There's no conflict; the report is concerned about where the press has the most freedom, not necessarily which has the best quality press. A good deal of freedom is necessary for a high quality press that serves the public interest, but it's not necessarily sufficient.
Why is it that more sites don't operate completely on SSL, by the way? I've noticed that a lot of sites use SSL just for the password and then drop to a regular HTTP connection after you log in. Why not just keep the encryption for the entire session?
Because it takes much more CPU to encrypt every connection. Keep in mind you also have to encrypt every image and included file that you use on an encrypted page. Trying to mix encrypted and unecrypted content will, at the least, give the user a warning dialog, and at the worst, it just won't work in some browsers; they'll get a bunch of broken image links.
So you go shopping on EBB-eh for used IP-odds? Does it confuse you when Emile sends you email?
Single-letter prefixes and intentional bizarre "mispellings" are par for the course on the Internet. There's no good way for anyone not already familiar with YouTube to umabiguously know whether it was "utube" or "youtube" if they just heard the name.
What makes you think that the stock is evenly distributed among all the employees? Don't forget that the VC firm also has a big chunk of it (quite possibly the largest chunk). After that, the founders will have the lion's share.
Anyhow, they can't just sell the stock and run. They'll have to wait some specific amount of time before being able to sell.
Who knows? The article linked says nothing about it, there's just the submitters comment. If there is anything behind this, a source would be helpful...
I don't disagree with your point, but GTA is a poor example. Half the delight of it is being able to ignore the scripting missions and just jump in a car and go screaming through the city, narrowing missing cars, terrorizing pedestrians and then having to fractically keep ahead of the cops as they try to crack down on your little spree...
And then there's 5.0 when they ruin it by adding a bunch of useless crap and completely littering the UI with irritating animations. So they announce a major re-write in 6.0, which keeps getting pushed futher and further back...
I love it how this happens; whenever there is a discussion about whether something is or is not a theory, or isn't actually science, the Science People always piss of the Philosophy Poeple because philosophy always gets used as a dumping ground for everything that starts out with "what if..." but doesn't quality as science. "Damn it guys, we have rules too, you know. Stop sending us your trash!"
That's besides the point. The purpose of patents is to encourage technological progress and development, yet in the situation of elipical curves patents have only served to retard development in the field.
So they increased the resolution from 320x240 to 640x480, very nice. But what about people who bought videos at the old resolution? Is there any way for them to download the newer version of those videos, or do they have to buy them again to get the higher resolution?
I'm still looking for more details on how Apple is implementing gapless playback. Since it reportedly works for older iPods as well, it appears that iTunes is somehow quietly modified the mp3s, which I find a bit alarming. What is it they are doing to files to make them gapless? How is it different that Lame's gapless strategy, which never worked for iPods before? Is it going to affect how my mp3s play back in other programs? Perhaps they are actually creating merged versions of the mp3s themselves? What exactly is going on here?
Good grief! After all, the graphics aren't vital to the gameplay. Nor is the sound. But they are bloody well vital to the experience of the game. After all, just finishing the game isn't the point; enjoing it is.
I mean, hell, the words aren't vital to finishing a book. But what's the point of reading without them?
The summary blurb is rather cryptic. MS06-049 is a patch to... what? Just Windows 2000 or XP too? And this was a patch for some vulnerability, assumedly? Which?
After a bit of research, here's what should have been included: MS06-049 was an elevation of privledge issue discovered in the kernel of Windows 2000 SP4 only. The patch for the issue, KB920958, appears to have a bug resulting in corruption of compressed folder.
The title is misleading as well. MS06-649 is the issue and KB920958 is the patch; the patch is what's causing the corruption, not the original issue.
This is a chance to get the message out about open source to a wider crowd. Firefox was a good start, but watching TV is something that gets almost everyone interested, not just computer users. And open source has a strong tactical position - while all the companies have a vested interested in pushing their formats and restricting you with their DRM, open source has no reason not to support as many file formats as possible and giving the user complete control.
This is a great opportunity to make some inroads into the consciousness of the average consumer.
That's pretty neat, but I would have preferred more wide overhead angles to see the overall flow of cars, there were way too many close up views that didn't really show much beyond a traffic jam.
Oh, and the race starts at 48 seconds, you can ffwd past the overly long credits at the start.
Maybe it would be better off for the consumer if we paid the costs directly, but it's never going to happen. It's a classic prisoners dilemma. If nobody advertised, the benefit for the first guy to break from the pack and put out an ad would be enormous. So of course everyone else who wants to stay in business has to sink tons of money for ads just to keep up, and we end up where we are - no one's making out much better than if no one did at all, but they're not going to run the risk of being left behind.
This is definately a problem. I try to give the most useful labels that apply specifically this the image, not just generic. But you do sometimes have to fall back. Any image with humans in them is prone to this, you often fall back on just "people" or "man".
I did notice, though, that some images came up with some "off limit" labels. Presumably these are labels already determined via this system and it's going back for more. So even if the intial labels tend to be simple ones, later iterations will fill in more precise labels.
Drop Quake? Are you kidding? Quake is the game that brought large-scale online network play to the masses. Previous games were mostly limited to LAN. QuakeWorld refined and improved online play significantly for slower connections and pioneered the client-side prediction model that is used in nearly every game today.
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Just to point out, many "anonymous sources" are not anonymous to the reporters themselves, just to the general public.
There's no conflict; the report is concerned about where the press has the most freedom, not necessarily which has the best quality press. A good deal of freedom is necessary for a high quality press that serves the public interest, but it's not necessarily sufficient.
