"Restate my assumptions: One, Mathematics is the language of nature. Two, Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature. Evidence: The cycling of disease epidemics;the wax and wane of caribou populations; sun spot cycles; the rise and fall of the Nile. So, what about the stock market? The universe of numbers that represents the global economy. Millions of hands at work, billions of minds. A vast network, screaming with life. An organism. A natural organism. My hypothesis: Within the stock market, there is a pattern as well... Right in front of me... hiding behind the numbers. Always has been."
You know, if you haven't been to the Psystar website (its down right now), they really did take the time to make good looking machines. Although one of the selling points of Apple's hardware has always been its aesthetics, Psystar wasn't simply putting their hackintoshes in beige midtowers. They had a nice line of an very different looking, (and I would argue), sleek and more professional looking machines running OSX than Apple - I actually would prefer their glossy black towers for business environments over Apple's chromes, whites, and bright colors. I think its good that the company has a plan B, and I don't think its any great loss to the consumer to have to buy a copy of OSX to load on the machines, if their hardware and loader is already totally compliant. Anybody creating a hackintosh of any sort has to pick up a copy...
That woman needs a Wikipedia for posterity's sake. All peoples' talk about globalization, and philosophy, and humanism seems pretty laughable - Sahra Ibrahim got a -R.P.G.- as divorce alimony. And then bet it on a pirate expedition. Is anybody else still working on this mental image? Pretty hard to comprehend from where we're sitting.
OP isn't arguing that there should not be some basic accessibility standards. For instance, providing a pure-text, basic open-standard html copy of the site would be a very adequate substitute. Plain text is the easiest thing possible to parse in text-to-speech, alternative interfaces, and older systems.
Requiring all things arranged or designed by government contracts to be both accessible and pretty >>even if nobody using the service or system is disabled is something else. Its a huge black hole for money. The option should be available, but not mandatory for everything, all the time.
I also think there is a notable difference between designing for a competent person who has lost say, their vision or a limb, and designing for a person who dropped out of high school and doesn't know how to navigate a standard website.
... Because next, he'll be suing us for making fun of him. The guy seems to react like a kid running to his mother, whenever people are "mean" to him. Rather, running to his lawyer instead. No willingness to adapt to the times or other people at all.
"Mommy, this game is too scary! People are mean to me! I want money NOW!!!!" I'm almost with the people who suggested ignoring him until he goes away, like any troll.
True. Imagine how long it will take the provider to retrieve that sort of data from a technical perspective. If the users only registered their accounts with a hotmail or gmail account, or if all they have is IP data, it could stall the proceedings for months.
Who does the burden of correlating IPs to people or accounts fall on? Does the blogging company also have to contact the poster's ISPs, or do they just provide emails and IPs to the legal team?
I had to Wikipedia your CrystaLens. Its actually pretty cool technology; I did not even know that was possible before. Sadly for the average joe (or happily for the people who actually need them), it seems all the cool cybernetics of this decade are designed exclusively for disabled or injured people. Glad it worked out so well for you, though, especially after such a terrible medical mix-up!
Agreed, that would be very useful, but I also have many doubts. I mean, the whole debate as to whether you can legally tie an IP to a person is ongoing. We live in a world of botnets, dynamic addressing, and endless numbers of hijacked and infected systems. Obviously, I can't simply ARIN the IP of the person tried to brute force my system as ACME Inc. and then say "ACME Inc. hacked me".
Wow, that's actually rather sad. Just because a system runs doesn't mean its running -well-. You should really give reformatting a shot on one of your older machines - you will likely be amazed at the performance difference. Unless the only applications you have been running have been IE and media player since 2005, you've been accumulating years of registry errors and extraneous system and driver files. I do hope you defragment, at least.
If I'm ever really, really bored, I'm going to go to Best Buy wearing Barbie pink, act like I'm a novice user who wants to buy a netbook, and then refute their points one by one. Now that I know what they are...;)
I doubt I'll ever be that bored, but its nice to know I have a plan C this winter.
Yeah, verk's right: I remember those "mission terminal" dealies - they gave you very generic MMO delivery quests. Its been a while! I left SWG rapidly and angrily, too. Also played Matrix Online, but it was another brilliant concept that had the same dreadful problems. It always felt like too much bureaucracy and mismanagement.
Ironically, I hear an epic NGE was made upon the release of Champions Online. Its even made news articles - guess the developers did not learn, after all.
But they are right about the interference issue. I live a little more than a mile away from AM towers, and they cause all kinds of goofy stuff. Anything with speakers or headphones is an AM radio here.
