Well I am planning to patent 'uninterestingness' and 'not uninterestingness'. The only difference is that it will be based on AI that really couldn't care less. Maybe Marvin could a good name;)
Most of the spam blocking systems depend upon IP addresses.
Sounds like a good a time as any to update their systems. Quite honestly I would these system get updated before IPv6 starts to get widely used, rather than after.
Plain old HTML sites are a lot faster than the newer Flash-y sites with the latest doodads. Examples of well-designed sites (get the job done with a good, fast interface while managing to look good) are Google, LiveJournal, and Craigslist. All of which I can use with Lynx should the desire strike me.
My problem with Flash sites is that they tend to be heavy, end up feeling very empty of content when you get passed all the junk and usually end up frustrating even the most able bodied of users. In conlcusion Flash is certainly a solution to leveling the playing field, since everyone feels equally locked out;)
The problem with some PS3 commercials is that you aren't sure whether they are trying to sell you a BlueRay player or gaming machine? I say this because a number of the adverts I have seen seem to have the whole gaming experience a distant second to its ability to use BluRay disks.
The other thing I have noticed is when going into gaming stores and talking to the sales clerks: some of them are wanting to buy the PS3 to sell on eBay, but would rather have the Wii!? I want the Wii too, but it seriously needs some more high quality RPGs, such as those from Square-Enix.
The real issue, of course, is there is nothing I can do if I don't agree with the EULA. They generally say to return the software to the place of purchase, but you can't. They won't take it back if it has been opened, EULA or no EULA. So, the choice is agree to whatever legal agreement offered or be out the money you spent despite the fact that you did not get a chance to read the EULA before you purchased the software.
I wonder whether we shoud start going into our local computer shops and ask if we can read the EULA before buying the software? I would be curious to see what the staff's reactions would be.
The perfect solution would be to ensure that everyone takes along a friendly lawyer, when going their computer store and sit down with the sales clerk and find out what the EULA can and can't let them do. Totally inconvenient but I can imagine a candit camera scene right now:)
I think a mistake microsoft made was making it so easy to tie in the 360 games with direct x to port games on both the PC and xbox. If you have a decent PC it gives you little incentive to get a 360.
If they manage to end up making money form the xbox 360, then it may not be a mistake. I think in this regards, Microsoft knew many people wanted consoles and had to compensate, hence in the xbox and xbox 360. This is even more true as console increasingly become networkable. Currently the real advantages the PC based games have:
* 1 - easily downloadable
* 2 - you can chose a higher resolution display if you want to
* 3 - you get to choose the amount of processing power you give to the game
* 4 - for the most part online playing is free, unless you are talking about MMORPGs
* 5 - anyone is allowed to produce a PC games (no licencse needed)
* 6 - you can buy a game from any country
At the moment I see point 1) being addressed by new console and point 4) being addressed only by Nintendo. For the rest the PC still offers the flexibility you want. This is mainly because consoles are designed to be easy to use, so upgradability is less important and for point 5) and 6) its all about control and trying to maximise the return.
Are voting machines fixing the wrong problem? As far as I can tell the problem with the traditional system is not in the voting process, but in the counting process. Surely what needs to be made more efficient is the process of counting votes? What I mean here is sticking to time tested voting cards (or making them more machine readable if you need to), but making machines that count and tally the results faster. At least with such a solution you still have a paper trail that humans can count, even if it slowly.
One advantage with the current non-country TLDs is that they are short and for the most part pass as internationally accepted. The problem with adding TLDs like.telecom is that they are very definetly English centric. This sort of issue would be enough to give more reason to people who want to break the ASCII-limited domains names - there are groups who want domain names to support different 'alphabets' such as Kanji, Arabic, Sanscrit, etc.
The other problem is abuse of the system. There are plenty of companies out there who buy up all there alternative TLDs that could have their domain in, for example myco.com, myco.info, myco.name, etc.
The final issue is not matter what you do there will always be someone wanting an excuse to sue.
Now there'll be an added layer of confusion for computer thieves. Which of these yellow post-it notes with I.M. Anidiot's laptop case is the password for his login, and which one is the password for his disk drive?:P DS
Nah, just describes a typical user trying to remember which password they are using for which context. IMHO, encryption at this level should be optional.
The ACLU will continue to monitor how the government applies the broad Section 215 power and we will challenge unconstitutional demands on a case-by-case basis
That's easy, they could just change the contitution while their at it. The people in power seem to be destroying so much that was good in the US government. The problem with current system is that there are too few parties, so it is too easy for one party to enact dubious laws, whether its democrats or republicans.
