To you and all the others saying this below, the GP's claim is not 100% farfetched (just 99.999%) because APPLE is in Cupertino which is not too far from Redwood City. Perhaps the "spy" went to the bar shortly after leaving Cupertino rather than shortly before handing it to Gates? Again, I know the GP was joking, but sometimes humor needs to be defended!
Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery
Is it just me, or does someone need to stop repeating themselves, being redundant, and over-using synonyms?
On a more related note, this could be interesting if Apple also moved away from AT&T with this one. My Nexus One LCD just stopped working (didn't drop it or anything, just slowly turned pink then purple then black) and HTC is refusing to repair it under warranty. They want to charge 250 bucks to repair it when I bought it for ~180 with a 2-year contract! If this iPhone gets good reviews, and is not locked down to AT&T, Apple may have won themselves a new iPhone user.
If enough people make that choice then the contracts will be rewritten in clearer language.
The fact that this has not happened, shows the problem with your thesis. Everyone acknowledges that contracts are indecipherable; and yet very seldom does one have the freedom to negotiate.
The key here was "If enough people make that choice then..." If 'A' then 'B'. 'A' is false (very few people choose not to sign/accept EULAs they do not understand), therefore the whole statement "If 'A' then 'B'" is still true. It is not until 'A' is true and 'B' is false that you can disprove it.
Just a note, I live in Arizona and have seen quite a few red light violation mailings. The camera actually flashes a lot more than there are tickets mailed out. Yes, the camera will flash if your back tires cross the red line after the red, but every mailing I have seen has two pictures: One with a red light and the car completely out of the intersection, and then the one with the car entering the intersection (light still red). Note that this differs from the summary, which states that the first picture would be at a yellow not a red. So while I believe Arizona law may be more strict than this (i.e. a cop in person could still give you a ticket), I don't think they send out tickets unless you enter the intersection after the light turns red. At least that has been the case in the 20+ tickets I have seen (None of them were mine, don't worry!).
Omitting a 13th floor can be very unlucky. From this article:
There were, I think 4 people at the top of a building (two guys and two girls). They decided to celebrate something, I think that it was graduation. They constructed the bungee cord secured it to both the building and the guy. They wanted to make the cord long enough so they could touch the ground. They figured that each floor was about 10 feet and they got off at the top floor which, was something like 17 or so. The guy jumped and hit the ground. They forgot that the building doesn't have a 13th floor and thus the cord was about 10 feet too long.
This guy says "I think" way too much for this to be taken as fact, but it definitely could have happened.
Also, even if they hadn't omitted the 13th floor, I think that if you "figured that each floor was about 10 feet" that alone could cause this event to occur.
Oh, and by "rich" I meant comparatively. Parent's make more than 60k, but he is still considered "rich" even though he has three other siblings in college that are being supported by the parents.
I have developed a few applications for android recently and am perfectly happy with the way that I get paid. I have released an application for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 called "CoD Helper" that has free and "donate" versions as well as a game called "Block Dude". I sold over 20 copies of Block Dude in the first 9 hours and have had relatively steady sales since. Granted, it has only been 3 days since I released it, but I'm very happy with the Android Market's exposure of my application!
Even in California, this is justification for using deadly force in your own defense.
Sadly, in Arizona, this is not justification for using deadly force. Only if that is your only option. If you have the ability to escape, you are required by law to take that action instead.
Little known fact: "myth" != "fiction"... A myth can be true. By definition, a myth is simply unproven, but accepted as fact. So could have fallen under the category of myth. And creating an experiment that tries to emulate something that isn't even known to have occurred (regularly... I know it has been proven to have occurred at least once) does not prove or disprove anything. It just proves or disproves the idea being possible. This is why the Mythbusters so often come out with the result "Plausible" rather than "Confirmed"... because you can't prove that some things happened through experiment, only that they could have happened.
http://developer.apple.com/technology/xcode.html - "Xcode is a free download and includes the Xcode IDE..."
So, what you're saying is that aside from using an IDE, you pretty much never use IDEs? Just because XCode is from the same company you got your OS from doesn't mean it's not an IDE. BTW, I use XCode almost exclusively as well, so don't think I'm knocking the application, just saying that it most definitely is an IDE.
