He said put any known life in the given stituation. Therefore, if the given situation is underwater, we know there are plenty of forms of life that exist underwater. If the given situation is the Arctic, we know of life that exists there too. If the given situation is Europan...
But on more important matters:
off topic: I have always wondered how would one cook one of the animals (seen crabs on tv) that live near the volcanic outputs?
a pottery kiln should do it, failing that a blast furnace? On second thoughts, maybe best served cold?
I'm on board with cold. Possibly sashimi style, I figger.:)
Coca-Cola shouldn't care too much, though I am sure you are probably right.
The restaraunts ask if the other cola is ok because they don't serve Coke. They already made a deal with Pepsi or Belchy (heh) or whatever.
So, when you ask for a "coke" (aka generic cola beverage) they recognize that you might be asking for a "Coke" (the Big Name Cola Choice). Coca-Cola has your mindshare and has you asking for a Coke whether or not you care which cola you drink. Coca-Cola still wins in this scenario because the restaraunt acknowledges that Pepsi is not Coke. Of course, Coca-Cola should be concerned about the restaraunts that bring you a Pepsi or Belchy without asking.
I'm sure it's a fine line between mass-mindshare and trademark dillution, but as long as they keep a tight grip on market usage they should be fine. After all, when I go to the tissue aisle in the grocery store, all I see is "Kleenex" and "notKleenex" as far as brands go. (Damn this commercial culture!)
Then again, I'm (happily) not a marketing guy and IANAL certainly... so all this blathering about Coke/coke should be considered a layman's conjecturing... but it seems logical to me. Which means it's probably way off.:)
PS: Glad I preview. I first wrote that "I go to the isle of tissue". heh.
I've had a hell of a time convincing bands to play in my car as I drive to work though. Not to mention the fact that I can't even fit the drum kit in the back seat.
Not that your comment wasn't funny... but I don't think he's been beaten mercilessly yet.
As I understand it, Deep Blue was a narrow victory and Deep Junior was a tie. Or did I miss something? I think the machines are gonna have to be winning 6-0 rather than tieing 3-3 before we'll see a tear from Mr. Kasparov. heh.
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There are enough broadband users (or users willing to suffer 56k) to support MMO games like Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, Anarchy Online, etc.
I think EA confused their Sims playerbase with the traditional MMO playerbase. The crossover folks in both camps are probably the ones who bought TSO.
Even if he's lying, he's still got an interesting angle. Even if THIS guy isn't one of the victims, the victims still exist and they quite possibly look at it this exact same way.
Granted, I'll agree that any "hero worship" for a hacker/thief is misguided.
However, just because people are interested in the topic doesn't mean that they worship him. Most people who think he was treated unfairly (or illegally or extremely or...) often still think he should have been prosecuted. I count myself among that group.
I admit that I might be tired of hearing about him to, were I in your supposed shoes... but he & his story are still viable Slashdot topics.
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That's the option that gets my vote... were this a democracy.
I don't know if that was sarcasm or not (since Kaczynski got caught) but as far as I know Kaczynski hasn't made any claims about making trips to Arab countries without the knowledge of the US Gov't. Did he?
Admittedly, I could be wrong. I'm not altogether up-to-date on my psychopath news.
It would mean they have a right to protect their sources, for example, among other special considerations.
The problem is we don't know that these benefits we are supposedly getting are going to stand up in court. If it ever came to trial and a blogger tried to "protect their source" a judge/jury might find that they aren't 'real' journalists and therefore aren't afforded the same protection.
You're certainly right about it being a two-edged sword, I'm just worried about getting cut by both edges.
What a load of crap. Apple doesn't feel like a "Culture of Fear" at all.
If you are a developer at Apple, high profile anti-employee actions like this send a message:
secrecy first, collaboration second.
Really? That's not the message *I'm* getting.
The message I'm getting is: Hey, that NDA you signed... it wasn't for fun.
As a company that prides itself on innovation and has a slew of immitators, company secrets are important to Apple. (Hell, they're important to any company.) And by Apple, I don't mean some faceless corporate entity, I mean everyone that wears an Apple badge or owns Apple stock.
Later on in the thread someone posted a statistic from a poll on the site, stating that nearly 50% of people were going to choose their server based on their friends. This is how most people tend to play these games, with friends. So now if you want to try a wookie instead of a human, gotta give the big adios to your buddies.
Eh? Why? I plan to coordinate with my friends and we'll all have our secondary characters on the same servers. What's so hard about that? It's just a little communication.
Worse, if enough people try to outsmart the system, it pollutes the correlations. "Gay" and "macho" items become linked together, and requesting one makes it recommend the other. This can work both ways. If most of the people who record "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" are doing so to counter their watching "Queer as Folk", then someone who watches "Third Reich" will get "Queer" as their first recommendation! (emphasis mine)
Wow. It's almost worth corrupting the entire thing just for the comedic value!
I realize I'm a day late to this discussion, but...
Digital VCR (record at XX:XXpm for 1 hour call it foobar1)
My TiVo can do this wih the exception of calling it 'foobar1'. It has a record specific time/channel option. Which I never use because the regular TiVo methods work for me... but it is possible.
This mirrors my experience exactly. (I'm also one of those early adopters who still have the 'old plan'.)
Of course, I am about 20mi from their distribution center, so I have an ultra short turnaround time as well. I have a queue of around 70 movies and add to it at about the same rate as I churn through movies.
I do miss the now defunct "reminder list" (or whatever it was called) feature. It was nice to be able to put the "vaguely interested in" titles into that list and the "please send me this asap" titles into the queue.
