Unless I know the person and they're rushing because it's not important, bad grammar and spelling = unintelligent person and nothing will change that. I'm only 25 years old too so it's not exactly an old opinion to have developed.
Surface to sell "millions" of the 375m Windows 8 PCs
But I thought they said the PC was dead. Assuming "tens of millions" would have been stated, had it been the case, that's 1 tablet-like device for every 37 PCs. I guess even they don't believe their idiotic predicitions.
By the way, much more importantly (since Win8 is Vista 2.0 or even ME 3.0) how long will Windows 7 be available and from where? Anyone know?
I think it's low. Dot Hack 1-4 and GU 1-3 for the PS2 all sealed would be worth $500-1000 easy. A ton of Japanese games are worth a fortune in other countries and some whole console + game sets are exclusively japanese in that list. I think there are enough multi-hundred dollar to a thousand dollar games in there to put the average at high-ish but not insane per game.
An unmanaged, unguarded, basically zero security server rack in the middle of nowhere with suicidally high downtime potential due to environment conditions...sounds like AOL to me.
I frequent a pawn shop because they have decent laptop, PC, and tech stuff prices and they work on commission so it's like Cheers when I walk in and the sales staff basically see who can get to me first cuz there's a likely $300-1000 purchase in their near future. Plus some of the reps there are sincerely pretty cool.
And then there's the fake ass waitress and hotel and other staff that are trained to be friendly but it's blatently obvious that it's a very thinly veiled attempt to hide the fact that they don't give a crap.
All this will actually result in is people asking "oh, did we to school together?" and them having to explain they merely digitally stalked you.
It seems my decision to not put my real name online anywhere ever and not join facebook keeps looking smarter and smarter. If I google my name, I get no actually relevant results.
Now if they ask for my online nicknames they'd be like "We see that you don't like microsoft, you're into tech support, and you hate the Phoenix Knights guild in DDO. Welcome aboard!"
I don't know if they realized this but popular torrent files can be uploaded and shared anywhere else on the internet too lol. They're like 20kb on average. In fact, I think there's some new thing where you can just click a highly encoded link and it tells your bittorrent client which file it refers to so you don't even need to download a.torrent file at all. So some little text post on some dumpy little forum could start a torrent download just as easily as the pirate bay.
I hope Richard Posner personally rips off software that you took years to write and rebrand it with his company's name then out-markets you so you go bankrupt.
As a software programmer, if I write an amazing piece of software that nobody has seen before and some big company comes and makes a totally ripped off clone, I'd be pissed and that'd be unfair. So yes, we need software patents but they better be so broad that I don't gain a monopoly on anything moderately simplistic. I mean if I'm the first person to write a library that can transcode an MP3 into one with no background noise automatically without a "silent" sample like audacity needs, good for me but I shouldn't have a monopoly on it because it's so common and similar to existing technology. If I make a software program to take an MP3 and translate it into a delicious dessert recipe, now we've got something. That'd be really unique software using brand new, innovative AI code that's never been seen before. Someone better not rip that off! I think a simple search for "remotely similar prior art" would be sufficient.
Aha, someone posted a hair bit of time ahead of me a much better article so let me ammend that with the short version:
There are 2 galaxies kinda far apart but they're really overlapped from Earth's point of view. Like one is almost entirely behind the other. So the back galaxy's light passes along where the filament would be estimated to be between the galaxies. So the light travels through the dark matter's gravitational field for a really long time, running practically parallel to the filament. Even after that much light gravity tugging, it's barely perceptable by our current telescopes. So someone had some pics of this set of galaxies from 2001 but never did anything with them because they didn't realize the opportunity. This new team noticed it, compared it to background light to detect additional possible lensing, and discovered unmistakeable slight lensing. So something is obviously there and it has to be a particular shape, density, and reflect no light.
First of all, don't go to "page 2" and I use that term loosely. Secondly, it doesn't mention a single scientific detail about how they determined that the light was being bent around a filament-shaped object compared to the starts behind it actually being in the location the light suggests. It merely states "They used a model to subtract out the masses of the galaxy clusters and then fit the remaining mass with a model of what a filament might look like. They found that a filament must be present." So in other words, they didn't find anything other than a mathematical equation suggesting dark matter exists. Congratuations are in order indeed.
It's twice as bad as the summary makes it sound: "It seems that the Usernames were easy to guess because it was comprised of the persons zipcode + street address."
But at least then it'd have to be targetted. What isn't clear is what the login actually does. The article says it was the "account management" login. So to use Time Warner as a comparison, I assume that means they would change the ISP-based e-mail account passwords from there and read their e-mail via a webmail interface not to mention reset their passwords for online banking sites then verify the change via that e-mail. But to say they could retrieve their credit card numbers is ridiculous. No webpage displays all digits of a stored credit card like one on file for ISP bill payments. It's always just the last 4 digits.
