I have a basic Kindle and was really into it for a while, but really, buying an e-book for the same price as a print book still feels odd to me. I like the Kindle for reading public domain books and Web documents, but when it comes to books I really want to get into I always buy the print edition.
Having a book in print, you can see the full book, and not just isolated pages. You can also take them with you when you don't want to be distracted by anything, and just want to get into a story.
Whatever with this Firefox nonsense. I still got IE6. Who needs these new browsers and their HTML5 and newfangled graphics? Just uses more RAM. It's all after my RAM, I'm telling you.
Feds categorize anyone who leaks info under M.I.C.E. (money, ideology, compromise, ego) - although these days, I think "lulz" belongs in there somewhere. They catch Anons sometimes because they go around bragging about it. They talk about it in the FBI phone call Anonymous leaked.
Journalists do this all the time (good ones at least). My favorite is holding a walkie talkie to your ear and waving in acknowledgment to the guards (with a slight nod) while walking in. It's better to wear dark glasses for this one.
"Mice given the vaccine showed a huge drop in heroin consumption." - It's about time someone did something to help those mice. I kept telling them "don't do it. You're only harming yourselves." But they wouldn't listen (being mice and all).
Desert Story is regarded as the first space war (because of satellites), and after that, China got on the ball with anti-satellite weaponry to combat this, then the U.S. and China started developing space war tech. The documents on this are always interesting (U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission) (Air & Space Power Journal)
I partially moved back to VHS (but still have plenty of DVDs). It was more because of my 2-year-old who likes playing with the disks - around half my DVDs are scratched to the point of being barely watchable. Honestly though, after starting to pick up VHS again, there are some upsides. Videos sell for a dollar or less and they're just about invincible to kids. Of course, I still use DVDs though. I just have to keep them in high places.
Yeah, I was searching online and didn't see any media that had the full text message. I assume they just copied the story from each other. He obviously didn't text "blow away the competition," or they all would have quoted the full text message.
I think the point is that if we're giving China business while knowing full well how they treat their employees, we're telling them it's OK to treat human beings this way.
If other companies are also working with Foxconn, they should be pressured the same as Apple to improve working conditions in factories or do business elsewhere.
If Foxconn is really that much better than other factories in China, then that's horrifying.
Well said. I think it's just the nature of companies like Zynga that tend to bother me - companies that care nothing about customers or innovation, and only care about numbers and stuffing their pockets. It's interesting though where the market is now with indie games - small developers actually do stand a chance against the big companies BECAUSE they still believe in innovation and their customers.
Just adding to that, what if the attackers are using a VPN? Does that mean the Japanese systems will automatically take down a VPN server is they get hit? I think retaliation for cyberattacks could be a good thing, but you really need a human mind behind it - having an automated counterattack system is asking for trouble.
I could see this having a lot of collateral damage, since hackers like to bounce their connections off of legitimate IPs to hide their own locations. The Chinese hackers, for example, use HTran to do this for them - it makes it look like the attacks are coming from University campuses or from IPs belonging to dissident groups.
HotSpot Shield is pretty good. They don't store user IPs. They have a free service and a paid one. The free one is good, but puts an ad at the top of your pages while you browse. The paid one is reasonable, and adds a few other perks (pretty sure they make the service a bit faster).
Yeah, I think it depends on what you plan to use it for. I don't own a smartphone, and I wouldn't see myself having much use for one if I did. I had an iPad and an iPod Touch, and I found very little use for either—other than playing games or surfing the Web when I didn't feel like opening my laptop. But I know some people who swear by them.
Yeah, China takes an interesting route with reverse engineering. They start with older technologies, learn to build them, then keep moving forward from there. This gives them a foundation of knowledge. Then when they get something new, they can just look at what's different -- what's been tweaked or added, etc. It saves them tons on R&D, which was one of the main ways the Soviets went wrong during the Cold War (they were all about reverse engineering straight from the top, but it burned a ton of money and didn't move as fast as they'd hoped).
I think their point is that filmmakers are focusing too much on special effects, and not enough on the story. They're not against CGI, which they make clear in the article, but they think filmmakers are forgetting the fundamentals. So they're going to the other extreme to prove that good Sci-fi films can be created without all this. At the same time, while computer graphics have improved a lot, so have cameras and their abilities to shoot good footage in low light -- meaning they can shoot convincing space scenes by just turning down the lights. It's an interesting concept, if nothing else.
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I have a basic Kindle and was really into it for a while, but really, buying an e-book for the same price as a print book still feels odd to me. I like the Kindle for reading public domain books and Web documents, but when it comes to books I really want to get into I always buy the print edition. Having a book in print, you can see the full book, and not just isolated pages. You can also take them with you when you don't want to be distracted by anything, and just want to get into a story.
