Beta and Minidisc were used in the professional industry... Remember way back when they were marketed to consumers? That's how they were failures. As far as most non-industry folk are concerned the last beta recorder was made in the mid 80s, the last minidisc was pressed toward the end of the 90s, and the letters, "UMD" stand for Univeristy of MarylanD unless said hypothetical person owns a PSP.
It's where the nine-out-of-ten people in Sony, Apple, M$, and most of the big name proprietary companies's target demographics get their Freedb functionality.
You do realize that ROT26 would loop completely around the alphabet (assuming you're using the same one you used to write that post) and your ciphertext would happen to be the same as your plaintext, don't you?
If you're going to broadcast your music, your cell phone conversations, and whatever other data people transfer by bluetooth to anyone in a ten meter radius I don't see why you should be so up in arms about someone happening to receive and record that information.
Only if you eat your meat at MacDonald's. High grade meat has a more complex flavor, highly influenced by the nourishment of the animal. This is like proposing to make wine out of grape juice extracts and synthesized alcohol. It might come somewhat close, but there always be a market for something more... classy. ... and, like wine, even if the substitute was as good or better than the real thing, there would still be a huge market for people who would pay money to have it done, "the old fashioned way."
In the Judeo-Christian family of beliefs only humans get souls, and sometimes not even all of 'em. So you don't even have to dust off your PCR for this one.
Meat that hasn't seen use is highly sought after in some circles. Think of veal.
More importantly it should be noted that genetic abnormalities shouldn't affect you unless the meat had somehow mutated to produce toxins or taste really bad. Just because the genes are modified doesn't mean they're capable of modifying [i]you[/i].
Y'know, people smell and taste stuff differently. For me there is something to be said for a properly cooked hamburger with nothing added. I acknowledge and enjoy the complex flavors of smoked meat and the guilty pleasure of walking into an indian or thai restaurant and asking for the extra-spicy off-the-menu stuff, but that's not all there is. It sounds to me like you just can't taste meat. Kind of like how all cooked fish tastes the same to me.
I'm not sure that this is relevant. Worms come from many sources and a great many are obviously not being deployed and exploited by people in Asia. The point is, if you have a Mac you have basically have a negligible chance of being compromised and claims that this is entirely due to market share is, well irrelevant to all the points I made, even if true.
Security through obscurity is supposedly one of the great fallacies of IT.
Apple did only two things well with the iPod. The first is they marketed it supernaturally well and got everybody hooked on their cockamamie interface so they didn't want to use anything else.
iPods were the first portable players of this sort that were easily usable one handed. That was a pretty nice innovation. As for marketing, sure they're pretty decent at that, but so is Sony and numerous other market entrants.
Sony has their own legions of hardcore obsessive fans. If you look at the mp3 players Sony was developing at the time I think you will see that they were more focussed on their mini-disk technology than penetrating the mp3 market. I'm guessing the one-handed operation criteria is more of an opinion thing than anything else. I don't recall having any trouble operating any mp3 player I've owned with one hand, but that's just my opinion.
Secondly they created the 1.5" hard drive. They weren't the first people to sick a hard drive in an mp3 player, but they were the first to use one that small.
I don't think Apple did make that.
You're right, they didn't. I was mistaken. I was basing my observation off some advertising material I read six or seven years ago. They were the first company I know of to stick a drive that size into an mp3 player, discounting the cf ones that could support an ibm microdrive. That was probably just their media blitz, though.
What Apple did was to address the entire user experience with significant usability testing. They addressed having hardware and software and a service that worked together smoothly. I remember very intelligent people installing iTunes just to rip their CD collections because the software that came with the player they had purchased was too hard to use. They were the first manufacturer to offer an integrated music service with DRM that did not get in the average person's way and which allowed them to burn a CD of music purchased online. The main thing they did was concentrate on a subset of features, but polish those usability cases. It worked, even if you don't recognize the work that is involved in that. Go ahead an assume it is all Apple's ability to trick everyone into using a horrible interface with their brilliant marketing.