Why is it that more sites don't operate completely on SSL, by the way? I've noticed that a lot of sites use SSL just for the password and then drop to a regular HTTP connection after you log in. Why not just keep the encryption for the entire session?
Because it takes much more CPU to encrypt every connection. Keep in mind you also have to encrypt every image and included file that you use on an encrypted page. Trying to mix encrypted and unecrypted content will, at the least, give the user a warning dialog, and at the worst, it just won't work in some browsers; they'll get a bunch of broken image links.
Because if I can make your PC think my PC is amazon.com, it doesn't matter if your credit card transaction is using SSL.
What you might call "the tube" in the UK is what we, in the US, would generally call a subway.
So you go shopping on EBB-eh for used IP-odds? Does it confuse you when Emile sends you email?
Single-letter prefixes and intentional bizarre "mispellings" are par for the course on the Internet. There's no good way for anyone not already familiar with YouTube to umabiguously know whether it was "utube" or "youtube" if they just heard the name.
What makes you think that the stock is evenly distributed among all the employees? Don't forget that the VC firm also has a big chunk of it (quite possibly the largest chunk). After that, the founders will have the lion's share.
Anyhow, they can't just sell the stock and run. They'll have to wait some specific amount of time before being able to sell.
It's not reportedly so unless you can provide a link to some reputable organization that's reporting that. Otherwise it's just a rumor.
Who knows? The article linked says nothing about it, there's just the submitters comment. If there is anything behind this, a source would be helpful...
I don't disagree with your point, but GTA is a poor example. Half the delight of it is being able to ignore the scripting missions and just jump in a car and go screaming through the city, narrowing missing cars, terrorizing pedestrians and then having to fractically keep ahead of the cops as they try to crack down on your little spree...
And then there's 5.0 when they ruin it by adding a bunch of useless crap and completely littering the UI with irritating animations. So they announce a major re-write in 6.0, which keeps getting pushed futher and further back...
I love it how this happens; whenever there is a discussion about whether something is or is not a theory, or isn't actually science, the Science People always piss of the Philosophy Poeple because philosophy always gets used as a dumping ground for everything that starts out with "what if..." but doesn't quality as science. "Damn it guys, we have rules too, you know. Stop sending us your trash!"
Since I doubt this game was programmed in Ruby, I'm at a loss as to what this means. Enlighten me?
cat: /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0: Is a directory :/ For me, it was instead:
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
cat
That's besides the point. The purpose of patents is to encourage technological progress and development, yet in the situation of elipical curves patents have only served to retard development in the field.
So they increased the resolution from 320x240 to 640x480, very nice. But what about people who bought videos at the old resolution? Is there any way for them to download the newer version of those videos, or do they have to buy them again to get the higher resolution?
I'm still looking for more details on how Apple is implementing gapless playback. Since it reportedly works for older iPods as well, it appears that iTunes is somehow quietly modified the mp3s, which I find a bit alarming. What is it they are doing to files to make them gapless? How is it different that Lame's gapless strategy, which never worked for iPods before? Is it going to affect how my mp3s play back in other programs? Perhaps they are actually creating merged versions of the mp3s themselves? What exactly is going on here?
Good grief! After all, the graphics aren't vital to the gameplay. Nor is the sound. But they are bloody well vital to the experience of the game. After all, just finishing the game isn't the point; enjoing it is.
I mean, hell, the words aren't vital to finishing a book. But what's the point of reading without them?
The summary blurb is rather cryptic. MS06-049 is a patch to... what? Just Windows 2000 or XP too? And this was a patch for some vulnerability, assumedly? Which?
After a bit of research, here's what should have been included: MS06-049 was an elevation of privledge issue discovered in the kernel of Windows 2000 SP4 only. The patch for the issue, KB920958, appears to have a bug resulting in corruption of compressed folder.
The title is misleading as well. MS06-649 is the issue and KB920958 is the patch; the patch is what's causing the corruption, not the original issue.
This is a chance to get the message out about open source to a wider crowd. Firefox was a good start, but watching TV is something that gets almost everyone interested, not just computer users. And open source has a strong tactical position - while all the companies have a vested interested in pushing their formats and restricting you with their DRM, open source has no reason not to support as many file formats as possible and giving the user complete control.
This is a great opportunity to make some inroads into the consciousness of the average consumer.
pageflakes = every portal site ever made...
That's pretty neat, but I would have preferred more wide overhead angles to see the overall flow of cars, there were way too many close up views that didn't really show much beyond a traffic jam.
Oh, and the race starts at 48 seconds, you can ffwd past the overly long credits at the start.
Maybe it would be better off for the consumer if we paid the costs directly, but it's never going to happen. It's a classic prisoners dilemma. If nobody advertised, the benefit for the first guy to break from the pack and put out an ad would be enormous. So of course everyone else who wants to stay in business has to sink tons of money for ads just to keep up, and we end up where we are - no one's making out much better than if no one did at all, but they're not going to run the risk of being left behind.
This is definately a problem. I try to give the most useful labels that apply specifically this the image, not just generic. But you do sometimes have to fall back. Any image with humans in them is prone to this, you often fall back on just "people" or "man".
I did notice, though, that some images came up with some "off limit" labels. Presumably these are labels already determined via this system and it's going back for more. So even if the intial labels tend to be simple ones, later iterations will fill in more precise labels.
Drop Quake? Are you kidding? Quake is the game that brought large-scale online network play to the masses. Previous games were mostly limited to LAN. QuakeWorld refined and improved online play significantly for slower connections and pioneered the client-side prediction model that is used in nearly every game today.