It's Microsoft's fault that the Zune's DRM is designed to allow the labels to pull music that the customer has bought and paid for, yes. They didn't have to implement that facility.
The new battery would actually result in deformation to the case long before the old design would.
Which increases the chance of damage to the laptop.
The new Macbook case is more rigid than the old one. When the battery swells, it will be pushing against the rigid case of the laptop and flexible components such as printed circuit boards inside the laptop. Which will deform first?
I think you missed the point: my battery started swelling and it was obvious that this had happened because the battery compartment was no longer flush with the case. If an "iBattery" starts swelling it will trash the laptop long before it distorts the case enough for you to notice.
I will never buy a laptop with a non-removable battery even if it gets 8 hours playing MMOs at full resolution. I *have* a Macbook Pro, and if it had an "iBattery" my laptop would have been destroyed when the battery failed and swelled... instead of having the battery pop safely out of its compartment.
Better battery, great, but I'll take a laptop that's a millimeter thicker if that's what it takes to put a door on the battery compartment.
Cory, you're talking about Google toppling a couple of big *search engine* companies, then saying nobody will be able to do to Google's Youtube business what Google did to Altavista and Yahoo. But Google didn't build Youtube, they bought it, with the money from the search business, after their own video site lost out to Youtube.
So... someone DID "do it to Google", but instead of suing them they bought them.
I've managed to collect all three volumes over the past 30 years since I picked up the first at The Other Change of Hobbit. It was a tough job, but I had to do it.
And I think I even caught most of the obscure references in The Unicorn Girl.
My keychain has over 500 entries. That's not going to fit in 3 lines! Even assuming I was inclined to hand over things like the password on my colo server, it'd be like the hovercraft license scene from "The Butterfly Kid".
You're thinking of this as if "travel" was an absolute. If light originates from you and travels (relative to you) a few hundred feet, if the global point of origin is on the opposite side of the universe or not, the total distance it has traveled is still the same. You've just moved its local reference frame.
Yes, it matters if the point of origin is on the opposite side of the universe or not. If you can encode information in the light and transfer information outside the light cone of any moving object, you can violate causality. That's why "spooky action-at-a-distance" doesn't violate relativity, because you can't encode information in the so-called collapse of the state vector.
Handwaving terms like "hand-wavey pseudoscience mumbo-jumbo" around like you're James Randi doesn't carry an argument if you miss the actual point.
Active worms or passive viruses, they still need an infection vector. Without traffic between phones to piggyback on, there's no vector, and no propagation of the virus.
You just need to find a buffer overflow in a game that's popular enough that you're likely to actually find enough people playing it, that doesn't crash the game when you run the exploit because people tend to notice when their games crash, and then write a program to find someone playing it that won't flatten the battery by keeping the bluetooth radio continually active...
Preventing local causality violation doesn't prevent global causality violation. Redraw the space-time diagrams so the bubble fits between the end-points, and you can erase the bubble.
Viruses spread not because a computer can be broken into, but because a computer can be broken into AND because it can broadcast the virus to other computers.
That's why there were no wild Palm OS viruses even when Palm had 80% of the market for years, because the only way to transfer the infection from one Palm to another was for the owner of the infected Palm and the target to deliberately beam a file from one to another.
For cellphones, there's even fewer opportunities for infection, because iPhone owners don't routinely beam files to each other. Most phone-to-phone communication is voice or very short text messages.
What mechanisms are there for an iPhone in my pocket to infect an iPhone in your pocket?
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It's Microsoft's fault that the Zune's DRM is designed to allow the labels to pull music that the customer has bought and paid for, yes. They didn't have to implement that facility.
The Linux desktop does change too much, yes. Whether that change is spelled "innovation" or not, however, is a matter of debate.
The new battery would actually result in deformation to the case long before the old design would.
Which increases the chance of damage to the laptop.
The new Macbook case is more rigid than the old one. When the battery swells, it will be pushing against the rigid case of the laptop and flexible components such as printed circuit boards inside the laptop. Which will deform first?
