6 years is a little long to wait for control instructions. If we sent a probe, it'd either be 100% automated (not likely if we ever want to see it again) or we'd have technology to travel there faster or communicate faster. In the case of travel faster we would simply send humans. Why would we send a probe instead?
A worldwide, multi-billion dollar company doesn't want to help promote a new competitor that undercuts their price and their control over the global flow of money? I never saw that one coming!
Oh and also, bitcoin is 100% digital so any internet-capable device can send bitcoins anywhere in the world in under 10 minutes "to clear" time. So a plastic card would just help regulate it and add another layer of complication and control by an outside force. Not 1 single bitcoin user would have gone for such a product. This story had fake written all over it from the beginning.
You're forgetting that there's a lot more to this than meets the eye. You know the age-old saying that every other version of Microsoft software of any type sucks? Yeah, game companies do that too. Here's the cycle, as studied at my college. The company does well on a product. They work on another and try experimental, ballsy features because "it can't fail" because of notoriety of version 1. It fails horribly so they pull back and for version 3, they actually listen to what people want and then do it. Then they get all bold again and version 4 sucks. Welcome to the Microsoft cycle. Windows 3.1, awesome. 95, so-so. 98, legendary. ME, catastrophe. XP, legendary. Vista, ahhhhh! Win7, epic. Windows 8, let's just go ahead and call this one a catastrophe early.
So for a game company to add just enough to keep things fresh and fun but keep classic gameplay that is known to work, that takes real self control and smart management staff.
Issac Newton knew a thing or two about apples. What goes up must come down.
Yeah, their crazy ass prices lol. No, seriously, android is stomping them for less money per smartphone. You can still get an equivalent PC for half the price of a Mac. They're no longer the kings of photo editing and they're absolutely dead and buried because of CUDA when it comes to video editing. A GT440 can render at around 30x the speed of the fastest Mac but good luck installing, as it is not supported and has no driver. I could compare products all day but when you have 40% of one market (smartphones) and like 15% of another (the computer market) and they're the most valuable company in the world, it's like the ghost of Steve Jobs on top of a skyscraper, waving a big red flag and it says "WE CHARGE TOO MUCH!"
Sorry but nothing will make me use a touchpad (or a touchscreen for that matter). They can coat it with leprechaun dust and ground up unicorn horns and rub it with Cheetah blood and I'll still beat it 3:1 on speed and practically limitlessness on accuracy with a mouse. If you don't believe me, run a high speed shooting gallery app. I think my record is 9 per second with a mouse. With a touchpad, maybe 1 every 5 seconds. It does have to pop up a target underneath the cursor at some point, lol.
"The issue lies in the way iOS implements a section of the SMS message called User Data Header, which has a number of options, one of which allows the user to change the phone number that the text message appears to come from."
That's not a security flaw, that's just unbelievably stupid design. Didn't they learn how big of a problem caller ID spoofing was? It should never have been put in there. I guess Apple really is sincerely bad at security.
This proves it for once and for all. Apple is evil!!! What?
Speaking of that, what Linux person would buy an Apple product?! They're like polar opposites. Apple is overcontrolling, monopolizing, absolute power over all their products from parts to price to the OS to their ridiculous EULAs. That's not real Linux friendly. Plus, isn't price a big plus for Linux? With Apple, well, there goes the price lol. ASUS builds most of the Apple Macbooks so just get an ASUS. They just won #1 least likely to break laptop in 2012.
I have a better idea. Give everyone a data-capable plate reader and a little LCD touchscreen in the dash and let us thumbs up or thumbs down someone's driving. That person driving like a crazy person with 1000 thumbs down and 0 thumbs up should probably cost a little more, lol.
Hey, give them a break. They figured out and fixed just barely in time the fact that purple everywhere + the name metro = metrosexual connotation lol. I wonder what they're going to do when people realize tablets are netbooks without keyboards. It's the netbook crash all over again! I refuse to touch my PC monitor so, they seem screwed lol.
Now I don't want to freak the RIAA out or anything but ALL music coming out of my speaker port has no DRM at that point. I think maybe they may have overlooked that. I don't think they know how music or sound works.
They could pay for the entire mission by broadcasting on pay-per-view TV a live (well 8 minute delay lol) robot fight on Mars! Battlebots was the shit back in the day. Naturally, they could take it to Mars and make a fortune!
My license plate is out there for the world to see. So what? So is my face and my fingerprints. Big freaking deal. People could track people centuries ago, they're just faster now.
Sounds like the pot calling the kettle calling the stove calling the kitchen black lol. Why can't we just have any patent dispute settled with a fistfight?
radioactive decay is not as random as we thought. So where do we get random numbers that are good?
