And finally a sample of the peer review that was avoided. A small quote:
We conclude that The Bell Curve is driven by advocacy for Herrnstein and Murray's vision, not by serious empirical analysis. America may or may not be on the way toward a custodial state. Policy interventions may or may not be effective. We know no more after studying The Bell Curve than we did before.
Can one person have pulled of this crack, certainly . Did they work in a vacuum? Probably not, there is a cracking community and one would be a fool not to call the community knowledge in it. The idea of a corp. breaking a system that has had collectively hundreds of millions of dollars of R&D, and many many years invested into security for $5 million dollars (probably less) and 6 months is no less scary then a lone hacker, and to a security engineer probably more so. A lone cracker solves the problem almost randomly, and any particular cracker can not be relied upon to quickly crack a system. The idea that an org could fund this, and perhaps reliably crack the protection methods has far reaching consequences, and makes information warfare a realistic posibility.
Freeplay is the product I think you are thinking of, though the times are not quite as great as you note. They use spring based power by and large though, one can route the power to a battery.
I seccond the worry about lack of interesting things. The network will probably have about 30% of the total userbase online at any point that is not horribly large, and I don't know if children (esp. those in industrialized countires will find chatting to a limited userbase to be more interesting then IMing with thier RL friends on thier personal cell phones).
I.e. whereas in English each glyph corresponds to a particular sound, in written Chinese, each glyph corresponds to a particular word (or word-part) and that word can be pronounced in any way you like; it doesn't matter.
Actually of late there has been a strong concerted effort to use pin-yin which is a very nice phonetically based system, of course some of this certainly reflects the Chinese Goverment's preference for the "Beijing" dialect.
The principle problem with a glyph based system, as you mentioned, involves the sheer number of glyphs needed to make useful words, any version likely to be implemented would probably oversimplify, for example, Would your invented language have a glyph for a willow tree?
If you are going to have a glyph based alphabet (which is almost a contradiction) then you still have to learn nearly as much as a pure-glpyh systemm, and it will recquire about the same work as learning to read an actual language. Really why not have them learn latin, with say a transcoding method for those who don't use roman letters. It does I suppose favoratism, but not nearly as much, and there are numerous other dead languages to revive if one needs a more acceptable one. Languages can be easily modified for modern terms.
But many APIs Windows98 API's are update in the installation proccess... so what you said dont apply very well, the fact is that OfficeXP installations will be made to upgrade what is needed on older MS OS's, but this doenst apply for Lindows.
The system level APIs don't really change that much, a lot of it is bug fixing, and the upper levels don't recquire mapping, because you can use them, as they communicate to the lower levels.
Because there would be no common thread binding the data, and if you make the net follow data linearly, then what is the point of using, a massive database, when you can just request the pages yourself?
A site must be useable, BEFORE you worry about pretty things.
A site without any way to tell links from text, is just annoying.
So hate them all you like, but use them, consider it a limitation of design (kind of like, how most fonts are ugly and boring, but anything else reduces readibility, and so can't be used.)
Hmm a limited (downtown only???) wireless ISP would rock, and would probably be your best bet for leapfroging the established players, as even in Cable/DSL there are some very large players, but wireless is still untapped(for the most part)
Seccond I didn't say it was a nice thing to swallow, but it is probably in this case the best thing, and as for slippery slopes, well what more can be done than to slide done, climb out and repeat until there is no more mud left?
This protects those who can't determine what is anonymous, and what isn't. While in the real world it is quite possible to ignore the anonymous scrawls in the bathroom stall, in the digital world the anonymous person can scrawl in big letters on a billboard, for all to see, and in many cases only differentiated from the identified posts by the attribution.
The experienced user does not have trouble with this, but those who are still not completely used to the Internet's style can't tell the differnce. And, with the sole differnece between moderator and anonymous poster generally being a short thing to the side in small font it can be difficult to tell who is real. The rulling may not be the most palatable one, but it is probably best for the majority of the population.
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And finally a sample of the peer review that was avoided. A small quote:
Can one person have pulled of this crack, certainly . Did they work in a vacuum? Probably not, there is a cracking community and one would be a fool not to call the community knowledge in it. The idea of a corp. breaking a system that has had collectively hundreds of millions of dollars of R&D, and many many years invested into security for $5 million dollars (probably less) and 6 months is no less scary then a lone hacker, and to a security engineer probably more so. A lone cracker solves the problem almost randomly, and any particular cracker can not be relied upon to quickly crack a system. The idea that an org could fund this, and perhaps reliably crack the protection methods has far reaching consequences, and makes information warfare a realistic posibility.
I seccond the worry about lack of interesting things. The network will probably have about 30% of the total userbase online at any point that is not horribly large, and I don't know if children (esp. those in industrialized countires will find chatting to a limited userbase to be more interesting then IMing with thier RL friends on thier personal cell phones).
I.e. whereas in English each glyph corresponds to a particular sound, in written Chinese, each glyph corresponds to a particular word (or word-part) and that word can be pronounced in any way you like; it doesn't matter.
Actually of late there has been a strong concerted effort to use pin-yin which is a very nice phonetically based system, of course some of this certainly reflects the Chinese Goverment's preference for the "Beijing" dialect.
The principle problem with a glyph based system, as you mentioned, involves the sheer number of glyphs needed to make useful words, any version likely to be implemented would probably oversimplify, for example, Would your invented language have a glyph for a willow tree?
If you are going to have a glyph based alphabet (which is almost a contradiction) then you still have to learn nearly as much as a pure-glpyh systemm, and it will recquire about the same work as learning to read an actual language. Really why not have them learn latin, with say a transcoding method for those who don't use roman letters. It does I suppose favoratism, but not nearly as much, and there are numerous other dead languages to revive if one needs a more acceptable one. Languages can be easily modified for modern terms.
The system level APIs don't really change that much, a lot of it is bug fixing, and the upper levels don't recquire mapping, because you can use them, as they communicate to the lower levels.
Probably:
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Because there would be no common thread binding the data, and if you make the net follow data linearly, then what is the point of using, a massive database, when you can just request the pages yourself?
I suppose you could use it for starts though.
A site must be useable, BEFORE you worry about pretty things.
A site without any way to tell links from text, is just annoying.
So hate them all you like, but use them, consider it a limitation of design (kind of like, how most fonts are ugly and boring, but anything else reduces readibility, and so can't be used.)
Santa is not a Christian tradition, per se. Indeed he is quite secular.
Hmm a limited (downtown only???) wireless ISP would rock, and would probably be your best bet for leapfroging the established players, as even in Cable/DSL there are some very large players, but wireless is still untapped(for the most part)
First, I am not a troll.
Seccond I didn't say it was a nice thing to swallow, but it is probably in this case the best thing, and as for slippery slopes, well what more can be done than to slide done, climb out and repeat until there is no more mud left?
This protects those who can't determine what is anonymous, and what isn't. While in the real world it is quite possible to ignore the anonymous scrawls in the bathroom stall, in the digital world the anonymous person can scrawl in big letters on a billboard, for all to see, and in many cases only differentiated from the identified posts by the attribution.
The experienced user does not have trouble with this, but those who are still not completely used to the Internet's style can't tell the differnce. And, with the sole differnece between moderator and anonymous poster generally being a short thing to the side in small font it can be difficult to tell who is real. The rulling may not be the most palatable one, but it is probably best for the majority of the population.
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