As long as everybody's calculating the same way, it doesn't really matter. Assign an arbitrary unit, stop pretending it's a one-to-one correlation with a unique meatbag's attention, and go on with your business.
Since (according to my gp) it hasn't happened, I suggest you re-visit your premises.
It's not up to the board admins to foot the bill to make the information publicly available. It's up to the board admins to do whatever it is they want to do without any regard for value sets other than their own (within the bounds of the law, of course).
Actually, it looks like a little dialog box on my screen that says "Would you like to join the network LINKSYS?"
Contents of the packet sniffer are clearly irrelevant. Point is, if the system in question hadn't broadcast its name, and the appropriate DHCP info to allow the connection, the connection would not have occured.
You know, I'll take my chances with the planet in general over somebody who considers "cyber athlete" some sort of criterion for special needs treatment.
ok, you and your four "cyber athlete" friends can continue doing whatever you want. The rest of the planet is going to go do smart and productive things, like advocating open formats.
Why the normative language about gender preference? Why not design the CS program to attract the most capable potential computer scientists, and not worry too much about what their plumbing arrangements are?
Literature is just as "intellectual" a pursuit as fashion. (That's to say, "not very".) I love to read great writers, but I have no interest whatsoever in what a bunch of insular literature professors might think about it.
Same goes for movie critics. The professors just have more letters after their names.
A big part of my appreciation of Vonnegut has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with what a bunch of "literary elites" think about anything.
As a matter of fact, I can't think of a single time in my life that I thought to myself, "Gee! I wonder what the literary elites would think about that?"
The corollary disadvantage, of course, being that nobody is allowed to come up with a better idea for mobile phones, because if it ain't GSM it ain't going to be installed in Europe.
As with so many things, it's not so cut and dried, is it?
"Current smartphones don't do that well, because they still try to be as small as a flip-phone"
For what it's worth, my Treo 700 does that without a problem. It works great. It has a number of other annoyances, but the multitasking is certainly sufficient to carry on a phone conversation and take notes (or read cached email or play a game or whatever) while I'm on the phone.
I was all set to hate the thumb keyboard (I liked Graffiti a lot), but honestly I don't miss it at all. The keyboard is remarkably non-crappy.
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See? Now that's what I was asking for in the first place. I shall now process data.
Um, the people who are really making a lot of dough, don't pay taxes on it.
Sorry, your principle is flawed.
Who made up those numbers?
Seriously, I'm curious. I'm trying to remember the last time the government did something for me, and I'm having a hard time.
"Anybody not using an accountant pays less in taxes than they get in government services"
Really? You wouldn't mind if I just opted out, then?
Yes, because most computer science programs shackle people in basements, and shoot them if they try to go see the Daystar.
You might have a point, but you're sure not making it very clearly.
As long as everybody's calculating the same way, it doesn't really matter. Assign an arbitrary unit, stop pretending it's a one-to-one correlation with a unique meatbag's attention, and go on with your business.
It's advertising. Who cares?
IFF the public agrees with you, that will happen.
Since (according to my gp) it hasn't happened, I suggest you re-visit your premises.
It's not up to the board admins to foot the bill to make the information publicly available. It's up to the board admins to do whatever it is they want to do without any regard for value sets other than their own (within the bounds of the law, of course).
Actually, it looks like a little dialog box on my screen that says "Would you like to join the network LINKSYS?"
Contents of the packet sniffer are clearly irrelevant. Point is, if the system in question hadn't broadcast its name, and the appropriate DHCP info to allow the connection, the connection would not have occured.
Clicking is not hacking.
"because they want their children to see them as infallible."
Uh huh. I wonder how that's working for them.
A broadcast of "Hey! This is my SSID! Would you like an IP address? Here you go! Have a nice day!" sounds like an advertisement to me.
I love it. Chainmail onesies for toddlers. What could possibly go wrong? Heck, it'd be fire retardant, right?
You know, I'll take my chances with the planet in general over somebody who considers "cyber athlete" some sort of criterion for special needs treatment.
ok, you and your four "cyber athlete" friends can continue doing whatever you want. The rest of the planet is going to go do smart and productive things, like advocating open formats.
"cyber athlete"...wow.
Are you using the Chewbacca Defense? That does not make sense!
Why the normative language about gender preference? Why not design the CS program to attract the most capable potential computer scientists, and not worry too much about what their plumbing arrangements are?
Call me crazy.
Anti-intellectual? That's a bit of a reach.
Literature is just as "intellectual" a pursuit as fashion. (That's to say, "not very".) I love to read great writers, but I have no interest whatsoever in what a bunch of insular literature professors might think about it.
Same goes for movie critics. The professors just have more letters after their names.
Agreed! Did you see the part where I asserted that both are bad, but they are NOT the same magnitude?
Magnitude, hell! They're not even in the same solar system! Upholding the Constitution >>>> telling the truth about where you left your cigar.
Please stop pretending that getting unauthorized blowjobs is just as bad as destroying the fundamental institutions that made our nation great.
Both are things that Presidents ought to not do. Only one is treason.
A big part of my appreciation of Vonnegut has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with what a bunch of "literary elites" think about anything.
As a matter of fact, I can't think of a single time in my life that I thought to myself, "Gee! I wonder what the literary elites would think about that?"
That was, indeed, a cool piece of hardware. Too bad Tapwave boned their marketing so badly.
Doing something wrong, just because it's legal (and maybe profitable) does not make it right.
"Only if anonymity was illegal and that government control was a nearly omnipresent artificial intelligence programmed to treat everybody equally "
You get to work on that, mmmkay? Let me know how it works for you.
*cough* Skynet *cough*
The corollary disadvantage, of course, being that nobody is allowed to come up with a better idea for mobile phones, because if it ain't GSM it ain't going to be installed in Europe.
As with so many things, it's not so cut and dried, is it?
A skillful guitarist, indeed. I just really, really don't like the style. What can I say? I'm not much of a metalhead.
"Current smartphones don't do that well, because they still try to be as small as a flip-phone"
For what it's worth, my Treo 700 does that without a problem. It works great. It has a number of other annoyances, but the multitasking is certainly sufficient to carry on a phone conversation and take notes (or read cached email or play a game or whatever) while I'm on the phone.
I was all set to hate the thumb keyboard (I liked Graffiti a lot), but honestly I don't miss it at all. The keyboard is remarkably non-crappy.
YMMV.