The truest random values, As Seen On Slashdot, are photons split by a mirror with some quantum thing going on...I dunno, they're PCI cards and they're not that expensive and a bunch of companies use them lol. Their miniscule measured variance from 50/50 was quite impressive.
But speaking of what you just said, how many times since I graduated high school are they going to change the laws of physics? lol. Last I heard, radioactive decay was absolutely, perfectly 50/50 over a half life and cannot be influenced or affected by anything but time dilation. So...that would be neat, lol, but I don't think that's what they're talking about. Can anyone explain how anything anywhere ever could make isotopes decay faster or slower?
to their treatment of Jews and women, so they can kiss my ass.
I heard that.kissmyasssaudis is still available as a TLD lol. By the way, did anyone else think it was a bit off that they're objecting to an english word and that isn't their country's language? If you show me some TLD that's Traditional Chinese characters, it could say gay gay gay and I would have no idea nor would I care.
I'd like to continue feeling safe on the ground, thankyouverymuch.
Every single broken down car I see on the highway on my way to work would be a dead person if it would have been flying, so yeah lol. Also, it takes MUCH more fuel to travel above the ground than on the ground so that's an absolute no, no, no, no, NO under any circumstances this decade! It's just not going to happen! It's like Prius vs Hummer x 100.
The majority of the balances on exchanges are USD, dumbass. People typically sell off their BTC on it and by nature, they're at least 50% USD. Learn something about bitcoins before posting troll nonsense.
I think you mean Facebook won't die as long as the people who left weren't in charge of gathering and selling people's data to advertisers and basically anyone else.
If they're relying on the simple rotation of a very tiny particle, couldn't I then significantly erase parts of my SSD by simply shaking it? In other words, erase it like an etch a sketch?:-P I mean how hard I can shake it compared to the mass and energy of a tiny spinning particle, it could start spinning a different way, right? That and ionizing radiation in any tiny dose would blow apart all your data. Get read for an SSD and RAM sticks cased in lead.
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6 years is a little long to wait for control instructions. If we sent a probe, it'd either be 100% automated (not likely if we ever want to see it again) or we'd have technology to travel there faster or communicate faster. In the case of travel faster we would simply send humans. Why would we send a probe instead?
A worldwide, multi-billion dollar company doesn't want to help promote a new competitor that undercuts their price and their control over the global flow of money? I never saw that one coming!
Oh and also, bitcoin is 100% digital so any internet-capable device can send bitcoins anywhere in the world in under 10 minutes "to clear" time. So a plastic card would just help regulate it and add another layer of complication and control by an outside force. Not 1 single bitcoin user would have gone for such a product. This story had fake written all over it from the beginning.
You're forgetting that there's a lot more to this than meets the eye. You know the age-old saying that every other version of Microsoft software of any type sucks? Yeah, game companies do that too. Here's the cycle, as studied at my college. The company does well on a product. They work on another and try experimental, ballsy features because "it can't fail" because of notoriety of version 1. It fails horribly so they pull back and for version 3, they actually listen to what people want and then do it. Then they get all bold again and version 4 sucks. Welcome to the Microsoft cycle. Windows 3.1, awesome. 95, so-so. 98, legendary. ME, catastrophe. XP, legendary. Vista, ahhhhh! Win7, epic. Windows 8, let's just go ahead and call this one a catastrophe early.
So for a game company to add just enough to keep things fresh and fun but keep classic gameplay that is known to work, that takes real self control and smart management staff.
Issac Newton knew a thing or two about apples. What goes up must come down.
Yeah, their crazy ass prices lol. No, seriously, android is stomping them for less money per smartphone. You can still get an equivalent PC for half the price of a Mac. They're no longer the kings of photo editing and they're absolutely dead and buried because of CUDA when it comes to video editing. A GT440 can render at around 30x the speed of the fastest Mac but good luck installing, as it is not supported and has no driver. I could compare products all day but when you have 40% of one market (smartphones) and like 15% of another (the computer market) and they're the most valuable company in the world, it's like the ghost of Steve Jobs on top of a skyscraper, waving a big red flag and it says "WE CHARGE TOO MUCH!"
Well, he better! Because otherwise saying "I'm going to go do this" is pretty blatantly illegal.
Sorry but nothing will make me use a touchpad (or a touchscreen for that matter). They can coat it with leprechaun dust and ground up unicorn horns and rub it with Cheetah blood and I'll still beat it 3:1 on speed and practically limitlessness on accuracy with a mouse. If you don't believe me, run a high speed shooting gallery app. I think my record is 9 per second with a mouse. With a touchpad, maybe 1 every 5 seconds. It does have to pop up a target underneath the cursor at some point, lol.