The padlock encryption symbol used by browsers has been effectively meaningless for some time, and consumer paranoia surrounding fraud remains a barrier to using online commerce for many.
Silly us, we should haver been using two padlock symbols the whole time.
It is sad to see electronic voting being thrown out with the bathwater. In my opinion it can work, however current attempts to make such a mythical machine. Many of the most-published and widely used e-voting machines are flawed, have no paper trail or the like. It is sad to see something as e-voting can't work properly in the age of computers.
They have only taken the stance 'not for now'. Given the current state of voting machines this the right answer, IMHO. Once voting machines actually solve the current problems of paper voting, without adding new issues, I am sure Quebec will reconsider. Given the disasters we have seen in other places, I would rather have a slow system than one that can go wrong in so many ways (at this point in time).
I wonder how this would stand up if all the grey imports got together and took Sony to the European courts. Isn't price discrimination meant to be illegal by European law?
They were bypassing Sony's "official" channels and hurting their ability to price discriminate.
Yup, this is why I think Sony's actions should be illegal and not that of the grey importer. They grey importer should be allowed to stay in business, on the condition they make clear to customer the limitations of the purchase ( invalidated warranty, etc ). Why should mega corporations be allowed to have access to a free market and everyone else is told to stick it?
Much easier to boycott than you think: their cameras don't support standard storage mediums and their PS3 is too damn expensive. For the rest of the range it really doesn't matter.
Unfortunately most of the larger market couldn't care about the shit Sony is dealing up these days, as long as they get their mega TV.
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How can we expect an average law person to be technically savy, when your average tech guy if not usually savy about the legal system.?
At that point, you're just as well off making just the html version...
;)
That's an acceptable solution
Well I am planning to patent 'uninterestingness' and 'not uninterestingness'. The only difference is that it will be based on AI that really couldn't care less. Maybe Marvin could a good name ;)
This is one tool I really find useful for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/433/
If you can't stand flash, then its for you.
Most of the spam blocking systems depend upon IP addresses.
Sounds like a good a time as any to update their systems. Quite honestly I would these system get updated before IPv6 starts to get widely used, rather than after.
Plain old HTML sites are a lot faster than the newer Flash-y sites with the latest doodads. Examples of well-designed sites (get the job done with a good, fast interface while managing to look good) are Google, LiveJournal, and Craigslist. All of which I can use with Lynx should the desire strike me.
;)
My problem with Flash sites is that they tend to be heavy, end up feeling very empty of content when you get passed all the junk and usually end up frustrating even the most able bodied of users. In conlcusion Flash is certainly a solution to leveling the playing field, since everyone feels equally locked out
The problem with some PS3 commercials is that you aren't sure whether they are trying to sell you a BlueRay player or gaming machine? I say this because a number of the adverts I have seen seem to have the whole gaming experience a distant second to its ability to use BluRay disks.
The other thing I have noticed is when going into gaming stores and talking to the sales clerks: some of them are wanting to buy the PS3 to sell on eBay, but would rather have the Wii!? I want the Wii too, but it seriously needs some more high quality RPGs, such as those from Square-Enix.
The real issue, of course, is there is nothing I can do if I don't agree with the EULA. They generally say to return the software to the place of purchase, but you can't. They won't take it back if it has been opened, EULA or no EULA. So, the choice is agree to whatever legal agreement offered or be out the money you spent despite the fact that you did not get a chance to read the EULA before you purchased the software.
I wonder whether we shoud start going into our local computer shops and ask if we can read the EULA before buying the software? I would be curious to see what the staff's reactions would be.
The perfect solution would be to ensure that everyone takes along a friendly lawyer, when going their computer store and sit down with the sales clerk and find out what the EULA can and can't let them do. Totally inconvenient but I can imagine a candit camera scene right now :)
I think a mistake microsoft made was making it so easy to tie in the 360 games with direct x to port games on both the PC and xbox. If you have a decent PC it gives you little incentive to get a 360.
