Ages ago I watched a young boy play Super Mario Brothers. He ran along some path, stopped at some seemingly random location, banged his head on the brick 8 times, a gold bar fell out. Pocketed the points and ran along. I asked him, "how did you know there is a gold bar on that brick?". He said, "Well, you keep banging your head on every brick in the wall to see if there is something?". "You banged your head on EVERY brick eight times on this tunnel?", He goes, "nah, I banged some 30 or 40 times, this brick needs only 8 hits".
He should have hit it 4,294,967,303 times, just in case.
They didn't sell the cars for $1000. That was just the reservation price. $35,000 * 115,000 = $4.025 billion, which is a pretty substantial amount of money.
If you click on "(Score:1)" in his comment, you'll find it's a link that pops up a window with a list of the moderation done on the comment. In this case, it will pop up a message that says "No comment history available" because it hasn't been modded at all (at least not at the time that I'm posting this comment).
If you're going to accuse someone of modding their own comments up, you should at least do it in response to a comment that's actually been modded up.
There's no stopping it. This is just another example of how the free market actually works.
Every company is free to introduce whatever the hell they want and spew as much BS marketing hype and misinformation as they can afford in an attempt to sway the masses of confused consumers who, for lack of time or knowledge, can't discern between good information and bad. Eventually something catches on and becomes popular (often for little more reason than the pet rock did in the 70s) and we're all more-or-less stuck with it until the next fad comes along and becomes the popular choice.
First, the person I responded to did not specify that they were getting a point of presence for the prices quoted, just upload/download speeds.
Second, I suspect you don't really know what a Point of Presence is if you think that commercial grade internet service piped into your home or business equates to having a PoP. Unlike you, I don't have to guess that you don't know much about business and commercial grade connections because you've proven it.
Third, getting back to upload/download speeds (which is what I was responding to): http://www.verizon.com/smallbu... 500 mb/s up and down, $360/month.
Fourth, don't even start whining about how FIOS isn't available to you. You want to know what's available in your area, do your own search. It's not my fault that you were too lazy to look for a better provider and wound up paying out the ass for sub-par service like the person I responded to.
Washington D.C. does have a lower rate of theft than the national average.
Of course it also has 2x the national average rate of rapes, 3x the rate of murder and 5x the rate of muggings so, while you may get mugged, raped and murdered, your parked car is fairly safe.
Did I just call the entire computer security industry a scam? Why yes, I did. Tell me I'm wrong please, and try and add a believable argument.
Okay. You're wrong.
You've painted the entire computer security industry as being nothing more than virus scanning software. For an example of how just wrong this is, you need to look no further than the summary; "the researcher discovered 4 security issues in the past four months, and is in the process of submitting a fifth." Security researchers who find flaws, the programmers who implement encryption algorithms to keep your data safe, the manufacturers of firewalls that help protect everyone's systems... the group of people you've dismissed as virus scanner scammers would be enough to fill a large city.
Let me illustrate what you're suggesting in a different way. Do a search for "internet of things exploit" and "internet of things security." You'll get tens of thousands of results. Read a few. You'll find that, to borrow a line from Ars Technica, âoeInternet of Thingsâ security is hilariously broken and getting worse. If the entire computer security industry was nothing but a scam, that is what all computer security would look like.
That student in particular has a vested interest in a particular area of her field, and hopefully that will grow into a later expertise, and ultimately significant contributions to human knowledge.
Not so much. If you'd read the article, you'd have seen this:
Barbi remains unexcited. She is involved with theater arts, studies acting, plays the piano and the guitar, sings, and dances.
"I don't think math will become my profession. I hope to work in theater arts," Barbi says.
the fact that it's extremely difficult to determine the factors of large prime numbers is the basis for a lot of cryptography
I think you might have jumbled your words.
It's exceptionally easy to determine the factors of any large prime number because there are only two; the number one the number itself. Determining the prime factors of a large, non-prime number, on the other hand, is a challenge.
