Steam and Google are the two sole online businesses that I know of (bar, say, banks) that have more than a simple username/password identification. The former forces you to authenticate every PC you use it on, which can only be done through your email. The latter uses 2-factor authentication through smartphones.
I think Steam is fairly safe. You'd have to be able to get the passwords (which are very likely salted and hashed) and could only attack those people who reuse the same password for both their Steam account and their email.
Get more RAM. The usual game can only use 2GB of RAM since they're still 32-bit programs not using large address awareness. This means that with 4GB, a bare minimum these days for gamers, you still get 2GB for the OS and programs. That should be plentiful. If not, well memory is cheap.
Seriously, there's no reason NOT to have a lot of RAM right now. It'll always come in handy.
Sensationalist, baseless claim? Check. Short article "sourced" entirely off in-house artices? Check. Forces to use print version to avoid ad overload? Check.
Actually, the original Monkey Island games are getting specialeditions too, with very nice painted graphics and a redesigned mouse interface. The puzzles are the same and can still be a bit involved, though, but otherwise they're classics with a modern flavor. You can also switch back to the original graphics at any time during gameplay, which is a nostalgic bonus!
50%? Make that a third, probably less, at least at my university in physics (not the engineering kind). We went from about 90 to 40 in a single year, with another 10 dropping out before the end of the second year. I expect to see between 20 and 25 people make it through the entire three years.
You know, that'd be all nice and tidy if it weren't for the fact that not all people are driven by money. I personally know quite a few people who decided to go into a major they liked instead of a major that'd give them a bigger pay down the line.
That university seems to be considered as a gateway to high salaries irks me nearly as much as those who say a degree is useless on the job market. I'm not at university to get a fat cheque, I'm there because I like what I do and I have an insatiable thirst for knowledge which cannot unfortunately be quenched by just reading so-so books while working from 9 to 5 everyday at a random shop. I want to meet professors with a passion for what they do, I want to participate in the biggest drivers of research around the globe, I want to get to know people who also share that passion the same way that I do. I may be able to do some of this with a lot of work while avoiding university, but it would never, ever match what can be had there.
I know the site is probably trying to be approachable, but what's wrong with saying 1e-29 m instead of this absurd measurement of 0.000000000000000000000000001 cm? This is getting close to the Planck length; no matter what you compare it to, it won't be a length you can intuitively grasp.
-Carrier lock. Apple has a much harder hand on walled gardens, what with not even allowing "competing" apps very often, and we all know how belowed AT&T is. Plus, Nexus One/S anyone? My S had no branding whatsoever, no carrier lock, I have built-in tethering and wifi tethering, I can choose any app that I could possibly like without any restriction. -Android is at approximately 360,000 apps (Androlib), while iOS is at roughly 390,000 (148Apps). If you think an 8% difference is enough to make Android the most evil thing ever, just go have fun with Jobs then. I like how 8% is "vast", though, especially considering this is just from the official Android Market. -Less polished user interface? Matter of taste I guess. I find the Android interface very attractive, and fragmentation is a term invented by deniers. It was called "flexibility" before that. Flexibility to choose how your OS looks and feels, flexibility to pick your applications, launcher, theme, flexibility to do things that the developers might not initially have thought about, flexibility to make your device your device. The fact you can easily develop apps for Android without having to jump through hoops is a bonus, as somebody who knows how to code but has no interest in publishing apps. -I don't exactly know why you're trying to make Apple look like the underdog here, because they clearly are not. Furthermore, I've never, ever seen anybody considering both rooting good and jailbreaking bad. Either they see both as acceptable/good, or they see both as bad. You're just cherry-picking negative reactions to jailbreaking and positive reactions to rooting to make your case, which is fallacious.
So I'll let you have fun with your conspiracy theories and go back to customizing my Nexus S. Ah, the possibilities!
Why? Because it's almost certain the "anonymous reader" happens to be staff at PC World, just like all those InfoWorld submissions that always come from staff there.
The latest generation of Sony Readers use infrared touchscreens. This method isn't exactly novel, but here it's applied to a much larger screen and is said to be an add-in component, which is still rather cool. Pick your favorite display and you know you can make it multitouch on top of that.
77 million PSN subscribers, but not necessarily individual people. Chances are there are millions of duplicates or child accounts that share the same credit card number.
You can derive mathematics in isolation. Case in point, many mathematic proofs and "discoveries" have been done independently and simultaneously (namely differential calculus with Newton and Leibniz).
