I did something similar this winter. I discovered that an iPod Shuffle fits perfectly in my snowboarding glove, and was able to easily navigate through my collection on the move. No more stopping, taking a glove off, pulling my iPod out, finding a song, then putting everything back together again. Four push button sensors could easily provide a great detail of capability with extremely limited encumbrance.
Nowhere in the RFP does it indicate that NASA would retain rights to the MMORPG. This provides a developer the opportunity to produce a NASA branded product, for profit, without having to pay the US Gov't licensing fees, just a long as that developer makes some effort to make the game educational.
I agree, almost. I got pretty entrenched in MySpace before Facebook opened up to non-collegiates, and learned early on (thanks to a psycho ex girlfriend creating a fake profile) to only allow friends I knew in real life. Since then it's been a great way to keep track of a ton of people I'd have probably lost touch with without it. Facebook may be better suited, I don't know, I've only recently started using it, but Myspace works great.
Let's see... TV, Stereo, Light switch, speakers, coffee pot, coffee grinder, monitor, computer, power strip. Yep, everything around me that uses electricity has a single button for on and off. The only thing I can thing of off the top of my head that doesn't is my blender, and that's because of variable speeds. What device have you seen that has a separate button for on and off?
IANAL, but it seems that if the court rules in favor of any one of the defendants, it would set a precedent that would pave the route for all previous defendants to come together and file a class action lawsuit for wrongful accusations.
Of course, actually reading section 4.6 shows that the only tags available are TIFF Attributes indicating such exciting information as the 'Subsampling ratio of Y to C', and the ever useful 'White point chromaticity'. As far as convenient ID3 type info that you can do something with; no.
I think the most important thing, with an open source UI, is to allow plugins/extensions. From the day I got my iPod, I wanted the ability to add in a way to queue the next songs to be played. In the time since, I've thought of a dozen easy ways to use existing controls to do it without affecting any current UI operations, but Apple hasn't released an open API that allows users to tweak their system.
When you RTFA, you see that LV's complaint is that counterfeitors are using the service to push their wares. Your argument of trademark's purpose only goes to support LV's claim. The question here is who is responsible? If a put a classified ad for a LV handbag in the New York Times, and I'm selling a cheap knockoff, should the NYT be resposible? Absolutely not.
Think more about the point your trying to make. You've used computers your whole life, your current profession is probably heavily computer centric. You've stated that noone, without similar credentials, should use computers. Now, imagine you had some influence and were able to make that law. Also imagine that like minded individuals of other industries were able to pass similar laws. You wouldn't be able to drive any longer. As an non professional, you could cause injury to others. You couldn't listen to music. As a non professional you have no true understanding of what's good and what's not. Don't give me that old "but I just like it." That's as ridiculious as expecting a computer "to just work." In fact, pretty much everything you do, you'd no longer be able to do. And you wouldn't have been a King with your 2400-baud BBS's, because you, with your inexperience, would never have been granted the opportunity to try.
IBM is a company that develops software. Independents, putting together a similar guide, could say things like 'Postgre SQL is a stable, enterprise ready database that is available for free', but if IBM said that, it could hurt DB2 sales.
Look at the numbers a little bit closer. $687,000 of that taxpayer money wasn't research, but Medicare for people to receive the drug. $263 thousand in taxpayer monies were used to fund the research, but $235,000 of that was reimbursed. Net cost to taxpayers... $28,000 Not a bad price to pay for important relief form cancer. Considering Bristol-Meyers dropped 8.29 billion to create the drug, it doesn't appear that their the big taxpayer raping evil corporation you portray them as.
It's a rare occasion that a hacker hacks into a system, finds a password list, decrypts it, then uses what they've discovered to gain further access. It's more commonly the case that Joe is pissed off at Bob and knows that Bob's wife is Linda. From what I've ssen running L0pht at work, Joe has a 50% shot at typing user:Bob pass:linda1 and sending an email to Bob's boss, from Bob, telling the boss where he can shove it. Many know I surf, but few would be able to come up with 5urf3r*Dud3 as my password (no, it's not). The responsibility is with the user, not the admin.
IBM isn't dependent on SUSE, they're dependent on AIX. When all is said and done, and SCO no longer exists, Novell will be the only company to have a valid claim on UNIX.
