The actual state of the machine is "all possibilities at once", it is the act of observing the result that actually collapses the waveform and causes the answer to settle into a specific state.
So obviously, in the 21% cases, the operator just looked at the computer "in a funny way".
The problem I see is not that Apple want complete control over *their* boxes, but that they want complete control over other manufacturer's boxes also.
Let's just say, hypothetically, that A N Other harware manufacturer could produce a system that ran Mac OSX perfectly well, or perhaps even better than Apple's own hardware, then a huge chunk of Apple's income would go south overnight.
So at what point does Apple's behaviour become anti-competitive ? They *are* shutting out other manufacturers from making hardware that *could* run their software.
Despite this being a perfectly valid argument, I expect to get modded into oblivion by the fanbois rather than expect any valid counterargument.
It's like when I was 11 and got a Chemistry Set. I followed all the experiments to the letter, observed the fizzy bubbles and pretty coloured flames, and then did what any inquisitive boy does.
Dumps every compound into a big beaker and see what happens.
It usually ends up grey, goopy and smelling of rotten eggs.
See, the problem is that the AGW crowd will quite happily cherry pick the period from about 1980 to 2008 and then extrapolate the sky-is-falling scenario to suit their agenda / funding.
But, consider the period 1920 to 1940... pretty much the same dramatic upward trend as in the 1980 to 2008 period... and look what happened next between 1940 and 1980... an actual decrease in temperature.
The question is, what happened between 1940 and 1980 ? Did we decrease our carbon emissions ? Hell no. Did we suddenly reforest half the planet ? Don't think so. So why did the temperature behave in that way during a pretty recent *industrialised* period of humanity ? Inconvenient huh ?
If they'd present their work honestly then maybe I'd have a bit more respect for them. But they all too easily discount or often simply omit any data that doesn't suit them.
It's amazing how easily they manage to attribute the extra carbon to emissions, while perhaps neglecting that maybe, just maybe, the carbon sinks have decreased over the same period, i.e. deforestation etc.
And when we recently saw snow in India, how can anyone take a 6oC *rise* seriously. Some places are getting hotter, some are getting colder, nature will adjust itself as always.
Walking through a forest on fire would probably make you cough also. Likewise sucking on an exhaust pipe.
But the point is, no one in their right mind would deliberately walk through a forest fire.
Whereas you'll quite happily seek out a smoker minding his own business, get within range of his smoke, and then complain about it. And then return to the office on foot, passing throgh the exhaust smoke of 100's of cars without a second thought.
Now that's not *always* the case, but some non-smokers (and even worse ex-smokers), will actively seek out targets just so they can have a go at them. Please tell me you aren't one of those people ?
Doing so requires codecs that don't come standard on the 360
Exactly... as a benefit of using the Live service, you could get *extra* codecs etc to play non-standard formatted movies.
Once you broke the contract with them by modding your box, you lost the benefits of that service.
You see how that works ?
Your complaint is like losing your cable service, and then wondering where you'll put your bag of nachos now you don't have a decoder box anymore to use as a table. Completely irrelevant to the reason *why* you lost the service in the first place, and certainly not the problem of the cable company.
One of the most useful things I ever learnt in school was problems involving "casting out 9s", and it struck me immediately the pattern you used... 1 + 8 = 9, 2 + 7 = 9
Have you actually seen a group of teens in Starbucks these days. They don't talk to each other anymore, they Twitter the person across the table via their mobile.
Jesus, I can't even have a conversation with my wife without getting "put on hold with the hand" while she answers that "oh-so-important" text message... and she's old enough to know better !
We might still be living in the real world, but we communicate in cyberspace.
I'd say that reality is getting closer to the GP's view than you appreciate.
This is the Union that gave us regulations on Banana Curvature, costing fruit growers millions in lost produce, and then 10 years later repealed the regulations, just as everyone had installed Banana Straightening Machines. (okay, I made the last bit up, but you get the picture).
