The electorate must remain convinced that their votes matter and might really change the system, or else they lose all incentive to participate in the system and accept it as valid.
It's never too late to raise the black flag of anarchy.
The real reason Linux is malware-free can be summed up in a simple analogy: "You don't let your dog shit in your own front yard." It's no question the preferred box for hackers is a *nix box. Why sully their own yard when there are so many Windows and Mac homes out there with yards perfectly ripe for a fresh Cleavland Steamer?
Like parent says, it's stupid to think of Linux as uncrackable. If there's a port into the system then there's a potential exploit; it doesn't matter what the box is running. It's far more likely that malware hackers just like to have a clean lawn. Leave that shit for some other guy to clean up.
There is some poetic irony in the fact that one of the most abundant resources in the universe is also one of the last you want to intentionally vent off into space. Oh oxygen, how you tease us with your life-sustaining properties.
And somehow that makes it not intercontinental? Anyway, it doesn't change the point. "Intercontinental" is for epic voyages, not for skipping across what amounts to an oversized lake.
A phrase like "Attempts Intercontinental Flight" merits a certain expectation of daring and grandeur, and a distance less than 30 miles is not it. This is sheer overhyping and sensationalizing a nothing event, and personally I'm getting really sick and tired of people celebrating mediocrity.
Anyways, Wake me up when he tries like... Beijing Capital International to LAX
Seriously. Okay, so technically the Straight of Gibraltar separates two continents, but this is not an intercontinental flight. The Spirit of St. Louis made an intercontinental flight. The article title is BS. If they want to use "intercontinental" to describe a distance, then there had damn well better be an ocean involved.
It's still possible if the independent shop has an adequate website itself. Unfortunately, that's not usually the case as most local sites (at least where I live) either have a pseudo-site through some ad service or a simple information site with no real content. A local online shop that offers both direct shipping for anyone and holding items for local customers to pick up later could very well supplement a small business.
There is something new in that online retail is both it's own market and an extension to traditional retail, but it's still nothing that couldn't have been anticipated.
New? My friend, this is simply how the economy works. Look at any market. There are nearly always three top competitors - two vying for dominance, one underdog - taking 90%+ of the market, with everyone else stuck scraping by on the dredges. The only reason this seems interesting is that the online market hasn't fully stabilized yet.
Regardless, all markets follow the same general development cycle:
1) A new market emerges with one or two novel entrepreneurs.
2) The idea catches on and the market is soon flooded with dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of other startups, eager to cash in.
3) Eventually, bloat sets in as more companies than the market can support try to set up shop. The market then consolidates and shrinks through collapse and buyout.
4) The market starts to stabilize with at least one obvious dominant market leader and the others scrambling to figure out their place in the pecking order before being bought out or going bankrupt themselves. (the stage online retail is at now, in case you were wondering)
5) The market finally stabilizes with a small set of companies that dominate the market, with the other survivors usually finding smaller niche markets rather than compete directly. Any novel companies that start to rise at this point are either bought out by one of the Big 3 or are crushed in legal frivolities.
The problem with that line of reasoning is that when your main deterrent is a threat, that threat must never waver. If an enemy doubts your ability to carry out a threat, then the threat loses all credibility. Right now no country is willing to chance it, but if those warheads are just left to sit, then... eventually someone will take the gambit.
Actually... You just listed their entire franchise list. Not to knock Blizzard because they do make great games, but until Diablo 3 (which I assume will happen before Starcraft II) comes out, WoW really is their only product out right now. (Yes, nitpickers, *technically* they do still sell battlechests of Diablo2 and Starcraft, but come on. Those games are over 5 and 10 years old now. Not exactly prime game real estate.)
Let's be honest here. Gamers are typically a rather jaded and apathetic bunch. And any emergency alert signal I've heard in the last few years has been about either A) a kidnapping or B) the weather. So if you're a gamer, ask yourself honestly: Are you going to sit at rapt attention for one of these messages, or are you going to be pissed that some alert just randomly took over your game session? And let's not think about all those test alerts.
Leave this kind of stuff to communications devices, not entertainment ones. They'd have a much better chance of alerting the young folk if they did it through SMS.
TFA states it's an inert liquid, so hazmat need not be involved. Actually, it sounds an awful lot like an earlier story concerning a full-immersion prototype desktop PC.