The S7 is IP68 certified which means that you can submerge it in up to 1.5 metres of water for up to 30 minutes without damage being done to the phone. Accomplishing that with a removable battery would be an absolute nightmare
No, it's not. Here's a $23 phone with a removable battery which is IP 57 rated (1 meter of water for up to 30 minutes). When you take the back cover off, there's a simple gasket that prevents water from entering into the compartment that hold the battery, SIM and memory card. It's not complicated at all and it's certainly not a nightmare.
If you feel the researchers didn't go far enough, contact them and offer them funding to continue their research. I'm sure they'd be delighted at the prospect.
Vaporware is a product that is announced and/or sold without ever being made. Windows 1.0 was, in fact, inflicted on the world. It was a terrible product which was shipped late, but it existed.
Why can't we all use universal measurements like the meter (1 ten millionth the distance through Paris from the pole to the equator)
That's not the definition of a metre.
Yes, that actually was the original definition.
From Wikipedia: "the commission â" whose members included Lagrange, Laplace, Monge and Condorcet â" decided that the new measure should be equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator (the quadrant of the Earth's circumference), measured along the meridian passing through Paris.
The definition has been revised several times to base it on bars made of platinum, the wavelength of light and the speed of light, but that doesn't change the origin of the unit.
So... are you suggesting that Darwin's undead wraith is getting fat from eating the unused souls that would have gone into babies if people had just procreated more?
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Ages ago I watched a young boy play Super Mario Brothers. He ran along some path, stopped at some seemingly random location, banged his head on the brick 8 times, a gold bar fell out. Pocketed the points and ran along. I asked him, "how did you know there is a gold bar on that brick?". He said, "Well, you keep banging your head on every brick in the wall to see if there is something?". "You banged your head on EVERY brick eight times on this tunnel?", He goes, "nah, I banged some 30 or 40 times, this brick needs only 8 hits".
He should have hit it 4,294,967,303 times, just in case.
You mean UTF-10001100101001
They didn't sell the cars for $1000. That was just the reservation price. $35,000 * 115,000 = $4.025 billion, which is a pretty substantial amount of money.
Just 30 days ago... SCO Is Undeniably, Reliably Dead.
I'll take "what is an incoherent rant based on no facts whatsoever for $500, Alex."
I assume the reason that you were modded up
You assume incorrectly.
If you click on "(Score:1)" in his comment, you'll find it's a link that pops up a window with a list of the moderation done on the comment. In this case, it will pop up a message that says "No comment history available" because it hasn't been modded at all (at least not at the time that I'm posting this comment).
If you're going to accuse someone of modding their own comments up, you should at least do it in response to a comment that's actually been modded up.
With this technology, chatbots can become neo-nazi holocaust deniers in less than two hours!
it could be an easily added in-application option (AND the default setting.. with group policy permissions to disable changing), for ALL versions.
You think that updating, recompiling, testing and releasing 30+ versions of software released over the past 26 years is easy?
ROFLMFAO
There's no stopping it. This is just another example of how the free market actually works.
Every company is free to introduce whatever the hell they want and spew as much BS marketing hype and misinformation as they can afford in an attempt to sway the masses of confused consumers who, for lack of time or knowledge, can't discern between good information and bad. Eventually something catches on and becomes popular (often for little more reason than the pet rock did in the 70s) and we're all more-or-less stuck with it until the next fad comes along and becomes the popular choice.
Hooray for capitalism!
I'm pretty sure a date doesn't mean sex which means someone is a troll.
That lengthy list captures that idea perfectly.
... and ensures that almost nobody will actually read it, defeating the suggested purpose of posting it.
What you're doing is just as pointless as any other meme that gets spammed on /. and scrolled past by the users.
First, the person I responded to did not specify that they were getting a point of presence for the prices quoted, just upload/download speeds.
Second, I suspect you don't really know what a Point of Presence is if you think that commercial grade internet service piped into your home or business equates to having a PoP. Unlike you, I don't have to guess that you don't know much about business and commercial grade connections because you've proven it.
Third, getting back to upload/download speeds (which is what I was responding to):
http://www.verizon.com/smallbu...
500 mb/s up and down, $360/month.
