Just this week on Hackaday they posted a cheap DIY device that can load SNES carts onto your computer via USB. The creator said that he is looking at making Genesis version next.
Perhaps the GP has photographic evidence that they had sex. If so, he should bring it to the attention of the police ASAP. He should also be sure to do it in person, so the police can express their gratitude to him!
I think the problem was that the "pile of money" offered was really that the security firm could keep the drive afterwards. The drive was only 40 gigs, making the pile about 35 dollars tall.
According to the OED, you are wrong. Here is how it defines plagiarism:
the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
Do you really think whipping up a perl script is beyond the abilities of somebody who has the ability to run a spamming "business"? It's all cost/benefit. Running the javascript costs more CPU time, which would be better spent on other tasks. Whatever gets them the most emails/hour (further complicated by "quality" of email address and such) is what they will do.
Given the immense quantity of mail that Google processes, they are in a uniquely effective position to classify mail as spam based on heuristics and other techniques that are similar to the sorting that they do for page-rankings. I'm not saying that other entities could not necessarily do what Google does, just that Google has a nice head start.
The question isn't whether or not it could be done - obviously it's possible. The issue is that spammers, for the most part, choose to go after the low hanging fruit rather than messing with perl.
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My experience with Microvision is that they have really, really cheap display technology that has impressive technical specs, but have glaring flaws in everyday use. I had a CRT HDTV made by them that provided a nice 1080i picture (back when that was impressive) but had severe brightness differential across the screen and the red convergence was a bit off. It still gave a nice looking picture except for really dark scenes, but it was by no means a great picture.
Dammit, that's not what I meant for that post to say. Apple does certainly dominate both the online music sales and mp3 player market, I did not mean to imply otherwise. Regardless, my point stands: AAC compatibility is widespread amongst mp3 players, and is certainly not limited to ipods.
Apple has a effective monopoly in both industries.
Also untrue. The itunes store no longer has DRM for any music files, so any AAC compatible player (including ones made by Microsoft, Sony, Creative, and Samsung) will play songs purchased through it. That said, you are correct that they are using itunes as a means of promoting ipod sales.
The point is that there is (apparently, at least) a public API for making one's mp3 player function with itunes. If other companies choose not to implement that feature, that's their business. Even if they don't choose to do that, if the player functions as a mass-storage device there's free software that lets it interface with itunes. Most mp3 players these days should have this option, so I still fail to see the problem.
And why can't I sync my non-Apple device with my iTunes library?
Because you didn't buy one of these players. Note the many non-iPod players on that list. If you meant to imply that iTunes was somehow locked to only work with iPods, sorry for bursting your bubble.
Twin cities resident here - biking in the winter isn't particularly difficult. With fenders and a decent set of tires it's (most days) marginally harder than in the summer time. Deep snow can be a problem, and maintenance requirements jump sharply for riding in the winter, but it can be easily done.
Where do you get the idea that we need all of the food/housing that we consume? A government could provide a very basic housing/food stipend (or provide these services directly) while allowing more extravagant arrangements to those who could afford them.
Well, for one, the internet that they're using as a means of accessing these gambling sites was paid for by money collected via the federal income tax.
What do you mean by "100 point" ID check? I doubt that I could produce 100 documents suggesting/proving that I am who I say I am and live where I live...
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So a plane was flying through a storm and experienced sensor failures, and you blame the crash a falling meteor? Occam would like a word with you.
Just this week on Hackaday they posted a cheap DIY device that can load SNES carts onto your computer via USB. The creator said that he is looking at making Genesis version next.
Perhaps the GP has photographic evidence that they had sex. If so, he should bring it to the attention of the police ASAP. He should also be sure to do it in person, so the police can express their gratitude to him!
I think the problem was that the "pile of money" offered was really that the security firm could keep the drive afterwards. The drive was only 40 gigs, making the pile about 35 dollars tall.
According to the OED, you are wrong. Here is how it defines plagiarism:
the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
I did indeed mistake it for a rhetorical question, my apologies for the snark.
Do you really think whipping up a perl script is beyond the abilities of somebody who has the ability to run a spamming "business"? It's all cost/benefit. Running the javascript costs more CPU time, which would be better spent on other tasks. Whatever gets them the most emails/hour (further complicated by "quality" of email address and such) is what they will do.
Given the immense quantity of mail that Google processes, they are in a uniquely effective position to classify mail as spam based on heuristics and other techniques that are similar to the sorting that they do for page-rankings. I'm not saying that other entities could not necessarily do what Google does, just that Google has a nice head start.
The question isn't whether or not it could be done - obviously it's possible. The issue is that spammers, for the most part, choose to go after the low hanging fruit rather than messing with perl.
ZFS support for OSX: http://alblue.blogspot.com/2008/11/zfs-119-on-mac-os-x.html
Yeah, the one with DRMed videos.
My experience with Microvision is that they have really, really cheap display technology that has impressive technical specs, but have glaring flaws in everyday use. I had a CRT HDTV made by them that provided a nice 1080i picture (back when that was impressive) but had severe brightness differential across the screen and the red convergence was a bit off. It still gave a nice looking picture except for really dark scenes, but it was by no means a great picture.
Dammit, that's not what I meant for that post to say. Apple does certainly dominate both the online music sales and mp3 player market, I did not mean to imply otherwise. Regardless, my point stands: AAC compatibility is widespread amongst mp3 players, and is certainly not limited to ipods.
Apple has a effective monopoly in both industries.
Also untrue. The itunes store no longer has DRM for any music files, so any AAC compatible player (including ones made by Microsoft, Sony, Creative, and Samsung) will play songs purchased through it. That said, you are correct that they are using itunes as a means of promoting ipod sales.
The point is that there is (apparently, at least) a public API for making one's mp3 player function with itunes. If other companies choose not to implement that feature, that's their business. Even if they don't choose to do that, if the player functions as a mass-storage device there's free software that lets it interface with itunes. Most mp3 players these days should have this option, so I still fail to see the problem.
And why can't I sync my non-Apple device with my iTunes library?
Because you didn't buy one of these players. Note the many non-iPod players on that list. If you meant to imply that iTunes was somehow locked to only work with iPods, sorry for bursting your bubble.
Why would they install another browser when they could just click the "Click here to install silverlight and watch this video" button?
Twin cities resident here - biking in the winter isn't particularly difficult. With fenders and a decent set of tires it's (most days) marginally harder than in the summer time. Deep snow can be a problem, and maintenance requirements jump sharply for riding in the winter, but it can be easily done.
That brown stripe on one's back can be solved with a fender. And who doesn't already own a raincoat?
Wait, so you are reviewing somebody else's review of the comment talking about reviewing reviews?
Interesting, thanks for the info.
Where do you get the idea that we need all of the food/housing that we consume? A government could provide a very basic housing/food stipend (or provide these services directly) while allowing more extravagant arrangements to those who could afford them.
Well, for one, the internet that they're using as a means of accessing these gambling sites was paid for by money collected via the federal income tax.
What do you mean by "100 point" ID check? I doubt that I could produce 100 documents suggesting/proving that I am who I say I am and live where I live...