Doesn't matter. Google's name has already achieved the marketer's dream: a generic name/verb. Which means it's in the same league as Coke, Kleenex and Xerox. Their name has become so big and so common it's replaced the real term. No one get's a soda, they get a coke, even when that 'coke' is a Pepsi. When was the last time anyone asked for a tissue instead of a Kleenex? And when you want something copied, you 'xerox' it. No one I know under the age of 40 searches for anything one the web, they 'google' it.
So it doesn't matter what this guy pays, Google is simply too big to be replaced at this stage in the game. If Microsoft is smart, they'll work to make Bing number 2. If not, instead of becoming the search engine equivalent of Pepsi, they'll become the next Royal Crown Cola.
I work for a place that deals with XML from multiple vendors and we spend a lot of hours working out how to normalize that code. Many times an otherwise simple regex becomes a convoluted mess as we try to account for each vendor's various coding quirks. And unfortunately my predecessors weren't the type to leave many comments. I don't care how long it gets, a comment should explain exactly what your code is doing and why. It's much better to have a long-winded speech about the scripts inner workings in the middle of your code than nothing at all. Code might be poetry, but when it comes to complex code a comment should be an essay.
I've yet to work for or hear of a company that didn't pirate software on some level, either through simple reuse of licenses, buying student licenses, or even using key-gens and cracked copies. Unless it's your own business, finding another job where there isn't pirated software is a pipe dream.
If anon really wants to cut down on company piracy, push open source. And be willing to do most, if not all, of the re-training.
I really don't see the point. Even if DVD readers are somehow around in 1,000 years, any information worth keeping around that long will have been reproduced and updated constantly during that entire period. Look at any major religion; each has countless numbers of editions of their texts. And history is constantly being revised. The same with scientific works; all constantly changing and being updated. So what's left? Am I going to store my financial records and music for a 1,000 years so some guy in the future can throw away my information as completely irrelevant and tasteless?
But you can buy stale, over-buttered popcorn and $6 bags of candy that cost $1.50 in any grocery store. And who doesn't like cramped, sticky seats and some guy behind you talking through the entire show? Or that wonderful bathroom experience after? You live in a dark and jaded world, my friend. I for one am happy to pay $10.00+ to see a movie and get a bonus 10 minutes of commercials and trailers. How can anyone possibly complain about such an experience?
It's amazing the number of times in computing where something, while inferior, was good enough for a lot of things and ended up dominating...
It's a demonstrable effect in most industries really. McDonald's is a perfect example. "Good enough" seems to be the sweet spot for garnering mass appeal.
I'm curious to see how they handle the safety aspect. Such as will these sensors make sure cars are road safe before adding them to the train? I'd hate to have a guy with crap brakes get in behind me. Or how close do the vehicles need to be in order for the train to work? Can non-train traffic weave in between cars in a train? And what if the lead car wreaks? Will it make an automatic pile up as every other car follows the first?
I don't know if I'd love or hate to be on the engineering team for this. It's an interesting challenge, but could very easily become a nightmare.
As we all should know by now, impenetrable security doesn't exist. What we should probably have is tighter backup power for essential services and places like hospitals, where local redundancy could help in the face of a remote 'hacker' type attack
Not probably. There is a universal rule: "If it can be made, it can be unmade."
Redundant systems independent (or even interdependent) of the grid would be the best course of action from a common sense standpoint, but sadly it isn't practical in terms of profit. First they have to figure out who's going to pay for the generators, then the maintenance, then retrofitting the buildings (if it's even possible), etc. etc. It'd be the same thing as what's going on with GPS-based navigation for airlines: a vastly improved, practical system built on proven technology with no one willing to pay for it.
Yes, I do. If you want to get technical, I'm using the definition of granting an individual/corporation/etc. of special rights or immunities under certain conditions. (dictionary.com).
In this case, it'd be having a driver's license under the condition that the person drives responsibly. I never said anything about it being an arbitrary privilege and neither should it.
It's one thing if I do damage to myself or my own property. It's quite another when some ass marauder slams into me because they were stupid enough to be reading/texting/doing make up/calling someone/drinking instead of paying attention to the road. It's the same concept as driving drunk. It's not about the damage they can do to themselves, it's the damage they can do to other people. Or are drunk driving laws 'nanny state' too?
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The electorate must remain convinced that their votes matter and might really change the system, or else they lose all incentive to participate in the system and accept it as valid.
It's never too late to raise the black flag of anarchy.
