A friend of mine got his eVGA GPU (lifetime warranty) fried way after the product went end-of-life and they've replaced it with a brand new, more powerful one for free.
Not all companies play on words to cheat the consumer.
If it's a problem unrelated to the wi-fi, it would not be affected by the on/off state of the wi-fi. People would report feeling ill during the fake offline and during the actual offline period. You'd still prove that the problem is elsewhere.
Just find a school where students do not use laptops with wifi, then disable the wifi for a certain period of time. If the students still feel sick, you've got your perfect defense.
They'll put anyone who encrypts their messages under a watch list. After all, you don't need to encrypt your messages if you've nothing to hide, right? Right?...
Current business is "make money within 6 months or GTFO".
Yeah, I'm exaggerating, but not by a whole lot. Even in the best of cases, things like extrasolar planet discoveries, the LHC or other "fundamental" science don't have applications within 10 if not 20 or 50 years, maybe more. They're of no use to business even though business will thrive on it in the future.
WikiLeaks claims to have redacted the names, but it turns out they weren't very thorough. Hundreds of names were left in. And in cases where the name was redacted, they left in details like the village the informant lived in and the name of his father.
[citation needed]
And please, not vague "hundreds" citations. Where in the documents?
You realize we aren't all playing Quake 2 anymore, right? You might want to look at modern games before passing a judgment like that because it boggles my mind how you can find the muddy, dated graphics of Doom better than Crysis, Rage, Uncharted or others. It was a revolution back in its day but times change.
I can tell that my anecdotal evidence tends to confirm the article. Most people I know do not give a damn about computers, the Internet or technology in general. They see them as tools and that is all there is to it. However, that stance is perfectly normal - having grown up with it, they do not find it alien, so they consider it as normal as cars and planes. They concentrate on their given direction in life, what they are currently studying. It's hard to be objective here because most (all?) of the Slashdot posters are technologically literate. Whether they work in the business, love it as a passion or are studying it, technology is what they're doing most of their time and as such it's hard to fathom a state of mind where you are not curious. I know I find quite depressing sometimes how many people I know do not care about the technology they use everyday. I feel like they lack the curiosity that I always have when dealing with the stuff, but then I try to convince myself that it's just that their curiosity is turned elsewhere.
The fact you are reading and posting (I'm ignoring trolls here) on Slashdot automatically makes you a statistical error. Geeks are not commonplace, however unfortunate that is.
Good luck writing some indented code or a long mathematical formula involving integrals or fractions over IRC, let alone digging through some books and sharing excerpts or doing something physical like a lab experiment.
And when Apple has a decent market share (which is what you're helping them achieve), the security holes will get exploited. That's a given. Further, the Mac people might be less used to dealing with it and more vulnerable (from a user perspective, not software) to it than Windows users are. I just hope for them that the UNIX core makes OSX more resilient than Windows overall.
The proper capitalization is one lowercase, then one uppercase and the rest lowercase. Otherwise, students just don't get it.
Bad jokes aside, I only know of one person who does his work in LaTeX, apart from me. The others never even heard of the thing, be it LaTeX directly or otherwise through LyX. And before you ask, I'm in physics/comp sci, the place where you SHOULD find the most people familiar with that. Most people I know aren't Apple fans, but teachers sure as hell are. I think I saw one teacher so far that wasn't using a MacBook (seriously).
RTFS please, even if you don't read anything else.
Unlike Google, Mozilla will let users change the default silent service to the more traditional mode, where the browser asks permission before downloading and installing any update.
I'm more bothered by Wikipedia's near-tribalism when it comes to editors. It doesn't really feel "open" anymore.
Regardless, I still favor the information I gather there from the one I find in many places. It's just that it would be better for Wikipedia to go back to its roots and encourage the public to edit.
It's not mutually exclusive. Combine online availability with a printing service at minimal pricing and you have something flexible and easier on the chequebooks. I can easily spend in the hundreds in books every semester; any improvement will be a good improvement.
Do I want teachers to use technology? Not necessarily. Do I want them to learn and try new techniques for teaching? Hell yes. I had a teacher who tried using a technique he saw from another professor that mainly consisted in short bursts of lectures with the majority of the courses taken up by interactive quizzes. He'd bring up a Powerpoint with questions in relation to the subject at hand, give the students some time to think about it and discuss with their peers, then ask for everyone to show a letter corresponding to their answer choice. He'd then explain the correct answer. Students would read chapters on the subject before going into the course (with a small timed online test to verify that you've indeed read the chapters).
The result? One of the most fun and engaging courses I've ever had. That's a new technique which happens to also use technology in the most effective manner possible. Of course, it really helped that the teacher was a good one (he was relaxed, knowledgeable and would constantly insert jokes in the presentations). It really makes me wish more teachers would go away from the traditional lecturing for two hours straight that makes you bored out of your mind.
Further, I assume it could be done so that instead of immediately applying the post-processing, the motion sensors' data is stored alongside every picture for later usage. It would be more efficient (in terms of photo quality, power savings and speed) to let a computer with user-selectable settings do the job instead of embedding the entire algorithm in the camera.
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Well, he is well placed to comment on such matters. Who better than a mechanic to comment on how broken a car is?
Seems to vary quite a bit by ISP. I've surpassed my ISP's rated speed once (by a few Mbps).
A friend of mine got his eVGA GPU (lifetime warranty) fried way after the product went end-of-life and they've replaced it with a brand new, more powerful one for free.