You know, that major military leak was tracked because the username submitting it was like first initial - last name - year he was born lol. But in case they're not so lucky with it being such an epic dumbass the next time, I think individual tracking in such a way would work. The problem is, how do you let decision makers know the data is fake without letting the data intermediary staff who might leak it know it's fake?
By the way, I'm totally not a secret undercover federal agent but I heard that there's actually a life sized replica of the white house made out of gingerbread and frosting in Nebraska where the president will travel to in case of a terrorist attack so they can have shelter and a reliable food supply. But nobody leak that top secret information to anyone, okay?
Well even I know that when matter and antimatter collide, the result is mass literally disappearing and turning into pure energy so I would think yes. There was also some old, obscure theory about how photons start off as other particles but sacrifice mass to gain the energy to accelerate remaining mass to the speed of light. I don't know how true that one turned out to be.
I thought one could already use Super NES controllers with any USB host supporting HID through this adapter, and I thought one could already use Super NES Game Paks with any USB host supporting Mass Storage through this adapter.
Also, I just checked and at my local pawn shop, an actual SNES system costs less than a raspberry pi unit lol.
You can get satellite or even point to point microwave connections in some cases that are extremely high bandwidth. It's the horrible response time that's the problem. I've seen connections that will send 10 megabits through at around a 700ms round trip delay. Ugh.
It's a good thing the plan didn't go through because I guarantee the RIAA and MPAA would have build stealth submarines and sunk it. You can do pretty much anything in international waters lol.
In case everyone hasn't noticed, what the RIAA is doing about this is having random "youtube version only" breaks in music videos by big name artists so you'd have to be a top notch audio editor to cut out those parts and assemble the entire track back together. Like for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtvQgC5vM_k approx 45 seconds in.
LMFAO did it, Iwrestledabearonce did it, as well as at least 30 others I saw. Unfortunately, since my dad is a mobile DJ, that's a problem because the same version goes straight to itunes and we play music videos on a rear projection screen during dances. So some idiotic pause in the music really ruins that. Just another example of them screwing over their prime customers to implement antipiracy.
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But those Toyota programmers did such a good job on their own latest cars! You know, poeple like going fast and all. Asia is the place to be, lol.
Maybe if they want to block all "dangerous" sites, they should block all the Russian sites.
Unless I know the person and they're rushing because it's not important, bad grammar and spelling = unintelligent person and nothing will change that. I'm only 25 years old too so it's not exactly an old opinion to have developed.
But I thought they said the PC was dead. Assuming "tens of millions" would have been stated, had it been the case, that's 1 tablet-like device for every 37 PCs. I guess even they don't believe their idiotic predicitions.
By the way, much more importantly (since Win8 is Vista 2.0 or even ME 3.0) how long will Windows 7 be available and from where? Anyone know?
I think the headline should have been "Placing Apple fanboy judge in case backfires on Apple" :-P
I think it's low. Dot Hack 1-4 and GU 1-3 for the PS2 all sealed would be worth $500-1000 easy. A ton of Japanese games are worth a fortune in other countries and some whole console + game sets are exclusively japanese in that list. I think there are enough multi-hundred dollar to a thousand dollar games in there to put the average at high-ish but not insane per game.
An unmanaged, unguarded, basically zero security server rack in the middle of nowhere with suicidally high downtime potential due to environment conditions...sounds like AOL to me.
I'm sure they'll just release their own certification called iPeat and claim it's soooo green.
Make him type that article on a tablet and see if he still thinks that. I'm getting REALLY sick of this bullshit.
I frequent a pawn shop because they have decent laptop, PC, and tech stuff prices and they work on commission so it's like Cheers when I walk in and the sales staff basically see who can get to me first cuz there's a likely $300-1000 purchase in their near future. Plus some of the reps there are sincerely pretty cool.
And then there's the fake ass waitress and hotel and other staff that are trained to be friendly but it's blatently obvious that it's a very thinly veiled attempt to hide the fact that they don't give a crap.
All this will actually result in is people asking "oh, did we to school together?" and them having to explain they merely digitally stalked you.
But then maybe they can say "oh, it look like you've lost weight" :-D
It seems my decision to not put my real name online anywhere ever and not join facebook keeps looking smarter and smarter. If I google my name, I get no actually relevant results.
Now if they ask for my online nicknames they'd be like "We see that you don't like microsoft, you're into tech support, and you hate the Phoenix Knights guild in DDO. Welcome aboard!"
I don't know if they realized this but popular torrent files can be uploaded and shared anywhere else on the internet too lol. They're like 20kb on average. In fact, I think there's some new thing where you can just click a highly encoded link and it tells your bittorrent client which file it refers to so you don't even need to download a .torrent file at all. So some little text post on some dumpy little forum could start a torrent download just as easily as the pirate bay.
