The way windows can patch itself is malware in action. As soon as I have some 'legal' way to change the baseline, I also have a way of installing illegal software surreptitiously. It would only work on something that never needs updating.
I'll bet the touch-sensitive dashboard is the problem. Click and Clack said it could cost $800-$2000 to fix one messed up by a teacher putting a refrigerator magnet on it. What other sorts of random inputs will occur from dust, sweaty hands, or spit? I'll bet they haven't tested for that at all.
The way Windows is setup, they have a built-in rootkit path for applying patches (stuff that must be written to OS files). Those helpdesk apps that take over your computer or let someone else see your screen work off the same 'exploits.' Don't expect any of those capabilities to go away (and don't assume Linux, VMS, OSX and all other opsys's aren't equally as vulnerable).
Eventually, some wise lawyer will realize that ignorance of the law _is_ an excuse.
Proof: have the judge read into the record every law, covenant, and government regulation that may apply (you don't know until you read it do you?) to a citizen at a specific location in America. Even reading 24 hours a day, I suspect you could not finish in a reasonable amount of time (read all the new laws in that have been passed since you started). Some folks think it would take years. I think given the state of jurisprudence in America, the process would never end.
Q.E.D. (qed even if it takes more than a year at 24/7 because that places an unreasonable burden on the average citizen).
Get the book "Code Complete." I started reading it after a survey in ComputerWeek or TechRepublic asked what the best programing book was. They chose that one.
It covers real world programing, issues over commenting and variable names and standards and conventions vs getting things done vs maintenance down the road.
Does that include all the Fox News Republicans who want to throw out all the Democrats? And vice versa when W was in there?
I am already registered to vote.
Every golden age had good weather. That is what made it golden. Rome collapsed dues to a cold spell 100ad-700ad.
The usefulness of science fiction is that it makes the reader think about ramifications, the inability to only do one thing or the fact of TANSTAAFL (no free lunch--all costs _will_ be paid by someone at some time). But as long as we get to blame kings for the weather or blame politicians for obeying the 'mandate' of the voters, then we get to ignore the costs of our desires.
Game design is different from game programming, just as writing is different from typesetting and presentation. Thinking of the rules of a game and their interactions is probably an excellent way of raising people who are going to vote on real-life rules such as laws or the people who will create laws.
People think 'politics' is the problem but that excuse doesn't fly in a democracy. The problem is the voters who don't think their wishes through completely.
If someone owns a copyright to a book but doesn't make it available to readers, then they aren't actually 'publishing' the book. They are definitely controlling access like Ursula says, but they aren't helping out the thousands of authors google planned to actually make available to readers for free.
Cost is a big factor. I agree the story is about a poll so it's rather bogus but I suspect at least half the jump is real. Do you want to buy an over-priced but 'perfect' AT&T phone or do you want to buy something half the price with 2/3rds of the quality and features?
I think Apple has always had products that are about twice as good as everybody else's but when they charge three times as much, then it ain't worth it.
Best book on coding is Code Complete. Also has the best advice on comments.
If the variables and functions are named AND USED correctly and
you don't comment on standard procedures open(fname)// open filename
then there is very little that needs commenting.
People listen to stories because they entertain in some fashion. NASA and most scientists do not know how to tell a story and even "think" to themselves that a story is fictional or that if it becomes popular, it will lose some cachet.
Perhaps, but politicians know that they can't get funding for stuff that doesn't tell a good story. Any hack ad writer could have written a 2-page in-depth personal profile on what it feels like to return to Earth and have to be carried off in a stretcher. It would demonstrate heroism and stoicism and the dangers and excitement of space and of research in general.
I wonder how those teams competing for X-prizes pitch their idea to venture capitalists (spend 10 million to make 1 million ain't gonna work).
$1000 tablet. How wonder Steve Jobs is so happy (and with a lockin to iTunes, too).
I still don't see why color is the technical endpoint. B&W with 10 times the battery life wold be an effective selling point.
The focus on languages puts too much focus on the tool. There are many languages in the world but most people of whatever culture have little of importance to say.
PROGRAMMING is the production of a useful set of instructions for a machine to follow. That means you must ANALYZE the problem and realize that you must make decisions about every possible result of every possible path. That is the hard part of programming. Providing languages that aren't so hard help get folks to realize the crux of the issue isn't the programming, it is the THINKING. If programming classes didn't have to spend so much time on semicolons and proper indenting, they could spend more time on how to properly frame a problem statement in the first place.
I don't believe the perform/master is a personality type. At least not all by itself. I think it has at least an activity component as well. Some activities I find inherently interesting to do: play banjo or write computer programs, and other activities are inherently boring to me: golf. Of the activities I prefer to do, there is an element of both mastery and performance. On activities I do not prefer to do, there is never any desire for mastery involved no matter how good I get it at it because the only reason I do 'the activity' is for some other goal such as hanging out with friends.
