The NYT article linked from TFA clearly states that the tournament was broadcast live on the internet, and this fellow lost due to a rudimentary mistake in the last round when the organizers switched off the live broadcast, which lends some credence to the OP's suggestion. As another poster stated, a 1 or 2 move delay in the live broadcast would mitigate this issue.
I sincerely hope you're kidding... the whole reason we have gorilla glass now is because Steve Jobs talked Corning into making it again for the first iPhone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass
Hopefully MS fixes its frosty piss issues with Displayport hotplug compatibility. We've got some 27" DP monitors here that will disconnect and rearrange all your windows every time the monitor goes to sleep. It's driving us nuts.
Wrong, Apple will let you download any track that it has "matched" in your library in 256 Kbps AAC, which should be quite abusable. See my response to the OP.
Assuming it's based on what they purchased from LaLa, it's fairly trivial to get them to give you a good copy of an arbitrary track. I tried this when LaLa debuted their "cloud music service", which would scan your library, matching tracks by, as far as I could tell, tags only. I took a random MP3 file, re-tagged it to a track that I didn't own, and ran the Lala scanner. Sure enough, it showed up on Lala as a track that I owned and could listen to an unlimited number of times online. Of course at that point Lala didn't let you re-download matched tracks as Apple will, so it was limited. But I'm forced to assume that if you have the patience, you could get Apple to give you 256Kbps MP3s of albums you don't actually own.
The whole deal with Psystar is they are selling OSX with the necessary kernel patches and drivers to get it running on non-apple hardware. That could possibly run afoul of this grey area of which you speak.
I've noticed that after watching 2-3 videos, the next few will take much longer to download, stopping and buffering every few seconds, like Realplayer.
I'm on Comcast, btw.
I have. I worked for a high school IT dept, and the CAD lab/shop class computers had gouges taken out of the LCDs with X-acto knives, balsa sticks shoved into the fans, and all sorts of abuse that would make any IT dept want to throttle an entire class of miscreants.
All they would have to do is have IE8 scan the comments in HTML, CSS and Javascript files for things like "Stupid IE Hack" or "sucky hack because IE sucks" or "FU, IE", and switch the render engine accordingly.
The reason Netscape dominated the market was because no systems had bundled browsers, not in spite of it. The reason Netscape took a dump in market share was because Microsoft started bundling IE with Windows in 1995, essentially killing Netscape.
The problem with not settling out of court while retaining an attorney is that the attorney gets expensive after a while. The reason most settle out of court is due to the excessive legal fees that would be incurred had they fought it out in court. Your lawyer would be more than happy to continue to charge you for his services if you didn't settle, but representing yourself allows you to avoid paying an attorney to fight it for you.
The RIAA was originally created to make sure everyone's vinyl would play correctly. It's called the RIAA curve, created to keep RCA from equalizing differently than Columbia, so your records would sound good. It also oversaw later electronic recording formats. It was only later that it became a sort of union, and then, even later, a sort of police organization, as you stated.
Exactly. I have played with some speech-to-text apps, and it always seems much slower and less accurate than if I were typing. They will have to be a lot more accurate for them to be useful for everyday use.
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Came here for Snow Crash reference, am not leaving disappointed.
Can anyone show me an alternative that isn't getting totally hammered right now? That kind of thing just doesn't inspire confidence...
The NYT article linked from TFA clearly states that the tournament was broadcast live on the internet, and this fellow lost due to a rudimentary mistake in the last round when the organizers switched off the live broadcast, which lends some credence to the OP's suggestion. As another poster stated, a 1 or 2 move delay in the live broadcast would mitigate this issue.
I sincerely hope you're kidding... the whole reason we have gorilla glass now is because Steve Jobs talked Corning into making it again for the first iPhone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass
Posting to undo failed moderation....
Hopefully MS fixes its frosty piss issues with Displayport hotplug compatibility. We've got some 27" DP monitors here that will disconnect and rearrange all your windows every time the monitor goes to sleep. It's driving us nuts.
Looks like the AC above you has prior art.
My car is almost as old as XP, my wife' is older - both work fine.
I'd certainly hope that your wife is older than XP!
hoooooly apostrophes, batman
Firefox is for anyone who does not want to deal with that ingrained in the system bloated piece of crap security nightmare that is IE.
By "IE" are you referring to IE 6 or to IE 8 and 9?
Yes.
Wrong, Apple will let you download any track that it has "matched" in your library in 256 Kbps AAC, which should be quite abusable. See my response to the OP.
Assuming it's based on what they purchased from LaLa, it's fairly trivial to get them to give you a good copy of an arbitrary track. I tried this when LaLa debuted their "cloud music service", which would scan your library, matching tracks by, as far as I could tell, tags only. I took a random MP3 file, re-tagged it to a track that I didn't own, and ran the Lala scanner. Sure enough, it showed up on Lala as a track that I owned and could listen to an unlimited number of times online. Of course at that point Lala didn't let you re-download matched tracks as Apple will, so it was limited. But I'm forced to assume that if you have the patience, you could get Apple to give you 256Kbps MP3s of albums you don't actually own.
Their soul's what?
That would be trademarks, chief. Trademarks have to be defended, copyrights do not.
Came in here for the cigar-shaped jokes, am not leaving disappointed.
The whole deal with Psystar is they are selling OSX with the necessary kernel patches and drivers to get it running on non-apple hardware. That could possibly run afoul of this grey area of which you speak.
I've noticed that after watching 2-3 videos, the next few will take much longer to download, stopping and buffering every few seconds, like Realplayer. I'm on Comcast, btw.
I have. I worked for a high school IT dept, and the CAD lab/shop class computers had gouges taken out of the LCDs with X-acto knives, balsa sticks shoved into the fans, and all sorts of abuse that would make any IT dept want to throttle an entire class of miscreants.
All they would have to do is have IE8 scan the comments in HTML, CSS and Javascript files for things like "Stupid IE Hack" or "sucky hack because IE sucks" or "FU, IE", and switch the render engine accordingly.
The reason Netscape dominated the market was because no systems had bundled browsers, not in spite of it. The reason Netscape took a dump in market share was because Microsoft started bundling IE with Windows in 1995, essentially killing Netscape.
The problem with not settling out of court while retaining an attorney is that the attorney gets expensive after a while. The reason most settle out of court is due to the excessive legal fees that would be incurred had they fought it out in court. Your lawyer would be more than happy to continue to charge you for his services if you didn't settle, but representing yourself allows you to avoid paying an attorney to fight it for you.
The RIAA was originally created to make sure everyone's vinyl would play correctly. It's called the RIAA curve, created to keep RCA from equalizing differently than Columbia, so your records would sound good. It also oversaw later electronic recording formats. It was only later that it became a sort of union, and then, even later, a sort of police organization, as you stated.
Exactly. I have played with some speech-to-text apps, and it always seems much slower and less accurate than if I were typing. They will have to be a lot more accurate for them to be useful for everyday use.