I did not say the (current (no longer to be mistaken with the G3)) iMac was expensive. I said it was not cost effective in the context of other solutions, where it's a 32,500% cost increase compared to $4 worth of velcro.
Ah. I did a google search for iMac G3, and accidentally clicked on a sponsored link from Apple.com, which touted its shiny new $1300 base price iMac. I don't follow the Apple products very closely, but I probably should have looked closer before making my post.
You are proposing a $1,300 solution. The average solution so far seems to be hovering around $20, with some as low as $3. There are some cost efficiency problems with your solution.
Well, from the looks of the article, her testimone prevented someone from facing jail time. And clearly someone needed to be jailed. A simple and obvious solution, if you ask me. </sarcasm>
When I look back at the code I created in college, compared to what I was capable of after a few years of real world development experience... The difference is pretty stark. I understand the get-em-while-they're-young approach, to influence development decisions later in life. But if they're betting the success of their platform on the output of students with limited-to-no real world experience, I fear for the quality of the apps in their store.
There's nothing stopping kids from learning and writing Objective C applications from within Raspberry Pi. GCC is capable of compiling them, and Linux is capable of running them. They can then use what they have learned at a later time in life, using Apple's proprietary libraries, to "make them money" as you wish.
I'm sure many schools will be thrilled to hand out Apple devices to six year olds, just as soon as Apple makes one that costs less than $30.
"Worlds Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, Inc., Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Activision Publishing, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on March 30, 2012."
This is an Audi sports car. This isn't a Caravan or a Taurus or a Prius. The kind of people this is marketed to are those that love fast cars, and more often than not racing. And Audi is very, very much in touch with that kind of audience (take a look at the last few years of Le Mans Winners for reference.)
A large part of the thrill and love for performance vehicles is the sound they make, so rich enthusiasts (the kind that would actually buy something like this) would be very disappointed if this car didn't sound like a car. Take a look at the video. They spent three years engineering the sound, and they need that kind of effort and detail to the sound if they want to be competitive in their target market.
I'm sorry, but you're not going to be able to slap on a couple mp3's of synthesized rocket ship sounds and expect to sell a high end performance vehicle.
I've heard a lot of people on/. state that libreoffice is better than OpenOffice, but I haven't heard many reasons why. What advantages does it have, beyond not being controlled by Oracle?
I've been using Open Office for years and have no complaints about it. (But at the same time, I don't use it in many advanced ways. After a certain point of complexity, I switch over more specific tools like Scribus.) Am I missing some fatal flaw in Open Office though, that libreoffice somehow fixes?
Shouldn't at least some of these Netscape patents be up for expiration? Any patents they were granted in 94 should have expired last year, and any between 95-99 or so should expire in 2015-2019. I feel like I must be missing some part of the picture, because patents on the verge of expiration seem like they should be almost worthless.
"You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with [intelligent, well-socialized blacks]. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice."
Am I the only one that finds great irony in that statement? Maybe the "amulet" only works if you don't talk about it.
They already do this with some toy lines. At least the line I know of/am aware of is My Little Pony. They offer exclusive toys that can't be found anywhere else, in a market that's suffering from variety/quality issues. So it's something I actually appreciate, and will cause me to enter Targets from time to time, when I would otherwise have no reason to. Toys-R-Us does this too, to the same effect.
I wouldn't mind seeing this business practice in other products, if it actually meant receiving quality alternatives.
It may be easy to avoid in first world countries, but that's not always the case in third world countries. Lack of sanitary conditions in medical facilities, and lack of education can be major contributing factors. But what about transfer of HIV from mother to infant at birth? What about rape? What about a complete lack of publicly available HIV tests, so it's not known who is infected and who isn't?
From the review, it really sounds like this book is only demonstrating how to use specific tools/programs. Is that just what the reviewer is highlighting? Or is this book really lacking in the theories/principals of vulnerabilities and their exploits? I know very little about "hacking," but the last way I'd want to learn about it is through something that amounts to little more than a script kiddy's field guide. To me it feels like a very immature and impractical approach to a very serious/important problem of how to protect yourself and your network.
I find myself wondering if there's any chance the drone actually saved the life of one or more of the men. I hear so many stories about police shooting unarmed civilians, that I wonder if the drone footage (confirming the men to be unarmed) prevented the situation from escalating to the point where the police would shoot first and ask questions later.
(Note: I'm not condoning nor justifying the use of drones against American civilians. I'm only pondering if one questionably unethical act played part in preventing something a lot more horrific.)
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No, I wouldn't call this news for nerds. Because it's not news. But I do think it's relevant to nerds, especially those that take interest math and music.
It's creative. It's mathematical. It's something that a non-nerd would struggle to appreciate. It's even under idle. So what's the problem?
