Downloaded it directly and reading it on my iPad. Looks nice, and very readable... will be nice to refresh my knowledge. The effort to reduce cost of schooling in general is admirable and book publishers are a leech on society so I hope McNealy and Khosla are successful.
When hundreds (or thousands) of these devices start popping up and people are getting spied on by their fellow citizens, there will be an outrage! (silly emphasis).
Fact is, the GSM security notification was circumvented so the government(s) could snoop in on your conversations. Re-enabling security notifications would render many operational spy-jobs and much equipment (at the lowest levels) useless. For this reason alone, I'm pretty sure that there will be no outrage and no media circus. Instead the issue will be quietly ignored and (some) folks who run this kit will be sent to Guantanamo. All at the expense of our real security... think twice about sending CC details over a cell phone.
Sounds like almost reasonable Smalltalk. Alternatively, I'm sure you could "tell" BlindType you wanted it to be code-friendly (and state a language)... seems like the AI should be able switch out dictionaries and valid syntax and symbols... come to think of it, it might be able to create a more impressive IntelliSense-like IDE feature.
Why do people think motorcycles are dangerous? Hell I've raced go-karts at 80mph (fuck yes, 15hp 6 speed shifter cart!) with full motorcycle gear including a helmet, neck brace, and mesh suit.
I think the fact that most statistics-waiting-to-hapen, or motorcyclists, do not wear the full gear you're mentioning. I just saw an idiot this morning on a motorcycle weaving between car lanes with shorts and a t-shirt (and a helmet, yes, but that's mandatory).
You're missing a step:
1. Apply for patent.
1.5 Fail to disclose patent applications in violation of standards body bylaws.
2. Join standards body, get tech widely used.
3. Leave standards body.
4. Continue patent of Step 1, ammending claims to read directly against standard.
5. SUE!
6. PROFIT!
The real crime here is that violation of existing pertinent agreements apparently have no weight in the USPTO... clearly patents are divorced from reality a long ways.
Deleting all your posts can mess up other peoples' conversations. It's not really ethical.
Making all your posts anonymous might be a reasonable compromise.
Seriously, this is done in other blogs; it's not a big deal... you should just see a thread with comment, reply,/reply deleted/, reply, etc. Yes it messes up the thread, but it's the right of the poster to have his/her content removed. Especially if that content talked about personal details and family members/etc... there are many reasons such information was fine to be public at one point and now considered dangerous (ie, stalker or lawsuit, etc)
The only issue is that I don't think it's fair (or easily possible), if another commenter has cut and pasted details of the/to be deleted/ users posts... for material to be deleted... in that case, it's fair-use copy.
Add to that these bikes are infamous for dropping their chain and hence the only braking system while going downhill at an intersection (they're cheap cruiser bikes).
This is completely false, not a single bike made in the past 10+ years has this characteristic. Furthermore, it's illegal to ride such a bike in California (reg VC 21201a). Google may be paranoid of safety about it's employees (the famous bus-number comes into play here), but the situation you describe with the bikes is a complete fabrication.
My solution has always been to legalize them, and tax them into oblivion.
Actually, I agree with you. Also I was a bit wrong about simple supply and demand... there is a thing as inelastic demand which happens when demand doesn't reduce directly in relation to supply... fuel, water, drugs (whether for life saving or to feed an addiction) all can exhibit this behavior.
This kind of crap automatically leaves me seriously considering an iPhone. Why in the hell is a company like Apple more successful in keeping bloatware off their phones? Why are Google and Microsoft incapable of demanding their products be free of this stuff? It's in their best interests.
Because you're comparing apples to appletrees. Apple makes and sells mainly physical product: the iPhone (you can't buy iOS on it's own) or a Mac (you can't legally install OSX on non-Macs)
Both Microsoft and Google sell mostly software. And the kicker is that both of them mostly sell it to manufacturers like Dell, HTC or Motorola. All of these "actual customers" are then reselling Microsoft and Google's software to you. So, you are NOT the direct customer of Google or Microsoft. Though Dell's PC sales impacts Microsoft's bottom line pretty directly, Microsoft is not really the vendor and so in effect don't have as much control as Apple about the user experience or quality of goods (it doesn't help in this situation that Microsoft also has a monopoly on PC OS... another disconnect between sales and quality).