I think Gnome/KDE consolidation would be a bad thing. Sure, we could all benefit from one standard interface. You could be confident that any Linux box you hopped on would work exactly? like the others. But you'd lose the advantage of two completely seperate groups of people working towards the same goals in different ways. KDE has come up with ideas Gnome's used. Gnome's come up with ideas KDE has used. The ability to release different ways of doing things, and let community discussion determine which will prevail will ultimatly make both UIs better. It's something that couldn't be accomplished if they were combined.
You're right about Mandarin. It tops the list with a billion+ speakers, but English comes in second with 508 million. Hindi places third at 497 mil. Spanish takes a distant fourth with 392, and Russian rounds out the top five with 277.
Sure, as Mozilla gains in popularity, viruses are going to increase, but there are a couple reasons why switching is still a good idea. First off, as soon as an exploit is found, anyone can fix it. You don't have to wait for your manager to assign the task of developing a fix to you, develop it, send it to testing for a month of evaluation, then work with marketing to schedule it's release. In most cases a fix will be out the next day. There's also the fact that increased market share for competing browsers reduces the incentive for creating viruses, trojans, etc. Say I'm a spammer, crime lord, activist, script kiddie, what have you. If I can develop a program that will allow me to infect 95% of the worlds PCs well, that's pretty cool. But if Moz/Firefox has 23% market share, Opera pulls another 14%, Safari/Konqueror back that up with 17%, and others grab 6%, That 95% of PCs I could infect developing an IE exploit drops to 40%. The incentive is nowhere near as great. Security through obscurity is a beautiful thing.
You can set your IE security level to high, disabling active scripting, then add windowsupdate to your trusted sites list, which will allow it to work. It's sad that the only thing I use IE for is to download security updates for IE.
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I did something similar this winter. I discovered that an iPod Shuffle fits perfectly in my snowboarding glove, and was able to easily navigate through my collection on the move. No more stopping, taking a glove off, pulling my iPod out, finding a song, then putting everything back together again. Four push button sensors could easily provide a great detail of capability with extremely limited encumbrance.
Nowhere in the RFP does it indicate that NASA would retain rights to the MMORPG. This provides a developer the opportunity to produce a NASA branded product, for profit, without having to pay the US Gov't licensing fees, just a long as that developer makes some effort to make the game educational.
MWR is a civilian organization, they don't rate a .mil
I agree, almost. I got pretty entrenched in MySpace before Facebook opened up to non-collegiates, and learned early on (thanks to a psycho ex girlfriend creating a fake profile) to only allow friends I knew in real life. Since then it's been a great way to keep track of a ton of people I'd have probably lost touch with without it. Facebook may be better suited, I don't know, I've only recently started using it, but Myspace works great.
Let's see... TV, Stereo, Light switch, speakers, coffee pot, coffee grinder, monitor, computer, power strip. Yep, everything around me that uses electricity has a single button for on and off. The only thing I can thing of off the top of my head that doesn't is my blender, and that's because of variable speeds. What device have you seen that has a separate button for on and off?
IANAL, but it seems that if the court rules in favor of any one of the defendants, it would set a precedent that would pave the route for all previous defendants to come together and file a class action lawsuit for wrongful accusations.
Of course, actually reading section 4.6 shows that the only tags available are TIFF Attributes indicating such exciting information as the 'Subsampling ratio of Y to C', and the ever useful 'White point chromaticity'.
As far as convenient ID3 type info that you can do something with; no.
Aren't there only six?
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From: Scott E Fahlman
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use
Population: Asia = 3,622,994,130 --- 24,900 is 1 in every 145,501
Population: US = 295,734,134 --- 4,400 is 1 in every 67,212
The United Sates has more than twice the per capita PhDs.
I think the most important thing, with an open source UI, is to allow plugins/extensions. From the day I got my iPod, I wanted the ability to add in a way to queue the next songs to be played. In the time since, I've thought of a dozen easy ways to use existing controls to do it without affecting any current UI operations, but Apple hasn't released an open API that allows users to tweak their system.
Mike writes an article. Some people don't like it, so he writes another article explaining himself. Isn't he, kind of, well, blogging?
