I hear you and I logically agree with you. But I've witnessed many examples that show this not to be the case.
For example, when I was in engineering school the most brilliant of my fellow students was a strong believer in creationism. He once lent me one of his creationism textbooks. I dutifully read it and found it to be nonsensical and completely illogical. Yet he was firmly convinced this was the truth. I never have understood how someone who was getting straight A+ marks while taking a double course load could at the same time believe such nonsense.
but if apple had filmed a turd for 20 seconds and published that as an official advert it would have the highest viewcount on youtube - however I really doubt that would mean it's a successful advert for them in building of their brand image.
People would have said they liked the new fully cornerless design and swirly textures. Brown is obviously the new white (or black) and you have to be impressed by the new smell feedback technology. It's soft and warm to the touch as well, making it comfortable to hold.
To quote the new VP of Development at my company, on the day of his promotion: "I stand here before you wearing one brown sock and one blue sock, demonstrating that you do not need to know how to dress yourself to get ahead."
I pay my bills online. I do my banking online. I order my shopping online...
And all those activities are the target of a significant amount of fraud. It is tolerated, though, because the savings outweigh the costs. You can't say the same for an election.
When I was in first year U I had a calculus prof whose lectures were painfully boring. He'd put a slide on the overhead projector, talk about it while we'd copy it down into our notes. Then he'd put up another slide, repeat, repeat. No time for interaction with the students. Just switch slides, copy, switch slides copy, for 50 excruciating minutes.
One day, the bulb in the project blew. We were all hoping that the prof would cancel the class, but no. He just pushed the overhead to one side, picked up a piece of chalk and started to lecture while writing on the blackboard. The prof transformed from painfully boring into a first rate lecturer. The class was engaging, there was interaction with the students, back and forth discussions. For that one class, the prof was one of the best lecturers I've ever seen.
Next class the overhead was fixed, so it was back to painfully boring.
I am mostly Mac at home. At work we are still stuck on XP.
When I work from home and VPN into the office, the VPN client runs on Windows (there is an OSX version of the VPN client, but it doesn't support the required security policies). So I run XP in a Parallels VM.
This is like the Enterprise doing a saucer separation.
Netflix is separating themselves from the part of the business that they think are doomed. That way, when the DVD by mail business does go belly up, Netflix itself won't be around to take damage.
And I think they fully expect it to go belly up. Qwikster? Come on! "*ster" names went out of style almost 10 years ago!
I can imagine the announcement from the cockpit: "This is your captain speaking.We will be in a holding pattern for a little bit, while we deal with some minor technical issues. I expect we will be delayed about 1 hour into Chicago...By the way, does anybody on board have an iPad?"
Many web sites that provide online financial services, and also gateways to MMORPGs, use browser fingerprinting to detect fraudulent use of the service. For example, if a user logs in consistently using a specific browser on a specific computer, and then logs in from a completely different browser, or from a different computer, then there is the suspicion that someone other that the user is logging in using stolen account information. The web site will in such cases ask for some 2nd form of authentication (eg. mother's maiden name, or something more secure) in order to protect the account.
By trying to block browser fingerprinting you might be protecting yourself from online tracking, but you are also preventing legit services from protecting you.
They are launching the pay wall in Canada first, effective immediately.
Everything time something "good" rolls out from the USA (Hulu, iPhone, iPad, lots of shit from Amazon), it takes forever for it to get to Canada, if it gets here at all. Now this (definitely not "good") and they launch it in Canada first. Go figure.
Slashdot Mirror
They are not the only ones.
I hear you and I logically agree with you. But I've witnessed many examples that show this not to be the case.
For example, when I was in engineering school the most brilliant of my fellow students was a strong believer in creationism. He once lent me one of his creationism textbooks. I dutifully read it and found it to be nonsensical and completely illogical. Yet he was firmly convinced this was the truth. I never have understood how someone who was getting straight A+ marks while taking a double course load could at the same time believe such nonsense.
In the Typography course I took, we were taught that the greatest font of all time is Garamond.