The real reason Linux is malware-free can be summed up in a simple analogy: "You don't let your dog shit in your own front yard." It's no question the preferred box for hackers is a *nix box. Why sully their own yard when there are so many Windows and Mac homes out there with yards perfectly ripe for a fresh Cleavland Steamer?
Like parent says, it's stupid to think of Linux as uncrackable. If there's a port into the system then there's a potential exploit; it doesn't matter what the box is running. It's far more likely that malware hackers just like to have a clean lawn. Leave that shit for some other guy to clean up.
There is some poetic irony in the fact that one of the most abundant resources in the universe is also one of the last you want to intentionally vent off into space. Oh oxygen, how you tease us with your life-sustaining properties.
And somehow that makes it not intercontinental? Anyway, it doesn't change the point. "Intercontinental" is for epic voyages, not for skipping across what amounts to an oversized lake.
A phrase like "Attempts Intercontinental Flight" merits a certain expectation of daring and grandeur, and a distance less than 30 miles is not it. This is sheer overhyping and sensationalizing a nothing event, and personally I'm getting really sick and tired of people celebrating mediocrity.
Anyways, Wake me up when he tries like... Beijing Capital International to LAX
Seriously. Okay, so technically the Straight of Gibraltar separates two continents, but this is not an intercontinental flight. The Spirit of St. Louis made an intercontinental flight. The article title is BS. If they want to use "intercontinental" to describe a distance, then there had damn well better be an ocean involved.
Or maybe it's because even with organizations buying in bulk they still can't outsell the Wii?
It's still possible if the independent shop has an adequate website itself. Unfortunately, that's not usually the case as most local sites (at least where I live) either have a pseudo-site through some ad service or a simple information site with no real content. A local online shop that offers both direct shipping for anyone and holding items for local customers to pick up later could very well supplement a small business.
There is something new in that online retail is both it's own market and an extension to traditional retail, but it's still nothing that couldn't have been anticipated.
New? My friend, this is simply how the economy works. Look at any market. There are nearly always three top competitors - two vying for dominance, one underdog - taking 90%+ of the market, with everyone else stuck scraping by on the dredges. The only reason this seems interesting is that the online market hasn't fully stabilized yet.
Regardless, all markets follow the same general development cycle:
1) A new market emerges with one or two novel entrepreneurs. 2) The idea catches on and the market is soon flooded with dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of other startups, eager to cash in.
3) Eventually, bloat sets in as more companies than the market can support try to set up shop. The market then consolidates and shrinks through collapse and buyout.
4) The market starts to stabilize with at least one obvious dominant market leader and the others scrambling to figure out their place in the pecking order before being bought out or going bankrupt themselves. (the stage online retail is at now, in case you were wondering)
5) The market finally stabilizes with a small set of companies that dominate the market, with the other survivors usually finding smaller niche markets rather than compete directly. Any novel companies that start to rise at this point are either bought out by one of the Big 3 or are crushed in legal frivolities.
The problem with that line of reasoning is that when your main deterrent is a threat, that threat must never waver. If an enemy doubts your ability to carry out a threat, then the threat loses all credibility. Right now no country is willing to chance it, but if those warheads are just left to sit, then... eventually someone will take the gambit.
Actually... You just listed their entire franchise list. Not to knock Blizzard because they do make great games, but until Diablo 3 (which I assume will happen before Starcraft II) comes out, WoW really is their only product out right now. (Yes, nitpickers, *technically* they do still sell battlechests of Diablo2 and Starcraft, but come on. Those games are over 5 and 10 years old now. Not exactly prime game real estate.)
Let's be honest here. Gamers are typically a rather jaded and apathetic bunch. And any emergency alert signal I've heard in the last few years has been about either A) a kidnapping or B) the weather. So if you're a gamer, ask yourself honestly: Are you going to sit at rapt attention for one of these messages, or are you going to be pissed that some alert just randomly took over your game session? And let's not think about all those test alerts.
Leave this kind of stuff to communications devices, not entertainment ones. They'd have a much better chance of alerting the young folk if they did it through SMS.
"Ignorant" is not the same as "stupid", and can be cured by means much less dramatic than death.
While I agree that ignorance != stupid, if a person is getting their "facts" from a hollywood movie, they are not suffering from mere ignorance.
TFA states it's an inert liquid, so hazmat need not be involved. Actually, it sounds an awful lot like an earlier story concerning a full-immersion prototype desktop PC.
