We could try to figure out your "secret path" through the matrix and try to finesse a solution. OR we could cat | sort | uniq your matrix, find your reduced charset (02345789acefimnrtuvw - only 21 characters) and brute force it. Get a longer password. Get a bigger matrix with more noise.
The organizers aren't losing money to the scalpers. All the tickets are sold at the price they set.
It takes longer for people to get into the venue if the doorman has to check IDs. That would cost the organizers money.
Kids and teenagers go to concerts too. Should the doorman accept a library card?
We don't want to kill the social habit of giving your tickets away to your friends at the last minute when you're unable to go to the show. It's a good habit.
If we're going to have a law that makes it illegal to hike the resell value of goods, how about starting with some basic goods that preserve life: Bread, milk, baby formula, water, internet access. Concert ticket are a luxury item by any definitions, they should not be given special protection over basic goods.
The blaster is a clumsy and random weapon for an uncivilized age. Impossible to get good at it, no matter how much you train. Solo just got lucky, and of course had the advantage of shooting first.
These are isolated incidents. With the exception of the few rotten apples shown in the article, every press release is 100% accurate in both its claims and its predictions.
Did your kid ever sit on a pillow and pretend to be driving a car? Tried to feed a teddy bear as if it were a kid? Had a phone conversation with grandma even though the phone was off? Game Over. A dog will never ever be capable of this level of abstraction. Most kids perform some amazing feats of imagination well before the age of two. Anything a dog can do, in comparison, is just a parlor trick.
I don't know if Einstein really said so, but imagination is more important than knowledge.
The practice is called Sandbagging. Lose games on purpose to keep your ranking low, and occasionally when you get to play a much weaker player, go full throttle and humiliate the poor guy who thinks he's playing someone of equal skill. There are sandbaggers pretty much on any free gaming service on the net. Apparently sandbaggers enjoy their trade.
In a gambling situation, the sandbagger would lose games on purpose when the bet is small, and play for real when the bet is large. Possibly making some money at it. Definitely laughing the entire time.
Hard to imagine it would still be ticking and beeping 100 million years later. At least by our standards, 1000 years of operation would be a great engineering feat for a device that's subject to space travel. A silent probe in a solar system is like a drop in the ocean, maybe like single molecule in the ocean. Not surprising we haven't found one.
We've received unconfirmed reports that former IBM president Thomas Watson has risen from his grave to estimate the world market for 256gb flash drives at "maybe 5".
The review process is fine. Apple's goal is to guarantee "quality" - as per their own definition. It just so happens that Apple's definition of quality is in line with how iPhone owners define it. The developer's opinion on quality means very little to Apple or to iPhone owners.
What can, and should, be improved is how the app goes live. As it stands, the app goes live when Apple's reviewer approves it. This can be a couple of weeks after it was submitted, or a couple of days. Often blind-siding the developer. Apple should really, really, make it that approved apps go into a wait state, and then go live when the developer pulls the trigger.
Delinquents are teaching delinquents now? Back when I was a juvenile delinquent we didn't have any "internet" or "correctional facilities" to show us how. If you wanted to be a delinquent you had to learn it and earn it yourself, by breaking and entering to a house that was 3 miles away in the snow uphill both way and guarded by gargoyles. Today's youth just want everything handed to them on a silver platter. Lazy little bastards. that's the Now get off my lawn.
It would be stupid to spell Paris with two R's. And Rex Paris is a stupid name, don't you know what happened to the last king in Paris?
Stupid's sticking power doesn't come from logic, au contraire, stupid defies logic.
There's no real distinction between eating your cousin, eating your sister, or eating an unrelated person. Any time you eat a human it's cannibalism. Your analogy just fails.
There is, however, a real distinction between sleeping with your cousin, sleeping with your sister, or sleeping with an unrelated person. Sleeping with your sister is bad. Sleeping with someone unrelated is okay (some would even say good). Sleeping with your cousin... Well... Darwin married his cousin (3rd cousin).
Sorry, I misspoke when I said "Sulfur-based". The Europa critters in Odyssey 3001 metabolized sulfur, not sure of their composition. They were also said to be slower than earth life-forms, because metabolizing sulfur isn't as intensive as metabolizing oxygen.
People put Free Will and Randomness in the same basket because they are both non-deterministic. But that's all there is in common. Free Will and Randomness are two completely different things. Random events at the quantum level inside your brain are no different than having randomly-firing electrodes implanted in your brain. It will make your brain's output unpredictable, but it does not constitute Free Will. Or are you suggesting that the Mind somehow controls these Random events at the quantum level?
I predict 1 million users registering this month. The other 69 million users will try to register on the last hour of the last day before lines get deactivated. Let's hope they aren't showing Latin American Idol that night, phone networks would evaporate.
Another likely scenario, 3-4 months from now some big story breaks out on how someone stole (read, bought) the database and used it to do very naughty things. Public outrage. Common sense wins round 2. Database scrapped.
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We could try to figure out your "secret path" through the matrix and try to finesse a solution. OR we could cat | sort | uniq your matrix, find your reduced charset (02345789acefimnrtuvw - only 21 characters) and brute force it.
Get a longer password. Get a bigger matrix with more noise.
The organizers aren't losing money to the scalpers. All the tickets are sold at the price they set.
