Id love to comentate on this.....and here comes a late second half substitution....etc This is no shit.
In a first year college Physics class, the prof started into a long involved derivation with out telling us exactly where he was headed with it. He came to a step with a particularly intimidating integral, a paused to let the class contemplate and suggest how to proceed. There were murmurs of "Euler's method" and "parts" and some other brain-bashing methods, and I added my two cents worth with "I see a U substitution." Then the prof cranks back up with "Well, if we assign U to these two terms, then we can simplify..." which gained me a nod from the parts guy.
So even though math is not a spectator sport, you can still be an armchair quarterback.
Ed blogged about a related phenomenon last week.
The panel's title referred to an interesting fact: sometime in the next decade, we'll see a $100 device that fits in your pocket and holds all of the music ever recorded by humanity. It sounds like the industry is right on schedule.
Maps are all about accuracy. Microsoft has more coverage with high res imagery (I can see my house from here!) but some of their street data is several years out of date.
For example, when I-74 was built, McKinney Road was re-routed to Hwy 601. The map has the correct positioning for I-74, but it still shows the old path of McKinney Road, even though the new path is visible in the image.
On the other hand, Google shows the roads correctly, but you can't zoom in the imagery nearly as close.
So its a matter of priorities. Do you want accurate or pretty?
before they could remove the hard drive and apply vicious hardware hacking utilities to get to the data enclosed. ... if they even want the data. In most cases, the drive would simply get wiped and reinstalled, so that the hardware can be sold to a pawn shop, flea market, eBay, etc. A BIOS password helps, but even those have a hardware reset.
Your assumption that everyone needs that is typical geek mentality. The typical geek mentality is "I have big iron on my desktop" because a typical geek typically does.
You have the right to have an attorney present. I recommend finding a good one. Twenty seconds is dangerously close to fair use, and any decent attorney ought to be able to get this thrown out.
Remember, any sufficiently advanced sarcasm is indistinguishable from offtopic.
Other notable variations include:
Clarke's Third Law: prov. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. Don't forget one of the classics: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
But Scooter Libby, a man who alocuted his crimes before the court in order to receive a reduced sentence, has now just skated free. I guess he needs a new nickname then. How about "Skater" Libby?
And I like that ambiguity, because it forces you to ask: well, what does it really matter if he is, or if he isn't? He has emotions, fears, dreams, memories; those exist whether or not the Tyrrell corporation manufactured him. Memory-as-identity is a common theme in Philip K. Dick's work, particularly in the titles picked up by Hollywood (Total Recall, Paycheck, to some extent in Minority Report). And Deckard finds out that Rachel is a replicant without knowing it. The even bigger question here is whether or not any of them (or us) is a replicant, and even if we were, how would we be able to tell?
On today's episode of Mythbusters, Jamie and Adam examine the myth that a four-paragraph article should be spread across four pages. It's all about page views and ad impressions. I go for the "print" button on those every time.
Entourage entertains me, if it wasn't coming back in a few weeks i'd have turned HBO off as well. once it's over though, HBO is off again until it comes back. There's a new Cathouse on Saturday.
More than once the analogy has been made between the "Mutual Assured Destruction" scenario of the Cold War days and the strategy of building "defensive" patents portfolios under the current system. Then along come these so-called investment firms that buy up "offensive" patents for no other purpose than to sue other companies and collect licensing revenue. In the Cold War analogy, these guy have their own nukes (patents) and they can threaten you with them, but they have no country of their own (original R&D work) so you can't threaten to bomb them back.
These guys are the Osama Bin Laden of the patent system.
Shuttleworth is right. Companies with this business model are a far more serious patent threat than Microsoft.
I don't know if that is a good idea, but I do think *something* needs to be done to protect retail. If *you* think retail needs to be protected, then *you* should support the retailers you visit by paying the extra 10-20% instead of going to Amazon, and encourage your friends to do so as well. If enough people vote with their dollars by choosing to support retail in this way, retailers will be fine and there won't be any need for regulation.
There is a name for this process of voting with your dollars. It is called "capitalism".
And while the voting machines use a rather flawed system... no fraud attempt was detected. I guess that's because every political party can send representatives to watch the entire process... and there's LOTS of political parties around here, so there's also lots of people watching. That's not exactly what I meant. How do you (or any of those political party observers) know that the results of the election are correct? Accountability is the weakest link in any electronic voting system, no mater how smoothly run or well observed. How does anyone know that each vote was counted and counted correctly? The bottom line is that no one does, not even the programmers who built the machines.