But you, being a sensible human being, realized that the solution was to buy shielded cables and electronics, not to trash a radio tower that serves your entire area. Yes, in our digital age, interference is irritating, but radio transmission and EMI is absolutely integral to our lifestyle.
I envision either a bunch of drunken teens or a disgruntled homeowner who was trying to explain interference on a cordless phone. Actually, I see alcohol involved either way. And an environmental cause is a great way to cover oneself, both from identification, and from charges if they're arrested. They start getting charged with vandalism, they play the pity card in the media and get free legal representation from an environmental rights group.
SOE has a pretty weak line up of MMOs these days. I believe Matrix Online finally closed its doors last week. Perhaps they will do better in the browser-based market - its mostly occupied by start-ups and the APAC developers.
I wonder how they've managed to make so many bad business decisions after Everquest. Perhaps too much bureaucracy.
Still, it doesn't look like the right game for me.
Absolutely. World War 1, World War 2, and the heyday of the Cold War prompted much more technological innovation in Europe, the US, and the former Soviet states than anything in the current half century has been able to. Not only was there a desperate need to immediately have superior military technology, but there was a constant cultural drive to out-class our opponents technologically and scientifically. Competition is a pretty deep-seated human motivator.
Look how much positive press, and how large of a budget NASA got during the Cold War, as opposed to what it gets now.
The Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the current crisis in the Middle East have produced much less emotion, interest, and motivation in the Western world.
Insightful - yes, that would be a valid reason to make that adjustment. "2/3 of filesharers admit it" would be a nearly impossible study, I would think. I agree though, reading the article, the sample size was not an issue to me. It was the arbitrary changing of figures for (what appear to be) unsubstantiated hypotheses that I don't think is valid statistics.
I agree. Why fix what's not broken? I use Firefox over Chrome for the user interface - I will not argue that Chrome loads pages more efficiently. The lack of standard menus and buttons is really frustrating for me - same exact reason I don't like Office 2007.
SANS ISC has already been doing this for years.
http://isc.sans.org/top10.html
Old news. The only thing different will be data from non-corporate home users who opt in.
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"Restate my assumptions: One, Mathematics is the language of nature. Two, Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature. Evidence: The cycling of disease epidemics;the wax and wane of caribou populations; sun spot cycles; the rise and fall of the Nile. So, what about the stock market? The universe of numbers that represents the global economy. Millions of hands at work, billions of minds. A vast network, screaming with life. An organism. A natural organism. My hypothesis: Within the stock market, there is a pattern as well... Right in front of me... hiding behind the numbers. Always has been."
You know, if you haven't been to the Psystar website (its down right now), they really did take the time to make good looking machines. Although one of the selling points of Apple's hardware has always been its aesthetics, Psystar wasn't simply putting their hackintoshes in beige midtowers. They had a nice line of an very different looking, (and I would argue), sleek and more professional looking machines running OSX than Apple - I actually would prefer their glossy black towers for business environments over Apple's chromes, whites, and bright colors. I think its good that the company has a plan B, and I don't think its any great loss to the consumer to have to buy a copy of OSX to load on the machines, if their hardware and loader is already totally compliant. Anybody creating a hackintosh of any sort has to pick up a copy...
Yeah, at least every geek on the planet simultaneously thought the same thing. This dude really needs to change his name.
That woman needs a Wikipedia for posterity's sake. All peoples' talk about globalization, and philosophy, and humanism seems pretty laughable - Sahra Ibrahim got a -R.P.G.- as divorce alimony. And then bet it on a pirate expedition. Is anybody else still working on this mental image? Pretty hard to comprehend from where we're sitting.
Nah, Dragon Age: Origins, hands down. I mean, it has like, dragons. And stuff. Anybody want Taco Bell?
OP isn't arguing that there should not be some basic accessibility standards. For instance, providing a pure-text, basic open-standard html copy of the site would be a very adequate substitute. Plain text is the easiest thing possible to parse in text-to-speech, alternative interfaces, and older systems. Requiring all things arranged or designed by government contracts to be both accessible and pretty >>even if nobody using the service or system is disabled is something else. Its a huge black hole for money. The option should be available, but not mandatory for everything, all the time. I also think there is a notable difference between designing for a competent person who has lost say, their vision or a limb, and designing for a person who dropped out of high school and doesn't know how to navigate a standard website.
