You jest, but I suspect they're a grain of truth in what you say. 100 years ago, the average farmer, who used levers and pulleys, probably had a better grasp of practical physics than the average person today, who is insulated from it by machines they don't understand. And more directly related to film, I was speaking with someone the other day who thought that if you drove off a cliff, it was essentially guaranteed that the car would explode in a ball of flame...because that's what they "know" from the movies.
I think this misses the point somewhat. This is not add-on storage for your computer data, it's on-line storage for things you want to be accessible from anywhere on the net. Yes, your USB hard drive is way cheaper, but if you're trying to make your photo collection available anyone not connected to your machine is out of luck. This is shared/internet storage more than private/personal storage.
According to a statement approved by CIA director Gen. Michael V. Hayden, Plame's employment status with the CIA was "classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958."
However, that's not what the Libby case is really about. The Libby case is about lying to the FBI. Try doing that sometime, and see how much sympathy you get from any law enforcement type.
She had a desk job, but she was still covert. The head of the CIA said so, and there are declassified documents confirming it. (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/arti cle_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003591406) Therefore, exposing her status was a crime (though not Libby's crime.)
Just because she wasn't a field agent, doesn't mean that exposing her didn't affect CIA covert operations, nor does it mean that she never made any trips that would require her to maintain cover.
You are correct, and the parent poster is wrong. However, "obstruction of justice" is, in this case, lying to the FBI. And anyone who didn't work for Dick Cheney would be tossed into prison on their ear.
Funny how the "rule of law" party has no respect for it.
I think if you re-read the article, you will see that WiFi and the data plan are NOT linked. The writer was complaining that in order to get an iPhone at all, he'd have to pay for a data plan, and he was hoping to buy just the phone service and use WiFi. No where does it state that WiFi is disabled if you don't buy a data plan.
Btw, if you didn't see Al Gore's movie, let me sum it up for you: "OHH NOOOOEZ!!! The world is coming to an end!!!" I hadn't seen it...
Then how do you know it's propaganda? The parent is wrong, by the way. The movie says "This is a serious problem. If we don't act, the consequences are dire. However, it's well within our ability to do something." Hardly the OMG we're fucked point of view.
It's interesting how quickly the topic of censorship arises in the context of the word "ban." Imagine instead if the headline had stated "Google no longer to accept advertising dollars from essay services". Just like any other business, Google is free to choose who they take money from. We've certainly seen cases before where radio and TV broadcasters choose not to run ads they find offensive or misleading.
That said, as Google dominates the search market, they do have to be aware of the kind of power they wield. As the defenders of Microsoft are quick to point out, being a monopoly is not illegal, it's what you do once you've reached that state that matters.
Exactly what Microsoft has been planning for them to do for all these years. The people who write presentation code are working around bugs in IE; the people who write backend stuff are working around bugs in Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.; and the people who do apps are working around bugs in XP/Vista.
Microsoft doesn't introduce bugs because they're sloppy, it's a business strategy to keep there competitors occupied while they "innovate."
Yeah, I thought that was rather slimy of Yahoo. They get all this free press when they announce "infinite mail storage" and then if you read the fine print, it's really, "you get as much as we want you to have". None of the news stories seemed to mention that aspect.
Recent experiments that have given mice new color-sensing ability seems to imply that if you can just get the input into the brain, the brain will try and incorporate it. Obviously, this works best when the brain is still "plastic", when the organism is young. I wonder if you wired an infrared camera (or similar) to a newborn that by the time they were a couple of years old, they'd be making full use of the additional information.
Unlike the Neuromancer fantasy, you can't just jack in, but if implanted early enough, you could adapt to the additional sensory input.
If you ignore the messenger and his obvious attempts to spin Google as "out of control," you still must admit that managing rapid growth is a tricky problem. Other companies (e.g., SGI) have not handled it well. Transmitting knowledge about the company and its products is harder when the people expected to do that have only been there a few months themselves.
As someone already pointed out, Gmail just recently did move from beta into a fully open service.
Now, if you think about it, that might also be a reason why Yahoo mail has more users. Gmail was open only by invitation until last month, whereas there were no bars to entry at Yahoo. I'll lay odds that a year from now, Google will have advanced on Yahoo's share noticeably.
then you can save a lot. What I'd like to see is a WiFi enabled, small, very light weight system. With access to Google Docs & Spreadsheets, my documents are online so I don't need a lot of disk space, so dump the hard drive. Same for email. I'll dock it with my main computer to download media, so I don't need an optical drive. Maybe they'll even enable easy remote disk sharing with something like sshfs.