I never said the interface was horrible, just cockamamie (which means ridiculous or nonsensical). That's my opinion. Perhaps I should have called it, " whimsical" or, "unique". The iPod is the only mp3 player I ever picked up and had to ask for help playing a song. That's an example. From my experience I conclude the interface is just unintuitive for me. I don't know what your experience is with other players, but I think we can agree that it is more complex than most. I think if the average person was aware that there were other players out there more people might agree with me.
I believe one should be able to plug an mp3 player into one's computer, drag and drop a song on it, and be ready to go. Maybe it's my age showing, but I remember back when I could use the same program to rip or burn CDs that I used before I got my current mp3 player. I remember there was a time everybody could download an mp3 and upload it to my mp3 player without having to burn a CD of it. I remember there was a time when a dollar a song was considered expensive, but I digress. Compared to the other players I've used the iPod is overpriced and needlessly complex and I believe that its success mostly due to marketing, and, often cult-like; brand loyalty
I learned something today. Thank you. It turns out the used an off the shelf hard drive from toshiba, that was a second or third gen HD, and their advertising was phrased in such a way as to make it sound like they invented it.
Since this has become a flame thread I would like to point out two things.
Most viruses come from north and southeast Asia.
Apple did only two things well with the iPod.
The first is they marketed it supernaturally well and got everybody hooked on their cockamamie interface so they didn't want to use anything else.
Secondly they created the 1.5" hard drive. They weren't the first people to sick a hard drive in an mp3 player, but they were the first to use one that small.
Unless they're planning on developing for the mac platform this really doesn't make much sense. Why dump one closed, DRM laden, overpriced desktop solution for another? This is IBM we're talking about. They could just as easily make an internal flavor of Linux that behaves like Leopard - or a completely new OS for that matter - if they really wanted to.
I didn't mean to liken China to Nazi Germany. I was just grasping for the word for someone, and I'm sure you've all seen the guy being interviewed on TV, who is adamant that the holocaust didn't happen. I suppose I should have said, " racial supremecist," but there are so many flavors of those I doubted anybody'd get the message. The point is that China doesn't take advice from the outside world.
A lot of the hypocrisy they're pointing to was in the past. It's a big, "Let he who has no sin cast the first stone" fallacy. Sure it took hundreds of years for the US or the EU to reach their current level of, "civilization", but we didn't have the benefit of telecommunications, high literacy rates, infrastructure, and a host of other things that should be making the transition to, at least, the currently accepted, perfunctory, level of humanity a lot less difficult.
Yes, but who's going to do that? China, as a country, seems to have a tendency to enjoy sticking its fingers in its ears and humming when someone brings up a point that doesn't fit neatly into its worldview. Like a child being told there's no Santa Claus or a Neo-Nazi being confronted with evidence of the holocaust.
OK, it would work, but it would require a significant amount of effort beyond what can be expected from the hypothetical average reasonable person - an issue in itself, but a separate one.
No, that IS the entire issue. I suspect we wouldn't be having this discussion if all WiFi routers would come with either wireless turned off, or with encryption enabled. People being stupid is not reason enough to throw out the entire framework of the internet.
That's really my whole point, though. This discussion presupposes the majority of people do not know how to configure their WiFi. We can not assume that an open network is the result of generosity when there is so strong a possibility it is the result of ignorance.
Using people's Wifi without their express consent isn't the entire framework of the internet, is it?
The, "...all kinds of hellos and please use me [sic]" Is part of the signal. It wouldn't work otherwise. OK, it would work, but it would require a significant amount of effort beyond what can be expected from the hypothetical average reasonable person - an issue in itself, but a separate one.
Girlfriends have free will. I'm sorry I neglected to include a disclaimor to that effect in my analogy. It is not my belief that members of one's preferred sex become mindless automata when engaged in a relationship. I was just thinking biblically about oxen, asses, and wives that should not be coveted and hoping it would obviate the possibility of using the old, " Well, I don't care about material goods and thus nobody does:P !" response by referring to something most people want and like to keep.
