Credit issuers found that after issuing lots of bad credit, the people they gave credit to stopped paying them back. The credit issuers were surprised. The credit issuers thought that these people, who normally would not have qualified for the level of credit they were given, would understand all the implications of the terms that were set before them.
The credit issuers then realized their revenue stream was in danger because of this bankruptcy thing. The bought enough congresscritters and made the nasty bankruptcy demon go away.
Later, the credit issuers had problem with their credit and they slinked back to the congresscritters saying that they've fallen on hard times and need some help and time to work things out...
And good luck figuring who actually owns your loan. Odds are it isn't your bank anymore.
So when that fine third party battery doesn't operate within spec and your iDevice starts acting funny are you going to give Apple bad press for making shoddy devices?
Will Joe Schmoe? Well, a battery is a battery, so it must be Apple that's the problem...
To summarize, Ankh-Morpork was over run by rats. The obvious solution was to put a bounty on rats, payable per tail. Soon, the rat infestation was under control but the number of tails being brought in kept increasing.
For once, D(on't)RTFA. Really. If you thought the summary was confusing TFA will make it even worse.
About the only facts in it are: TiVo is releasing a computer peripheral. The peripheral will cost $199. The peripheral uses TiVo's subscription service. Continuing the subscription will cost $99 annually.
Those staffers probably have a better understanding of the legislation than the congresscritter they support.
Crackberries in the hands of actual congresscritters is like a five year old having it. You get nothing but fantasy and gibberish with the occasional regurgitation of things they heard the grown ups say.
Too bad we didn't get a link to the specs the Bulgarians got. From my poking around it looks more like the bastard child of pdf, (la)TeX and flash *shudder*.
They do. Which is why it's silly to go around screaming that people won't be able to access their already purchased music -- the DRM servers will still be functioning even if the music store is closed.
Too bad the Apple has hardwired its authentication system to its ability to sell music...
It's not like they could just stop selling music while keeping the authentication running. That'd be silly. That'd only happen if they sold other things than just music. Like applications or movies.
It's not really crysis unless you can use the mere fact your system can run it at 1+ fps on full "all the way to 11" settings to put down someone else's rig. Wasn't that the point of the game?
The problem with any sort of OCR is it will introduce errors.
For your example of a 20 page document, it could be feasible to manually proofread the OCR text.
For a large document, especially one with a poor quality source, unless it's something frightfully important it is not worth the effort to manually proof the OCR and then redo all the layout and formatting to bring it to a different media format (i.e. dead tree -> html). As long as the scan is of sufficient quality to leave anything questionable human decipherable it'll do, the more original information retained, the better. An OCR produced text loses a lot of information.
As for the paperless office, it won't happen until you have as much screen space as you have desk space. It's far more convenient to have a ton of reference materials in dead tree format laid out on your desk than it is to have the same number of windows open on your crappy econoline standard business monitor.
Swords aren't knives.
There's a gray area when you get into long knife / short sword range. Generally though, a knife has a rather rigid blade, they don't flex much if at all (aside from specialized knives like fillet knives).
Swords need a flexible blade to reduce the shock felt by the wielder and to just not outright shatter on impact. They dissipate energy like a tuning fork. They also tend to be much longer in both the blade and the grip, making them impossible to conceal.
And having been to London and carried a blade (yay! I'm a criminal!) I can say you people aren't too bright. If you can't see usefulness of a utility knife like a swiss army knife or a leatherman you've got as much thought capacity of a cobble stone.
Also, bladed weapons are defensive weapons. They provide a surface that can parry or block the strike of another object. Unlike guns you don't need to worry about over-penetration./sigh. sheeple in the UK.
Increasing the physical security presence on the aircraft themselves is far too rational of a course of action and does not need the creation of a new bureaucracy that has basically oversight.
Obviously if someone hijacked an airplane with a boxcutter you ban nailclippers and create a new department to make sure no one sneaks in a nailclipper. Armed airmarshals means there will scary evil guns near little Timmy and Susy! Look what a boxcutter did, now imagine what someone could do with a gun!...argh, all that sarcasm is giving me a headache.
It's all to depressing to think that people actually believe the DHS has anything to do with security.
Child porn is not a legitimate reason to have our rights taken away.
First of all, the damage has already been done. Once it's on media of some sort, the 'child' has already been abused. Destroying copies won't undo the event.
Secondly, are you *sure* it's actually CHILD porn? Are the guards going to verify the identity and age of all the participants? No, they will not. CG, drawn, ageplay all equal child porn to them. Plus it gives them a great excuse to confiscate any device or media and detain any person they want. Good luck trying to prove it was the DHS that loaded some kiddy porn on your device after they had confiscated it and sent you off to an all expenses paid vacation in Cuba.
If you really cared about those harmed by child porn you'd be more concerned with preventing the creation of it, not hindering after-the-fact distribution. But continue on with your doubleplus good bellyfeel campaign. It's probably too scary for you to have any rights (and the commensurate responsibilities) but it's not your call to diminish my rights just so you can _feel_ secure.