Weight is key, though. On a business trip, I can live with carrying a laptop. With everyday travels, it's too much. Give me something around the form factor of the Newton at about half the weight, say 8 oz max.
The thing is, Google even offers a solution to his "problem." Go to the Google front page and click on "Personalized Home". You want Google Scholar in there, no problem. You want a separate search bar for Google Maps, add one with a single click. Next time you go to Google, it remembers your preference and takes you to the personalized page.
The tabs and controls you want, no the ones the advertisers want you to have. How is this bad?
The name was introduced by Frank Wilczek, co-writer of the first paper to predict the axion, after a brand of detergent - because the problem with QCD had been "cleaned up".
Give me a break. When has Microsoft made any user experience seamless?
What should give Apple a shiver, however, is the WiFi connection. Though I think the song-sharing idea is DOA, but what if you could power up your Zune to reach an iTunes-like site that lets you buy music whereever and whenever.
You're watching "The OC" (or whatever kids watch these days) and as some cool new song plays, the credits roll, "Zune now to buy this song" and sure enough, when you flip on your Zune, the WiFi Zune store is featuring that song.
As the ring-tone business has shown, you can get a lot of impulse buys when the price is low and the availability is high.
Well, the fact is, that those religious freaks, whether a minority or not, have managed to convince a full 42% of Americans that evolution does not take place. So while the vast majority may in fact be "reasonable people" a large chunk of them are also deluded.
OTOH, if you look at another recent B-movie, Miami Vice, it too came it first place the weekend it opend but grossed $25M, almost double what SoaP did.
It's very true that a lot of people who are "on" the Internet, don't pay any attention the meme-of-the-day. I know a number of active net users who don't know about the Flying Spaghetti Monster or the Numa-numa guy, for example, despite both of them being extremely popular viral phenomena.
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You jest, but I suspect they're a grain of truth in what you say. 100 years ago, the average farmer, who used levers and pulleys, probably had a better grasp of practical physics than the average person today, who is insulated from it by machines they don't understand. And more directly related to film, I was speaking with someone the other day who thought that if you drove off a cliff, it was essentially guaranteed that the car would explode in a ball of flame...because that's what they "know" from the movies.
I think this misses the point somewhat. This is not add-on storage for your computer data, it's on-line storage for things you want to be accessible from anywhere on the net. Yes, your USB hard drive is way cheaper, but if you're trying to make your photo collection available anyone not connected to your machine is out of luck. This is shared/internet storage more than private/personal storage.
According to a statement approved by CIA director Gen. Michael V. Hayden, Plame's employment status with the CIA was "classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958."
However, that's not what the Libby case is really about. The Libby case is about lying to the FBI. Try doing that sometime, and see how much sympathy you get from any law enforcement type.
She had a desk job, but she was still covert. The head of the CIA said so, and there are declassified documents confirming it. (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/arti cle_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003591406) Therefore, exposing her status was a crime (though not Libby's crime.)
Just because she wasn't a field agent, doesn't mean that exposing her didn't affect CIA covert operations, nor does it mean that she never made any trips that would require her to maintain cover.
You are correct, and the parent poster is wrong. However, "obstruction of justice" is, in this case, lying to the FBI. And anyone who didn't work for Dick Cheney would be tossed into prison on their ear.
Funny how the "rule of law" party has no respect for it.
I think if you re-read the article, you will see that WiFi and the data plan are NOT linked. The writer was complaining that in order to get an iPhone at all, he'd have to pay for a data plan, and he was hoping to buy just the phone service and use WiFi. No where does it state that WiFi is disabled if you don't buy a data plan.
Btw, if you didn't see Al Gore's movie, let me sum it up for you: "OHH NOOOOEZ!!! The world is coming to an end!!!"
I hadn't seen it...
Then how do you know it's propaganda? The parent is wrong, by the way. The movie says "This is a serious problem. If we don't act, the consequences are dire. However, it's well within our ability to do something." Hardly the OMG we're fucked point of view.
It's interesting how quickly the topic of censorship arises in the context of the word "ban." Imagine instead if the headline had stated "Google no longer to accept advertising dollars from essay services". Just like any other business, Google is free to choose who they take money from. We've certainly seen cases before where radio and TV broadcasters choose not to run ads they find offensive or misleading.