The oft-quoted Judge Damon Keith said it best: "Democracy dies behind closed doors." Now we can include "closed source" as well.
What I find amusing, is how much success we had using electronic voting machines here at Brazil... we have been using these for almost 10 years now. The last presidential election was almost entirely conducted using these machines... and only a few on the entire country had to be replaced due failure.
Of course there are some issues to be sorted, but overall it was a huge improvement over the old paper-based system.
So, why did Brazil succeed where the USA failed? Exactly how do you know it was successful?
don't let anybody pretend to be your shadow flitting by as the door closes One place I worked (early 90's) had powered revolving doors triggered by a card swipe, and there was barely room for one to get through the door. But the swipes were on podiums about 18 inches from the door, and the door started moving pretty quick, so you had to be ready to jump into the door before it started moving. The system tracked you as in or out, so if you swiped and didn't make it in, you had to explain what happened to a human guard.
on the law of averages they should be monitoring at least 5 of the MPs. Perhaps some MP's have already been caught in the dragnet, and they are trying to make it retroactively kosher.
Closed captioned for the informationally challenged: Microsoft pays GoDaddy to use IIS for parked domains so it looks like IIS is "just behind" Apache on "who's using which web server" pie charts. Try this on for size: MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site. I think this is what the OP was refering to.
A big part of being a CEO is what some scholars term the "out-of-body" leadership experience. That is, you have to be bigger than life. You are no longer Joe or Jane SVP; you are something bigger. It is perhaps somewhat ironic that by creating a bit of distance and adding a pinch of the theatrical, we become closer to the business and more likely to end up in the top job. Does this remind anyone of a certain Silicon Vally CEO who is so much "bigger than life", he generates his own Reality Distortion Field(TM)?
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In a first year college Physics class, the prof started into a long involved derivation with out telling us exactly where he was headed with it. He came to a step with a particularly intimidating integral, a paused to let the class contemplate and suggest how to proceed. There were murmurs of "Euler's method" and "parts" and some other brain-bashing methods, and I added my two cents worth with "I see a U substitution." Then the prof cranks back up with "Well, if we assign U to these two terms, then we can simplify
So even though math is not a spectator sport, you can still be an armchair quarterback.
Maps are all about accuracy. Microsoft has more coverage with high res imagery (I can see my house from here!) but some of their street data is several years out of date.
For example, when I-74 was built, McKinney Road was re-routed to Hwy 601. The map has the correct positioning for I-74, but it still shows the old path of McKinney Road, even though the new path is visible in the image.
On the other hand, Google shows the roads correctly, but you can't zoom in the imagery nearly as close.
So its a matter of priorities. Do you want accurate or pretty?
You have the right to have an attorney present. I recommend finding a good one. Twenty seconds is dangerously close to fair use, and any decent attorney ought to be able to get this thrown out.
All signs point to YES!
Other notable variations include:
Clarke's Third Law: prov. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
--clip--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. Don't forget one of the classics: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
it isn't what you did,
but who you know.
(and how much money you have) It's not what you know, or who you know, it's who knows you.
There are more than one, but it is a short list.
But West Jefferson, NC is still on the list.
Just so you know.
More than once the analogy has been made between the "Mutual Assured Destruction" scenario of the Cold War days and the strategy of building "defensive" patents portfolios under the current system. Then along come these so-called investment firms that buy up "offensive" patents for no other purpose than to sue other companies and collect licensing revenue. In the Cold War analogy, these guy have their own nukes (patents) and they can threaten you with them, but they have no country of their own (original R&D work) so you can't threaten to bomb them back.
These guys are the Osama Bin Laden of the patent system.
Shuttleworth is right. Companies with this business model are a far more serious patent threat than Microsoft.
There is a name for this process of voting with your dollars. It is called "capitalism".
The oft-quoted Judge Damon Keith said it best: "Democracy dies behind closed doors." Now we can include "closed source" as well.
Of course there are some issues to be sorted, but overall it was a huge improvement over the old paper-based system.
So, why did Brazil succeed where the USA failed? Exactly how do you know it was successful?
I don't know what you heard about me
I rocks in the heap, and I rolls in the kernelBut you can't get your video out of me
High quality video you can't see
Because I've got uncracked PMP.