not to mention the fact that when some junk stole my bike, the police basically said "yeah we know the guy", and nothing else happened, he didnt get in trouble, i didnt get my bike back...
that somehow is OK, but when someone COPIES a piece of music.. heaven and earth shall be moved so the 'poor musicians' (the record companies) dont feel left out
i'm not saying that i fully agree with thet fact that us copyright cases are equivalent to sharia law, but consider the fact that downloading 20 songs can get you fined for half a milion dollars. To most people such a verdict is equivalent to financial destruction of your life. Consider how life would be if all money you have left after paying for primary needs (shelter/food) would go to paying off a ginormous debt. I would put that kind of punishment pretty close to losing a hand in terms of impact on a persons life. Hell, it wouldnt surprise me if someone who lost a hand can have a happier life then someone with half a milion dollars of debt to pay off..
well, my comment wasnt a reason for apple to ban it from the iphone, but a reason why less flash on the web would be a good thing. i'm pretty sure Apple could secure a flash plugin running on their own iphone OS.
Flash going away would mean one less attack vector for the botnet-builders to exploit.
As for Safari, safari has a slightly better security model then windows (XP), so AFAIK the flash plugin would not be running with root permissions, as it would be on most windows machines
i dont quite understand the need for higher resolution screens in these devices. I just spent ten seconds with my nose on my ipod touch, and i honestly cant say i would need a higher res screen on that thing, especially since you never ever have that thing three inches away from your eyes anyway.
i dont see the value in having twice the resolution (four times the pixels) if the screen still stays the same size. In the mean time more power will be needed to drive four times the amount of pixels on the screen..
i bought an ipod touch the week after the big ipad let-down ($500 is ok, but what i want is a mac-book tablet, not a big ipod), and i seriously considered using apple's free engraving service to have 'iPad nano' engraved on it
didn't do it though, i just would have felt stupid anyway, with all those maxiPad jokes..
No Flash on extremely popular devices is a good thin. It forces people to stop using Flash where there's no reason to use it, such as navigation and video.
you dont even need an iphone type device for that. A year and a half back i worked on a webshop, and the program manager had me make a jpg/javascript fall back for the flash menu because google analytics showed that 1% of the visitors didnt have flash. When the main goal of your website is getting people in, and getting them to spend money, management will have programmers bending over backwards to support even IE 5.0 if they think they will make an extra buck.
Granted, the only reason the navigation on that site was simple, and flash was only used to make things flashy...
just to add what other responses have left out: Flash also poses a significant security problem. These days most exploits target either the browser directly, or flash/pdf.
As others have said, Adobe wouldnt be able to code themselves out of a wet paper bag, yet their software runs on 99.9% of internet connected computers, which poses a threat in terms of security.
Not to mention the fact that flash adds are off course, the devil
true, this nutjob should just go out and live in a shed in the woods
This is just one step away from sueing your neighbour because he refuses to paint his house green claiming that 'the wavelength of light emitted by his house is caussing me severe pain'
and WTF sueing someone for half a milion dollars for this? only in america
At 7 TeV it is still running at only half power, the original design is for 14 TeV (two 7 TeV beams colliding). From today on it will run a while, and go down for extended maintenance, at which point they will modify the LHC so it can be cranked up to full spec power.
Still bloody amazing though, AFAIK the tevatron over in the states, now the second most powerfull collider, tops at around 1 TeV
how about just opening it in a protected innert atmosphere? something like a small work/glove box thing filled with nitrogen, then remove the incendiary parts, and you are good to go
as for cooling it while opening, i'd much prefer a simple co2 extinguisher, but even that might be to cold to comfortably open the housing youself
reading your post, i'd say 'fuck it' might also be a probable solution for a woman wanting to obtain data from this kind of secure usb stick, especially if the stick is owned by some basement-dweller
well, the most convenient way to tackle this would be to first place the device in some sort of explosion proof container, one might consider a bunker, or a hatch, and then introduce a rotating schedule for manning this 'hatch' container to prevent any sort of unwelcome effect
your analogy is missing the part where the kid is put on water and bread for a week, has all his toys confiscated and isnt allowed to play for a week.