That said, as Google dominates the search market, they do have to be aware of the kind of power they wield. As the defenders of Microsoft are quick to point out, being a monopoly is not illegal, it's what you do once you've reached that state that matters.
Yes, Ghirardelli isn't very special. However, I can't believe no one has yet mentioned Valrhona, in particular Amer Noir. 71% cocoa. To die.
What exactly do Google employees do all day?
Exactly what Microsoft has been planning for them to do for all these years. The people who write presentation code are working around bugs in IE; the people who write backend stuff are working around bugs in Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.; and the people who do apps are working around bugs in XP/Vista.
Microsoft doesn't introduce bugs because they're sloppy, it's a business strategy to keep there competitors occupied while they "innovate."
Yeah, I thought that was rather slimy of Yahoo. They get all this free press when they announce "infinite mail storage" and then if you read the fine print, it's really, "you get as much as we want you to have". None of the news stories seemed to mention that aspect.
Recent experiments that have given mice new color-sensing ability seems to imply that if you can just get the input into the brain, the brain will try and incorporate it. Obviously, this works best when the brain is still "plastic", when the organism is young. I wonder if you wired an infrared camera (or similar) to a newborn that by the time they were a couple of years old, they'd be making full use of the additional information.
Unlike the Neuromancer fantasy, you can't just jack in, but if implanted early enough, you could adapt to the additional sensory input.
If you ignore the messenger and his obvious attempts to spin Google as "out of control," you still must admit that managing rapid growth is a tricky problem. Other companies (e.g., SGI) have not handled it well. Transmitting knowledge about the company and its products is harder when the people expected to do that have only been there a few months themselves.
The discussion wouldn't be complete without a reference to the Cartoon Laws of Physics.
As someone already pointed out, Gmail just recently did move from beta into a fully open service.
Now, if you think about it, that might also be a reason why Yahoo mail has more users. Gmail was open only by invitation until last month, whereas there were no bars to entry at Yahoo. I'll lay odds that a year from now, Google will have advanced on Yahoo's share noticeably.
then you can save a lot. What I'd like to see is a WiFi enabled, small, very light weight system. With access to Google Docs & Spreadsheets, my documents are online so I don't need a lot of disk space, so dump the hard drive. Same for email. I'll dock it with my main computer to download media, so I don't need an optical drive. Maybe they'll even enable easy remote disk sharing with something like sshfs.
Weight is key, though. On a business trip, I can live with carrying a laptop. With everyday travels, it's too much. Give me something around the form factor of the Newton at about half the weight, say 8 oz max.
The thing is, Google even offers a solution to his "problem." Go to the Google front page and click on "Personalized Home". You want Google Scholar in there, no problem. You want a separate search bar for Google Maps, add one with a single click. Next time you go to Google, it remembers your preference and takes you to the personalized page.
The tabs and controls you want, no the ones the advertisers want you to have. How is this bad?
Well, IANANP, but Wikipedia sez:
It should be noted that the existence of axions is also a necessary component of string theory.
We still "dial", don't we?
Really? I thought he was working in Washington, DC these days. You know, "We've never been stay the course."
A finding like this would lend support to the Nemesis theory. If our sun and any of those sister stars are still in some gravitational cycle, it could help explain the periodic extinctions that seem to occur every 26 million years.
Give me a break. When has Microsoft made any user experience seamless?
What should give Apple a shiver, however, is the WiFi connection. Though I think the song-sharing idea is DOA, but what if you could power up your Zune to reach an iTunes-like site that lets you buy music whereever and whenever.
You're watching "The OC" (or whatever kids watch these days) and as some cool new song plays, the credits roll, "Zune now to buy this song" and sure enough, when you flip on your Zune, the WiFi Zune store is featuring that song.
As the ring-tone business has shown, you can get a lot of impulse buys when the price is low and the availability is high.
Well, the fact is, that those religious freaks, whether a minority or not, have managed to convince a full 42% of Americans that evolution does not take place. So while the vast majority may in fact be "reasonable people" a large chunk of them are also deluded.
OTOH, if you look at another recent B-movie, Miami Vice, it too came it first place the weekend it opend but grossed $25M, almost double what SoaP did.
It's very true that a lot of people who are "on" the Internet, don't pay any attention the meme-of-the-day. I know a number of active net users who don't know about the Flying Spaghetti Monster or the Numa-numa guy, for example, despite both of them being extremely popular viral phenomena.