... Because next, he'll be suing us for making fun of him. The guy seems to react like a kid running to his mother, whenever people are "mean" to him. Rather, running to his lawyer instead. No willingness to adapt to the times or other people at all. "Mommy, this game is too scary! People are mean to me! I want money NOW!!!!" I'm almost with the people who suggested ignoring him until he goes away, like any troll.
True. Imagine how long it will take the provider to retrieve that sort of data from a technical perspective. If the users only registered their accounts with a hotmail or gmail account, or if all they have is IP data, it could stall the proceedings for months. Who does the burden of correlating IPs to people or accounts fall on? Does the blogging company also have to contact the poster's ISPs, or do they just provide emails and IPs to the legal team?
"So a blonde and a redneck walk into Best Buy and ask to buy a netbook..."
I had to Wikipedia your CrystaLens. Its actually pretty cool technology; I did not even know that was possible before. Sadly for the average joe (or happily for the people who actually need them), it seems all the cool cybernetics of this decade are designed exclusively for disabled or injured people. Glad it worked out so well for you, though, especially after such a terrible medical mix-up!
Agreed, that would be very useful, but I also have many doubts. I mean, the whole debate as to whether you can legally tie an IP to a person is ongoing. We live in a world of botnets, dynamic addressing, and endless numbers of hijacked and infected systems. Obviously, I can't simply ARIN the IP of the person tried to brute force my system as ACME Inc. and then say "ACME Inc. hacked me".
Wow, that's actually rather sad. Just because a system runs doesn't mean its running -well-. You should really give reformatting a shot on one of your older machines - you will likely be amazed at the performance difference. Unless the only applications you have been running have been IE and media player since 2005, you've been accumulating years of registry errors and extraneous system and driver files. I do hope you defragment, at least.
If I'm ever really, really bored, I'm going to go to Best Buy wearing Barbie pink, act like I'm a novice user who wants to buy a netbook, and then refute their points one by one. Now that I know what they are... ;)
I doubt I'll ever be that bored, but its nice to know I have a plan C this winter.
Yeah, verk's right: I remember those "mission terminal" dealies - they gave you very generic MMO delivery quests. Its been a while! I left SWG rapidly and angrily, too. Also played Matrix Online, but it was another brilliant concept that had the same dreadful problems. It always felt like too much bureaucracy and mismanagement.
Ironically, I hear an epic NGE was made upon the release of Champions Online. Its even made news articles - guess the developers did not learn, after all.
But they are right about the interference issue. I live a little more than a mile away from AM towers, and they cause all kinds of goofy stuff. Anything with speakers or headphones is an AM radio here.
But you, being a sensible human being, realized that the solution was to buy shielded cables and electronics, not to trash a radio tower that serves your entire area. Yes, in our digital age, interference is irritating, but radio transmission and EMI is absolutely integral to our lifestyle.
I envision either a bunch of drunken teens or a disgruntled homeowner who was trying to explain interference on a cordless phone. Actually, I see alcohol involved either way. And an environmental cause is a great way to cover oneself, both from identification, and from charges if they're arrested. They start getting charged with vandalism, they play the pity card in the media and get free legal representation from an environmental rights group.
SOE has a pretty weak line up of MMOs these days. I believe Matrix Online finally closed its doors last week. Perhaps they will do better in the browser-based market - its mostly occupied by start-ups and the APAC developers. I wonder how they've managed to make so many bad business decisions after Everquest. Perhaps too much bureaucracy. Still, it doesn't look like the right game for me.
Absolutely. World War 1, World War 2, and the heyday of the Cold War prompted much more technological innovation in Europe, the US, and the former Soviet states than anything in the current half century has been able to. Not only was there a desperate need to immediately have superior military technology, but there was a constant cultural drive to out-class our opponents technologically and scientifically. Competition is a pretty deep-seated human motivator. Look how much positive press, and how large of a budget NASA got during the Cold War, as opposed to what it gets now. The Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the current crisis in the Middle East have produced much less emotion, interest, and motivation in the Western world.
Insightful - yes, that would be a valid reason to make that adjustment. "2/3 of filesharers admit it" would be a nearly impossible study, I would think. I agree though, reading the article, the sample size was not an issue to me. It was the arbitrary changing of figures for (what appear to be) unsubstantiated hypotheses that I don't think is valid statistics.
I agree. Why fix what's not broken? I use Firefox over Chrome for the user interface - I will not argue that Chrome loads pages more efficiently. The lack of standard menus and buttons is really frustrating for me - same exact reason I don't like Office 2007.
SANS ISC has already been doing this for years. http://isc.sans.org/top10.html Old news. The only thing different will be data from non-corporate home users who opt in.