The german workers of the 30's were not responsible for the first war, yet they continued to endure the punishment, in that light rising up against the oppression of the allies might be defensible. The genocide/holocaust parts, obviously are NOT
in "supersize me", he eats something like 3 big macs on average each day, but is remarkebly 'un-american' in terms of weight/size in that video. I think he claims it is mostly the fries that get you at the golden arches...
we have five pet-rats at home, we feed them left-overs from our meals in addition to the normal rat-food, and ever since we gave them some hot-dog bits (first meat we ever gave them), they have been a bit more eager to try and bite my fingers... the taste of flesh must have caught on..
bleh, i wish i was allowed to go to town on my company car.
seatbelt warnings are all nice and all, but if my car starts incessantly beeping when i'm on my way back from the supermarket with a quart of milk on the passengers seat, i just get pissed off and distracted.. Seriously, why are those sensors set up that 1 kg of pressure == human being in seat?
Besides, the warning light on my dash already is quite clear on the matter, and i tend to notice warning lights rather quick...
best steer clear of SiS then too... i have an intel mini-itx board with a crappy sis chip which refuses to work properly in linux, for the rest it is quite OK.
but besides, X on server is for wimps:P real men SSH into their boxes and just bash their way to victory!
The problem is you fed the troll a load of Microsoft sponsored horse shit...
I made up my own mind by reading articles discussing both platforms in terms of architecture, the 360 isnt my ideal piece of hardware either, but isnt full of WTFs like the PS3's design.
You don't use JUST the GPU on PS3, you use it in conjunction with the Cell.
i say the Cell is a shitty cpu for running games on, and the GPU is underpowered and outdated compared to what the 360 has (the 360s GPU has some early DX10 features, even though it isnt DX10), and you reply by saying that the ps3 is awesome because it uses BOTH those components together?
because sony is enough of an idiot to do an april fools joke enraging a lot of nerds rather then publishing that starting april first, the only PS3 on sale will be the special pink hello kitty edition.
seriously, today isnt april 1st, this isnt funny, and the only people who would notice, would become angry. How can anyone think this would be a joke?
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not to mention the fact that when some junk stole my bike, the police basically said "yeah we know the guy", and nothing else happened, he didnt get in trouble, i didnt get my bike back...
that somehow is OK, but when someone COPIES a piece of music.. heaven and earth shall be moved so the 'poor musicians' (the record companies) dont feel left out
i'm not saying that i fully agree with thet fact that us copyright cases are equivalent to sharia law, but consider the fact that downloading 20 songs can get you fined for half a milion dollars. To most people such a verdict is equivalent to financial destruction of your life. Consider how life would be if all money you have left after paying for primary needs (shelter/food) would go to paying off a ginormous debt. I would put that kind of punishment pretty close to losing a hand in terms of impact on a persons life. Hell, it wouldnt surprise me if someone who lost a hand can have a happier life then someone with half a milion dollars of debt to pay off..
well, my comment wasnt a reason for apple to ban it from the iphone, but a reason why less flash on the web would be a good thing. i'm pretty sure Apple could secure a flash plugin running on their own iphone OS.
Flash going away would mean one less attack vector for the botnet-builders to exploit.
As for Safari, safari has a slightly better security model then windows (XP), so AFAIK the flash plugin would not be running with root permissions, as it would be on most windows machines
The A4 is a highway in the UK.
Also a highway in the Netherlands, an audi saloon car, the actual model number of the V2 rocket etc...
enjoy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A4
i dont quite understand the need for higher resolution screens in these devices. I just spent ten seconds with my nose on my ipod touch, and i honestly cant say i would need a higher res screen on that thing, especially since you never ever have that thing three inches away from your eyes anyway.
i dont see the value in having twice the resolution (four times the pixels) if the screen still stays the same size. In the mean time more power will be needed to drive four times the amount of pixels on the screen..
i bought an ipod touch the week after the big ipad let-down ($500 is ok, but what i want is a mac-book tablet, not a big ipod), and i seriously considered using apple's free engraving service to have 'iPad nano' engraved on it
didn't do it though, i just would have felt stupid anyway, with all those maxiPad jokes..
No Flash on extremely popular devices is a good thin. It forces people to stop using Flash where there's no reason to use it, such as navigation and video.
you dont even need an iphone type device for that. A year and a half back i worked on a webshop, and the program manager had me make a jpg/javascript fall back for the flash menu because google analytics showed that 1% of the visitors didnt have flash. When the main goal of your website is getting people in, and getting them to spend money, management will have programmers bending over backwards to support even IE 5.0 if they think they will make an extra buck.