The EU can and will do anything it sees fit, and if countries don't follow suite, they get their subsidies fucked with, or huge fines levied for non-compliance with EU Directives. Of course, recently they seem to have found a new cash cow levying billons of dollars in extortion money^W^Wfines against MS and Intel.
In our day, we dint av any of these fancy bloody web applications.
We had to make do with everythin in 24 point Times New Roman Marquee, in black, white, cyan or magenta mind you. And for graphics we ad ASCII art. And none of this bloody Javascript nonsense either. If you wanted to submit a form, you filled it in bloody right the first time, and then submitted it... if you'd fucked something up, you ad to redo the bloody thing from scratch as a lesson to be more bloody careful next time.
Now git off my lawn.
(As a side note, bearing in mind how long it takes to actually POST a comment to Slashdot, would these guys seriously be happy with even more "Whoa Space Cowboy, you didn't choose a radio option" error messages ?)
you could blindfold them with a piece of dental floss
I'd much prefer to garrotte you with it.
1/5 of the World's population is Chinese, and they're the only buggers you'll find open at 3am when you want a takeout, after a night drinking with your white-supremacist mates. So I'd STFU if I were you.
I'm amazed that this pyramid scheme has been allowed to continue unabated (and with tax-free status) for nigh on 40 years !
It's no more a religion than Amway, Avon or Tupperware is... although you'd need a firemans vice to separate my mother-in-law from her overpriced plastic boxes.
I'd have suggested a URL blacklist, but it takes so long already to post a comment, I really don't want to make the process any longer.
Anyway, the site sucks. Have you read his "Rivacy Policy", perfect Engrish, and nothing whatsoever to do with privacy.
1. About product All of our products are the best quality AAA quality,brand new in original box with retro card,paper work and certificate logo.Famous Branded Goods
2.what is the return policy? after you receive the package,if there will be something badly damaged or wrong,take pictures for that,we will reship the good when you next time order or return you half of products money,because if you send back cost much in shiping,it is not reasonable.
3.Is this a legit website? This is legit website,We are selling the items displayed on our website. We have sent many packages to different countries. we have many year business,we are serious to do business,we take the most safe payment, it is most safe way payment,we have own facory, we can promise our quality, please do not worry about that.
So they send you damaged goods, and then refund only half your money, because you will lose anyway by having to ship it back to the Chinese sweatshop yourself. Sounds like the perfect scam.
Best way to stop losers like this is post derogatory comments about his "business", and hope Google associates them with his website.
First time the user opens a web browser, he gets a one time message like
"This program will open ports 80 and 443 to connect to the internet, and port 53 to make DNS lookups"
Likewise for e-mail readers, games, etc etc.
It immediately makes even the dumbest user aware that they have "opened a door" to the outside world, and helps them learn about what their PC is doing.
Also, once they get the hang of this, they're perhaps more likely to question when say a PDF reader or whatever wants to phone home.
I don't see why outgoing connections should be any more open than incoming ones... most of the problems occur when the user downloads something or opens an email attachment, in which case the program is already executing *inside* the firewall... at least the user would be informed, this [insert-strange-application] here "wants to connect out on some port, are you sure this is okay ?"
Trojans are far far more prevalent than viruses these days.
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You don't need two quantum states for that, one will suffice.
In The Red, until the end of the universe (where I hear there's a very nice restaurant).
The actual state of the machine is "all possibilities at once", it is the act of observing the result that actually collapses the waveform and causes the answer to settle into a specific state.
So obviously, in the 21% cases, the operator just looked at the computer "in a funny way".
The problem I see is not that Apple want complete control over *their* boxes, but that they want complete control over other manufacturer's boxes also.
Let's just say, hypothetically, that A N Other harware manufacturer could produce a system that ran Mac OSX perfectly well, or perhaps even better than Apple's own hardware, then a huge chunk of Apple's income would go south overnight.
