Those that want to complain will ALWAYS be more motivated than those that do not. So, at the least the statistic needs to be controlled against the number of total units sold (or even more specifically, number of unit-hours) and not just the proportion who report a problem.
Given that the 360 has sold a lot more units than the PS3, and has been around a lot longer (leading to many more unit-hours even beyond the proportion of raw console numbers) there needs to be a much more careful look at the statistics before you conclude that "54% of units fail". Comparison to the Wii should be limited to the number of respondents since I am convinced that most people who bought one have since forgotten completely that they even have it.
The point of my post was that the entire conclusion is majorly flawed. I still stand behind this assertion.
In fact, a Game Informer survey of 5,000 readers found that the Xbox 360 has an astounding 54.2 percent failure rate. That means 54.2 percent of Xbox 360 consoles fail in one way or another.
So what you are saying is that 54.2 percent of people who submit a voluntary survey want to bitch and moan about how their Xbox got a RROD in some way or another (never mind the quantity of people who downright abuse the thing by sealing it in a TV console cabinet with no circulation and proceed to play Halo 3 for 10 hours straight).
It turns out that 75% of statistics can't be trusted at all. Oh, and 80% of the time, it works every time.
Was I the only one bothered by the sad attempt to bridge the gap between EP 3 and EP 4 by simply throwing away all the nice full color displays and elegant controls that we saw in the ships of the first 3 episodes, and in one fell swoop go back to the flashing lights and big on/off switches of the last 3? You know, at the end of EP 3 when Darth takes command of the Empire fleet, only to strut out onto the bridge of a ship that looked like it was designed to control a hydroelectric dam and not fly among the stars...
A faraday cage in a pocket; to block cell phone signals from reaching the phone? The phones will just crank their output power to the max in a selfless attempt to communicate, and in turn the battery will probably be dead by lunchtime. It's almost as if cellphones need some sort of onboard switch that allows you to selectively decide when it's ON or OFF... No, that's probably too futuristic for most people to comprehend anyway.
Against my better judgment let me spell it out since you are apparently quite dense.
No.
Yes.
Doesn't work that way.
Yes, it does.
Common "network extenders" are just bidirectional amplifiers. They boost the signal both ways so that existing infrastructure can work better, typically within a building (though not necessarily so).
No, the new generation is not. You are very wrong. Hand in your "Expert" card on the way out, old timer.
Considering there are "network extenders" that act like short range cellphone towers but cost only $250 or so per unit, I would venture that your 'interactive jamming' plan, successfully executed, could be at or below the $5000 mark depending on the size of the school. Of course, then you have to convince the cell providers to go along with your scheme to restrict calling during the precious hours of 6am to 9pm inside of which they make 99% of their money.
Couldn't a similar catastrophe be perpetrated by someone who simply procured several of the widely available cellphone jammers and placed them around the school themselves?
As for the "having a look round" bit: I don't know what the law is like where you live, but if someone does that here, they're gonna end up in the local jail waiting to go before a judge to explain just why they're wandering around. (And I don't suspect the judge will be happy with "Oh, I was just looking around.")
18.2-92. Breaking and entering dwelling house with intent to commit other misdemeanor.
If any person break and enter a dwelling house while said dwelling is occupied, either in the day or nighttime, with the intent to commit any misdemeanor except assault and battery or trespass, he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. However, if the person was armed with a deadly weapon at the time of such entry, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 felony.
(Code 1950, 18.1-88.1; 1968, c. 530; 1970, c. 381; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1992, c. 486.)
From the text you quoted, the house has to be occupied AND you have to prove the perpetrator was intent on committing other crimes. Innocent until proven guilty?
Let's take a real life example. In the US, there are a number of apartment buildings that are built with identical precision (each more identical than the last.) If you were walking home at night and happened to turn off at the wrong building, went up to where "your apartment" would have been, and found the door unlocked, you would probably simply step inside and look around until you realized you had made a mistake. Would you be incarcerated for this? I know several people who have done this, none of which faced charges.
Fact is, currently DNS still relies entirely on *one entity*. It goes completely against the distributed structure of the internet.