But they're all going to be used on Earth though.
"The issue lies in the way iOS implements a section of the SMS message called User Data Header, which has a number of options, one of which allows the user to change the phone number that the text message appears to come from."
That's not a security flaw, that's just unbelievably stupid design. Didn't they learn how big of a problem caller ID spoofing was? It should never have been put in there. I guess Apple really is sincerely bad at security.
This proves it for once and for all. Apple is evil!!! What?
Speaking of that, what Linux person would buy an Apple product?! They're like polar opposites. Apple is overcontrolling, monopolizing, absolute power over all their products from parts to price to the OS to their ridiculous EULAs. That's not real Linux friendly. Plus, isn't price a big plus for Linux? With Apple, well, there goes the price lol. ASUS builds most of the Apple Macbooks so just get an ASUS. They just won #1 least likely to break laptop in 2012.
I have a better idea. Give everyone a data-capable plate reader and a little LCD touchscreen in the dash and let us thumbs up or thumbs down someone's driving. That person driving like a crazy person with 1000 thumbs down and 0 thumbs up should probably cost a little more, lol.
So, unnaturally preserved brain and they were executed by hanging...clearly this evidence is consistent with this individual being a witch, lol.
Hey, give them a break. They figured out and fixed just barely in time the fact that purple everywhere + the name metro = metrosexual connotation lol. I wonder what they're going to do when people realize tablets are netbooks without keyboards. It's the netbook crash all over again! I refuse to touch my PC monitor so, they seem screwed lol.
Now I don't want to freak the RIAA out or anything but ALL music coming out of my speaker port has no DRM at that point. I think maybe they may have overlooked that. I don't think they know how music or sound works.
They could pay for the entire mission by broadcasting on pay-per-view TV a live (well 8 minute delay lol) robot fight on Mars! Battlebots was the shit back in the day. Naturally, they could take it to Mars and make a fortune!
My license plate is out there for the world to see. So what? So is my face and my fingerprints. Big freaking deal. People could track people centuries ago, they're just faster now.
Sounds like the pot calling the kettle calling the stove calling the kitchen black lol. Why can't we just have any patent dispute settled with a fistfight?
radioactive decay is not as random as we thought. So where do we get random numbers that are good?
The truest random values, As Seen On Slashdot, are photons split by a mirror with some quantum thing going on...I dunno, they're PCI cards and they're not that expensive and a bunch of companies use them lol. Their miniscule measured variance from 50/50 was quite impressive.
But speaking of what you just said, how many times since I graduated high school are they going to change the laws of physics? lol. Last I heard, radioactive decay was absolutely, perfectly 50/50 over a half life and cannot be influenced or affected by anything but time dilation. So...that would be neat, lol, but I don't think that's what they're talking about. Can anyone explain how anything anywhere ever could make isotopes decay faster or slower?
to their treatment of Jews and women, so they can kiss my ass.
I heard that .kissmyasssaudis is still available as a TLD lol. By the way, did anyone else think it was a bit off that they're objecting to an english word and that isn't their country's language? If you show me some TLD that's Traditional Chinese characters, it could say gay gay gay and I would have no idea nor would I care.
I'd like to continue feeling safe on the ground, thankyouverymuch.
Every single broken down car I see on the highway on my way to work would be a dead person if it would have been flying, so yeah lol. Also, it takes MUCH more fuel to travel above the ground than on the ground so that's an absolute no, no, no, no, NO under any circumstances this decade! It's just not going to happen! It's like Prius vs Hummer x 100.
No, they were ACTUAL US dollars. I made a lot of money that's now in my pocket at another exchange after mining about 40 BTC.
Who wants to bet that the SEC will stomp in and claim that bitcoins are an illegal security?
Except that the majority of the pending customer balances at that exchange were in US Dollars, smarty.
Then again, most of the account balances on that exchange were USD...as it is an exchange.
The majority of the balances on exchanges are USD, dumbass. People typically sell off their BTC on it and by nature, they're at least 50% USD. Learn something about bitcoins before posting troll nonsense.
I think you mean Facebook won't die as long as the people who left weren't in charge of gathering and selling people's data to advertisers and basically anyone else.
If they're relying on the simple rotation of a very tiny particle, couldn't I then significantly erase parts of my SSD by simply shaking it? In other words, erase it like an etch a sketch? :-P I mean how hard I can shake it compared to the mass and energy of a tiny spinning particle, it could start spinning a different way, right? That and ionizing radiation in any tiny dose would blow apart all your data. Get read for an SSD and RAM sticks cased in lead.