Otherwise, as I tell all my friends and coworkers: NetFlix Rocks. (I pimp them, because I don't want the service to go away! I am addicted.)
What you're complaining about are "creator codes", and I agree with you. They're a pain in the arse. Whenever I try and read a "readme" from OS 9, OS X fires up the whole Classic environment just to use OS 9's simpletext. That's ridiculous.
Yes. Very irritating.
And fixed in 10.1. TextEdit will now open those files, instead of trying to open them in SimpleText.
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He said put any known life in the given stituation. Therefore, if the given situation is underwater, we know there are plenty of forms of life that exist underwater. If the given situation is the Arctic, we know of life that exists there too. If the given situation is Europan...
But on more important matters:
I'm on board with cold. Possibly sashimi style, I figger.
The restaraunts ask if the other cola is ok because they don't serve Coke. They already made a deal with Pepsi or Belchy (heh) or whatever.
So, when you ask for a "coke" (aka generic cola beverage) they recognize that you might be asking for a "Coke" (the Big Name Cola Choice). Coca-Cola has your mindshare and has you asking for a Coke whether or not you care which cola you drink. Coca-Cola still wins in this scenario because the restaraunt acknowledges that Pepsi is not Coke. Of course, Coca-Cola should be concerned about the restaraunts that bring you a Pepsi or Belchy without asking.
I'm sure it's a fine line between mass-mindshare and trademark dillution, but as long as they keep a tight grip on market usage they should be fine. After all, when I go to the tissue aisle in the grocery store, all I see is "Kleenex" and "notKleenex" as far as brands go. (Damn this commercial culture!)
Then again, I'm (happily) not a marketing guy and IANAL certainly... so all this blathering about Coke/coke should be considered a layman's conjecturing... but it seems logical to me. Which means it's probably way off. :)
PS: Glad I preview. I first wrote that "I go to the isle of tissue". heh.
...should sue people who refer to tissue as "Kleenex" unless they specifically mean that brand! Who needs mindshare anyway?
Wow. Get a groupie to give you a backrub or something, man. You seem a little tense.
I've had a hell of a time convincing bands to play in my car as I drive to work though. Not to mention the fact that I can't even fit the drum kit in the back seat.
Not that your comment wasn't funny... but I don't think he's been beaten mercilessly yet.
As I understand it, Deep Blue was a narrow victory and Deep Junior was a tie. Or did I miss something? I think the machines are gonna have to be winning 6-0 rather than tieing 3-3 before we'll see a tear from Mr. Kasparov. heh.
There are enough broadband users (or users willing to suffer 56k) to support MMO games like Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, Anarchy Online, etc.
I think EA confused their Sims playerbase with the traditional MMO playerbase. The crossover folks in both camps are probably the ones who bought TSO.
Why does he need to prove it?
Even if he's lying, he's still got an interesting angle. Even if THIS guy isn't one of the victims, the victims still exist and they quite possibly look at it this exact same way.
However, just because people are interested in the topic doesn't mean that they worship him. Most people who think he was treated unfairly (or illegally or extremely or...) often still think he should have been prosecuted. I count myself among that group.
I admit that I might be tired of hearing about him to, were I in your supposed shoes... but he & his story are still viable Slashdot topics.
That's the option that gets my vote... were this a democracy.
Wow. I can already see the next FOX special: World's Most Spectacular Segway Crashes!
I TOLD my dummer "Frobittzly" was a stupid name for our band. Damn. :/
I don't know if that was sarcasm or not (since Kaczynski got caught) but as far as I know Kaczynski hasn't made any claims about making trips to Arab countries without the knowledge of the US Gov't. Did he?
Admittedly, I could be wrong. I'm not altogether up-to-date on my psychopath news.
(I hope if they see any of my messages, it's this one. Keep up the good work, agents!)
You're certainly right about it being a two-edged sword, I'm just worried about getting cut by both edges.
You're welcome! :)
Does that count?
I mis-read the title as "Wireless Radio" and thought "Uh, so?"
Heh. Oops.
The message I'm getting is: Hey, that NDA you signed... it wasn't for fun.
As a company that prides itself on innovation and has a slew of immitators, company secrets are important to Apple. (Hell, they're important to any company.) And by Apple, I don't mean some faceless corporate entity, I mean everyone that wears an Apple badge or owns Apple stock.
-W
Wow. It's almost worth corrupting the entire thing just for the comedic value!
I realize I'm a day late to this discussion, but...
Digital VCR (record at XX:XXpm for 1 hour call it foobar1)
My TiVo can do this wih the exception of calling it 'foobar1'. It has a record specific time/channel option. Which I never use because the regular TiVo methods work for me... but it is possible.
This mirrors my experience exactly. (I'm also one of those early adopters who still have the 'old plan'.)
Of course, I am about 20mi from their distribution center, so I have an ultra short turnaround time as well. I have a queue of around 70 movies and add to it at about the same rate as I churn through movies.
I do miss the now defunct "reminder list" (or whatever it was called) feature. It was nice to be able to put the "vaguely interested in" titles into that list and the "please send me this asap" titles into the queue.
Otherwise, as I tell all my friends and coworkers: NetFlix Rocks. (I pimp them, because I don't want the service to go away! I am addicted.)
Yes. Very irritating.
And fixed in 10.1. TextEdit will now open those files, instead of trying to open them in SimpleText.
Is http://banjo.slashdot.org/ slashdotted already?