There is a trick in dd to creating sparse files which should let the virtual disk dynamically grow, while not actually using up all of its pre-allocated space. This would be accomplished by changing your dd command to:
dd if=/dev/zero of=disk1 bs=1 count=1 seek=1024M
But I personally have not tried this, and my understanding is that it's not well supported by a lot of common utilities. So I believe it can be done, but in most cases it's not well recommended.
In Linux, you're not limited to mounting ISO's. You can use the program dd to read in from/dev/zero and create a file of any arbitrary size. You can then run makefs to install whatever file system you want on that file (getting features like encryption, journaling, data deduplication, etc.) Partition it with fdisk, and from there you can mount it as a loop device as though it was any disk.
It's more work to create, and requires a bit more understanding of disks/filesystems. But all of the tools are there for it on pretty much any distro you could come across.
How is it even possible that someone would be given money for web programming before learning this? That's not even a rhetorical question; I'm genuinely interested in the answer.
I can't imagine living in a world without being surrounded by advertisements and branding. I can't speak for the rest of the world, or even for the rest of the United States, but in the major metropolitan area I'm used to... these sorts of glasses would censor 95% of what's considered the city's culture. It makes me a little sick to my stomach to admit this, but the background noise of advertisments, logos, and product placements is part of what gives urban life an accelerated feel. Whether it be for a community event, an underground up-and-coming punk band performance, or the overly invasive coca-cola advertisement campaigns -- if it all just stopped, everything would feel a bit dull and muted.
The idea of playing music to plants is pretty far out there for me. But I can begin to go with it. After all, there have been a few studies that suggest plants might have more perception and intelligence than most would give them credit for. Who is to say for sure that a plant couldn't somehow perceive a sound vibration and respond to it in some manner? Very far fetched, but I wouldn't put it outside the realm of possibility.
But playing music to fruit? That doesn't make sense to me in anyway. Ripening is a well understood chemical process. One that I don't believe the fruit itself has any control over once it has been plucked from the tree. This is just a publicity stunt/marketing gimmick that worked well enough to land it a news article. Beyond that, it's just a waste of time and energy.
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Zygna has office chairs? Based on the anecdotal accounts I've heard of them, I assumed they had their employees sitting on milk crates.
I did not say the (current (no longer to be mistaken with the G3)) iMac was expensive. I said it was not cost effective in the context of other solutions, where it's a 32,500% cost increase compared to $4 worth of velcro.
Ah. I did a google search for iMac G3, and accidentally clicked on a sponsored link from Apple.com, which touted its shiny new $1300 base price iMac. I don't follow the Apple products very closely, but I probably should have looked closer before making my post.
You are proposing a $1,300 solution. The average solution so far seems to be hovering around $20, with some as low as $3. There are some cost efficiency problems with your solution.
Put the CEO of Apple and the CEO of Samsung in a room (rounded corners optional). The last one alive is the winner of EVERYTHING.
The problem there is that Apple's CEO would cheat and use dirty tricks to win.
I found this to be generally uninspired. You can do a lot more with wind if you're reasonably gifted in math and imagination.
Well, from the looks of the article, her testimone prevented someone from facing jail time. And clearly someone needed to be jailed. A simple and obvious solution, if you ask me. </sarcasm>
When I look back at the code I created in college, compared to what I was capable of after a few years of real world development experience... The difference is pretty stark. I understand the get-em-while-they're-young approach, to influence development decisions later in life. But if they're betting the success of their platform on the output of students with limited-to-no real world experience, I fear for the quality of the apps in their store.
There's nothing stopping kids from learning and writing Objective C applications from within Raspberry Pi. GCC is capable of compiling them, and Linux is capable of running them. They can then use what they have learned at a later time in life, using Apple's proprietary libraries, to "make them money" as you wish.
I'm sure many schools will be thrilled to hand out Apple devices to six year olds, just as soon as Apple makes one that costs less than $30.
I think it's because a significant subset of users would automatically flag porn, but not many flag copyrighted material.
"Worlds Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, Inc., Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Activision Publishing, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on March 30, 2012."
This is an Audi sports car. This isn't a Caravan or a Taurus or a Prius. The kind of people this is marketed to are those that love fast cars, and more often than not racing. And Audi is very, very much in touch with that kind of audience (take a look at the last few years of Le Mans Winners for reference.)
A large part of the thrill and love for performance vehicles is the sound they make, so rich enthusiasts (the kind that would actually buy something like this) would be very disappointed if this car didn't sound like a car. Take a look at the video. They spent three years engineering the sound, and they need that kind of effort and detail to the sound if they want to be competitive in their target market.
I'm sorry, but you're not going to be able to slap on a couple mp3's of synthesized rocket ship sounds and expect to sell a high end performance vehicle.
