Yeah, it seems the telecoms have all banded together and decided to force everyone to choose between really expensive unlimited smartphone plans or no smartphone at all.
He is probably thinking of XSS and CSRF vulnerabilities. These are technically not HTML's "fault," but they are so common it is clear HTML "encourages" them happening.
As far as I know, there are no pre-paid data plans in the US. And the only mobile plans with data for less than $50/mo are from a company that will not work with Android.
An zero-day exploit is an exploit which works against a zero-day vulnerability. As soon as a patch is released (day 1) neither the exploit nor the vulnerability are "zero-day" anymore.
Where are Android phones that work with the pay-as-you-go, or at least low-cost plans? Virgin Mobile has LG smartphones with $25/month plans, but if you want Android, nobody offers anything at less than $60/month.
He shouldn't have to follow those rules, and neither should we. The only difference is that he can afford to throw a fit and we can't (without losing $1000 airline tickets).
They are already being compensated by taxpayers. Taxpayers are granting them rights: copyrights. These have a monetary value. Doing it honestly is an improvement. Doing it without artificial scarcity is a HUGE improvement.
The smart thing to do is to add a "mass media" addendum to the copyright law, so that all works licensed by it can be freely copied. Then the producers of those works would be compensated by the government according to the popularity of their works.
This keeps content creation profitable while ending artificial restrictions on copying.
First remember that foreign students pay FAR more than we do to go to US schools. Compound that with the fact that many come from poor countries. The pressure to succeed is EXTREME. Furthermore, not all cultures despise cheating as much as Western culture. The results are predictable.
Personal anecdote: I was invited to the Indian CS students' "study session" once while on a group project. I was AMAZED. They had a library of homework and test questions and answers. They passed them around casually. They also begged me for graded solutions from my previous courses to add to their collection. They were all cheating their way through and thought it was normal.
They also kept asking me how I could come up with working algorithms to programming assignments on my own (without copying from something). It was as if actually being able to program was wizardry to them. I wonder why.......
It's refreshing to hear some honesty in business. Don't pretend your product is revolutionary. Don't try to change the world. Just make money using proven methods. That's good, honest business right there.
It can't decode 1080p H.264. Because of this, expect Tegra 2 to be popular on systems with their own screens (tablets, smartphones) but not popular on things you hook to your 1080p TV.
Actually, sixty thousand people have paid for it just since the account was frozen!
Minecraft is an entirely new category of game. There is no name for this new category. This is why indie development rocks; EA is happy to release new iterations of the FPS, but they would never gamble with a new class of game entirely.
The basic idea of Minecraft is this: you find yourself in a randomly-generated 3D world. It's daytime. At night, monsters will pop out of the darkness and attack you. Your only hope of survival is to harvest resources from the world (wood, stone, etc.) and build a shelter and weapons to defend yourself. The night/day cycle repeats: harvest, build, defend.
Think of it as something of a combo of Elder Scrolls and Second Life.
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Yeah, it seems the telecoms have all banded together and decided to force everyone to choose between really expensive unlimited smartphone plans or no smartphone at all.
He is probably thinking of XSS and CSRF vulnerabilities. These are technically not HTML's "fault," but they are so common it is clear HTML "encourages" them happening.
Four seconds? It works instantly in chrome.
It restricts data. It restricts my rights. It does not protect anything.
As far as I know, there are no pre-paid data plans in the US. And the only mobile plans with data for less than $50/mo are from a company that will not work with Android.
Reference: common, universally-accepted infosec lingo.
An zero-day exploit is an exploit which works against a zero-day vulnerability. As soon as a patch is released (day 1) neither the exploit nor the vulnerability are "zero-day" anymore.
Getting a data plan that works in the USA is the problem.
The problem is the lack of plans that work with these phones.
... and for data?
Does it kill the scroll wheel, too? Backward compatibility matters!
That's still $50 per month. It's way too much money for infrequent users.
Where are Android phones that work with the pay-as-you-go, or at least low-cost plans? Virgin Mobile has LG smartphones with $25/month plans, but if you want Android, nobody offers anything at less than $60/month.
In the context of security, a zero-day vulnerability is a vulnerability for which no patch exists.
He shouldn't have to follow those rules, and neither should we. The only difference is that he can afford to throw a fit and we can't (without losing $1000 airline tickets).
They are already being compensated by taxpayers. Taxpayers are granting them rights: copyrights. These have a monetary value. Doing it honestly is an improvement. Doing it without artificial scarcity is a HUGE improvement.
The smart thing to do is to add a "mass media" addendum to the copyright law, so that all works licensed by it can be freely copied. Then the producers of those works would be compensated by the government according to the popularity of their works.
This keeps content creation profitable while ending artificial restrictions on copying.
You can't learn to compose algorithms by copy-pasting and tweaking parameters.
In work, getting answers matters most. In school, being forced to THINK (not copy) is what matters most.
But I'm glad the cheating worked out for you.
First remember that foreign students pay FAR more than we do to go to US schools. Compound that with the fact that many come from poor countries. The pressure to succeed is EXTREME. Furthermore, not all cultures despise cheating as much as Western culture. The results are predictable.
Personal anecdote: I was invited to the Indian CS students' "study session" once while on a group project. I was AMAZED. They had a library of homework and test questions and answers. They passed them around casually. They also begged me for graded solutions from my previous courses to add to their collection. They were all cheating their way through and thought it was normal.
They also kept asking me how I could come up with working algorithms to programming assignments on my own (without copying from something). It was as if actually being able to program was wizardry to them. I wonder why.......
It's refreshing to hear some honesty in business. Don't pretend your product is revolutionary. Don't try to change the world. Just make money using proven methods. That's good, honest business right there.
It can't decode 1080p H.264. Because of this, expect Tegra 2 to be popular on systems with their own screens (tablets, smartphones) but not popular on things you hook to your 1080p TV.
"Voxel-based first person roguelike" is a description of a category. That category does not have a name, because it's new.
It is silly to assert that anything which can be described is necessarily not new.
Well, the major difference (other than being 3D) is that you build pixel-by-pixel.
No, what you're missing is that it's the building that is the main focus of Minecraft.
Actually, sixty thousand people have paid for it just since the account was frozen!
Minecraft is an entirely new category of game. There is no name for this new category. This is why indie development rocks; EA is happy to release new iterations of the FPS, but they would never gamble with a new class of game entirely.
The basic idea of Minecraft is this: you find yourself in a randomly-generated 3D world. It's daytime. At night, monsters will pop out of the darkness and attack you. Your only hope of survival is to harvest resources from the world (wood, stone, etc.) and build a shelter and weapons to defend yourself. The night/day cycle repeats: harvest, build, defend.
Think of it as something of a combo of Elder Scrolls and Second Life.