Bundle the individual games with the emulator, but don't provide a mechanism to install additional games.
Yah, the summary was written by someone who wasn't thinking things through very well.
Don't worry, the coyotes will eat them first.
I think you missed the point: my battery started swelling and it was obvious that this had happened because the battery compartment was no longer flush with the case. If an "iBattery" starts swelling it will trash the laptop long before it distorts the case enough for you to notice.
I will never buy a laptop with a non-removable battery even if it gets 8 hours playing MMOs at full resolution. I *have* a Macbook Pro, and if it had an "iBattery" my laptop would have been destroyed when the battery failed and swelled... instead of having the battery pop safely out of its compartment.
Better battery, great, but I'll take a laptop that's a millimeter thicker if that's what it takes to put a door on the battery compartment.
Cory, you're talking about Google toppling a couple of big *search engine* companies, then saying nobody will be able to do to Google's Youtube business what Google did to Altavista and Yahoo. But Google didn't build Youtube, they bought it, with the money from the search business, after their own video site lost out to Youtube.
So... someone DID "do it to Google", but instead of suing them they bought them.
I wonder how all those science fair projects and high school chemistry labs sneek by under the nose of these government watchdogs?
Sometimes they don't.
This is more like worrying about toy poodles going feral... in an area that's already got a coyote problem.
I've managed to collect all three volumes over the past 30 years since I picked up the first at The Other Change of Hobbit. It was a tough job, but I had to do it.
And I think I even caught most of the obscure references in The Unicorn Girl.
You must be American.
You're about as far off target as it's possible to be and remain on the planet.
My keychain has over 500 entries. That's not going to fit in 3 lines! Even assuming I was inclined to hand over things like the password on my colo server, it'd be like the hovercraft license scene from "The Butterfly Kid".
I'm sorry, but I can't think of "Culturally British Games" without expecting Monty Python cast members to be involved somewhere.
How about Llamatron?
When I was in college it was $/KB.
If it contains enough Zinc atoms to be detected (let alone have an effect) it's not diluted nearly enough to really be homeopathic.
Not saying homeopathy isn't a scam, mind, just this once they're being abused by worse scammers.
You're thinking of this as if "travel" was an absolute. If light originates from you and travels (relative to you) a few hundred feet, if the global point of origin is on the opposite side of the universe or not, the total distance it has traveled is still the same. You've just moved its local reference frame.
Yes, it matters if the point of origin is on the opposite side of the universe or not. If you can encode information in the light and transfer information outside the light cone of any moving object, you can violate causality. That's why "spooky action-at-a-distance" doesn't violate relativity, because you can't encode information in the so-called collapse of the state vector.
Handwaving terms like "hand-wavey pseudoscience mumbo-jumbo" around like you're James Randi doesn't carry an argument if you miss the actual point.
Active worms or passive viruses, they still need an infection vector. Without traffic between phones to piggyback on, there's no vector, and no propagation of the virus.
You just need to find a buffer overflow in a game that's popular enough that you're likely to actually find enough people playing it, that doesn't crash the game when you run the exploit because people tend to notice when their games crash, and then write a program to find someone playing it that won't flatten the battery by keeping the bluetooth radio continually active...
If my light cone leaks does that mean I get causality all over my kitchen floor?
Why can't you violate it?
You break quantum mechanics and your insurance doesn't cover that.
Preventing local causality violation doesn't prevent global causality violation. Redraw the space-time diagrams so the bubble fits between the end-points, and you can erase the bubble.
Viruses spread not because a computer can be broken into, but because a computer can be broken into AND because it can broadcast the virus to other computers.
That's why there were no wild Palm OS viruses even when Palm had 80% of the market for years, because the only way to transfer the infection from one Palm to another was for the owner of the infected Palm and the target to deliberately beam a file from one to another.
For cellphones, there's even fewer opportunities for infection, because iPhone owners don't routinely beam files to each other. Most phone-to-phone communication is voice or very short text messages.
What mechanisms are there for an iPhone in my pocket to infect an iPhone in your pocket?
Could be 301 Moved Permanently back inside your light cone.