Not all companies play on words to cheat the consumer.
If it's a problem unrelated to the wi-fi, it would not be affected by the on/off state of the wi-fi. People would report feeling ill during the fake offline and during the actual offline period. You'd still prove that the problem is elsewhere.
Just find a school where students do not use laptops with wifi, then disable the wifi for a certain period of time. If the students still feel sick, you've got your perfect defense.
They'll put anyone who encrypts their messages under a watch list. After all, you don't need to encrypt your messages if you've nothing to hide, right? Right?...
Wouldn't that be called Cease and Decease?
Current business is "make money within 6 months or GTFO".
Yeah, I'm exaggerating, but not by a whole lot. Even in the best of cases, things like extrasolar planet discoveries, the LHC or other "fundamental" science don't have applications within 10 if not 20 or 50 years, maybe more. They're of no use to business even though business will thrive on it in the future.
Well... Most iPhone uses are at their what, fourth one now? Maybe it's related :)
WikiLeaks claims to have redacted the names, but it turns out they weren't very thorough. Hundreds of names were left in. And in cases where the name was redacted, they left in details like the village the informant lived in and the name of his father.
[citation needed]
And please, not vague "hundreds" citations. Where in the documents?
I used to call that "hammer & magnet"...
You realize we aren't all playing Quake 2 anymore, right? You might want to look at modern games before passing a judgment like that because it boggles my mind how you can find the muddy, dated graphics of Doom better than Crysis, Rage, Uncharted or others. It was a revolution back in its day but times change.
I can tell that my anecdotal evidence tends to confirm the article. Most people I know do not give a damn about computers, the Internet or technology in general. They see them as tools and that is all there is to it. However, that stance is perfectly normal - having grown up with it, they do not find it alien, so they consider it as normal as cars and planes. They concentrate on their given direction in life, what they are currently studying. It's hard to be objective here because most (all?) of the Slashdot posters are technologically literate. Whether they work in the business, love it as a passion or are studying it, technology is what they're doing most of their time and as such it's hard to fathom a state of mind where you are not curious. I know I find quite depressing sometimes how many people I know do not care about the technology they use everyday. I feel like they lack the curiosity that I always have when dealing with the stuff, but then I try to convince myself that it's just that their curiosity is turned elsewhere.
The fact you are reading and posting (I'm ignoring trolls here) on Slashdot automatically makes you a statistical error. Geeks are not commonplace, however unfortunate that is.
Good luck writing some indented code or a long mathematical formula involving integrals or fractions over IRC, let alone digging through some books and sharing excerpts or doing something physical like a lab experiment.
Where are my mod points when I need them? Mod parent up!
And when Apple has a decent market share (which is what you're helping them achieve), the security holes will get exploited. That's a given. Further, the Mac people might be less used to dealing with it and more vulnerable (from a user perspective, not software) to it than Windows users are. I just hope for them that the UNIX core makes OSX more resilient than Windows overall.
The proper capitalization is one lowercase, then one uppercase and the rest lowercase. Otherwise, students just don't get it.
Bad jokes aside, I only know of one person who does his work in LaTeX, apart from me. The others never even heard of the thing, be it LaTeX directly or otherwise through LyX. And before you ask, I'm in physics/comp sci, the place where you SHOULD find the most people familiar with that. Most people I know aren't Apple fans, but teachers sure as hell are. I think I saw one teacher so far that wasn't using a MacBook (seriously).
People ignore update dialogs. Why do you think they wouldn't ignore that, too?
Unlike Google, Mozilla will let users change the default silent service to the more traditional mode, where the browser asks permission before downloading and installing any update.
Why is this even modded Insightful?
It's a very, very difficult technical feat, one that required hardware powers and software abilities far beyond those of mortal men.
Wait, are you saying that gods waste their days computing Pi to an arbitrarily high number of decimals?
I'm more bothered by Wikipedia's near-tribalism when it comes to editors. It doesn't really feel "open" anymore.
Regardless, I still favor the information I gather there from the one I find in many places. It's just that it would be better for Wikipedia to go back to its roots and encourage the public to edit.
It's not mutually exclusive. Combine online availability with a printing service at minimal pricing and you have something flexible and easier on the chequebooks. I can easily spend in the hundreds in books every semester; any improvement will be a good improvement.
Do I want teachers to use technology? Not necessarily. Do I want them to learn and try new techniques for teaching? Hell yes. I had a teacher who tried using a technique he saw from another professor that mainly consisted in short bursts of lectures with the majority of the courses taken up by interactive quizzes. He'd bring up a Powerpoint with questions in relation to the subject at hand, give the students some time to think about it and discuss with their peers, then ask for everyone to show a letter corresponding to their answer choice. He'd then explain the correct answer. Students would read chapters on the subject before going into the course (with a small timed online test to verify that you've indeed read the chapters).
The result? One of the most fun and engaging courses I've ever had. That's a new technique which happens to also use technology in the most effective manner possible. Of course, it really helped that the teacher was a good one (he was relaxed, knowledgeable and would constantly insert jokes in the presentations). It really makes me wish more teachers would go away from the traditional lecturing for two hours straight that makes you bored out of your mind.
Further, I assume it could be done so that instead of immediately applying the post-processing, the motion sensors' data is stored alongside every picture for later usage. It would be more efficient (in terms of photo quality, power savings and speed) to let a computer with user-selectable settings do the job instead of embedding the entire algorithm in the camera.