I went to a catholic grade school which had books in the library that honestly showed a earth centered solar system. In their defense, according to the theory of relativity, you can just as easily say that the Earth is just sitting here while the rest of the universe spins around it. This is also an ideal model for teaching teenagers. Imagine the synergy as they go to college and realize that they're not the center of the universe.
And the simplest, fastest, cheapest way to [monitor those monitoring surveillance video] that is to install a surveillance camera in the office of the people who watch surveillance footage. That's an infinite loop just waiting to happen...
What's funny is that this is exactly the same reaction that people have towards video games, the internet as a whole and comic books. Since it's new it's instantly more worrisome than what's already been there, even if what's already there is pretty bad. It's the well known tendency for people to overestimate the risks of unfamiliar dangers.
Overall this is a good thing, though. People need to be a little worried about online privacy so that they can get up in arms about something that crosses the line. By creating a panic, they're making people look at and evaluate the risk. The next time something happens on the internet, they'll likely evaluate it more accurately.
It's a good thing this argument is still going on since they both discovered/invented calculus pretty much independently, perhaps with some borrowing between the two. Newton started before Leibniz, Leibniz did a better job making it useful, and Newton definitely did more with it. The both invented it, end of story. Seriously, this is over two centuries old, let it die.
Authenticity and originality are key to the youth demographic and they know it. The problem is that ads have failed at those for a long time. Some ads can still do it through humor and strange premises (like the old spice ads I love so much). Unfortunately, people are smart, and copying another ad campaign's success backfires more often than not.
It's a problem that's crept up on them for the last few years. Frankly, I'm shocked that corporations are struggling to look authentic and original.
These hold less energy than batteries and yet they're going to be economically feasible? Can someone please explain to me how this is going to work, because it's not making sense to me right now. It sounds like they'll either have to add so many capacitors that it becomes counter productive, or else they'll have a short range and useless for road trips. Either way it won't work.
When coordinating with the CD presses and the OEM's, distributors, and other companies (like NVidia or ATI) that rely on the release date, that's just not possible. For smaller projects, you can pull stuff like that. For one of the most widely used pieces of software in the world, you need to plan ahead.
Some of us pirate to help the current Music and Movie industries implode quicker I downloaded the complete discography of Metallica 13 times, just to show them what's what!
Just so everyone in the world understands this once and for all, any name that is or sounds like "wiggum" will forever lend an air of ineptitude. The only way this is offset is if the person has read "ender's game" more recently than they're watched the simpsons; that number will always be low enough that you just shouldn't risk it. They should have gone with the other partner, hopefully something with a lawyerish name, like "Bruckheimer" or "McBeal".
By piggy backing on the networks of those poor, overworked ISP's that aren't getting paid by youtube. It's like youtube is stealing that bandwidth by exploiting this loophole.
I think it's the resolution difference between the iphone, your tv and your computer monitor. On the iphone or your TV, the resolution is closer to that of youtube, so you don't notice the low quality, whereas on your monitor, they can devote 30 or 40 pixels to the aliasing on the low quality video. I noticed this effect a year and a half ago when watching youtube videos through a computer hooked to a tv - the video looked nearly perfect because of the resolution difference.
Just goes to show you that sometimes, lower quality is better.
The difference between a virus and spyware for me is whether ClamWin gets it or AdAware. Considering how well clam did when compared to the other security suites, I'm not worried about using a non-commercial product. Since it's personal use, AdAware works nicely and for free. Throw in ZoneAlarm is you feel the need to have a firewall, and you're all set with no money down and 0% interest.
Now a user can request a password that never changes, so long as it meets *MY* requirements... That it be so complicated that they have to write it on a post it note and put it on their monitor?
There were work arounds like getting it to let you have the 30 day trial 4 or 5 times (or something like that). This is a proper crack in that it actually removes or disables the activation.
I've never seen a cooling unit that did anything but exploit the temperature gradient. That's why there are fans blowing air from outside your case into it and why server rooms are kept so damn cold all the time. Since the CPU can perform well at temperatures well over room temperature, this usually works quite well.