Reading the info in ID3 tags isn't really a "hack".
The file gets a new unique filename, song info is stored in a database. The song itself isn't altered.
You can enable disk mode and see all the files. Copy all the files over and import them into a modern mp3 player that will read the ID3 tags and title the songs based on that.
Or use a program like senuti that reads the database file.
You mean the fact that they won't play non-Apple DRMed files, right? If so then they're crippled by DRM like EVERY OTHER MP3 PLAYER IN THE MARKET.
Okay, so iPods don't squirt songs at each other. But with a handy-dandy computer(they're quite cheap these days, you should try to get one) of some sort you can transfer music, or *gasp* any old type of data from the iPod to, brace yourself, ANYTHING! Now Apple tries to keep this a secret, but the iPod is basically just a harddrive and with the right secret words, you too can access it just like a real hard drive.
Really now, you don't have to become an Apple fan boy but the mindless and baseless bashing is getting passe.
UO initially had ecosystems of a sort. Then the players pillaged and burned and plowed salt into the ground.
Animals? All killed off. Trees? Graphics still there but no lumber generating. Monsters? Hahahahahahahaha. You killed the other players while waiting for the one (1) orc to spawn in the orc fort.
Ecosystems are cool until they come into contact with players.
Ugh, would it have killed them to have added a drop down box for audio and subtitle tracks to the GUI for the mac version?
Fortunately handbrake covers most things but occasionally there's stuff it won't read and it's time to bust out VLC in the terminal to get the contents of my dvd into my media center.
Mind you the convention is a massive disruption to everyone else, and this disruption is supported by people carrying actual kill-you-dead weapons and air support.
Blocking off all traffic, including pedestrian, and requiring papers for passing through formerly public property sure sounds like harassment and infringing of rights to me. Just because the RNC has the most money of all the people protesting doesn't make them right.
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As the old traveler's adage goes, if you can't afford to lose it, don't bring it.
Find a cheap laptop used laptop you won't have problems with ditching. Use a live cd or usb key boot solution so nothing ends up on the hard drives.
Keep your pictures on SD cards and mail them or a copy to yourself or some drop point. Encrypt them all.
Credit issuers found that after issuing lots of bad credit, the people they gave credit to stopped paying them back. The credit issuers were surprised. The credit issuers thought that these people, who normally would not have qualified for the level of credit they were given, would understand all the implications of the terms that were set before them.
The credit issuers then realized their revenue stream was in danger because of this bankruptcy thing. The bought enough congresscritters and made the nasty bankruptcy demon go away.
Later, the credit issuers had problem with their credit and they slinked back to the congresscritters saying that they've fallen on hard times and need some help and time to work things out...
And good luck figuring who actually owns your loan. Odds are it isn't your bank anymore.
So when that fine third party battery doesn't operate within spec and your iDevice starts acting funny are you going to give Apple bad press for making shoddy devices?
Will Joe Schmoe? Well, a battery is a battery, so it must be Apple that's the problem...
Reminds me of a bit from Discworld.
To summarize, Ankh-Morpork was over run by rats. The obvious solution was to put a bounty on rats, payable per tail. Soon, the rat infestation was under control but the number of tails being brought in kept increasing.
The Patrician's solution: tax the rat farms.
Try the >> button instead of the >| button.
I've yet to encounter a DVD player that didn't have a x2 x4 x8 fast forward.
It so happens the my ferret pulled off and hid that particular button from my remote but the functionality is still there.
For once, D(on't)RTFA. Really. If you thought the summary was confusing TFA will make it even worse.
About the only facts in it are: TiVo is releasing a computer peripheral. The peripheral will cost $199. The peripheral uses TiVo's subscription service. Continuing the subscription will cost $99 annually.
The enemy of your enemy is your enemy's enemy. No more, no less.
And it has been scientifically proven that living damages the brain.
Then there's alcohol...
Those staffers probably have a better understanding of the legislation than the congresscritter they support.
Crackberries in the hands of actual congresscritters is like a five year old having it. You get nothing but fantasy and gibberish with the occasional regurgitation of things they heard the grown ups say.
Maybe they wanted Office but in cornflower blue?
Too bad we didn't get a link to the specs the Bulgarians got. From my poking around it looks more like the bastard child of pdf, (la)TeX and flash *shudder*.
They do. Which is why it's silly to go around screaming that people won't be able to access their already purchased music -- the DRM servers will still be functioning even if the music store is closed.
Too bad the Apple has hardwired its authentication system to its ability to sell music...
It's not like they could just stop selling music while keeping the authentication running. That'd be silly. That'd only happen if they sold other things than just music. Like applications or movies.
It's not really crysis unless you can use the mere fact your system can run it at 1+ fps on full "all the way to 11" settings to put down someone else's rig. Wasn't that the point of the game?
The problem with any sort of OCR is it will introduce errors.
For your example of a 20 page document, it could be feasible to manually proofread the OCR text.