So at what point does Apple's behaviour become anti-competitive ? They *are* shutting out other manufacturers from making hardware that *could* run their software.
Despite this being a perfectly valid argument, I expect to get modded into oblivion by the fanbois rather than expect any valid counterargument.
Calcium Carbonate should fix that ;-)
It's like when I was 11 and got a Chemistry Set. I followed all the experiments to the letter, observed the fizzy bubbles and pretty coloured flames, and then did what any inquisitive boy does.
Dumps every compound into a big beaker and see what happens.
It usually ends up grey, goopy and smelling of rotten eggs.
News at 11 ... eating oily fish gives you oily shits.
FFS, does no one have any common sense anymore, and has to be "informed" of every conceiveable eventuality ?
So all we need to do to counteract all this Carbon Dioxide is to pump more Sulphur Dioxide out.
Problem solved ;-)
Take a close look at that NASA graph.
See, the problem is that the AGW crowd will quite happily cherry pick the period from about 1980 to 2008 and then extrapolate the sky-is-falling scenario to suit their agenda / funding.
But, consider the period 1920 to 1940 ... pretty much the same dramatic upward trend as in the 1980 to 2008 period ... and look what happened next between 1940 and 1980 ... an actual decrease in temperature.
The question is, what happened between 1940 and 1980 ? Did we decrease our carbon emissions ? Hell no. Did we suddenly reforest half the planet ? Don't think so. So why did the temperature behave in that way during a pretty recent *industrialised* period of humanity ? Inconvenient huh ?
If they'd present their work honestly then maybe I'd have a bit more respect for them. But they all too easily discount or often simply omit any data that doesn't suit them.
It's amazing how easily they manage to attribute the extra carbon to emissions, while perhaps neglecting that maybe, just maybe, the carbon sinks have decreased over the same period, i.e. deforestation etc.
And when we recently saw snow in India, how can anyone take a 6oC *rise* seriously. Some places are getting hotter, some are getting colder, nature will adjust itself as always.
Walking through a forest on fire would probably make you cough also. Likewise sucking on an exhaust pipe.
But the point is, no one in their right mind would deliberately walk through a forest fire.
Whereas you'll quite happily seek out a smoker minding his own business, get within range of his smoke, and then complain about it. And then return to the office on foot, passing throgh the exhaust smoke of 100's of cars without a second thought.
Now that's not *always* the case, but some non-smokers (and even worse ex-smokers), will actively seek out targets just so they can have a go at them. Please tell me you aren't one of those people ?
Umm, so what exactly does cron or Windows Task Manager do ?
Oh, that's right, they run in the background, waking up periodically to see if anything is due to be executed in the crontab / scheduled tasks list.
Is it possible to nominate the parent for dumbest comment of the day ?
Doing so requires codecs that don't come standard on the 360
Exactly ... as a benefit of using the Live service, you could get *extra* codecs etc to play non-standard formatted movies.
Once you broke the contract with them by modding your box, you lost the benefits of that service.
You see how that works ?
Your complaint is like losing your cable service, and then wondering where you'll put your bag of nachos now you don't have a decoder box anymore to use as a table. Completely irrelevant to the reason *why* you lost the service in the first place, and certainly not the problem of the cable company.
coolforsale.com chinese sweatshop spam scam illegal copies
(Join the campaign to trash this asshole, get Google to associate his site with everything that is bad about the web).
1287 seems to work.
One of the most useful things I ever learnt in school was problems involving "casting out 9s", and it struck me immediately the pattern you used ... 1 + 8 = 9, 2 + 7 = 9
In Soviet Russia, joke gets you !
So why don't we just build the walls out of the same material ?
Have you actually seen a group of teens in Starbucks these days. They don't talk to each other anymore, they Twitter the person across the table via their mobile.
Jesus, I can't even have a conversation with my wife without getting "put on hold with the hand" while she answers that "oh-so-important" text message ... and she's old enough to know better !