Fact is, there needs to be cooperation if there is going to be ONE internet. Your argument only stands if there were two entirely distinct distribution mechanisms (physical networks) controlled by one entity. Given that there is only ONE network, it makes sense that at some point there needs to be a top level of control. Without it, you get wrestling for control, dirty tricks, etc. which is just as much a bad thing as is a (transparent) monopoly.
In order for the towers to be protected, there must be a *law* against jailbreaking (a practice that is currently perfectly feasible, just questionably legal). Will the law, sensing a helpless tower is in danger, jump off the page and stop the evil hacker from using his jailbroken phone to expose flaws in the upstream hardware/software, and save the day?
Even if this is true, legislation is clearly NOT the way to go here. Either they are giving away too many secrets just by having easily exploited hardware/software in consumers hands, or they are running woefully unprotected towers (or both). In any case, a law against it isn't going to do a whole lot except speed the prosecution of said 'evil hacker' who would already be breaking numerous laws anyway.
What they need to start is a contest to improve their incredibly lousy on-demand service, the Silverlight player is beyond terrible. All this effort (and money) over getting 10% more accurate guesses that the same guy who liked "Terminator" will like "Terminator 2" is nice and all, but it's a bit of a time waster don't you think?
They are greedy. they are in a for-profit business. Once we realize that green investments by most of the big oil companies is not some show to appear green, and really a strategy for them to continue operating refineries it all starts to make sense.
This is woefully uninformed. They are in business to turn a profit *this quarter*. There is no commitment to "future shareholders", only current ones, so no the company has little incentive to do anything aside from very short term "investment". Think of it this way, if it boosts PR enough to avoid a public outrage that leads to a windfall profits tax being levied the next time oil gets above $100 a barrel, it will have been worth billions. Considering the current political climate, that is not a far fetched scheme at all.
Just brand this as "$50/barrel oil derived from harvesting common, readily available snakes and processing them in a revolutionary (and certainly patent-pending) way".
Sports photographers, even for Soccer, use a 300mm to 400mm lens at most. A 1200mm lens would only be effective at taking pictures of things half a mile away or more (depending on the size of the thing, of course). The minimum focus distance for that bad boy is 46 feet, practical only if you're the poor photographer who is deprived of a sideline pass and are forced to take pictures from the nosebleeds. But then again, why would you spend $90,000 (the actual MSRP) on one if you were?
It sounds a lot like a gamble on his part in order to get the local utility to cough up part of the dough for transmission lines running to his proposed site. Saying there were "Technical Problems" is completely misleading since there is nothing particularly difficult about installing/operating an electrical grid, short of the significant upfront cost in materials, easements, and land purchases. Not to mention constant upkeep.
I suspect he approached the eminent utilities on this when the windmills were ordered, and got a soft "sure, if there's a windmill in Texas we will buy energy from it" sort of commitment that turned into a "You want us to spend how much capital? Just for the right to buy your energy?" now that the nation's financial situation is looking less optimistic.
Ahem, WikiWikiLeaks is *actually* the meta-site for discussing the Wiki servers and software that power WikiLeaks. You are probably thinking of WikiLeaksLeaks, your one-stop game-changing resource for everything nefarious about your one-stop game-changing nefarious secret document leak site.
How much less did the Silicon ones cost (compared to some third, unnamed product) in order to make the difference here "10 times" less? Yes, what you meant was "May cost 1/10th as much as Silicon" but you didn't. Try again.
Windows at both ends... Used to use FTP... Considering windows file sharing...
Is anyone else a little nervous? I hope by 'government' he means Department of Natural Resources or some equally uninteresting entity. I am picturing someone at the SEC going "You know, I swear this accounting data had a few more rows the last time I looked at it-- Oh well it's not like this Madoff guy is actually up to anything strange anyway"
Using modern encryption like SSH does guarantee that things *have to add up* since keeping what you start with a secret is just as important (sometimes more so) as making sure you finish with exactly what you start with (meaning no one in the middle meddled with your data).
So, in short, something like SSH or any other properly encrypted communication mechanism is a great way to both secure the data from snooping (in the case of a microwave link, a VERY real problem) as well as to safeguard the data from corruption (intentional or unintentional). I sincerely hope, for the asker's sake and possibly for the country's sake, that these files he works with are trivial.