If they manage to end up making money form the xbox 360, then it may not be a mistake. I think in this regards, Microsoft knew many people wanted consoles and had to compensate, hence in the xbox and xbox 360. This is even more true as console increasingly become networkable. Currently the real advantages the PC based games have:
* 1 - easily downloadable
* 2 - you can chose a higher resolution display if you want to
* 3 - you get to choose the amount of processing power you give to the game
* 4 - for the most part online playing is free, unless you are talking about MMORPGs
* 5 - anyone is allowed to produce a PC games (no licencse needed)
* 6 - you can buy a game from any country
At the moment I see point 1) being addressed by new console and point 4) being addressed only by Nintendo. For the rest the PC still offers the flexibility you want. This is mainly because consoles are designed to be easy to use, so upgradability is less important and for point 5) and 6) its all about control and trying to maximise the return.
How about iWii or uWii? There are other alternatives, but I think that have already been taken ;)
Are voting machines fixing the wrong problem? As far as I can tell the problem with the traditional system is not in the voting process, but in the counting process. Surely what needs to be made more efficient is the process of counting votes? What I mean here is sticking to time tested voting cards (or making them more machine readable if you need to), but making machines that count and tally the results faster. At least with such a solution you still have a paper trail that humans can count, even if it slowly.
They're the same. Viiv is a technology platform, like Centrino.
:-/
Now just to understand why Dell gives you the choice between the two.
One advantage with the current non-country TLDs is that they are short and for the most part pass as internationally accepted. The problem with adding TLDs like .telecom is that they are very definetly English centric. This sort of issue would be enough to give more reason to people who want to break the ASCII-limited domains names - there are groups who want domain names to support different 'alphabets' such as Kanji, Arabic, Sanscrit, etc.
The other problem is abuse of the system. There are plenty of companies out there who buy up all there alternative TLDs that could have their domain in, for example myco.com, myco.info, myco.name, etc.
The final issue is not matter what you do there will always be someone wanting an excuse to sue.
This is a little off topic, but Intel has got be confused here. What is the difference other than the buzzwords:
- Intel(r) Core(r) 2 Duo(r) E6300 Processor
- Intel(r) Viiv(TM) Technology(TM) Core(r) 2 Duo(r) E6300 Processor
Now there'll be an added layer of confusion for computer thieves. Which of these yellow post-it notes with I.M. Anidiot's laptop case is the password for his login, and which one is the password for his disk drive? :P DS
Nah, just describes a typical user trying to remember which password they are using for which context. IMHO, encryption at this level should be optional.
The ACLU will continue to monitor how the government applies the broad Section 215 power and we will challenge unconstitutional demands on a case-by-case basis
That's easy, they could just change the contitution while their at it. The people in power seem to be destroying so much that was good in the US government. The problem with current system is that there are too few parties, so it is too easy for one party to enact dubious laws, whether its democrats or republicans.
Seems like MS wants in on Apples game. Make hardware companies pay to have their drivers offically MS approved.
Last time I checked anyone could write a driver for Darwin/MacOS X. No need to pay a $500 privilege to do so.
The padlock encryption symbol used by browsers has been effectively meaningless for some time, and consumer paranoia surrounding fraud remains a barrier to using online commerce for many.
Silly us, we should haver been using two padlock symbols the whole time.
It is sad to see electronic voting being thrown out with the bathwater. In my opinion it can work, however current attempts to make such a mythical machine. Many of the most-published and widely used e-voting machines are flawed, have no paper trail or the like. It is sad to see something as e-voting can't work properly in the age of computers.
They have only taken the stance 'not for now'. Given the current state of voting machines this the right answer, IMHO. Once voting machines actually solve the current problems of paper voting, without adding new issues, I am sure Quebec will reconsider. Given the disasters we have seen in other places, I would rather have a slow system than one that can go wrong in so many ways (at this point in time).
Things looks like it could do the job: http://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/ - have not used it, so I can't confirm how well it works.
I wonder how this would stand up if all the grey imports got together and took Sony to the European courts. Isn't price discrimination meant to be illegal by European law?
They were bypassing Sony's "official" channels and hurting their ability to price discriminate.
Yup, this is why I think Sony's actions should be illegal and not that of the grey importer. They grey importer should be allowed to stay in business, on the condition they make clear to customer the limitations of the purchase ( invalidated warranty, etc ). Why should mega corporations be allowed to have access to a free market and everyone else is told to stick it?
Much easier to boycott than you think: their cameras don't support standard storage mediums and their PS3 is too damn expensive. For the rest of the range it really doesn't matter.
Unfortunately most of the larger market couldn't care about the shit Sony is dealing up these days, as long as they get their mega TV.
Where are the idiots proclaiming that the U.S. faked the Mars Viking landings?
::)
You have it all wrong: they claim NASA covered up the results of the Mars Viking landings and faked the moon landings.