In the case of phones, manufacturers then have to sell it via a carrier like Verizon or AT&T. These middlemen add their own markup, plans and specific customizations (one important such customization is the baseband firmware). So you can see how Android is suffering the same quality issues as Windows. Manufacturers and carriers have to compete with each other, and bundleware is one of those ways they see to compete and increase margins.
Adobe Reader/Professional has grown into a sort of "Enterprise" software, since the PDF format is hard to edit properly (even in Adobe Professional). As Enterprise software, it's bloated, has way too many features that most users don't even know about (Javascript Debugger, wtf?), and is a security nightmare... yet those businesses who need it will never give it up (the legal domain is pretty much all about PDFs and TIFFs).
What would be needed to make an drastic improvement is a new document standard that meets the needs that PDF fills without the cruft or security holes... kind of like a PNG to PDF's GIF. I have no idea if anyone is looking at any such effort.
Perhaps for you, but for me, I relied on it (it said prices would go down) and lost a great fare once (spent about 10% more overnight per ticket), and never trusted it again. An impressive looking technology (forecasting fare prices) sounds great until you attempt to rely on it. What did save me money was using farecast and kayak's daily email update. Kayak specifically mentions how many fares are left at that price.
Hell a phrase like "Purple Elephants make for a rough Work Day" is much harder to crack than "1qaz@WSX3edc$RFV"
I agree, with one caveat: mobile devices!!!! If you are not using that password ever on a mobile device (never say never, I just had to type a passphrase pwd via ssh on my iphone to one of my servers... was a complete frustration, since my error rate on the touchscreen keypad is much higher than on a keyboard). I don't think any mobile device has a good way of entering text-based passwords, and length is a big issue there.
I find it interesting that the airlines have unbundled services so that they can "lower air fares", yet they still can't seem to make profits the way they used to.
You don't think fuel prices and TSA airport security insanity have an impact on this? I know folks who, after 9/11, decided they will never fly again (yes, I think they're eating too much guano, but they exist, and I know some of them). Also given the recession (unemployment is ~10% M3, more likely 18% M6) and increased reliance on telepresence, people are not flying around as much.
That's not the point. The point is that even if OS security were perfect, there would still be machines which were completely fucked. No amount of OS security will stop the user from wanting free kitten screen savers.
You know, I'm going to get flamed to hell and back for this, but if you download (ie, buy a free app of) free kitten screensavers in iOS, you will likely have no security impact to your device... some (lots of) folks just can't be trusted outside walled gardens, and that's why Apple is doing so well.
Now, from an accounting perspective, this is accurate. You can't book sales until you ship the item. So even though Apple got money over a few weeks, they couldn't actually put it on their books as income until they shipped out the devices. So when Apple shipped out the devices is when they booked the revenue, all of which occurred that first weekend.
Isn't this the same for any product that has pre-orders?
Why is Apple suddenly more evil when other retails and manufacturers have done the same thing for years?
I find it extremely hard to believe there is any shortage of IT workers...This is a government handout, pure and simple.
Though I'd agree with you, there are many types of "IT worker", and you would be surprised at what an average SAP, Oracle ERP, or BI consultant makes... do you think working with EMR/HIPAA is any easier than CRM, HCM or any of the other enterprise domains?
Apparently it's been in the news since 2007, and even before that some heat-based weapon evidence (which sounds quite gruesome):
Speaking of three dead people he saw in a car, the musician adds, "There wasn't any bullet...I saw the teeth, just the teeth and no eyes...all of them...with their bodies...nothing for the bodies...the heads were burned."
The documentary affirms the battleground was dug up by the U.S. military and replaced with fresh soil.