They have the "too dark of tint" law in my area of Arizona as well. A friend of mine was actually pulled over for it recently. He was given a warning that if he got pulled over for it again, he would receive a fine. Well, he ignored it, was pulled over again, and received a hefty fine. Needless to say, he removed the offending tint. The law here I guess is only on the front driver side and front passenger side windows. Back windows can be as dark as you wish. To me, this law makes sense. If you have ever driven a darkly tinted vehicle at night with the windows rolled up, you would probably see what I mean. Though I don't necessarily agree that you should get a fine while driving a vehicle like this during the day... That's not really dangerous at all
... And the problem is exponential. After the first wave of attacks, it would only take 116 attempts per account to compromise 5% of the accounts, 683 attempts to compromise 10% of accounts and about 5000 attempts to compromise 20% of accounts.
It bothers me how much people throw around the word "exponential" to try to sound smart. The graph on their site clearly shows that it is in fact the opposite of exponential: logarithmic, which has diminishing returns. So 116 attempts gets you 5% of accounts, multiplying your attempts by 6 gives you twice as many, then multiplying your attempts by more than 7 will give you twice as many. Exponential would be getting a rapidly increasing rate of results for relatively constant increase in attempts, not a relatively constant increase in results in return for an increasing rate in the number of attempts.
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To you and all the others saying this below, the GP's claim is not 100% farfetched (just 99.999%) because APPLE is in Cupertino which is not too far from Redwood City. Perhaps the "spy" went to the bar shortly after leaving Cupertino rather than shortly before handing it to Gates? Again, I know the GP was joking, but sometimes humor needs to be defended!
"Go back" and "re-read"? What are you talking about? This is /. so he never read it a first time.
FTA (emphasis mine):
Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery
Is it just me, or does someone need to stop repeating themselves, being redundant, and over-using synonyms?
On a more related note, this could be interesting if Apple also moved away from AT&T with this one. My Nexus One LCD just stopped working (didn't drop it or anything, just slowly turned pink then purple then black) and HTC is refusing to repair it under warranty. They want to charge 250 bucks to repair it when I bought it for ~180 with a 2-year contract! If this iPhone gets good reviews, and is not locked down to AT&T, Apple may have won themselves a new iPhone user.
The fact that this has not happened, shows the problem with your thesis. Everyone acknowledges that contracts are indecipherable; and yet very seldom does one have the freedom to negotiate.
The key here was "If enough people make that choice then..." If 'A' then 'B'. 'A' is false (very few people choose not to sign/accept EULAs they do not understand), therefore the whole statement "If 'A' then 'B'" is still true. It is not until 'A' is true and 'B' is false that you can disprove it.
US Peso's? Currently, 4000 Australian dollars = 45 559.0081 Mexican pesos so you weren't talking about those... What the crap is a US Peso?
All this talk about traffic is confusing me. Can someone PLEASE give me a car analogy to make it more clear??? (sorry, I couldn't resist)
Just a note, I live in Arizona and have seen quite a few red light violation mailings. The camera actually flashes a lot more than there are tickets mailed out. Yes, the camera will flash if your back tires cross the red line after the red, but every mailing I have seen has two pictures: One with a red light and the car completely out of the intersection, and then the one with the car entering the intersection (light still red). Note that this differs from the summary, which states that the first picture would be at a yellow not a red. So while I believe Arizona law may be more strict than this (i.e. a cop in person could still give you a ticket), I don't think they send out tickets unless you enter the intersection after the light turns red. At least that has been the case in the 20+ tickets I have seen (None of them were mine, don't worry!).
There were, I think 4 people at the top of a building (two guys and two girls). They decided to celebrate something, I think that it was graduation. They constructed the bungee cord secured it to both the building and the guy. They wanted to make the cord long enough so they could touch the ground. They figured that each floor was about 10 feet and they got off at the top floor which, was something like 17 or so. The guy jumped and hit the ground. They forgot that the building doesn't have a 13th floor and thus the cord was about 10 feet too long.
This guy says "I think" way too much for this to be taken as fact, but it definitely could have happened. Also, even if they hadn't omitted the 13th floor, I think that if you "figured that each floor was about 10 feet" that alone could cause this event to occur.