It takes longer for people to get into the venue if the doorman has to check IDs. That would cost the organizers money.
Kids and teenagers go to concerts too. Should the doorman accept a library card?
We don't want to kill the social habit of giving your tickets away to your friends at the last minute when you're unable to go to the show. It's a good habit.
If we're going to have a law that makes it illegal to hike the resell value of goods, how about starting with some basic goods that preserve life: Bread, milk, baby formula, water, internet access. Concert ticket are a luxury item by any definitions, they should not be given special protection over basic goods.
Just embrace the free market. Embrace it.
Yo momma so fat, Obama said she's too big to fail.
For you youngsters, that's how you write ++age in COBOL. Now get off my lawn.
The blaster is a clumsy and random weapon for an uncivilized age. Impossible to get good at it, no matter how much you train. Solo just got lucky, and of course had the advantage of shooting first.
These are isolated incidents. With the exception of the few rotten apples shown in the article, every press release is 100% accurate in both its claims and its predictions.
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords with a refreshing sugary drink!
If this isn't Plausible deniability, I don't know what is.
Did your kid ever sit on a pillow and pretend to be driving a car? Tried to feed a teddy bear as if it were a kid? Had a phone conversation with grandma even though the phone was off? Game Over. A dog will never ever be capable of this level of abstraction. Most kids perform some amazing feats of imagination well before the age of two. Anything a dog can do, in comparison, is just a parlor trick. I don't know if Einstein really said so, but imagination is more important than knowledge.
The practice is called Sandbagging. Lose games on purpose to keep your ranking low, and occasionally when you get to play a much weaker player, go full throttle and humiliate the poor guy who thinks he's playing someone of equal skill. There are sandbaggers pretty much on any free gaming service on the net. Apparently sandbaggers enjoy their trade. In a gambling situation, the sandbagger would lose games on purpose when the bet is small, and play for real when the bet is large. Possibly making some money at it. Definitely laughing the entire time.
Hard to imagine it would still be ticking and beeping 100 million years later. At least by our standards, 1000 years of operation would be a great engineering feat for a device that's subject to space travel. A silent probe in a solar system is like a drop in the ocean, maybe like single molecule in the ocean. Not surprising we haven't found one.
They just couldn't build a dumber one.
Yes, but not Al Gore. The line must be drawn somewhere!
We've received unconfirmed reports that former IBM president Thomas Watson has risen from his grave to estimate the world market for 256gb flash drives at "maybe 5".
Ah! I'll give it a try... If I remember =)
The review process is fine. Apple's goal is to guarantee "quality" - as per their own definition. It just so happens that Apple's definition of quality is in line with how iPhone owners define it. The developer's opinion on quality means very little to Apple or to iPhone owners. What can, and should, be improved is how the app goes live. As it stands, the app goes live when Apple's reviewer approves it. This can be a couple of weeks after it was submitted, or a couple of days. Often blind-siding the developer. Apple should really, really, make it that approved apps go into a wait state, and then go live when the developer pulls the trigger.
Delinquents are teaching delinquents now? Back when I was a juvenile delinquent we didn't have any "internet" or "correctional facilities" to show us how. If you wanted to be a delinquent you had to learn it and earn it yourself, by breaking and entering to a house that was 3 miles away in the snow uphill both way and guarded by gargoyles. Today's youth just want everything handed to them on a silver platter. Lazy little bastards. that's the Now get off my lawn.
Still faster than Firefox 3.5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cWzWil_h8s
It would be stupid to commit a crime.
It would be stupid to spell Paris with two R's. And Rex Paris is a stupid name, don't you know what happened to the last king in Paris? Stupid's sticking power doesn't come from logic, au contraire, stupid defies logic.
There's no real distinction between eating your cousin, eating your sister, or eating an unrelated person. Any time you eat a human it's cannibalism. Your analogy just fails. There is, however, a real distinction between sleeping with your cousin, sleeping with your sister, or sleeping with an unrelated person. Sleeping with your sister is bad. Sleeping with someone unrelated is okay (some would even say good). Sleeping with your cousin... Well... Darwin married his cousin (3rd cousin).
Sorry, I misspoke when I said "Sulfur-based". The Europa critters in Odyssey 3001 metabolized sulfur, not sure of their composition. They were also said to be slower than earth life-forms, because metabolizing sulfur isn't as intensive as metabolizing oxygen.
Maybe no one has read it. In Odyssey 3001 (The Final Odyssey) Clarke wrote about a sulfur-based life forms on Jupiter's Europa moon.
People put Free Will and Randomness in the same basket because they are both non-deterministic. But that's all there is in common. Free Will and Randomness are two completely different things. Random events at the quantum level inside your brain are no different than having randomly-firing electrodes implanted in your brain. It will make your brain's output unpredictable, but it does not constitute Free Will. Or are you suggesting that the Mind somehow controls these Random events at the quantum level?
Q: What do you have when you have 10 lawyers stored up to their necks in online?
I predict 1 million users registering this month. The other 69 million users will try to register on the last hour of the last day before lines get deactivated. Let's hope they aren't showing Latin American Idol that night, phone networks would evaporate.
Another likely scenario, 3-4 months from now some big story breaks out on how someone stole (read, bought) the database and used it to do very naughty things. Public outrage. Common sense wins round 2. Database scrapped.