Granted, the only reason the navigation on that site was simple, and flash was only used to make things flashy...
just to add what other responses have left out: Flash also poses a significant security problem. These days most exploits target either the browser directly, or flash/pdf.
As others have said, Adobe wouldnt be able to code themselves out of a wet paper bag, yet their software runs on 99.9% of internet connected computers, which poses a threat in terms of security.
Not to mention the fact that flash adds are off course, the devil
true, this nutjob should just go out and live in a shed in the woods
This is just one step away from sueing your neighbour because he refuses to paint his house green claiming that 'the wavelength of light emitted by his house is caussing me severe pain'
and WTF sueing someone for half a milion dollars for this? only in america
true, but using those is not that same as triggering the heat sensor to make the scanner pick up residual prints from previous uses.
I'm not saying this thing isnt circumventable, it just isnt vulnerable to that specific method
At 7 TeV it is still running at only half power, the original design is for 14 TeV (two 7 TeV beams colliding). From today on it will run a while, and go down for extended maintenance, at which point they will modify the LHC so it can be cranked up to full spec power.
Still bloody amazing though, AFAIK the tevatron over in the states, now the second most powerfull collider, tops at around 1 TeV
how about just opening it in a protected innert atmosphere? something like a small work/glove box thing filled with nitrogen, then remove the incendiary parts, and you are good to go
as for cooling it while opening, i'd much prefer a simple co2 extinguisher, but even that might be to cold to comfortably open the housing youself
this is a swipe-type scanner, you dont just press down on it, so no pattern is left behind, no usable pattern anyway
reading your post, i'd say 'fuck it' might also be a probable solution for a woman wanting to obtain data from this kind of secure usb stick, especially if the stick is owned by some basement-dweller
well, the most convenient way to tackle this would be to first place the device in some sort of explosion proof container, one might consider a bunker, or a hatch, and then introduce a rotating schedule for manning this 'hatch' container to prevent any sort of unwelcome effect
at least he is consistent..
your analogy is missing the part where the kid is put on water and bread for a week, has all his toys confiscated and isnt allowed to play for a week.
The german workers of the 30's were not responsible for the first war, yet they continued to endure the punishment, in that light rising up against the oppression of the allies might be defensible. The genocide/holocaust parts, obviously are NOT
i think you mean F*F, or F^2
and honestly 0x100 times slower would be pretty bad for a database, but F'ing large? peh!
i saw this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gorske
in "supersize me", he eats something like 3 big macs on average each day, but is remarkebly 'un-american' in terms of weight/size in that video. I think he claims it is mostly the fries that get you at the golden arches...
we have five pet-rats at home, we feed them left-overs from our meals in addition to the normal rat-food, and ever since we gave them some hot-dog bits (first meat we ever gave them), they have been a bit more eager to try and bite my fingers... the taste of flesh must have caught on..
bleh, i wish i was allowed to go to town on my company car.
seatbelt warnings are all nice and all, but if my car starts incessantly beeping when i'm on my way back from the supermarket with a quart of milk on the passengers seat, i just get pissed off and distracted.. Seriously, why are those sensors set up that 1 kg of pressure == human being in seat?
Besides, the warning light on my dash already is quite clear on the matter, and i tend to notice warning lights rather quick...
best steer clear of SiS then too... i have an intel mini-itx board with a crappy sis chip which refuses to work properly in linux, for the rest it is quite OK.
but besides, X on server is for wimps :P real men SSH into their boxes and just bash their way to victory!
and we all know that 1 MHz of ARM embedded chippery is exactly equal to 1 MHz of intel netburst performance...
if you're gonna be a pedantic bastard, at least get it right ;)
The problem is you fed the troll a load of Microsoft sponsored horse shit...
I made up my own mind by reading articles discussing both platforms in terms of architecture, the 360 isnt my ideal piece of hardware either, but isnt full of WTFs like the PS3's design.
You don't use JUST the GPU on PS3, you use it in conjunction with the Cell.
i say the Cell is a shitty cpu for running games on, and the GPU is underpowered and outdated compared to what the 360 has (the 360s GPU has some early DX10 features, even though it isnt DX10), and you reply by saying that the ps3 is awesome because it uses BOTH those components together?
because sony is enough of an idiot to do an april fools joke enraging a lot of nerds rather then publishing that starting april first, the only PS3 on sale will be the special pink hello kitty edition.
seriously, today isnt april 1st, this isnt funny, and the only people who would notice, would become angry. How can anyone think this would be a joke?