And even if you do wipe your notebook and this works, it will look weird when they look at it and ask you why it has no work logged on it.
Whatever with this Firefox nonsense. I still got IE6. Who needs these new browsers and their HTML5 and newfangled graphics? Just uses more RAM. It's all after my RAM, I'm telling you.
Lol. I wonder how long it would take them to seriously regret looking through people's webcams.
Oh, you evil bastards!
Feds categorize anyone who leaks info under M.I.C.E. (money, ideology, compromise, ego) - although these days, I think "lulz" belongs in there somewhere. They catch Anons sometimes because they go around bragging about it. They talk about it in the FBI phone call Anonymous leaked.
Journalists do this all the time (good ones at least). My favorite is holding a walkie talkie to your ear and waving in acknowledgment to the guards (with a slight nod) while walking in. It's better to wear dark glasses for this one.
Harry Potter and kids running through secret tunnels suddenly makes a whole new realm of sense.
"Mice given the vaccine showed a huge drop in heroin consumption." - It's about time someone did something to help those mice. I kept telling them "don't do it. You're only harming yourselves." But they wouldn't listen (being mice and all).
Desert Story is regarded as the first space war (because of satellites), and after that, China got on the ball with anti-satellite weaponry to combat this, then the U.S. and China started developing space war tech. The documents on this are always interesting (U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission) (Air & Space Power Journal)
You'll have to go to Reddit for that one.
I'm curious to know how many hacker just go around typing 12345 and 1qaz into every account out there just to see what they can get.
I partially moved back to VHS (but still have plenty of DVDs). It was more because of my 2-year-old who likes playing with the disks - around half my DVDs are scratched to the point of being barely watchable. Honestly though, after starting to pick up VHS again, there are some upsides. Videos sell for a dollar or less and they're just about invincible to kids. Of course, I still use DVDs though. I just have to keep them in high places.
Yeah, I was searching online and didn't see any media that had the full text message. I assume they just copied the story from each other. He obviously didn't text "blow away the competition," or they all would have quoted the full text message.
I think the point is that if we're giving China business while knowing full well how they treat their employees, we're telling them it's OK to treat human beings this way. If other companies are also working with Foxconn, they should be pressured the same as Apple to improve working conditions in factories or do business elsewhere. If Foxconn is really that much better than other factories in China, then that's horrifying.
Well said. I think it's just the nature of companies like Zynga that tend to bother me - companies that care nothing about customers or innovation, and only care about numbers and stuffing their pockets. It's interesting though where the market is now with indie games - small developers actually do stand a chance against the big companies BECAUSE they still believe in innovation and their customers.
The tag on the post is "It's funny. Laugh." I don't think they posted this believing it was real (at least I hope not).
Just adding to that, what if the attackers are using a VPN? Does that mean the Japanese systems will automatically take down a VPN server is they get hit? I think retaliation for cyberattacks could be a good thing, but you really need a human mind behind it - having an automated counterattack system is asking for trouble.
I could see this having a lot of collateral damage, since hackers like to bounce their connections off of legitimate IPs to hide their own locations. The Chinese hackers, for example, use HTran to do this for them - it makes it look like the attacks are coming from University campuses or from IPs belonging to dissident groups.
Well, I'm an idiot.
Yeah, that's probably why they still aren't taking a hard stand against SOPA.
HotSpot Shield is pretty good. They don't store user IPs. They have a free service and a paid one. The free one is good, but puts an ad at the top of your pages while you browse. The paid one is reasonable, and adds a few other perks (pretty sure they make the service a bit faster).
Yeah, I think it depends on what you plan to use it for. I don't own a smartphone, and I wouldn't see myself having much use for one if I did. I had an iPad and an iPod Touch, and I found very little use for either—other than playing games or surfing the Web when I didn't feel like opening my laptop. But I know some people who swear by them.
Yeah, China takes an interesting route with reverse engineering. They start with older technologies, learn to build them, then keep moving forward from there. This gives them a foundation of knowledge. Then when they get something new, they can just look at what's different -- what's been tweaked or added, etc. It saves them tons on R&D, which was one of the main ways the Soviets went wrong during the Cold War (they were all about reverse engineering straight from the top, but it burned a ton of money and didn't move as fast as they'd hoped).
I think their point is that filmmakers are focusing too much on special effects, and not enough on the story. They're not against CGI, which they make clear in the article, but they think filmmakers are forgetting the fundamentals. So they're going to the other extreme to prove that good Sci-fi films can be created without all this. At the same time, while computer graphics have improved a lot, so have cameras and their abilities to shoot good footage in low light -- meaning they can shoot convincing space scenes by just turning down the lights. It's an interesting concept, if nothing else.