It'd be amusing to see a video of a Victorian orphanage/poorhouse full of ragamuffins each getting handed an iP*d. Then one looks up at the grizzled, warty man handing them out and says "Please, sir, may I have something different?"
Then he could either scowl and bellow "Different, not at Apple!" and clout the kid.
Or he could break into a gleaming, toothpaste-commercial smile and say "but of course" and hand the kid something from Asus or Marvell.
Hey, if it's running on ARM, you can stick linux on it. I wonder if it has any USB pads on the motherboard that could be wired to an internal GPS, like some people did with the EEE.
If I wanted a bookreader, I'd rather have a $250 device that did grayscale, had free cell service, and ran for days than a $500 one that did color, cost $30/month if you want to leave the kitchen, and ran for hours.
I'd put the other $250 on a netbook with better specs.
If you are playing with 3 or 4, have one stand somewhere relatively safe while the person attempts it and the other 1/2 are bubbled.
It'd be nice if it automatically bubbled you if you fell behind, but they'd have to leave an exception for being squished against the edge by an obstacle.
And we found it mildly funny when we got to the second part of the final battle and everyone bubbled at the same time to avoid the initial flame breath. Is there any way for everyone to avoid that first breath, when you are against the wall, other than helicopter hats or bouncing off somebody's head?
And if you like slapstick humor or playing Dwarf Fortress(losing is fun!), you'll love it.
The first time I played it solo, I found it kind of meh; but the first time I played 4 player, we played until the wee hours of the morning in the middle of the week and then set up a schedule to do it again when it wasn't a work night.
I suppose after the 8th or 9th time it might get a bit boring, but we played one level(the death cloud) for an hour and we didn't get sick of screwing up.
Runaway feedback. Specialists are frequently dumb as posts, but a dumb generalist will be outcompeted by a dumb specialist in its element. A smart specialist may be able to move when its environment changes, but it will likely be less effective than a generalist anywhere else.
A more general bodytype requires a more flexible mind to overcome a specialist. A more flexible mind is more effective with a more general bodytype than a specialist bodytype.
RSS feeds can contain HTML, some RSS readers use IE to render, IE is insecure, therefore RSS feeds can carry harmful payloads.
To say nothing of an RSS feed containing links to an infectious site, but I wouldn't call that an RSS infection.
As for the file itself, perhaps you forget the windows WMF hole that allowed MP3s and other "data" files to carry executable code? If the new player software has a buffer overrun, then this new file can be infectious if the server is suborned or spoofed.
The patents on MP3 will still expire on schedule, though I can't say I actually care enough to look up when that may be.
In the US, December 2012 at the earliest, their main submarine patent surfacing in 1995.
There's some others that might last until 2017, but they were put in well over a year after the mpeg standard was published(and thus technically void). Won't keep them from suing, but you might win if you aren't crushed by your own legal costs:)
As for other countries, damned if I know. A bunch of other companies copycatted a lot, so there might be other patents in play elsewhere.
The US government isn't exactly the most discriminating in its enforcement of law. SF probably isn't willing to ensure that all of the software hosted is properly categorized between prohibited and permissible. I had to recently check the exportability of a product and I'm still not entirely sure I won't get nailed because I just read about somebody shipping plumbing supplies getting fined because they might be used to make chemical weapons.
The US has shown before that they'll arrest employees of foreign companies that are in the US for things the parent company did in other countries. E.g. Skylarov/Elcomsoft.
Actually, she was a member of the Author's Guild, although she's quit since the settlement.
But she, and everyone else needs to remember who the "Devil" in this deal is. Google didn't screw everyone else by giving themselves the exclusive right to archive & so forth, the Author's Guild screwed their own member and everyone else by giving Google an exclusive deal.
I suppose you could blame the US courts/legal system for making it necessary for anyone else wanting to do this to force a lawsuit with a traitorous organization before they can reasonably achieve the same deal.
4) Lifted-hands interface. Lacking a better term I dubbed it that: An interface that does not allow your hand to rest but requires you to lift them and reach.
Also known as a "gorilla arm" interface, because that's what you'll feel like after 4 hours of "ook, point, ook"
Indeed, most of these errors don't sound like Therac-25 type errors, more like PEBKAC errors.
These can only be solved by double checking(more labor costs? not likely) or by patients who care enough about themselves to take a black marker and write "radiation goes here, dumbass".
I've done similar things ever since I went in for an operation where they started the incision on the wrong side then decided they'd just go with it and tunnel across my abdomen instead of starting over in the right spot.
Fortunately, the special paper is easily made with a laser printer of sufficiently high DPI. You can use a copier too, but the dots encode position so writing on a photocopied sheet immediately after writing on the original will produce a scribbled mess on the computer.
Inkjet doesn't work unless the ingredients are easily detectable with an IR camera.