Fourth, don't even start whining about how FIOS isn't available to you. You want to know what's available in your area, do your own search. It's not my fault that you were too lazy to look for a better provider and wound up paying out the ass for sub-par service like the person I responded to.
I pay over $1500/month for 100/100. And THAT was after leaving my old carrier at $4000 for 10/10.
Uhh... congratulations on getting really raped on prices?
You should be proud that you're so much better at being taken advantage of than the other people here?
You've shown us all how to really fail at negotiation?
Go you?
Washington D.C. does have a lower rate of theft than the national average.
Of course it also has 2x the national average rate of rapes, 3x the rate of murder and 5x the rate of muggings so, while you may get mugged, raped and murdered, your parked car is fairly safe.
charter went bankrupt a few years ago due to the crushing costs of upgrading their systems
Oh, in that case we should definitely approve a deal that will cost them $79 billion dollars. Nothing could possibly go wrong!
Did I just call the entire computer security industry a scam? Why yes, I did. Tell me I'm wrong please, and try and add a believable argument.
Okay. You're wrong.
You've painted the entire computer security industry as being nothing more than virus scanning software. For an example of how just wrong this is, you need to look no further than the summary; "the researcher discovered 4 security issues in the past four months, and is in the process of submitting a fifth." Security researchers who find flaws, the programmers who implement encryption algorithms to keep your data safe, the manufacturers of firewalls that help protect everyone's systems... the group of people you've dismissed as virus scanner scammers would be enough to fill a large city.
Let me illustrate what you're suggesting in a different way. Do a search for "internet of things exploit" and "internet of things security." You'll get tens of thousands of results. Read a few. You'll find that, to borrow a line from Ars Technica, âoeInternet of Thingsâ security is hilariously broken and getting worse. If the entire computer security industry was nothing but a scam, that is what all computer security would look like.
That student in particular has a vested interest in a particular area of her field, and hopefully that will grow into a later expertise, and ultimately significant contributions to human knowledge.
Not so much. If you'd read the article, you'd have seen this:
Barbi remains unexcited. She is involved with theater arts, studies acting, plays the piano and the guitar, sings, and dances.
"I don't think math will become my profession. I hope to work in theater arts," Barbi says.
the fact that it's extremely difficult to determine the factors of large prime numbers is the basis for a lot of cryptography
I think you might have jumbled your words.
It's exceptionally easy to determine the factors of any large prime number because there are only two; the number one the number itself. Determining the prime factors of a large, non-prime number, on the other hand, is a challenge.
The S7 is IP68 certified which means that you can submerge it in up to 1.5 metres of water for up to 30 minutes without damage being done to the phone. Accomplishing that with a removable battery would be an absolute nightmare
No, it's not. Here's a $23 phone with a removable battery which is IP 57 rated (1 meter of water for up to 30 minutes). When you take the back cover off, there's a simple gasket that prevents water from entering into the compartment that hold the battery, SIM and memory card. It's not complicated at all and it's certainly not a nightmare.
If you feel the researchers didn't go far enough, contact them and offer them funding to continue their research. I'm sure they'd be delighted at the prospect.
Vaporware is a product that is announced and/or sold without ever being made. Windows 1.0 was, in fact, inflicted on the world. It was a terrible product which was shipped late, but it existed.
Why can't we all use universal measurements like the meter (1 ten millionth the distance through Paris from the pole to the equator)
That's not the definition of a metre.
Yes, that actually was the original definition.
From Wikipedia:
"the commission â" whose members included Lagrange, Laplace, Monge and Condorcet â" decided that the new measure should be equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator (the quadrant of the Earth's circumference), measured along the meridian passing through Paris.
The definition has been revised several times to base it on bars made of platinum, the wavelength of light and the speed of light, but that doesn't change the origin of the unit.
Windows 1.0 was not vaporware. It was ugly, ran slowly and everyone kinda hated it, but it was a real product that was put up for sale.
If you think truth is stranger than fiction, you clearly haven't been reading the self-published dinosaur porn that's been showing up on Amazon.
So... are you suggesting that Darwin's undead wraith is getting fat from eating the unused souls that would have gone into babies if people had just procreated more?