I hope Richard Posner personally rips off software that you took years to write and rebrand it with his company's name then out-markets you so you go bankrupt.
As a software programmer, if I write an amazing piece of software that nobody has seen before and some big company comes and makes a totally ripped off clone, I'd be pissed and that'd be unfair. So yes, we need software patents but they better be so broad that I don't gain a monopoly on anything moderately simplistic. I mean if I'm the first person to write a library that can transcode an MP3 into one with no background noise automatically without a "silent" sample like audacity needs, good for me but I shouldn't have a monopoly on it because it's so common and similar to existing technology. If I make a software program to take an MP3 and translate it into a delicious dessert recipe, now we've got something. That'd be really unique software using brand new, innovative AI code that's never been seen before. Someone better not rip that off! I think a simple search for "remotely similar prior art" would be sufficient.
Aha, someone posted a hair bit of time ahead of me a much better article so let me ammend that with the short version:
There are 2 galaxies kinda far apart but they're really overlapped from Earth's point of view. Like one is almost entirely behind the other. So the back galaxy's light passes along where the filament would be estimated to be between the galaxies. So the light travels through the dark matter's gravitational field for a really long time, running practically parallel to the filament. Even after that much light gravity tugging, it's barely perceptable by our current telescopes. So someone had some pics of this set of galaxies from 2001 but never did anything with them because they didn't realize the opportunity. This new team noticed it, compared it to background light to detect additional possible lensing, and discovered unmistakeable slight lensing. So something is obviously there and it has to be a particular shape, density, and reflect no light.
First of all, don't go to "page 2" and I use that term loosely. Secondly, it doesn't mention a single scientific detail about how they determined that the light was being bent around a filament-shaped object compared to the starts behind it actually being in the location the light suggests. It merely states "They used a model to subtract out the masses of the galaxy clusters and then fit the remaining mass with a model of what a filament might look like. They found that a filament must be present." So in other words, they didn't find anything other than a mathematical equation suggesting dark matter exists. Congratuations are in order indeed.
It's twice as bad as the summary makes it sound: "It seems that the Usernames were easy to guess because it was comprised of the persons zipcode + street address."
But at least then it'd have to be targetted. What isn't clear is what the login actually does. The article says it was the "account management" login. So to use Time Warner as a comparison, I assume that means they would change the ISP-based e-mail account passwords from there and read their e-mail via a webmail interface not to mention reset their passwords for online banking sites then verify the change via that e-mail. But to say they could retrieve their credit card numbers is ridiculous. No webpage displays all digits of a stored credit card like one on file for ISP bill payments. It's always just the last 4 digits.
You know, that major military leak was tracked because the username submitting it was like first initial - last name - year he was born lol. But in case they're not so lucky with it being such an epic dumbass the next time, I think individual tracking in such a way would work. The problem is, how do you let decision makers know the data is fake without letting the data intermediary staff who might leak it know it's fake?
By the way, I'm totally not a secret undercover federal agent but I heard that there's actually a life sized replica of the white house made out of gingerbread and frosting in Nebraska where the president will travel to in case of a terrorist attack so they can have shelter and a reliable food supply. But nobody leak that top secret information to anyone, okay?
Well even I know that when matter and antimatter collide, the result is mass literally disappearing and turning into pure energy so I would think yes. There was also some old, obscure theory about how photons start off as other particles but sacrifice mass to gain the energy to accelerate remaining mass to the speed of light. I don't know how true that one turned out to be.
I thought one could already use Super NES controllers with any USB host supporting HID through this adapter, and I thought one could already use Super NES Game Paks with any USB host supporting Mass Storage through this adapter.
Also, I just checked and at my local pawn shop, an actual SNES system costs less than a raspberry pi unit lol.
You can get satellite or even point to point microwave connections in some cases that are extremely high bandwidth. It's the horrible response time that's the problem. I've seen connections that will send 10 megabits through at around a 700ms round trip delay. Ugh.
It's a good thing the plan didn't go through because I guarantee the RIAA and MPAA would have build stealth submarines and sunk it. You can do pretty much anything in international waters lol.
In case everyone hasn't noticed, what the RIAA is doing about this is having random "youtube version only" breaks in music videos by big name artists so you'd have to be a top notch audio editor to cut out those parts and assemble the entire track back together. Like for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtvQgC5vM_k approx 45 seconds in.
LMFAO did it, Iwrestledabearonce did it, as well as at least 30 others I saw. Unfortunately, since my dad is a mobile DJ, that's a problem because the same version goes straight to itunes and we play music videos on a rear projection screen during dances. So some idiotic pause in the music really ruins that. Just another example of them screwing over their prime customers to implement antipiracy.
Well.....
There we go. That's more accurate, lol. I think "ruining the show" is a bit harsh :-P
By the way...
What ****ing planet is this person from?! It is NOT COLD in San Diego at the moment at any time of day.