The corpses not hit by projectiles shrank "to slightly more than one meter (39 in.) in height," which is confirmed by Al Ghezali himself. Asked what kind of weapon he thought was used, he replied, "One year later (2004) we heard that they used a unique one (technology)...like lasers."
OnLive is a gaming-on-demand platform, announced in 2009[3] and launched in the United States in June 2010. The service is a gaming equivalent of cloud computing: the game is synchronized, rendered, and stored on a remote server and delivered via the Internet.
Sounds very interesting to me, as I'm pretty sick of upgrade treadmills. OnLive would probably also wipe out hacked-client based cheating (though bots and such might still be doable). It would also allow bleeding-edge games to be enjoyed by those without the best hardware, increasing adoption rates for those types of games.
You are sadly misinformed. Prohibition of any substance increases it's use, just look at your history books.
Actually it simply increases it's price. And given market dynamics, that should reduce the overall usage... the problem comes in when the black market usage of said substance increases (which is an obvious correlation), which increases crime and all sorts of other bad things.
Slashdot Mirror
Downloaded it directly and reading it on my iPad.
Looks nice, and very readable... will be nice to refresh my knowledge.
The effort to reduce cost of schooling in general is admirable and book publishers are a leech on society so I hope McNealy and Khosla are successful.
Here is the link where Blizzard confirms the issue.
Looks like you folks experiencing this problem should
Problem solved!
Fact is, the GSM security notification was circumvented so the government(s) could snoop in on your conversations. Re-enabling security notifications would render many operational spy-jobs and much equipment (at the lowest levels) useless. For this reason alone, I'm pretty sure that there will be no outrage and no media circus. Instead the issue will be quietly ignored and (some) folks who run this kit will be sent to Guantanamo. All at the expense of our real security... think twice about sending CC details over a cell phone.
Sounds like almost reasonable Smalltalk. Alternatively, I'm sure you could "tell" BlindType you wanted it to be code-friendly (and state a language)... seems like the AI should be able switch out dictionaries and valid syntax and symbols... come to think of it, it might be able to create a more impressive IntelliSense-like IDE feature.
The controller with pain feedback in Never Say Never Again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUw9BJS06NI
Is it a mistake if
When in doubt, always follow the money.
I think the fact that most statistics-waiting-to-hapen, or motorcyclists, do not wear the full gear you're mentioning. I just saw an idiot this morning on a motorcycle weaving between car lanes with shorts and a t-shirt (and a helmet, yes, but that's mandatory).
You're missing a step: 1. Apply for patent. 1.5 Fail to disclose patent applications in violation of standards body bylaws. 2. Join standards body, get tech widely used. 3. Leave standards body. 4. Continue patent of Step 1, ammending claims to read directly against standard. 5. SUE! 6. PROFIT! The real crime here is that violation of existing pertinent agreements apparently have no weight in the USPTO... clearly patents are divorced from reality a long ways.
Seriously, this is done in other blogs; it's not a big deal... you should just see a thread with comment, reply, /reply deleted/, reply, etc. Yes it messes up the thread, but it's the right of the poster to have his/her content removed. Especially if that content talked about personal details and family members/etc... there are many reasons such information was fine to be public at one point and now considered dangerous (ie, stalker or lawsuit, etc)
The only issue is that I don't think it's fair (or easily possible), if another commenter has cut and pasted details of the /to be deleted/ users posts... for material to be deleted... in that case, it's fair-use copy.
This is completely false, not a single bike made in the past 10+ years has this characteristic. Furthermore, it's illegal to ride such a bike in California (reg VC 21201a). Google may be paranoid of safety about it's employees (the famous bus-number comes into play here), but the situation you describe with the bikes is a complete fabrication.
Actually, I agree with you. Also I was a bit wrong about simple supply and demand... there is a thing as inelastic demand which happens when demand doesn't reduce directly in relation to supply... fuel, water, drugs (whether for life saving or to feed an addiction) all can exhibit this behavior.