You cannot, however, "derive" a book or end up with the exact same arrangement of words, apart from chance. Likewise, your drill will not have the same configuration, elements, inner workings, etc. It'll be different enough to be considered unique in its own right.
Even more criminal is Asus' Eee Pad Transformer's utter lack of publicity. If I was to get a tablet, it would be that one. Near stock OS, cheap, good-looking, optional keyboard dock transforming it into a Honeycomb netbook, what is there not to like?
Too bad Asus is just as deficient about advertising as Acer.
No. Costs should be equal for everybody. We should be stopping people from thinking that a profession is inherently "better" than another, and this would do the exact opposite.
If you need more money, there's an easy solution: charge more for flunk courses. It can be as easy as asking more up-front and paying it back when the student completes the course, so as to avoid students not paying back at the end. You could even make the payback proportional to the student's performance, so that not just the top 1% are rewarded for performing well at school (through grants) while all good but not exceptional people get nothing. Since most flunk courses are a result of lack of studying, lack of interest or something related to this, it would be a good way of forcing students who're just grinding the system down by sticking around being useless to at least pay for their idiocy, all while giving incentive for people to better themselves. Right now the difference between a B- and a B+ is... Not a whole lot. If it gave you $100 more at the end of the semester, it'd be worth it.
If you want to avoid penalizing students who are still unsure about their career choices, do as my current university (and many others) do and give a certain period where you can cancel the course free of charge, plus maybe a longer period where you can cancel the course and pay a minimal fee.
1) PSN is free, but that doesn't mean anything. The information I've given Sony have been given in the assumption that they would be kept with a modicum of safety. This was obviously not the case. It's even worse if the credit cards have indeed been compromised, in which case monetary compensation is far from being out of the question.
2) Reported a day after, where? I'm sorry, but saying it somewhere on the internet doesn't count. If you don't contact your customers on agreed-upon areas (email is the sole official contact anybody registering has given them), you haven't reported anything. I've received the email this morning. That's not one day.
3) Oh sure, so now because something's a target they're shielded from being dumb? Much of it is actually Sony reaping what they've sowed, but even notwithstanding that, it doesn't matter. If a bank gets a lot of frauds, does it mean it can stop paying back the customers?
And as much as I personally like the ribbon interface in MS Office 2007-10, it makes any move away from Office 2003 more complex than switching to OpenOffice or LibreOffice, because those keep the more traditional toolbar style UI. Likewise, Ubuntu can easily be configured to behave like Windows XP, whereas the new Windows 7 taskbar is rather different from both and resembles more a cross between XP's taskbar and OSX's dock (though it can be configured to behave pretty much like XP).
Honestly, saying training costs would be large could've been valid before, but with the new UIs found in recent Microsoft products, this just isn't the case anymore.
I'm not sure where you get that feeling. I've recently purchased a Nexus S and I can say I fell in love with it, yet about a year ago I won an iPod Touch 3rd gen and barely passed an afternoon with it before repackaging it and reselling it. It's got a lot of features, the UI is polished, it's fast and smooth...
Oh and fragmentation? I tend to call that "customization". You know, the fact you can actually make the phone yours instead of using prescribed manufacturer-approved designs. If I want to change the home screen, I can (Zeam, Launcher Pro, even Sense,...). If I want to change my keyboard, I can (Swype!). If I want to use a different browser, I can (Miren, Opera, Firefox, Dolphin,...). I don't exactly see what's the fuss about fragmentation, which really makes me feel like it was just a word created by Apple fanbois to diss Android's flexibility. I like that I can make the phone behave like I want it to and look as I wish.
Heh. I went for two years at a high school where students had their own laptops (not lent by the school, bought through a school program and fully owned by the student/parents with bulletproof warranty coverage from IBM).
Never seen such big Counter Strike LANs since then.
Asus Eee Pad Transformer. $399 for full model, $150 for optional add-in keyboard and second battery transforming the tablet into a Honeycomb netbook with 15 hours of run time.
And that's just one example. They could get the XO-3 when/if it comes out for a rumored $75 (they're in education, not cutting edge technology, they can afford to wait a year or two if it costs them 6x less).
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Steam and Google are the two sole online businesses that I know of (bar, say, banks) that have more than a simple username/password identification. The former forces you to authenticate every PC you use it on, which can only be done through your email. The latter uses 2-factor authentication through smartphones.
I think Steam is fairly safe. You'd have to be able to get the passwords (which are very likely salted and hashed) and could only attack those people who reuse the same password for both their Steam account and their email.