We might still be living in the real world, but we communicate in cyberspace.
I'd say that reality is getting closer to the GP's view than you appreciate.
This is the Union that gave us regulations on Banana Curvature, costing fruit growers millions in lost produce, and then 10 years later repealed the regulations, just as everyone had installed Banana Straightening Machines. (okay, I made the last bit up, but you get the picture).
The EU can and will do anything it sees fit, and if countries don't follow suite, they get their subsidies fucked with, or huge fines levied for non-compliance with EU Directives. Of course, recently they seem to have found a new cash cow levying billons of dollars in extortion money^W^Wfines against MS and Intel.
In our day, we dint av any of these fancy bloody web applications.
We had to make do with everythin in 24 point Times New Roman Marquee, in black, white, cyan or magenta mind you. And for graphics we ad ASCII art. And none of this bloody Javascript nonsense either. If you wanted to submit a form, you filled it in bloody right the first time, and then submitted it ... if you'd fucked something up, you ad to redo the bloody thing from scratch as a lesson to be more bloody careful next time.
Now git off my lawn.
(As a side note, bearing in mind how long it takes to actually POST a comment to Slashdot, would these guys seriously be happy with even more "Whoa Space Cowboy, you didn't choose a radio option" error messages ?)
Yes, unfortunately the idiom "A fool and his money are soon parted" doesn't apply when you have more money than you know what to do with.
you could blindfold them with a piece of dental floss
I'd much prefer to garrotte you with it.
1/5 of the World's population is Chinese, and they're the only buggers you'll find open at 3am when you want a takeout, after a night drinking with your white-supremacist mates. So I'd STFU if I were you.
I'm amazed that this pyramid scheme has been allowed to continue unabated (and with tax-free status) for nigh on 40 years !
It's no more a religion than Amway, Avon or Tupperware is ... although you'd need a firemans vice to separate my mother-in-law from her overpriced plastic boxes.
I'd have suggested a URL blacklist, but it takes so long already to post a comment, I really don't want to make the process any longer.
Anyway, the site sucks. Have you read his "Rivacy Policy", perfect Engrish, and nothing whatsoever to do with privacy.
1. About product
All of our products are the best quality AAA quality,brand new in original box with retro card,paper work and certificate logo.Famous Branded Goods
2.what is the return policy?
after you receive the package,if there will be something badly damaged or wrong,take pictures for that,we will reship the good when you next time order or return you half of products money,because if you send back cost much in shiping,it is not reasonable.
3.Is this a legit website?
This is legit website,We are selling the items displayed on our website. We have sent many packages to different countries. we have many year business,we are serious to do business,we take the most safe payment, it is most safe way payment,we have own facory, we can promise our quality, please do not worry about that.
So they send you damaged goods, and then refund only half your money, because you will lose anyway by having to ship it back to the Chinese sweatshop yourself. Sounds like the perfect scam.
Best way to stop losers like this is post derogatory comments about his "business", and hope Google associates them with his website.
So, will the children be ready for general use by Boxing Day ?
You *do* know you're missing a comma that puts the sentence into a whole other context ?
Yes, those 20 x 5 litre jugs are going to last the human race forever !
Why not ?
First time the user opens a web browser, he gets a one time message like
"This program will open ports 80 and 443 to connect to the internet, and port 53 to make DNS lookups"
Likewise for e-mail readers, games, etc etc.
It immediately makes even the dumbest user aware that they have "opened a door" to the outside world, and helps them learn about what their PC is doing.
Also, once they get the hang of this, they're perhaps more likely to question when say a PDF reader or whatever wants to phone home.
I don't see why outgoing connections should be any more open than incoming ones ... most of the problems occur when the user downloads something or opens an email attachment, in which case the program is already executing *inside* the firewall ... at least the user would be informed, this [insert-strange-application] here "wants to connect out on some port, are you sure this is okay ?"
Trojans are far far more prevalent than viruses these days.