The Dollar bill comparison is flawed because the act of placing a dollar bill somewhere is a conscious act. If that same hypothetical person were to wander into your house simply possessing the aforementioned lucre in a visible manner it would be more appropriate. By virtue of the fact that it is money and you want to spend it the money is, "inviting" you to use it, and it is on your property, but no one has expressly given nor bequeathed it to you yet.
... If you misuse the network to steal data of your host, the stealing should obviously still be illegal Yeah, but how are you going to enforce that? Easier to just pass a blanket, "No Trespassing" law and be done with it.
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It's where the nine-out-of-ten people in Sony, Apple, M$, and most of the big name proprietary companies's target demographics get their Freedb functionality.
Is that a meme too? It's hard to tell these days.
I must be new here. In Soviet Russia, Meme does not recognize YOU!
Well, no, because nobody is carrying it on his/her person. If the internet was run by courier we'd have an entirely different situation.
You do realize that ROT26 would loop completely around the alphabet (assuming you're using the same one you used to write that post) and your ciphertext would happen to be the same as your plaintext, don't you?
If you're going to broadcast your music, your cell phone conversations, and whatever other data people transfer by bluetooth to anyone in a ten meter radius I don't see why you should be so up in arms about someone happening to receive and record that information.
"We haven't blocked any specific p2p applications. BitTorrent packets may have been indefinitely delayed, however."
Yes, the British. Americans usually eat their beans with rice or franks. Both good sources of amino acids.
In the Judeo-Christian family of beliefs only humans get souls, and sometimes not even all of 'em. So you don't even have to dust off your PCR for this one.
Meat that hasn't seen use is highly sought after in some circles. Think of veal.
More importantly it should be noted that genetic abnormalities shouldn't affect you unless the meat had somehow mutated to produce toxins or taste really bad. Just because the genes are modified doesn't mean they're capable of modifying [i]you[/i].
Y'know, people smell and taste stuff differently. For me there is something to be said for a properly cooked hamburger with nothing added. I acknowledge and enjoy the complex flavors of smoked meat and the guilty pleasure of walking into an indian or thai restaurant and asking for the extra-spicy off-the-menu stuff, but that's not all there is. It sounds to me like you just can't taste meat. Kind of like how all cooked fish tastes the same to me.
I just submitted my resume to NASA , you insensitive clod!
Yes, but why would google want to compete with themselves? Don't they have a space program yet?
I'm not sure that this is relevant. Worms come from many sources and a great many are obviously not being deployed and exploited by people in Asia. The point is, if you have a Mac you have basically have a negligible chance of being compromised and claims that this is entirely due to market share is, well irrelevant to all the points I made, even if true.
Security through obscurity is supposedly one of the great fallacies of IT. Apple did only two things well with the iPod. The first is they marketed it supernaturally well and got everybody hooked on their cockamamie interface so they didn't want to use anything else.iPods were the first portable players of this sort that were easily usable one handed. That was a pretty nice innovation. As for marketing, sure they're pretty decent at that, but so is Sony and numerous other market entrants.
Sony has their own legions of hardcore obsessive fans. If you look at the mp3 players Sony was developing at the time I think you will see that they were more focussed on their mini-disk technology than penetrating the mp3 market. I'm guessing the one-handed operation criteria is more of an opinion thing than anything else. I don't recall having any trouble operating any mp3 player I've owned with one hand, but that's just my opinion. Secondly they created the 1.5" hard drive. They weren't the first people to sick a hard drive in an mp3 player, but they were the first to use one that small.I don't think Apple did make that.
You're right, they didn't. I was mistaken. I was basing my observation off some advertising material I read six or seven years ago. They were the first company I know of to stick a drive that size into an mp3 player, discounting the cf ones that could support an ibm microdrive. That was probably just their media blitz, though.What Apple did was to address the entire user experience with significant usability testing. They addressed having hardware and software and a service that worked together smoothly. I remember very intelligent people installing iTunes just to rip their CD collections because the software that came with the player they had purchased was too hard to use. They were the first manufacturer to offer an integrated music service with DRM that did not get in the average person's way and which allowed them to burn a CD of music purchased online. The main thing they did was concentrate on a subset of features, but polish those usability cases. It worked, even if you don't recognize the work that is involved in that. Go ahead an assume it is all Apple's ability to trick everyone into using a horrible interface with their brilliant marketing.