Word 2007 can save in ODT
You said:
Office for Mac can not either save or read ODT.
There is no Word 2007 for Mac (only 2008), so these actually do not contradict. Hmm... I should probably go work for Microsoft... :-P
(P-1)! = 1
P = 1
Now where in my Nobel Peace Prize.
You don't get a Nobel Peace Prize. Because P = 1 or P = 2. Now where is MY prize?
...really? Does a disaster have to be an accident to be classed as a disaster?
No, I don't think so. I think ALL disasters can be classified as disasters, not just the accidental ones. *ducks*
Oh, and by "rich" I meant comparatively. Parent's make more than 60k, but he is still considered "rich" even though he has three other siblings in college that are being supported by the parents.
Tell that to the rich American kid with a 4.0 GPA who got denied a scholarship in favor of a poor illegal immigrant with a 2.5
Oh noes! I did the same! Now there's less than 12 million!
I paid £0.00 you insensitive clod! (Not really... I'm an american, but I couldn't resist...)
I have developed a few applications for android recently and am perfectly happy with the way that I get paid. I have released an application for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 called "CoD Helper" that has free and "donate" versions as well as a game called "Block Dude". I sold over 20 copies of Block Dude in the first 9 hours and have had relatively steady sales since. Granted, it has only been 3 days since I released it, but I'm very happy with the Android Market's exposure of my application!
If a lint trap fills up in the forest, and there is no one there to clean it out, does a sock turn into dark matter?
What the heck would the aliens be "debarking," our dogs? Why do they care if our dogs make noise? I think you meant "disembarking"...
Even in California, this is justification for using deadly force in your own defense.
Sadly, in Arizona, this is not justification for using deadly force. Only if that is your only option. If you have the ability to escape, you are required by law to take that action instead.
I should probably proof read my posts before hitting submit. "...So this could have fallen..."
Little known fact: "myth" != "fiction"... A myth can be true. By definition, a myth is simply unproven, but accepted as fact. So could have fallen under the category of myth. And creating an experiment that tries to emulate something that isn't even known to have occurred (regularly... I know it has been proven to have occurred at least once) does not prove or disprove anything. It just proves or disproves the idea being possible. This is why the Mythbusters so often come out with the result "Plausible" rather than "Confirmed"... because you can't prove that some things happened through experiment, only that they could have happened.
http://developer.apple.com/technology/xcode.html - "Xcode is a free download and includes the Xcode IDE..."
So, what you're saying is that aside from using an IDE, you pretty much never use IDEs? Just because XCode is from the same company you got your OS from doesn't mean it's not an IDE. BTW, I use XCode almost exclusively as well, so don't think I'm knocking the application, just saying that it most definitely is an IDE.
They have the "too dark of tint" law in my area of Arizona as well. A friend of mine was actually pulled over for it recently. He was given a warning that if he got pulled over for it again, he would receive a fine. Well, he ignored it, was pulled over again, and received a hefty fine. Needless to say, he removed the offending tint. The law here I guess is only on the front driver side and front passenger side windows. Back windows can be as dark as you wish. To me, this law makes sense. If you have ever driven a darkly tinted vehicle at night with the windows rolled up, you would probably see what I mean. Though I don't necessarily agree that you should get a fine while driving a vehicle like this during the day... That's not really dangerous at all
Meanwhile, every other ... netbook I know has ... touchscreen
Ummm.... every? Did you mean just a few?
... And the problem is exponential. After the first wave of attacks, it would only take 116 attempts per account to compromise 5% of the accounts, 683 attempts to compromise 10% of accounts and about 5000 attempts to compromise 20% of accounts.
It bothers me how much people throw around the word "exponential" to try to sound smart. The graph on their site clearly shows that it is in fact the opposite of exponential: logarithmic, which has diminishing returns. So 116 attempts gets you 5% of accounts, multiplying your attempts by 6 gives you twice as many, then multiplying your attempts by more than 7 will give you twice as many. Exponential would be getting a rapidly increasing rate of results for relatively constant increase in attempts, not a relatively constant increase in results in return for an increasing rate in the number of attempts.