I can't seem to be able to download this file, it keeps giving up after a couple of hundred megs... probably slashdotted.
Because you're comparing apples to appletrees. Apple makes and sells mainly physical product: the iPhone (you can't buy iOS on it's own) or a Mac (you can't legally install OSX on non-Macs)
Both Microsoft and Google sell mostly software. And the kicker is that both of them mostly sell it to manufacturers like Dell, HTC or Motorola. All of these "actual customers" are then reselling Microsoft and Google's software to you. So, you are NOT the direct customer of Google or Microsoft. Though Dell's PC sales impacts Microsoft's bottom line pretty directly, Microsoft is not really the vendor and so in effect don't have as much control as Apple about the user experience or quality of goods (it doesn't help in this situation that Microsoft also has a monopoly on PC OS... another disconnect between sales and quality).
In the case of phones, manufacturers then have to sell it via a carrier like Verizon or AT&T. These middlemen add their own markup, plans and specific customizations (one important such customization is the baseband firmware). So you can see how Android is suffering the same quality issues as Windows. Manufacturers and carriers have to compete with each other, and bundleware is one of those ways they see to compete and increase margins.
Adobe Reader/Professional has grown into a sort of "Enterprise" software, since the PDF format is hard to edit properly (even in Adobe Professional). As Enterprise software, it's bloated, has way too many features that most users don't even know about (Javascript Debugger, wtf?), and is a security nightmare... yet those businesses who need it will never give it up (the legal domain is pretty much all about PDFs and TIFFs).
What would be needed to make an drastic improvement is a new document standard that meets the needs that PDF fills without the cruft or security holes... kind of like a PNG to PDF's GIF. I have no idea if anyone is looking at any such effort.
Perhaps for you, but for me, I relied on it (it said prices would go down) and lost a great fare once (spent about 10% more overnight per ticket), and never trusted it again. An impressive looking technology (forecasting fare prices) sounds great until you attempt to rely on it. What did save me money was using farecast and kayak's daily email update. Kayak specifically mentions how many fares are left at that price.
Wow, why didn't I ever think of just storing it as CLEARTEXT? Awesome idea!
I agree, with one caveat: mobile devices!!!! If you are not using that password ever on a mobile device (never say never, I just had to type a passphrase pwd via ssh on my iphone to one of my servers... was a complete frustration, since my error rate on the touchscreen keypad is much higher than on a keyboard). I don't think any mobile device has a good way of entering text-based passwords, and length is a big issue there.
More like:
if (os!=windows)
echo "Dear god, please don't buy a Mac... Ubuntu is really usable, but not as profitable^Wgood as windows";
You don't think fuel prices and TSA airport security insanity have an impact on this? I know folks who, after 9/11, decided they will never fly again (yes, I think they're eating too much guano, but they exist, and I know some of them). Also given the recession (unemployment is ~10% M3, more likely 18% M6) and increased reliance on telepresence, people are not flying around as much.
You know, I'm going to get flamed to hell and back for this, but if you download (ie, buy a free app of) free kitten screensavers in iOS, you will likely have no security impact to your device... some (lots of) folks just can't be trusted outside walled gardens, and that's why Apple is doing so well.
Isn't this the same for any product that has pre-orders?
Why is Apple suddenly more evil when other retails and manufacturers have done the same thing for years?
Though I'd agree with you, there are many types of "IT worker", and you would be surprised at what an average SAP, Oracle ERP, or BI consultant makes... do you think working with EMR/HIPAA is any easier than CRM, HCM or any of the other enterprise domains?
Sounds very interesting to me, as I'm pretty sick of upgrade treadmills. OnLive would probably also wipe out hacked-client based cheating (though bots and such might still be doable). It would also allow bleeding-edge games to be enjoyed by those without the best hardware, increasing adoption rates for those types of games.
Actually it simply increases it's price. And given market dynamics, that should reduce the overall usage... the problem comes in when the black market usage of said substance increases (which is an obvious correlation), which increases crime and all sorts of other bad things.