I never said the interface was horrible, just cockamamie (which means ridiculous or nonsensical). That's my opinion. Perhaps I should have called it, " whimsical" or, "unique". The iPod is the only mp3 player I ever picked up and had to ask for help playing a song. That's an example. From my experience I conclude the interface is just unintuitive for me. I don't know what your experience is with other players, but I think we can agree that it is more complex than most. I think if the average person was aware that there were other players out there more people might agree with me.
I believe one should be able to plug an mp3 player into one's computer, drag and drop a song on it, and be ready to go. Maybe it's my age showing, but I remember back when I could use the same program to rip or burn CDs that I used before I got my current mp3 player. I remember there was a time everybody could download an mp3 and upload it to my mp3 player without having to burn a CD of it. I remember there was a time when a dollar a song was considered expensive, but I digress. Compared to the other players I've used the iPod is overpriced and needlessly complex and I believe that its success mostly due to marketing, and, often cult-like; brand loyalty
I learned something today. Thank you. It turns out the used an off the shelf hard drive from toshiba, that was a second or third gen HD, and their advertising was phrased in such a way as to make it sound like they invented it.
Unless they're planning on developing for the mac platform this really doesn't make much sense. Why dump one closed, DRM laden, overpriced desktop solution for another? This is IBM we're talking about. They could just as easily make an internal flavor of Linux that behaves like Leopard - or a completely new OS for that matter - if they really wanted to.
I didn't mean to liken China to Nazi Germany. I was just grasping for the word for someone, and I'm sure you've all seen the guy being interviewed on TV, who is adamant that the holocaust didn't happen. I suppose I should have said, " racial supremecist," but there are so many flavors of those I doubted anybody'd get the message. The point is that China doesn't take advice from the outside world.
A lot of the hypocrisy they're pointing to was in the past. It's a big, "Let he who has no sin cast the first stone" fallacy. Sure it took hundreds of years for the US or the EU to reach their current level of, "civilization", but we didn't have the benefit of telecommunications, high literacy rates, infrastructure, and a host of other things that should be making the transition to, at least, the currently accepted, perfunctory, level of humanity a lot less difficult.
Yes, but who's going to do that? China, as a country, seems to have a tendency to enjoy sticking its fingers in its ears and humming when someone brings up a point that doesn't fit neatly into its worldview. Like a child being told there's no Santa Claus or a Neo-Nazi being confronted with evidence of the holocaust.
That's really my whole point, though. This discussion presupposes the majority of people do not know how to configure their WiFi. We can not assume that an open network is the result of generosity when there is so strong a possibility it is the result of ignorance.
Using people's Wifi without their express consent isn't the entire framework of the internet, is it?
The, "...all kinds of hellos and please use me [sic]" Is part of the signal. It wouldn't work otherwise. OK, it would work, but it would require a significant amount of effort beyond what can be expected from the hypothetical average reasonable person - an issue in itself, but a separate one.
Girlfriends have free will. I'm sorry I neglected to include a disclaimor to that effect in my analogy. It is not my belief that members of one's preferred sex become mindless automata when engaged in a relationship. I was just thinking biblically about oxen, asses, and wives that should not be coveted and hoping it would obviate the possibility of using the old, " Well, I don't care about material goods and thus nobody does :P !" response by referring to something most people want and like to keep.
The Dollar bill comparison is flawed because the act of placing a dollar bill somewhere is a conscious act. If that same hypothetical person were to wander into your house simply possessing the aforementioned lucre in a visible manner it would be more appropriate. By virtue of the fact that it is money and you want to spend it the money is, "inviting" you to use it, and it is on your property, but no one has expressly given nor bequeathed it to you yet.
... If you misuse the network to steal data of your host, the stealing should obviously still be illegal Yeah, but how are you going to enforce that? Easier to just pass a blanket, "No Trespassing" law and be done with it.