So am I. Now, if only there were a way to make it only apply to people doing stupid things... The problem is, in traffic, it's common for innocent people to get harmed because others were being stupid.
I don't think natrual selection ever worked this way. I assume lots of the people over time who have been "unselected" took a bunch of others with them. Gotta take the good with the bad.
It is. All 12 non-paranoid people left in the human race consider it exactly that.
I'm not paranoid, and I consider it exactly that. But I'm pretty sure that at least 3 of the remaining 11 are actually liars who are actually out to get me and the other 8.
Hey Germany- you buy much of your electricity from France
Actually Germany *exports* some of its energy even *after* shutting the nuclear reactors down...
Since neither of you AC's posted a citation, I'm going to make up my own facts too.
Actually, Germany and France both create a surplus of electricity, and think they're selling it to each other, but since they never figured out how to sync up their generation frequency/phase, all the power just gets turned into heat where the wires connect. Enron sold them the transmission system in 1998.
To bear the HDMI logo, a cable needs to be certified.
Actually, to bear the HDMI logo, a cable maker needs to have a.png of the HDMI logo. Just like to make a Coach Purse, you need to have a copy of the Coach logo (cheap HDMI cables and imitation Coach purses come from the same place...). To legally bear the HDMI logo, you need to be certified. But makers in the $2-$4 market often break the rules. Not saying that the cable won't work, but buyer beware. Don't trust the logo if it doesn't look like the HDMI association could figure out where to mail a cease-and-decist letter.
I think that's the point. It's probably not a strong signal. There are rules you have to play by if you want to run in the unlicensed spectrum. If they can manage 45miles (even at very low speeds) while not having to jump through any new regulatory hoops, or license spectrum, using easily installed / cheap hardware, then that may be the "breakthrough". That said, I'd guess they're probably maxing out what is allowed to get that 50bps. So expect at least the same amout of interference as from any other garden variety 2.4GHz device.
They aren't going to set any records for speed or distance. But it appears that they are looking to maximize the result of
Speed x Distance / Total Cost
in a problem space where each device doesn't need much bandwidth.
Energy companies bill in Kilo-watt hours, though. You pay some number of cents per kWh. So to calculate costs, you have to multiply it right back in. It would be more scientificially proper to measure in Joules, perhaps, or even kJoules, but that unit would be one very small fraction a a cent. kWh works out nice, because it translates into an easily grasped monitary amount.
It is, though, if you look at the distribution. For most decent apps, people pick between 4 stars or 5 stars. A technically functional, resonably thought out app isn't going to get 1 or 2 stars. Occasionally you'll get a 3, but mostly 4 or 5s. Based on this, about half of iPhone users rate it a 5. But 80% of Android users do. The 4.8 gets even more impressive when you throw back in the 1,2,and 3 ratings.
Because YouTube is looking for a particular song. The watermarks allow them to trace a song to the person who bought it. For example, something as simple as putting a unique id in one of the obscure pieces of metadata stored in the.mp3 file. This method would purge that metadata. It's a bit different than markers embedded in the content itself (although the music may have those as well). I believe that some video tapes used to have this sort of thing; a unique DTMF touchtone put on each copy to identify ones that were pirated from a common source.
It'll happen over time..biz and others will be accepted. People used to think of 1-888 as less good than 1-800 phone numbers. But that feeling has just about gone away over the last 20 years.
What really makes or breaks a super-hero movie is how well the non-superhero section of the movie goes. In green lantern, I felt like any time the ring was off, and Ryan Renolds was acting like Ryan Renolds, we were just marking time waiting for him to use the ring. The love interest was boring and pointless. Contrast this with iron-man, where they cast a lead actor who could carry the character when he wasn't in uniform. An Oscar caliber actress also helps a great deal. This same formula helped Thor, but to a lesser degree. Despite trying to make us like her because she was a cool fighter pilot, the girlfriend character was a drag on the movie.
Plus, there was no logical reason for the Lantern Core to change their minds and show up at the end and save his bacon. The movie would have been better if he had extricated himself, then flown back to Oa with a big heaping bag of "I told you so", followed by some "We'll consider that" by the Guardians. Not great, but better.
Maybe this will kill off the second-tier comic superhero genre for a while.