Doesn't matter. Google's name has already achieved the marketer's dream: a generic name/verb. Which means it's in the same league as Coke, Kleenex and Xerox. Their name has become so big and so common it's replaced the real term. No one get's a soda, they get a coke, even when that 'coke' is a Pepsi. When was the last time anyone asked for a tissue instead of a Kleenex? And when you want something copied, you 'xerox' it. No one I know under the age of 40 searches for anything one the web, they 'google' it.
So it doesn't matter what this guy pays, Google is simply too big to be replaced at this stage in the game. If Microsoft is smart, they'll work to make Bing number 2. If not, instead of becoming the search engine equivalent of Pepsi, they'll become the next Royal Crown Cola.
Absolutely.
I work for a place that deals with XML from multiple vendors and we spend a lot of hours working out how to normalize that code. Many times an otherwise simple regex becomes a convoluted mess as we try to account for each vendor's various coding quirks. And unfortunately my predecessors weren't the type to leave many comments. I don't care how long it gets, a comment should explain exactly what your code is doing and why. It's much better to have a long-winded speech about the scripts inner workings in the middle of your code than nothing at all. Code might be poetry, but when it comes to complex code a comment should be an essay.
I've yet to work for or hear of a company that didn't pirate software on some level, either through simple reuse of licenses, buying student licenses, or even using key-gens and cracked copies. Unless it's your own business, finding another job where there isn't pirated software is a pipe dream.
If anon really wants to cut down on company piracy, push open source. And be willing to do most, if not all, of the re-training.
I really don't see the point. Even if DVD readers are somehow around in 1,000 years, any information worth keeping around that long will have been reproduced and updated constantly during that entire period. Look at any major religion; each has countless numbers of editions of their texts. And history is constantly being revised. The same with scientific works; all constantly changing and being updated. So what's left? Am I going to store my financial records and music for a 1,000 years so some guy in the future can throw away my information as completely irrelevant and tasteless?
But you can buy stale, over-buttered popcorn and $6 bags of candy that cost $1.50 in any grocery store. And who doesn't like cramped, sticky seats and some guy behind you talking through the entire show? Or that wonderful bathroom experience after? You live in a dark and jaded world, my friend. I for one am happy to pay $10.00+ to see a movie and get a bonus 10 minutes of commercials and trailers. How can anyone possibly complain about such an experience?
It's amazing the number of times in computing where something, while inferior, was good enough for a lot of things and ended up dominating...
It's a demonstrable effect in most industries really. McDonald's is a perfect example. "Good enough" seems to be the sweet spot for garnering mass appeal.
Funny, as I recall I have to pay my electric bill every month "or else" even now... Damn, the terrorists have already won!
I'm curious to see how they handle the safety aspect. Such as will these sensors make sure cars are road safe before adding them to the train? I'd hate to have a guy with crap brakes get in behind me. Or how close do the vehicles need to be in order for the train to work? Can non-train traffic weave in between cars in a train? And what if the lead car wreaks? Will it make an automatic pile up as every other car follows the first?
I don't know if I'd love or hate to be on the engineering team for this. It's an interesting challenge, but could very easily become a nightmare.
Probably impossible.
As we all should know by now, impenetrable security doesn't exist. What we should probably have is tighter backup power for essential services and places like hospitals, where local redundancy could help in the face of a remote 'hacker' type attack
Not probably. There is a universal rule: "If it can be made, it can be unmade."
Redundant systems independent (or even interdependent) of the grid would be the best course of action from a common sense standpoint, but sadly it isn't practical in terms of profit. First they have to figure out who's going to pay for the generators, then the maintenance, then retrofitting the buildings (if it's even possible), etc. etc. It'd be the same thing as what's going on with GPS-based navigation for airlines: a vastly improved, practical system built on proven technology with no one willing to pay for it.
I can already see a new market for advertising...
Yes, I do. If you want to get technical, I'm using the definition of granting an individual/corporation/etc. of special rights or immunities under certain conditions. (dictionary.com).
In this case, it'd be having a driver's license under the condition that the person drives responsibly. I never said anything about it being an arbitrary privilege and neither should it.
It's one thing if I do damage to myself or my own property. It's quite another when some ass marauder slams into me because they were stupid enough to be reading/texting/doing make up/calling someone/drinking instead of paying attention to the road. It's the same concept as driving drunk. It's not about the damage they can do to themselves, it's the damage they can do to other people. Or are drunk driving laws 'nanny state' too?