Law enforcement? Please. These things will be rolling into showers, changing rooms, and bathrooms about five minutes after they hit the market, with DVD sales following right behind (UPSK1RT!!!).
Also, the word is "precede," if you mean "going first."
Actually there are several benefits to being a department chair, usually including a teaching load reduction and admistrative assistance (eg a secretary). It's not just symbolic. There is very little prestige in being a chair inside academia, since most people know that it is a service position rather than some sort of honor. Outside academia it might be impressive, if that's the symbolic value you're talking about.
As Robert Michels noted, all groups tend toward oligarchy, or if you prefer, elite formation. That's not an interesting question.
The interesting question is, to whom are these bloggers elite? TFA indicates that the readership numbers aren't really that big compared to mainstream media, so probably they're not the elite for everyone. Nor are they necessarily elites in terms of the "tech world," especially since it's difficult to define what that might be (all tech consumers? producers? tech press?).
So we're left with a pretty basic observation, which is that some tech bloggers are considered elite in the world of tech blogging, and that some people outside tech blogging also recognize them. Well, duh.
"I would think this "Smart Box" would get hacked way too easily, leaving car companies without their money."
Not really. It just means that they would fall back on the existing system, that is, physical repossession. In other words, it's no worse than the current system (from their perspective), and might encourage the non-hackers (eg almost everyone) to pay up.
While this will help people put greater trust in the system by providing a paper trail, the core problem is still there. If you can commit fraud by altering a computer system, surely you can commit fraud by altering the part of the system that generates the paper trail, or by altering/switching the paper trail itself. This is a limitation of technological solutions to problems of trust and reciprocity. They always encounter the problem of infinite regress, where the technological solution to a problem (often a problem generated by a previous technological solution) is always able to be undermined. This is one of the arguments why DRM is doomed to fail (eg DVD Jon can always hack the next "improved" version of DRM). In this sense, electronic voting systems are much like DRM: an inevitably limited and imperfect techonological solution that gets in the way of an important process of trust and reciprocity.
"Attack submarine, designed to seek and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships. Their other missions range from intelligence collection and special forces delivery to anti-ship and strike warfare. It is a multi-mission vessel, capable of deploying to forward ocean areas to search out and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships and to fire missiles in support of other forces."
Sounds pretty serious. If you have an SSN, you should definitely not let another person or country get hold of it. Frankly, I'm amazed that anyone in America can get an SSN, but that's liberty for you.
People may want only 12 things available, but each person may want a different 12 things. When you put several versions of the "45 things" list together, you get Photoshop. Or, uh, Microsoft Works. Except it doesn't, you see.
Fine, Venus, whatever. But seriously, tell me about Uranus.
Reusing Code == Unoriginal Game Play
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"I also have quite a code base that I've been using for a long time, so I know how certain systems will work before I even throw them in."
My first thought on this was, Wow, wouldn't it be great to Open Source this code base. My second thought was, isn't this a symptom of a larger problem? We want code to be modular and reusable so complex games can be developed quickly, yet we complain that games aren't original enough because people are reusing code. Seems like a fundamental problem to me.
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Any Macs with Core Duo processors (e.g. 2006 era iMacs) can run Snow Leopard but not Lion.
It's not in the box, it's in the band.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
Law enforcement? Please. These things will be rolling into showers, changing rooms, and bathrooms about five minutes after they hit the market, with DVD sales following right behind (UPSK1RT!!!).
Also, the word is "precede," if you mean "going first."
Actually there are several benefits to being a department chair, usually including a teaching load reduction and admistrative assistance (eg a secretary). It's not just symbolic. There is very little prestige in being a chair inside academia, since most people know that it is a service position rather than some sort of honor. Outside academia it might be impressive, if that's the symbolic value you're talking about.
The more the article emphasizes Linux "ease of use" or "desktop readiness", the higher the likelihood that a user will be hand-editing X config files.
The interesting question is, to whom are these bloggers elite? TFA indicates that the readership numbers aren't really that big compared to mainstream media, so probably they're not the elite for everyone. Nor are they necessarily elites in terms of the "tech world," especially since it's difficult to define what that might be (all tech consumers? producers? tech press?).
So we're left with a pretty basic observation, which is that some tech bloggers are considered elite in the world of tech blogging, and that some people outside tech blogging also recognize them. Well, duh.
Install Windows Antivirus Beta? *yes*
Are you sure you wish to uninstall Windows?
Not really. It just means that they would fall back on the existing system, that is, physical repossession. In other words, it's no worse than the current system (from their perspective), and might encourage the non-hackers (eg almost everyone) to pay up.
Sir, I need you to put down the thesaurus, and slowly back away. Keep your hands where I can see them!
I give you...the Crapteron!
While this will help people put greater trust in the system by providing a paper trail, the core problem is still there. If you can commit fraud by altering a computer system, surely you can commit fraud by altering the part of the system that generates the paper trail, or by altering/switching the paper trail itself. This is a limitation of technological solutions to problems of trust and reciprocity. They always encounter the problem of infinite regress, where the technological solution to a problem (often a problem generated by a previous technological solution) is always able to be undermined. This is one of the arguments why DRM is doomed to fail (eg DVD Jon can always hack the next "improved" version of DRM). In this sense, electronic voting systems are much like DRM: an inevitably limited and imperfect techonological solution that gets in the way of an important process of trust and reciprocity.
In fact, it sounds really cool. In fact, *everything* sounds cool with "cyber" in it. No seriously, try it. Cyber jail. Cyber llama. Cyber tubgirl.
Told you so.
"Attack submarine, designed to seek and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships. Their other missions range from intelligence collection and special forces delivery to anti-ship and strike warfare. It is a multi-mission vessel, capable of deploying to forward ocean areas to search out and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships and to fire missiles in support of other forces."
Sounds pretty serious. If you have an SSN, you should definitely not let another person or country get hold of it. Frankly, I'm amazed that anyone in America can get an SSN, but that's liberty for you.
They have to make a nifty "GOO.ogle" logo.
People may want only 12 things available, but each person may want a different 12 things. When you put several versions of the "45 things" list together, you get Photoshop. Or, uh, Microsoft Works. Except it doesn't, you see.
As if millions of Apple customers suddenly cried out, and were silenced.
"What more could you want?"
Gee, I don't know. Ethnic diversity?
P.S. Please do not tell me how diverse the university is. Even with the university, Madison is >86% white people.
Fine, Venus, whatever. But seriously, tell me about Uranus.
"I also have quite a code base that I've been using for a long time, so I know how certain systems will work before I even throw them in."
My first thought on this was, Wow, wouldn't it be great to Open Source this code base. My second thought was, isn't this a symptom of a larger problem? We want code to be modular and reusable so complex games can be developed quickly, yet we complain that games aren't original enough because people are reusing code. Seems like a fundamental problem to me.
By the time he's done with Halo, it should be just about time to start filming Duke Nukem Forever.
A hand-cranked device that could produce 3-5 days of food and water would probably be popular.
Call me when you reverse engineer Quantum Leap.
They might declare English food to be a terrorist act, and erode the rights of British pubs to serve crap.
word word word *BING* ding duh-dong dong.