Get more RAM. The usual game can only use 2GB of RAM since they're still 32-bit programs not using large address awareness. This means that with 4GB, a bare minimum these days for gamers, you still get 2GB for the OS and programs. That should be plentiful. If not, well memory is cheap.
Seriously, there's no reason NOT to have a lot of RAM right now. It'll always come in handy.
Sensationalist, baseless claim? Check.
Short article "sourced" entirely off in-house artices? Check.
Forces to use print version to avoid ad overload? Check.
Yep, it's InfoWorld alright.
Actually, the original Monkey Island games are getting special editions too, with very nice painted graphics and a redesigned mouse interface. The puzzles are the same and can still be a bit involved, though, but otherwise they're classics with a modern flavor. You can also switch back to the original graphics at any time during gameplay, which is a nostalgic bonus!
You're equating IT with computer science.
Hypothetically, wouldn't things such as artificial intelligence be worth of a Nobel?
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50%? Make that a third, probably less, at least at my university in physics (not the engineering kind). We went from about 90 to 40 in a single year, with another 10 dropping out before the end of the second year. I expect to see between 20 and 25 people make it through the entire three years.
You know, that'd be all nice and tidy if it weren't for the fact that not all people are driven by money. I personally know quite a few people who decided to go into a major they liked instead of a major that'd give them a bigger pay down the line.
That university seems to be considered as a gateway to high salaries irks me nearly as much as those who say a degree is useless on the job market. I'm not at university to get a fat cheque, I'm there because I like what I do and I have an insatiable thirst for knowledge which cannot unfortunately be quenched by just reading so-so books while working from 9 to 5 everyday at a random shop. I want to meet professors with a passion for what they do, I want to participate in the biggest drivers of research around the globe, I want to get to know people who also share that passion the same way that I do. I may be able to do some of this with a lot of work while avoiding university, but it would never, ever match what can be had there.
At least with this you can always get an unlocked phone and *really* have an unlocked phone on all levels. It's progress.
I know the site is probably trying to be approachable, but what's wrong with saying 1e-29 m instead of this absurd measurement of 0.000000000000000000000000001 cm? This is getting close to the Planck length; no matter what you compare it to, it won't be a length you can intuitively grasp.
Wow, talk about fanboyism right?
-Carrier lock. Apple has a much harder hand on walled gardens, what with not even allowing "competing" apps very often, and we all know how belowed AT&T is. Plus, Nexus One/S anyone? My S had no branding whatsoever, no carrier lock, I have built-in tethering and wifi tethering, I can choose any app that I could possibly like without any restriction.
-Android is at approximately 360,000 apps (Androlib), while iOS is at roughly 390,000 (148Apps). If you think an 8% difference is enough to make Android the most evil thing ever, just go have fun with Jobs then. I like how 8% is "vast", though, especially considering this is just from the official Android Market.
-Less polished user interface? Matter of taste I guess. I find the Android interface very attractive, and fragmentation is a term invented by deniers. It was called "flexibility" before that. Flexibility to choose how your OS looks and feels, flexibility to pick your applications, launcher, theme, flexibility to do things that the developers might not initially have thought about, flexibility to make your device your device. The fact you can easily develop apps for Android without having to jump through hoops is a bonus, as somebody who knows how to code but has no interest in publishing apps.
-I don't exactly know why you're trying to make Apple look like the underdog here, because they clearly are not. Furthermore, I've never, ever seen anybody considering both rooting good and jailbreaking bad. Either they see both as acceptable/good, or they see both as bad. You're just cherry-picking negative reactions to jailbreaking and positive reactions to rooting to make your case, which is fallacious.
So I'll let you have fun with your conspiracy theories and go back to customizing my Nexus S. Ah, the possibilities!
Microsoft is a software company.
Sony is a hardware company.
One gets catastrophic failure rates on hardware, the other gets dismal software security. Anybody suprised?
Why? Because it's almost certain the "anonymous reader" happens to be staff at PC World, just like all those InfoWorld submissions that always come from staff there.
And we can't downvote stories anymore... Great.
So basically the entire submission is bullshit and there isn't a whole lot to be seen.
The latest generation of Sony Readers use infrared touchscreens. This method isn't exactly novel, but here it's applied to a much larger screen and is said to be an add-in component, which is still rather cool. Pick your favorite display and you know you can make it multitouch on top of that.
77 million PSN subscribers, but not necessarily individual people. Chances are there are millions of duplicates or child accounts that share the same credit card number.