That makes the assumption that you can't do both. Why wouldn't you be able to do both? You can do both, but his point is that if you're looking at the efficiency of your dollar, you'd be better buying something else that'll save you more power than this fan will. Buy a better power supply, new monitor, more power efficient CPU, better light bulbs, etc. For the amount of energy saved, it's likely that there's quite a long list of things that could save more energy for your dollar, and since you (presumably) have a finite amount of money, it'd be better to buy one of those things than this fan.
Getting paid $800 million i would gladly let Bill Gates rape my company anyday Hell, for $800 million dollars, I'd let him rape me! That's a statement he can stand behind.
what the hell do you watch that's less predictable than Futurama? Random snow on untuned channels?? You call that random? Each pixel's going to be white or black and that's it. Extrapolating out from there is child's play. Oh look, more white. Oh look, more black. Oh look, a faceless monster whispering messages to me. Oh look, more black.
How is this news for nerds or stuff that matters? It's worthless drivel like this that drags the whole site down!
And, because I seriously hate people who say that shit, I'm going to point out that cartoon network's adult swim (which brought the show back from the dead) is largely viewed by nerds, and adult animation is mostly enjoyed by nerds, and dammit, it's a good show.
However, I do hope that it's not just another family guy clone like American Dad. Seriously, why not just do 3x as many family guy episodes and not have american dad or this new cleveland one?
This is exactly right. I know of very few engineers who are also talented artists. When it comes to UI, you need both; the artist should come up with the general look and feel, and the programmer should add the functionality within that framework. Usability goes up at least 200% when the program is made to be good looking.
However, that's not to say that programmers are any less important. 200% of shit is still shit, and every UI requires some functionality behind it. Artists generally won't know how to wring maximum functionality from the application. The point is that you can't work without these two factors working together, so make sure you don't focus so much on one area that the other suffers.
The difference is in the scope of getting broken into. You're arguing that AT&T having an insecure system is the same as your home being insecure, but the better analogy would be a place of business being insecure. Let's say that a bank is continually being broken into through the same window and their customer's information being stolen or spoofed. If that bank didn't secure their building from that particular attack, then they would be negligent in their duty to their customers and rightfully held responsible.
on/. there seems to be this attitude with regards to digital security that if you can do it, it should be ok to do. It is all on the person who owns the system to make it completely invenerable. First of all, I think you're confusing the attitude that people have with regards to computer security. Because the cost of an unsuccessful attack is so low (a few computer cycles), you can reasonably assume that any possible will be tried at some point. To use your analogy, the house should be 110% secure against break in, with the windows and door barred and locked, security systems put in place and the different rooms armored and barred from the other rooms so that people can't move between them unless they're the owner. This is ridiculous unless you assume that 1 million thieves of different competency levels are going to try breaking into the home and taking everything they can; simultaneously, once a month.
For a target like Microsoft or Yahoo or Google, this is a reasonable assumption. If you're a target of any size, then you absolutely must do everything in your power to make the servers invulnerable, and when they get broken into, you sure as hell better secure the systems against those attacks and all known attacks or else your ass will rightfully be canned. Should they hold the hacker responsible? Absolutely. Does that mean that the sysadmins should be held any less accountable? No. When your security determines the security of your customers, it should be criminal to not protect that security as best you can.
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What's funny is that this is exactly the same reaction that people have towards video games, the internet as a whole and comic books. Since it's new it's instantly more worrisome than what's already been there, even if what's already there is pretty bad. It's the well known tendency for people to overestimate the risks of unfamiliar dangers.
Overall this is a good thing, though. People need to be a little worried about online privacy so that they can get up in arms about something that crosses the line. By creating a panic, they're making people look at and evaluate the risk. The next time something happens on the internet, they'll likely evaluate it more accurately.
I own two cats, you insensitive clod!
It's a good thing this argument is still going on since they both discovered/invented calculus pretty much independently, perhaps with some borrowing between the two. Newton started before Leibniz, Leibniz did a better job making it useful, and Newton definitely did more with it. The both invented it, end of story. Seriously, this is over two centuries old, let it die.
It's to prepare them for their careers in advertising.