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Those that want to complain will ALWAYS be more motivated than those that do not. So, at the least the statistic needs to be controlled against the number of total units sold (or even more specifically, number of unit-hours) and not just the proportion who report a problem.
Given that the 360 has sold a lot more units than the PS3, and has been around a lot longer (leading to many more unit-hours even beyond the proportion of raw console numbers) there needs to be a much more careful look at the statistics before you conclude that "54% of units fail". Comparison to the Wii should be limited to the number of respondents since I am convinced that most people who bought one have since forgotten completely that they even have it.
The point of my post was that the entire conclusion is majorly flawed. I still stand behind this assertion.
In fact, a Game Informer survey of 5,000 readers found that the Xbox 360 has an astounding 54.2 percent failure rate. That means 54.2 percent of Xbox 360 consoles fail in one way or another.
So what you are saying is that 54.2 percent of people who submit a voluntary survey want to bitch and moan about how their Xbox got a RROD in some way or another (never mind the quantity of people who downright abuse the thing by sealing it in a TV console cabinet with no circulation and proceed to play Halo 3 for 10 hours straight).
It turns out that 75% of statistics can't be trusted at all. Oh, and 80% of the time, it works every time.
Was I the only one bothered by the sad attempt to bridge the gap between EP 3 and EP 4 by simply throwing away all the nice full color displays and elegant controls that we saw in the ships of the first 3 episodes, and in one fell swoop go back to the flashing lights and big on/off switches of the last 3? You know, at the end of EP 3 when Darth takes command of the Empire fleet, only to strut out onto the bridge of a ship that looked like it was designed to control a hydroelectric dam and not fly among the stars...
Maybe I was the only one.
as, lacking sentience or life, most philosophers would agree that they also lack any real traditional sense of "self"
You are clearly using last year's model.
But seriously, I anthropomorphize all my devices. We get along a lot better that way.
A faraday cage in a pocket; to block cell phone signals from reaching the phone? The phones will just crank their output power to the max in a selfless attempt to communicate, and in turn the battery will probably be dead by lunchtime. It's almost as if cellphones need some sort of onboard switch that allows you to selectively decide when it's ON or OFF... No, that's probably too futuristic for most people to comprehend anyway.
Start here, plenty of citations are included: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell
Information has been widely available for years. Get over yourself, you are wrong.
No.
Yes.
Doesn't work that way.
Yes, it does.
Common "network extenders" are just bidirectional amplifiers. They boost the signal both ways so that existing infrastructure can work better, typically within a building (though not necessarily so).
No, the new generation is not. You are very wrong. Hand in your "Expert" card on the way out, old timer.
You know more than most, but less than anyone who owns one of these.
Especially since I have none. Alas, good job!
Considering there are "network extenders" that act like short range cellphone towers but cost only $250 or so per unit, I would venture that your 'interactive jamming' plan, successfully executed, could be at or below the $5000 mark depending on the size of the school. Of course, then you have to convince the cell providers to go along with your scheme to restrict calling during the precious hours of 6am to 9pm inside of which they make 99% of their money.
Good luck with that.
Couldn't a similar catastrophe be perpetrated by someone who simply procured several of the widely available cellphone jammers and placed them around the school themselves?
As for the "having a look round" bit: I don't know what the law is like where you live, but if someone does that here, they're gonna end up in the local jail waiting to go before a judge to explain just why they're wandering around. (And I don't suspect the judge will be happy with "Oh, I was just looking around.")
From the text you quoted, the house has to be occupied AND you have to prove the perpetrator was intent on committing other crimes. Innocent until proven guilty?
Let's take a real life example. In the US, there are a number of apartment buildings that are built with identical precision (each more identical than the last.) If you were walking home at night and happened to turn off at the wrong building, went up to where "your apartment" would have been, and found the door unlocked, you would probably simply step inside and look around until you realized you had made a mistake. Would you be incarcerated for this? I know several people who have done this, none of which faced charges.
Fact is, currently DNS still relies entirely on *one entity*. It goes completely against the distributed structure of the internet.
Fact is, there needs to be cooperation if there is going to be ONE internet. Your argument only stands if there were two entirely distinct distribution mechanisms (physical networks) controlled by one entity. Given that there is only ONE network, it makes sense that at some point there needs to be a top level of control. Without it, you get wrestling for control, dirty tricks, etc. which is just as much a bad thing as is a (transparent) monopoly.