It wasn't even tested in this article.
but if apple had filmed a turd for 20 seconds and published that as an official advert it would have the highest viewcount on youtube - however I really doubt that would mean it's a successful advert for them in building of their brand image.
People would have said they liked the new fully cornerless design and swirly textures. Brown is obviously the new white (or black) and you have to be impressed by the new smell feedback technology. It's soft and warm to the touch as well, making it comfortable to hold.
Good thing I didn't step in it!
To quote the new VP of Development at my company, on the day of his promotion: "I stand here before you wearing one brown sock and one blue sock, demonstrating that you do not need to know how to dress yourself to get ahead."
I pay my bills online.
I do my banking online.
I order my shopping online...
And all those activities are the target of a significant amount of fraud. It is tolerated, though, because the savings outweigh the costs. You can't say the same for an election.
Like "correct horse battery staple"?
I haven't seen something like that since the time my company accidentally hired strippers for our Vegas-themed Christmas party.
The poor choice of mascot has clipped the entire distribution.
No no no! A cloud bubble DOUBLE rainbow!
Might not win a competition, but I've always liked this design. Looks way cool when flying.
The Ring.
"...paradigm shifting without a clutch"
I always liked that quote. Too bad the FA article felt the need to [edit] it.
When I was in first year U I had a calculus prof whose lectures were painfully boring. He'd put a slide on the overhead projector, talk about it while we'd copy it down into our notes. Then he'd put up another slide, repeat, repeat. No time for interaction with the students. Just switch slides, copy, switch slides copy, for 50 excruciating minutes.
One day, the bulb in the project blew. We were all hoping that the prof would cancel the class, but no. He just pushed the overhead to one side, picked up a piece of chalk and started to lecture while writing on the blackboard. The prof transformed from painfully boring into a first rate lecturer. The class was engaging, there was interaction with the students, back and forth discussions. For that one class, the prof was one of the best lecturers I've ever seen.
Next class the overhead was fixed, so it was back to painfully boring.
> I should really stop bringing mine.
Good idea. That will help you catch up on your sleep.
I'm pretty sure Discovery will cover it, and probably give them a substantial bonus and invite them to participate in the episode to boot.
I think they've already participated in the episode.
I am mostly Mac at home. At work we are still stuck on XP.
When I work from home and VPN into the office, the VPN client runs on Windows (there is an OSX version of the VPN client, but it doesn't support the required security policies). So I run XP in a Parallels VM.
This is like the Enterprise doing a saucer separation.
Netflix is separating themselves from the part of the business that they think are doomed. That way, when the DVD by mail business does go belly up, Netflix itself won't be around to take damage.
And I think they fully expect it to go belly up. Qwikster? Come on! "*ster" names went out of style almost 10 years ago!
I like this video better
Population Connection - Word Population
I can imagine the announcement from the cockpit: "This is your captain speaking.We will be in a holding pattern for a little bit, while we deal with some minor technical issues. I expect we will be delayed about 1 hour into Chicago...By the way, does anybody on board have an iPad?"
Customer: Can you tell me the location of your office in the United States?
Watson: Toronto?????
I assume he meant Arachnophilia.
No, I hadn't heard of it before either. I just Googled harder.
Many web sites that provide online financial services, and also gateways to MMORPGs, use browser fingerprinting to detect fraudulent use of the service. For example, if a user logs in consistently using a specific browser on a specific computer, and then logs in from a completely different browser, or from a different computer, then there is the suspicion that someone other that the user is logging in using stolen account information. The web site will in such cases ask for some 2nd form of authentication (eg. mother's maiden name, or something more secure) in order to protect the account.
By trying to block browser fingerprinting you might be protecting yourself from online tracking, but you are also preventing legit services from protecting you.
They are launching the pay wall in Canada first, effective immediately.
Everything time something "good" rolls out from the USA (Hulu, iPhone, iPad, lots of shit from Amazon), it takes forever for it to get to Canada, if it gets here at all. Now this (definitely not "good") and they launch it in Canada first. Go figure.
At which point they zoom out to a front view of the car so you can see the car maker's logo (Toyota, I think)...
You think? I guess the product placement is not doing very well.
I thought SD cards could fly!