And knowing there is an internal activity preference and a desire for approval from other humans, the 'successful' training of children probably has more to do with other factors than personality preference for mastery/performance over internally desired activities. When adults choose the activity, that over-rides the child's 'natural' choice so that means it is also over-riding their inherent personality.
A problem cannot be solved before it actually exists. It's one of them there time travel paradoxes.
That's why we continue to have problems in society and even problems in math and philosophy merely talking about how problems exist.
"A government should be doing what is best for the country, not what is seen to be most politically correct"
Seems like you ought to be able to say the same thing about a religion, any religion, not necessarily what's best for an individual country, but certainly what's best for people in general.
Germany is in EU, we don't execute people here... Personally I would find that sort of behavior rude...:)
Some Germans do execute people (it's called murder) and then sue others to regain their 'good' name and 'good' reputation. Rudeness and idiocy is in the eye of the beholder.
It reminds of the fact that you cannot have 3 planets circling each other in a stable pattern.
In the market, having more people changes the solution. Individuals are not trying to make the market equal, they are trying to make their own position equal in reference to the other people, but
1) they deal with a lot more people than the kicker-goalie situation and
2) they do not have knowledge of the entire market
If God/Allah/Beelzebub is on my side, then I have nothing to fear.That's why confidence is an aphrodesiac and why society tends to get screwed by true believers.
I could just see the pet owners in an upscale gated community going after each other's GPS records to find who did the dirty deed to Fluffy and will now inherit the 5 kittens. That's silly, but what if your dog snuck into a kennel of show dogs and they could now prove it with electronic records? Juries _know_ those things are always accurate no matter what.
It seems to me there is a future for mature games on _any_ platform if the company wishes to allow it. I'm not sure what percentage of web pages in the world are devoted to porn, but I'm pretty sure most of the legal money being made on the internet is being made by purveyors of porn. Amazon did not increase the number of people who bought books in the world. The web however made it much easier to publish pictures and distribute videos than ever before.
However, if Wii cannot get a new reputation as a hard core gamer package without losing the current rep. What they ought to do is more of the immersive world games and ones you can create your own stuff in and grab that part of the gamer market. Those folks are also hard-core gamers, they just don't have a label and cannot be grouped with the 1st person shooters or grandmas bowling.
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The way windows can patch itself is malware in action. As soon as I have some 'legal' way to change the baseline, I also have a way of installing illegal software surreptitiously. It would only work on something that never needs updating.
I'll bet the touch-sensitive dashboard is the problem. Click and Clack said it could cost $800-$2000 to fix one messed up by a teacher putting a refrigerator magnet on it. What other sorts of random inputs will occur from dust, sweaty hands, or spit? I'll bet they haven't tested for that at all.
The way Windows is setup, they have a built-in rootkit path for applying patches (stuff that must be written to OS files). Those helpdesk apps that take over your computer or let someone else see your screen work off the same 'exploits.' Don't expect any of those capabilities to go away (and don't assume Linux, VMS, OSX and all other opsys's aren't equally as vulnerable).
Eventually, some wise lawyer will realize that ignorance of the law _is_ an excuse.
Proof: have the judge read into the record every law, covenant, and government regulation that may apply (you don't know until you read it do you?) to a citizen at a specific location in America. Even reading 24 hours a day, I suspect you could not finish in a reasonable amount of time (read all the new laws in that have been passed since you started). Some folks think it would take years. I think given the state of jurisprudence in America, the process would never end.
Q.E.D.
(qed even if it takes more than a year at 24/7 because that places an unreasonable burden on the average citizen).
Get the book "Code Complete." I started reading it after a survey in ComputerWeek or TechRepublic asked what the best programing book was. They chose that one.
It covers real world programing, issues over commenting and variable names and standards and conventions vs getting things done vs maintenance down the road.
Does that include all the Fox News Republicans who want to throw out all the Democrats? And vice versa when W was in there? I am already registered to vote.
If you want to read the whole report, just lie about about all the personal data they want you to enter. Everyone else does, apparently.
I get bullied on slash dot all the time. Mom says it's because I don't understand emoticons. *&^
Every golden age had good weather. That is what made it golden. Rome collapsed dues to a cold spell 100ad-700ad.
The usefulness of science fiction is that it makes the reader think about ramifications, the inability to only do one thing or the fact of TANSTAAFL (no free lunch--all costs _will_ be paid by someone at some time). But as long as we get to blame kings for the weather or blame politicians for obeying the 'mandate' of the voters, then we get to ignore the costs of our desires.
Game design is different from game programming, just as writing is different from typesetting and presentation. Thinking of the rules of a game and their interactions is probably an excellent way of raising people who are going to vote on real-life rules such as laws or the people who will create laws.
People think 'politics' is the problem but that excuse doesn't fly in a democracy. The problem is the voters who don't think their wishes through completely.