In order for the towers to be protected, there must be a *law* against jailbreaking (a practice that is currently perfectly feasible, just questionably legal). Will the law, sensing a helpless tower is in danger, jump off the page and stop the evil hacker from using his jailbroken phone to expose flaws in the upstream hardware/software, and save the day?
Even if this is true, legislation is clearly NOT the way to go here. Either they are giving away too many secrets just by having easily exploited hardware/software in consumers hands, or they are running woefully unprotected towers (or both). In any case, a law against it isn't going to do a whole lot except speed the prosecution of said 'evil hacker' who would already be breaking numerous laws anyway.
What they need to start is a contest to improve their incredibly lousy on-demand service, the Silverlight player is beyond terrible. All this effort (and money) over getting 10% more accurate guesses that the same guy who liked "Terminator" will like "Terminator 2" is nice and all, but it's a bit of a time waster don't you think?
They are greedy. they are in a for-profit business. Once we realize that green investments by most of the big oil companies is not some show to appear green, and really a strategy for them to continue operating refineries it all starts to make sense.
This is woefully uninformed. They are in business to turn a profit *this quarter*. There is no commitment to "future shareholders", only current ones, so no the company has little incentive to do anything aside from very short term "investment". Think of it this way, if it boosts PR enough to avoid a public outrage that leads to a windfall profits tax being levied the next time oil gets above $100 a barrel, it will have been worth billions. Considering the current political climate, that is not a far fetched scheme at all.
Just brand this as "$50/barrel oil derived from harvesting common, readily available snakes and processing them in a revolutionary (and certainly patent-pending) way".
TPB was purchased by a gaming company and has gone legitimate.
The first part is correct, the second part not so much.
God I hope the person who modded you interesting isn't in charge of anything important...
With that said, +1 funny!
Sports photographers, even for Soccer, use a 300mm to 400mm lens at most. A 1200mm lens would only be effective at taking pictures of things half a mile away or more (depending on the size of the thing, of course). The minimum focus distance for that bad boy is 46 feet, practical only if you're the poor photographer who is deprived of a sideline pass and are forced to take pictures from the nosebleeds. But then again, why would you spend $90,000 (the actual MSRP) on one if you were?
It sounds a lot like a gamble on his part in order to get the local utility to cough up part of the dough for transmission lines running to his proposed site. Saying there were "Technical Problems" is completely misleading since there is nothing particularly difficult about installing/operating an electrical grid, short of the significant upfront cost in materials, easements, and land purchases. Not to mention constant upkeep.
I suspect he approached the eminent utilities on this when the windmills were ordered, and got a soft "sure, if there's a windmill in Texas we will buy energy from it" sort of commitment that turned into a "You want us to spend how much capital? Just for the right to buy your energy?" now that the nation's financial situation is looking less optimistic.
Ahem, WikiWikiLeaks is *actually* the meta-site for discussing the Wiki servers and software that power WikiLeaks. You are probably thinking of WikiLeaksLeaks, your one-stop game-changing resource for everything nefarious about your one-stop game-changing nefarious secret document leak site.
"May cost 10x less"
How much less did the Silicon ones cost (compared to some third, unnamed product) in order to make the difference here "10 times" less? Yes, what you meant was "May cost 1/10th as much as Silicon" but you didn't. Try again.
You forgot a few:
Windows at both ends... Used to use FTP... Considering windows file sharing...
Is anyone else a little nervous? I hope by 'government' he means Department of Natural Resources or some equally uninteresting entity. I am picturing someone at the SEC going "You know, I swear this accounting data had a few more rows the last time I looked at it-- Oh well it's not like this Madoff guy is actually up to anything strange anyway"
Using modern encryption like SSH does guarantee that things *have to add up* since keeping what you start with a secret is just as important (sometimes more so) as making sure you finish with exactly what you start with (meaning no one in the middle meddled with your data).
So, in short, something like SSH or any other properly encrypted communication mechanism is a great way to both secure the data from snooping (in the case of a microwave link, a VERY real problem) as well as to safeguard the data from corruption (intentional or unintentional). I sincerely hope, for the asker's sake and possibly for the country's sake, that these files he works with are trivial.