-like blue orbs
until of course, they find the liquid ammonia planet that schumann resonates like nobody's business, populated by little mr. cleans and scrubbing bubbles i suppose
My guess is, that since it's eletromagentic, it follows the inverse-square law.
In most cases, parents are better in deciding what is good for the child than the government.
Yes, in MOST cases. But the parent deciding not to vaccinate their child is NOT one of those cases.
Actually 7 if you are going from someone not on facebook, via the facebook network, to a second person also not on facebook.
So assuming the traditional value of 6 in meatspace is correct, then the facebook network is actually less connected than the real world.
If both people are in meatspace there is no reason to ever hop out of meatspace and in to facespace, so back to 6.
Ah yes. Microsoft's anti-virus offerings so far have been... ...less than impressive and their malware detection is a memory hog that detects nothing. (Except sometimes antivirus software.)
That's funny, because every test I've seen online shows it finding the same number, or more viruses as the independent software. So far It's been using far fewer resources than Comodo on my machine. Comodo routinely uses 3-7% CPU at idle, while MSSE is almost always hovering around 1%.
So pretty much the exact opposite of what you said.
You're not REALLY this stupid in person, are you?
$dd if=/dev/cdrom of=idontknowshitaboutcomputers.iso
$cp
Remove flash drive, insert into new, optical drive-less computer.
Jerk off to goat porn.
Rinse and Repeat.
Since your solution to not having a dvd drive involves having a dvd drive, I'd say you have the "stupid" thing reversed.