For a large document, especially one with a poor quality source, unless it's something frightfully important it is not worth the effort to manually proof the OCR and then redo all the layout and formatting to bring it to a different media format (i.e. dead tree -> html). As long as the scan is of sufficient quality to leave anything questionable human decipherable it'll do, the more original information retained, the better. An OCR produced text loses a lot of information.
As for the paperless office, it won't happen until you have as much screen space as you have desk space. It's far more convenient to have a ton of reference materials in dead tree format laid out on your desk than it is to have the same number of windows open on your crappy econoline standard business monitor.
Oh, so now some knives are ok and others aren't?
I thought the only reason to carry a knife was to intimidate/hurt/kill someone.
Swords aren't knives. There's a gray area when you get into long knife / short sword range. Generally though, a knife has a rather rigid blade, they don't flex much if at all (aside from specialized knives like fillet knives). Swords need a flexible blade to reduce the shock felt by the wielder and to just not outright shatter on impact. They dissipate energy like a tuning fork. They also tend to be much longer in both the blade and the grip, making them impossible to conceal. And having been to London and carried a blade (yay! I'm a criminal!) I can say you people aren't too bright. If you can't see usefulness of a utility knife like a swiss army knife or a leatherman you've got as much thought capacity of a cobble stone. Also, bladed weapons are defensive weapons. They provide a surface that can parry or block the strike of another object. Unlike guns you don't need to worry about over-penetration. /sigh. sheeple in the UK.
Increasing the physical security presence on the aircraft themselves is far too rational of a course of action and does not need the creation of a new bureaucracy that has basically oversight.
Obviously if someone hijacked an airplane with a boxcutter you ban nailclippers and create a new department to make sure no one sneaks in a nailclipper. Armed airmarshals means there will scary evil guns near little Timmy and Susy! Look what a boxcutter did, now imagine what someone could do with a gun! ...argh, all that sarcasm is giving me a headache.
It's all to depressing to think that people actually believe the DHS has anything to do with security.
Child porn is not a legitimate reason to have our rights taken away.
First of all, the damage has already been done. Once it's on media of some sort, the 'child' has already been abused. Destroying copies won't undo the event.
Secondly, are you *sure* it's actually CHILD porn? Are the guards going to verify the identity and age of all the participants? No, they will not. CG, drawn, ageplay all equal child porn to them. Plus it gives them a great excuse to confiscate any device or media and detain any person they want. Good luck trying to prove it was the DHS that loaded some kiddy porn on your device after they had confiscated it and sent you off to an all expenses paid vacation in Cuba.
If you really cared about those harmed by child porn you'd be more concerned with preventing the creation of it, not hindering after-the-fact distribution. But continue on with your doubleplus good bellyfeel campaign. It's probably too scary for you to have any rights (and the commensurate responsibilities) but it's not your call to diminish my rights just so you can _feel_ secure.
Wait, we elect our government?
None of the people I vote for ever end up in office.
Well, except for Jesse. The chaos that ensued was so very worth it.
I motion that Lamar Smith be forthwith referred to as "Jar Jar" Smith.
Reading the info in ID3 tags isn't really a "hack".
The file gets a new unique filename, song info is stored in a database. The song itself isn't altered.
You can enable disk mode and see all the files. Copy all the files over and import them into a modern mp3 player that will read the ID3 tags and title the songs based on that.
Or use a program like senuti that reads the database file.
No "hacks" involved.
How exactly are iPods crippled by DRM?
You mean the fact that they won't play non-Apple DRMed files, right? If so then they're crippled by DRM like EVERY OTHER MP3 PLAYER IN THE MARKET.
Okay, so iPods don't squirt songs at each other. But with a handy-dandy computer(they're quite cheap these days, you should try to get one) of some sort you can transfer music, or *gasp* any old type of data from the iPod to, brace yourself, ANYTHING! Now Apple tries to keep this a secret, but the iPod is basically just a harddrive and with the right secret words, you too can access it just like a real hard drive.
Really now, you don't have to become an Apple fan boy but the mindless and baseless bashing is getting passe.
UO initially had ecosystems of a sort. Then the players pillaged and burned and plowed salt into the ground.
Animals? All killed off. Trees? Graphics still there but no lumber generating. Monsters? Hahahahahahahaha. You killed the other players while waiting for the one (1) orc to spawn in the orc fort.
Ecosystems are cool until they come into contact with players.
Ugh, would it have killed them to have added a drop down box for audio and subtitle tracks to the GUI for the mac version?
Fortunately handbrake covers most things but occasionally there's stuff it won't read and it's time to bust out VLC in the terminal to get the contents of my dvd into my media center.
Mind you the convention is a massive disruption to everyone else, and this disruption is supported by people carrying actual kill-you-dead weapons and air support.
Blocking off all traffic, including pedestrian, and requiring papers for passing through formerly public property sure sounds like harassment and infringing of rights to me. Just because the RNC has the most money of all the people protesting doesn't make them right.