I hope not. If going to next year's big blockbuster requires me to watch Spiderman, Superman, or Batman's origin story again, I'll just stay home. At least with the 2nd tiers, you get a chance to do something new. Iron Man was a 2nd tier after all.
Alternatively those of us who do not mind researching apps using the internet before we install them will carry on buying Android phones.
We need the unsophisticated users to buy the Android phones, or there won't be any. The economy of scale has to be there. If Android phones alienate the average user, then they'll end up like the N900: kick ass, but expensive and a relative hassle to get.
They have better things to do. The international nature of this sort of stuff makes investigations, as well as civil and criminal court actions exceptionally difficult. Google is a technology company. They're better suited to come up with a technological solution. Most of the big wins against Spam and the like come from counter-attacking the bot-nets, not from going after the people.
It doesn't have to be Google. But there really needs to be a single reviewer source. Think "Underwriters Laboratories" for software. Otherwise, the malware writers just setup their own review boards, and stamp it quality. As Tommy Boy once said:
I can take a shit in a box, and mark it guaranteed, but then all you'll have is a guaranteed box of shit.
You (and your friends) can't be allowed to stamp your box.
Google would be the obvious choice, though, since they have the biggest investment to lose if this all goes to hell.
The malware scare is going to knock the little guy off equal footing anyway. Right now the malware apps are obvious, because it's cheap and easy to create crap that morons will download. But eventually, as people get a bit smarter, the malware apps will start to look more and more like normal, decent apps. At this point, when you can't easily tell a malicious app from a non-malicious app , some users will stop downloading from little guys all together, and only trust downloads from brands they recognize.
Some sort of independent code review option will help, not hinder, the little guys in the long term. But it needs to be optional to maintain the open aspect of the Android market.
Android needs to get a lid on this now, or it will loose the mass market, because most non-tech people would find fear of malware a much bigger driver of purchasing decision than other merits.
You can have a "best of both worlds" solution by have a "code reviewed" icon for app developers that want to do it. May cost money for the review process...
Did you send this from an Android phone? It appears that a trojan is stealing some of the words out of your sentences and sending them to a server somewhere.
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Although I'm all for natural selection....
So am I. Now, if only there were a way to make it only apply to people doing stupid things ... The problem is, in traffic, it's common for innocent people to get harmed because others were being stupid.
I don't think natrual selection ever worked this way. I assume lots of the people over time who have been "unselected" took a bunch of others with them. Gotta take the good with the bad.
News Flash: 93% of Drunk Drivers get Home Just fine: http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-93-of-drunk-drivers-get-home-just-fine,6250/
It is. All 12 non-paranoid people left in the human race consider it exactly that.
I'm not paranoid, and I consider it exactly that. But I'm pretty sure that at least 3 of the remaining 11 are actually liars who are actually out to get me and the other 8.
Hey Germany- you buy much of your electricity from France
Actually Germany *exports* some of its energy even *after* shutting the nuclear reactors down...
Since neither of you AC's posted a citation, I'm going to make up my own facts too.
Actually, Germany and France both create a surplus of electricity, and think they're selling it to each other, but since they never figured out how to sync up their generation frequency/phase, all the power just gets turned into heat where the wires connect. Enron sold them the transmission system in 1998.
Rockets aren't hard, launching a rocket into space isn't really hard.
Yeah. Come on, SpaceX! This is Rocket Science, not Brain Surgery!
To bear the HDMI logo, a cable needs to be certified.
Actually, to bear the HDMI logo, a cable maker needs to have a .png of the HDMI logo. Just like to make a Coach Purse, you need to have a copy of the Coach logo (cheap HDMI cables and imitation Coach purses come from the same place...). To legally bear the HDMI logo, you need to be certified. But makers in the $2-$4 market often break the rules. Not saying that the cable won't work, but buyer beware. Don't trust the logo if it doesn't look like the HDMI association could figure out where to mail a cease-and-decist letter.
They aren't going to set any records for speed or distance. But it appears that they are looking to maximize the result of
Speed x Distance / Total Cost
in a problem space where each device doesn't need much bandwidth.
Energy companies bill in Kilo-watt hours, though. You pay some number of cents per kWh. So to calculate costs, you have to multiply it right back in. It would be more scientificially proper to measure in Joules, perhaps, or even kJoules, but that unit would be one very small fraction a a cent. kWh works out nice, because it translates into an easily grasped monitary amount.