Authenticity and originality are key to the youth demographic and they know it. The problem is that ads have failed at those for a long time. Some ads can still do it through humor and strange premises (like the old spice ads I love so much). Unfortunately, people are smart, and copying another ad campaign's success backfires more often than not.
It's a problem that's crept up on them for the last few years. Frankly, I'm shocked that corporations are struggling to look authentic and original.
These hold less energy than batteries and yet they're going to be economically feasible? Can someone please explain to me how this is going to work, because it's not making sense to me right now. It sounds like they'll either have to add so many capacitors that it becomes counter productive, or else they'll have a short range and useless for road trips. Either way it won't work.
When coordinating with the CD presses and the OEM's, distributors, and other companies (like NVidia or ATI) that rely on the release date, that's just not possible. For smaller projects, you can pull stuff like that. For one of the most widely used pieces of software in the world, you need to plan ahead.
Just so everyone in the world understands this once and for all, any name that is or sounds like "wiggum" will forever lend an air of ineptitude. The only way this is offset is if the person has read "ender's game" more recently than they're watched the simpsons; that number will always be low enough that you just shouldn't risk it. They should have gone with the other partner, hopefully something with a lawyerish name, like "Bruckheimer" or "McBeal".
By piggy backing on the networks of those poor, overworked ISP's that aren't getting paid by youtube. It's like youtube is stealing that bandwidth by exploiting this loophole.
I think it's the resolution difference between the iphone, your tv and your computer monitor. On the iphone or your TV, the resolution is closer to that of youtube, so you don't notice the low quality, whereas on your monitor, they can devote 30 or 40 pixels to the aliasing on the low quality video. I noticed this effect a year and a half ago when watching youtube videos through a computer hooked to a tv - the video looked nearly perfect because of the resolution difference.
Just goes to show you that sometimes, lower quality is better.
The difference between a virus and spyware for me is whether ClamWin gets it or AdAware. Considering how well clam did when compared to the other security suites, I'm not worried about using a non-commercial product. Since it's personal use, AdAware works nicely and for free. Throw in ZoneAlarm is you feel the need to have a firewall, and you're all set with no money down and 0% interest.
Microsoft decided to enter the market.
I'm sure that you meant to get a serious reply, but it's the perfect set up for a joke.
There were work arounds like getting it to let you have the 30 day trial 4 or 5 times (or something like that). This is a proper crack in that it actually removes or disables the activation.
I've never seen a cooling unit that did anything but exploit the temperature gradient. That's why there are fans blowing air from outside your case into it and why server rooms are kept so damn cold all the time. Since the CPU can perform well at temperatures well over room temperature, this usually works quite well.
How is this news for nerds or stuff that matters? It's worthless drivel like this that drags the whole site down!
And, because I seriously hate people who say that shit, I'm going to point out that cartoon network's adult swim (which brought the show back from the dead) is largely viewed by nerds, and adult animation is mostly enjoyed by nerds, and dammit, it's a good show.
However, I do hope that it's not just another family guy clone like American Dad. Seriously, why not just do 3x as many family guy episodes and not have american dad or this new cleveland one?
So he doesn't like to "connect" to "networks" the same way that you do; who are you to judge?
This is exactly right. I know of very few engineers who are also talented artists. When it comes to UI, you need both; the artist should come up with the general look and feel, and the programmer should add the functionality within that framework. Usability goes up at least 200% when the program is made to be good looking.
However, that's not to say that programmers are any less important. 200% of shit is still shit, and every UI requires some functionality behind it. Artists generally won't know how to wring maximum functionality from the application. The point is that you can't work without these two factors working together, so make sure you don't focus so much on one area that the other suffers.
For a target like Microsoft or Yahoo or Google, this is a reasonable assumption. If you're a target of any size, then you absolutely must do everything in your power to make the servers invulnerable, and when they get broken into, you sure as hell better secure the systems against those attacks and all known attacks or else your ass will rightfully be canned. Should they hold the hacker responsible? Absolutely. Does that mean that the sysadmins should be held any less accountable? No. When your security determines the security of your customers, it should be criminal to not protect that security as best you can.