I've heard a lot of people on /. state that libreoffice is better than OpenOffice, but I haven't heard many reasons why. What advantages does it have, beyond not being controlled by Oracle?
I've been using Open Office for years and have no complaints about it. (But at the same time, I don't use it in many advanced ways. After a certain point of complexity, I switch over more specific tools like Scribus.) Am I missing some fatal flaw in Open Office though, that libreoffice somehow fixes?
Shouldn't at least some of these Netscape patents be up for expiration? Any patents they were granted in 94 should have expired last year, and any between 95-99 or so should expire in 2015-2019. I feel like I must be missing some part of the picture, because patents on the verge of expiration seem like they should be almost worthless.
"You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with [intelligent, well-socialized blacks]. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice."
Am I the only one that finds great irony in that statement? Maybe the "amulet" only works if you don't talk about it.
They already do this with some toy lines. At least the line I know of/am aware of is My Little Pony. They offer exclusive toys that can't be found anywhere else, in a market that's suffering from variety/quality issues. So it's something I actually appreciate, and will cause me to enter Targets from time to time, when I would otherwise have no reason to. Toys-R-Us does this too, to the same effect.
I wouldn't mind seeing this business practice in other products, if it actually meant receiving quality alternatives.
It may be easy to avoid in first world countries, but that's not always the case in third world countries. Lack of sanitary conditions in medical facilities, and lack of education can be major contributing factors. But what about transfer of HIV from mother to infant at birth? What about rape? What about a complete lack of publicly available HIV tests, so it's not known who is infected and who isn't?
From the review, it really sounds like this book is only demonstrating how to use specific tools/programs. Is that just what the reviewer is highlighting? Or is this book really lacking in the theories/principals of vulnerabilities and their exploits? I know very little about "hacking," but the last way I'd want to learn about it is through something that amounts to little more than a script kiddy's field guide. To me it feels like a very immature and impractical approach to a very serious/important problem of how to protect yourself and your network.
I find myself wondering if there's any chance the drone actually saved the life of one or more of the men. I hear so many stories about police shooting unarmed civilians, that I wonder if the drone footage (confirming the men to be unarmed) prevented the situation from escalating to the point where the police would shoot first and ask questions later.
(Note: I'm not condoning nor justifying the use of drones against American civilians. I'm only pondering if one questionably unethical act played part in preventing something a lot more horrific.)
No, I wouldn't call this news for nerds. Because it's not news. But I do think it's relevant to nerds, especially those that take interest math and music.
It's creative. It's mathematical. It's something that a non-nerd would struggle to appreciate. It's even under idle. So what's the problem?
There is a trick in dd to creating sparse files which should let the virtual disk dynamically grow, while not actually using up all of its pre-allocated space. This would be accomplished by changing your dd command to:
dd if=/dev/zero of=disk1 bs=1 count=1 seek=1024M
But I personally have not tried this, and my understanding is that it's not well supported by a lot of common utilities. So I believe it can be done, but in most cases it's not well recommended.
In Linux, you're not limited to mounting ISO's. You can use the program dd to read in from /dev/zero and create a file of any arbitrary size. You can then run makefs to install whatever file system you want on that file (getting features like encryption, journaling, data deduplication, etc.) Partition it with fdisk, and from there you can mount it as a loop device as though it was any disk.
It's more work to create, and requires a bit more understanding of disks/filesystems. But all of the tools are there for it on pretty much any distro you could come across.
How is it even possible that someone would be given money for web programming before learning this? That's not even a rhetorical question; I'm genuinely interested in the answer.
First thing that comes to my mind is nepotism.
I can't imagine living in a world without being surrounded by advertisements and branding. I can't speak for the rest of the world, or even for the rest of the United States, but in the major metropolitan area I'm used to... these sorts of glasses would censor 95% of what's considered the city's culture. It makes me a little sick to my stomach to admit this, but the background noise of advertisments, logos, and product placements is part of what gives urban life an accelerated feel. Whether it be for a community event, an underground up-and-coming punk band performance, or the overly invasive coca-cola advertisement campaigns -- if it all just stopped, everything would feel a bit dull and muted.
The idea of playing music to plants is pretty far out there for me. But I can begin to go with it. After all, there have been a few studies that suggest plants might have more perception and intelligence than most would give them credit for. Who is to say for sure that a plant couldn't somehow perceive a sound vibration and respond to it in some manner? Very far fetched, but I wouldn't put it outside the realm of possibility.
But playing music to fruit? That doesn't make sense to me in anyway. Ripening is a well understood chemical process. One that I don't believe the fruit itself has any control over once it has been plucked from the tree. This is just a publicity stunt/marketing gimmick that worked well enough to land it a news article. Beyond that, it's just a waste of time and energy.