When you RTFA, you see that LV's complaint is that counterfeitors are using the service to push their wares. Your argument of trademark's purpose only goes to support LV's claim. The question here is who is responsible? If a put a classified ad for a LV handbag in the New York Times, and I'm selling a cheap knockoff, should the NYT be resposible? Absolutely not.
Think more about the point your trying to make. You've used computers your whole life, your current profession is probably heavily computer centric. You've stated that noone, without similar credentials, should use computers. Now, imagine you had some influence and were able to make that law. Also imagine that like minded individuals of other industries were able to pass similar laws. You wouldn't be able to drive any longer. As an non professional, you could cause injury to others. You couldn't listen to music. As a non professional you have no true understanding of what's good and what's not. Don't give me that old "but I just like it." That's as ridiculious as expecting a computer "to just work."
In fact, pretty much everything you do, you'd no longer be able to do. And you wouldn't have been a King with your 2400-baud BBS's, because you, with your inexperience, would never have been granted the opportunity to try.
Finally, when mom's yell to their kids that they'll go blind if they sit too close to the TV, they won't be lying.
IBM is a company that develops software. Independents, putting together a similar guide, could say things like 'Postgre SQL is a stable, enterprise ready database that is available for free', but if IBM said that, it could hurt DB2 sales.
Look at the numbers a little bit closer.
$687,000 of that taxpayer money wasn't research, but Medicare for people to receive the drug. $263 thousand in taxpayer monies were used to fund the research, but $235,000 of that was reimbursed.
Net cost to taxpayers... $28,000
Not a bad price to pay for important relief form cancer. Considering Bristol-Meyers dropped 8.29 billion to create the drug, it doesn't appear that their the big taxpayer raping evil corporation you portray them as.
It's a rare occasion that a hacker hacks into a system, finds a password list, decrypts it, then uses what they've discovered to gain further access. It's more commonly the case that Joe is pissed off at Bob and knows that Bob's wife is Linda. From what I've ssen running L0pht at work, Joe has a 50% shot at typing user:Bob pass:linda1 and sending an email to Bob's boss, from Bob, telling the boss where he can shove it. Many know I surf, but few would be able to come up with 5urf3r*Dud3 as my password (no, it's not). The responsibility is with the user, not the admin.
IBM isn't dependent on SUSE, they're dependent on AIX. When all is said and done, and SCO no longer exists, Novell will be the only company to have a valid claim on UNIX.
Herbie, the love bug
I think Gnome/KDE consolidation would be a bad thing. Sure, we could all benefit from one standard interface. You could be confident that any Linux box you hopped on would work exactly? like the others. But you'd lose the advantage of two completely seperate groups of people working towards the same goals in different ways. KDE has come up with ideas Gnome's used. Gnome's come up with ideas KDE has used. The ability to release different ways of doing things, and let community discussion determine which will prevail will ultimatly make both UIs better. It's something that couldn't be accomplished if they were combined.
You're right about Mandarin. It tops the list with a billion+ speakers, but English comes in second with 508 million. Hindi places third at 497 mil. Spanish takes a distant fourth with 392, and Russian rounds out the top five with 277.
Sure, as Mozilla gains in popularity, viruses are going to increase, but there are a couple reasons why switching is still a good idea.
First off, as soon as an exploit is found, anyone can fix it. You don't have to wait for your manager to assign the task of developing a fix to you, develop it, send it to testing for a month of evaluation, then work with marketing to schedule it's release. In most cases a fix will be out the next day.
There's also the fact that increased market share for competing browsers reduces the incentive for creating viruses, trojans, etc. Say I'm a spammer, crime lord, activist, script kiddie, what have you. If I can develop a program that will allow me to infect 95% of the worlds PCs well, that's pretty cool. But if Moz/Firefox has 23% market share, Opera pulls another 14%, Safari/Konqueror back that up with 17%, and others grab 6%, That 95% of PCs I could infect developing an IE exploit drops to 40%. The incentive is nowhere near as great. Security through obscurity is a beautiful thing.
You can set your IE security level to high, disabling active scripting, then add windowsupdate to your trusted sites list, which will allow it to work.
It's sad that the only thing I use IE for is to download security updates for IE.