If someone owns a copyright to a book but doesn't make it available to readers, then they aren't actually 'publishing' the book. They are definitely controlling access like Ursula says, but they aren't helping out the thousands of authors google planned to actually make available to readers for free.
He could be tested easily enough for his ability to detect wifi networks merely by war driving.
Cost is a big factor. I agree the story is about a poll so it's rather bogus but I suspect at least half the jump is real. Do you want to buy an over-priced but 'perfect' AT&T phone or do you want to buy something half the price with 2/3rds of the quality and features? I think Apple has always had products that are about twice as good as everybody else's but when they charge three times as much, then it ain't worth it.
Best book on coding is Code Complete. Also has the best advice on comments. // open filename
If the variables and functions are named AND USED correctly and
you don't comment on standard procedures open(fname)
then there is very little that needs commenting.
People listen to stories because they entertain in some fashion. NASA and most scientists do not know how to tell a story and even "think" to themselves that a story is fictional or that if it becomes popular, it will lose some cachet.
Perhaps, but politicians know that they can't get funding for stuff that doesn't tell a good story. Any hack ad writer could have written a 2-page in-depth personal profile on what it feels like to return to Earth and have to be carried off in a stretcher. It would demonstrate heroism and stoicism and the dangers and excitement of space and of research in general.
I wonder how those teams competing for X-prizes pitch their idea to venture capitalists (spend 10 million to make 1 million ain't gonna work).
$1000 tablet. How wonder Steve Jobs is so happy (and with a lockin to iTunes, too). I still don't see why color is the technical endpoint. B&W with 10 times the battery life wold be an effective selling point.
The focus on languages puts too much focus on the tool. There are many languages in the world but most people of whatever culture have little of importance to say.
PROGRAMMING is the production of a useful set of instructions for a machine to follow. That means you must ANALYZE the problem and realize that you must make decisions about every possible result of every possible path. That is the hard part of programming. Providing languages that aren't so hard help get folks to realize the crux of the issue isn't the programming, it is the THINKING. If programming classes didn't have to spend so much time on semicolons and proper indenting, they could spend more time on how to properly frame a problem statement in the first place.
I don't believe the perform/master is a personality type. At least not all by itself. I think it has at least an activity component as well. Some activities I find inherently interesting to do: play banjo or write computer programs, and other activities are inherently boring to me: golf. Of the activities I prefer to do, there is an element of both mastery and performance. On activities I do not prefer to do, there is never any desire for mastery involved no matter how good I get it at it because the only reason I do 'the activity' is for some other goal such as hanging out with friends.
And knowing there is an internal activity preference and a desire for approval from other humans, the 'successful' training of children probably has more to do with other factors than personality preference for mastery/performance over internally desired activities. When adults choose the activity, that over-rides the child's 'natural' choice so that means it is also over-riding their inherent personality.
A problem cannot be solved before it actually exists. It's one of them there time travel paradoxes. That's why we continue to have problems in society and even problems in math and philosophy merely talking about how problems exist.
"A government should be doing what is best for the country, not what is seen to be most politically correct"
Seems like you ought to be able to say the same thing about a religion, any religion, not necessarily what's best for an individual country, but certainly what's best for people in general.
Germany is in EU, we don't execute people here... Personally I would find that sort of behavior rude... :)
Some Germans do execute people (it's called murder) and then sue others to regain their 'good' name and 'good' reputation. Rudeness and idiocy is in the eye of the beholder.
It reminds of the fact that you cannot have 3 planets circling each other in a stable pattern.
In the market, having more people changes the solution. Individuals are not trying to make the market equal, they are trying to make their own position equal in reference to the other people, but
1) they deal with a lot more people than the kicker-goalie situation and
2) they do not have knowledge of the entire market
If God/Allah/Beelzebub is on my side, then I have nothing to fear.That's why confidence is an aphrodesiac and why society tends to get screwed by true believers.
I could just see the pet owners in an upscale gated community going after each other's GPS records to find who did the dirty deed to Fluffy and will now inherit the 5 kittens. That's silly, but what if your dog snuck into a kennel of show dogs and they could now prove it with electronic records?
Juries _know_ those things are always accurate no matter what.
It seems to me there is a future for mature games on _any_ platform if the company wishes to allow it. I'm not sure what percentage of web pages in the world are devoted to porn, but I'm pretty sure most of the legal money being made on the internet is being made by purveyors of porn. Amazon did not increase the number of people who bought books in the world. The web however made it much easier to publish pictures and distribute videos than ever before.
However, if Wii cannot get a new reputation as a hard core gamer package without losing the current rep. What they ought to do is more of the immersive world games and ones you can create your own stuff in and grab that part of the gamer market. Those folks are also hard-core gamers, they just don't have a label and cannot be grouped with the 1st person shooters or grandmas bowling.