Yes. He understands numbers. More than that, he understands fractions.
.3 is a big difference. See my arguement in comment http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2260056&cid=36528384
It is, though, if you look at the distribution. For most decent apps, people pick between 4 stars or 5 stars. A technically functional, resonably thought out app isn't going to get 1 or 2 stars. Occasionally you'll get a 3, but mostly 4 or 5s. Based on this, about half of iPhone users rate it a 5. But 80% of Android users do. The 4.8 gets even more impressive when you throw back in the 1,2,and 3 ratings.
when my iPhone friends play with my phone they are pretty much always impressed.
When your iPhone friends play with a block of wood, they're pretty much always impressed too. Don't give that too much weight.
Because YouTube is looking for a particular song. The watermarks allow them to trace a song to the person who bought it. For example, something as simple as putting a unique id in one of the obscure pieces of metadata stored in the .mp3 file. This method would purge that metadata. It's a bit different than markers embedded in the content itself (although the music may have those as well). I believe that some video tapes used to have this sort of thing; a unique DTMF touchtone put on each copy to identify ones that were pirated from a common source.
It'll happen over time. .biz and others will be accepted. People used to think of 1-888 as less good than 1-800 phone numbers. But that feeling has just about gone away over the last 20 years.
Why?
What really makes or breaks a super-hero movie is how well the non-superhero section of the movie goes. In green lantern, I felt like any time the ring was off, and Ryan Renolds was acting like Ryan Renolds, we were just marking time waiting for him to use the ring. The love interest was boring and pointless. Contrast this with iron-man, where they cast a lead actor who could carry the character when he wasn't in uniform. An Oscar caliber actress also helps a great deal. This same formula helped Thor, but to a lesser degree. Despite trying to make us like her because she was a cool fighter pilot, the girlfriend character was a drag on the movie.
Plus, there was no logical reason for the Lantern Core to change their minds and show up at the end and save his bacon. The movie would have been better if he had extricated himself, then flown back to Oa with a big heaping bag of "I told you so", followed by some "We'll consider that" by the Guardians. Not great, but better.
Maybe this will kill off the second-tier comic superhero genre for a while.
I hope not. If going to next year's big blockbuster requires me to watch Spiderman, Superman, or Batman's origin story again, I'll just stay home. At least with the 2nd tiers, you get a chance to do something new. Iron Man was a 2nd tier after all.
What? Who is that Addy god that you worship?
Or water.
BTW, could I have what's left of those puppies? We're having a BBQ this weekend, and I'm a bit short on cash...
Alternatively those of us who do not mind researching apps using the internet before we install them will carry on buying Android phones.
We need the unsophisticated users to buy the Android phones, or there won't be any. The economy of scale has to be there. If Android phones alienate the average user, then they'll end up like the N900: kick ass, but expensive and a relative hassle to get.
They have better things to do. The international nature of this sort of stuff makes investigations, as well as civil and criminal court actions exceptionally difficult. Google is a technology company. They're better suited to come up with a technological solution. Most of the big wins against Spam and the like come from counter-attacking the bot-nets, not from going after the people.
I can take a shit in a box, and mark it guaranteed, but then all you'll have is a guaranteed box of shit.
You (and your friends) can't be allowed to stamp your box.
Google would be the obvious choice, though, since they have the biggest investment to lose if this all goes to hell.
The malware scare is going to knock the little guy off equal footing anyway. Right now the malware apps are obvious, because it's cheap and easy to create crap that morons will download. But eventually, as people get a bit smarter, the malware apps will start to look more and more like normal, decent apps. At this point, when you can't easily tell a malicious app from a non-malicious app , some users will stop downloading from little guys all together, and only trust downloads from brands they recognize.
Some sort of independent code review option will help, not hinder, the little guys in the long term. But it needs to be optional to maintain the open aspect of the Android market.
Android needs to get a lid on this now, or it will loose the mass market, because most non-tech people would find fear of malware a much bigger driver of purchasing decision than other merits.
You can have a "best of both worlds" solution by have a "code reviewed" icon for app developers that want to do it. May cost money for the review process...
Did you send this from an Android phone? It appears that a trojan is stealing some of the words out of your sentences and sending them to a server somewhere.