You can derive mathematics in isolation. Case in point, many mathematic proofs and "discoveries" have been done independently and simultaneously (namely differential calculus with Newton and Leibniz).
You cannot, however, "derive" a book or end up with the exact same arrangement of words, apart from chance. Likewise, your drill will not have the same configuration, elements, inner workings, etc. It'll be different enough to be considered unique in its own right.
YES! I have. It's probably the best tablet I've seen so far and it's the only one I would ever be remotely interested in buying.
Even more criminal is Asus' Eee Pad Transformer's utter lack of publicity. If I was to get a tablet, it would be that one. Near stock OS, cheap, good-looking, optional keyboard dock transforming it into a Honeycomb netbook, what is there not to like?
Too bad Asus is just as deficient about advertising as Acer.
No. Costs should be equal for everybody. We should be stopping people from thinking that a profession is inherently "better" than another, and this would do the exact opposite.
If you need more money, there's an easy solution: charge more for flunk courses. It can be as easy as asking more up-front and paying it back when the student completes the course, so as to avoid students not paying back at the end. You could even make the payback proportional to the student's performance, so that not just the top 1% are rewarded for performing well at school (through grants) while all good but not exceptional people get nothing. Since most flunk courses are a result of lack of studying, lack of interest or something related to this, it would be a good way of forcing students who're just grinding the system down by sticking around being useless to at least pay for their idiocy, all while giving incentive for people to better themselves. Right now the difference between a B- and a B+ is... Not a whole lot. If it gave you $100 more at the end of the semester, it'd be worth it.
If you want to avoid penalizing students who are still unsure about their career choices, do as my current university (and many others) do and give a certain period where you can cancel the course free of charge, plus maybe a longer period where you can cancel the course and pay a minimal fee.
1) PSN is free, but that doesn't mean anything. The information I've given Sony have been given in the assumption that they would be kept with a modicum of safety. This was obviously not the case. It's even worse if the credit cards have indeed been compromised, in which case monetary compensation is far from being out of the question.
2) Reported a day after, where? I'm sorry, but saying it somewhere on the internet doesn't count. If you don't contact your customers on agreed-upon areas (email is the sole official contact anybody registering has given them), you haven't reported anything. I've received the email this morning. That's not one day.
3) Oh sure, so now because something's a target they're shielded from being dumb? Much of it is actually Sony reaping what they've sowed, but even notwithstanding that, it doesn't matter. If a bank gets a lot of frauds, does it mean it can stop paying back the customers?
And as much as I personally like the ribbon interface in MS Office 2007-10, it makes any move away from Office 2003 more complex than switching to OpenOffice or LibreOffice, because those keep the more traditional toolbar style UI. Likewise, Ubuntu can easily be configured to behave like Windows XP, whereas the new Windows 7 taskbar is rather different from both and resembles more a cross between XP's taskbar and OSX's dock (though it can be configured to behave pretty much like XP).
Honestly, saying training costs would be large could've been valid before, but with the new UIs found in recent Microsoft products, this just isn't the case anymore.
I'm not sure where you get that feeling. I've recently purchased a Nexus S and I can say I fell in love with it, yet about a year ago I won an iPod Touch 3rd gen and barely passed an afternoon with it before repackaging it and reselling it. It's got a lot of features, the UI is polished, it's fast and smooth...
Oh and fragmentation? I tend to call that "customization". You know, the fact you can actually make the phone yours instead of using prescribed manufacturer-approved designs. If I want to change the home screen, I can (Zeam, Launcher Pro, even Sense, ...). If I want to change my keyboard, I can (Swype!). If I want to use a different browser, I can (Miren, Opera, Firefox, Dolphin, ...). I don't exactly see what's the fuss about fragmentation, which really makes me feel like it was just a word created by Apple fanbois to diss Android's flexibility. I like that I can make the phone behave like I want it to and look as I wish.
Heh. I went for two years at a high school where students had their own laptops (not lent by the school, bought through a school program and fully owned by the student/parents with bulletproof warranty coverage from IBM).
Never seen such big Counter Strike LANs since then.
Asus Eee Pad Transformer. $399 for full model, $150 for optional add-in keyboard and second battery transforming the tablet into a Honeycomb netbook with 15 hours of run time.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4277/asus-eee-pad-transformer-review
And that's just one example. They could get the XO-3 when/if it comes out for a rumored $75 (they're in education, not cutting edge technology, they can afford to wait a year or two if it costs them 6x less).