Would you rather have "fényszóró" or "Scheinwerfer" or "prìomh-sholas" than a stylized picture of a headlight?
I can look up "Scheinwerfer" in a dictionary and figure out "light thrower" means "headlight". It's rather harder to look up a "triangle with 3 lines" and get "headlight" instead of "ignite boost rockets".
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It'd be amusing to see a video of a Victorian orphanage/poorhouse full of ragamuffins each getting handed an iP*d. Then one looks up at the grizzled, warty man handing them out and says "Please, sir, may I have something different?"
Then he could either scowl and bellow "Different, not at Apple!" and clout the kid.
Or he could break into a gleaming, toothpaste-commercial smile and say "but of course" and hand the kid something from Asus or Marvell.
Only on the cell models, and assist GPS hardly counts. I like my GPS to work when I'm not in cell range.
Hey, if it's running on ARM, you can stick linux on it. I wonder if it has any USB pads on the motherboard that could be wired to an internal GPS, like some people did with the EEE.
Chrome apparently reports whichever it is currently in, or at least the one the page loads on.
If I wanted a bookreader, I'd rather have a $250 device that did grayscale, had free cell service, and ran for days than a $500 one that did color, cost $30/month if you want to leave the kitchen, and ran for hours.
I'd put the other $250 on a netbook with better specs.
Pricing starts at $500, oddly enough. I expected it to be more like $1000.
Unless it is under .5" thick, I'd probably rather get one of those flippy screened netbooks, or tablet mod my current one.
Anyone using the screen size characteristic can be fooled merely by moving my browser to another monitor(mine aren't identical).
A handful of rust, a heap of aluminum, mix in a concrete bowl, garnish with a magnesium ribbon, light and cover securely.
Do wear eye protection, though.
If you are playing with 3 or 4, have one stand somewhere relatively safe while the person attempts it and the other 1/2 are bubbled.
It'd be nice if it automatically bubbled you if you fell behind, but they'd have to leave an exception for being squished against the edge by an obstacle.
And we found it mildly funny when we got to the second part of the final battle and everyone bubbled at the same time to avoid the initial flame breath. Is there any way for everyone to avoid that first breath, when you are against the wall, other than helicopter hats or bouncing off somebody's head?
He already included the two Super Mario Land GB games. SML3 was actually a Wario game.
And if you like slapstick humor or playing Dwarf Fortress(losing is fun!), you'll love it.
The first time I played it solo, I found it kind of meh; but the first time I played 4 player, we played until the wee hours of the morning in the middle of the week and then set up a schedule to do it again when it wasn't a work night.
I suppose after the 8th or 9th time it might get a bit boring, but we played one level(the death cloud) for an hour and we didn't get sick of screwing up.
Runaway feedback. Specialists are frequently dumb as posts, but a dumb generalist will be outcompeted by a dumb specialist in its element. A smart specialist may be able to move when its environment changes, but it will likely be less effective than a generalist anywhere else.
A more general bodytype requires a more flexible mind to overcome a specialist. A more flexible mind is more effective with a more general bodytype than a specialist bodytype.
Iterate.
RSS feeds can contain HTML, some RSS readers use IE to render, IE is insecure, therefore RSS feeds can carry harmful payloads.
To say nothing of an RSS feed containing links to an infectious site, but I wouldn't call that an RSS infection.
As for the file itself, perhaps you forget the windows WMF hole that allowed MP3s and other "data" files to carry executable code? If the new player software has a buffer overrun, then this new file can be infectious if the server is suborned or spoofed.
In the US, December 2012 at the earliest, their main submarine patent surfacing in 1995.
There's some others that might last until 2017, but they were put in well over a year after the mpeg standard was published(and thus technically void). Won't keep them from suing, but you might win if you aren't crushed by your own legal costs:)
As for other countries, damned if I know. A bunch of other companies copycatted a lot, so there might be other patents in play elsewhere.
The US government isn't exactly the most discriminating in its enforcement of law. SF probably isn't willing to ensure that all of the software hosted is properly categorized between prohibited and permissible. I had to recently check the exportability of a product and I'm still not entirely sure I won't get nailed because I just read about somebody shipping plumbing supplies getting fined because they might be used to make chemical weapons.
The US has shown before that they'll arrest employees of foreign companies that are in the US for things the parent company did in other countries. E.g. Skylarov/Elcomsoft.
Actually, she was a member of the Author's Guild, although she's quit since the settlement.
But she, and everyone else needs to remember who the "Devil" in this deal is. Google didn't screw everyone else by giving themselves the exclusive right to archive & so forth, the Author's Guild screwed their own member and everyone else by giving Google an exclusive deal.
I suppose you could blame the US courts/legal system for making it necessary for anyone else wanting to do this to force a lawsuit with a traitorous organization before they can reasonably achieve the same deal.
I'll admit, a checklist kept them from leaving sponges in me.
But it didn't help them decide between "patient's left" or "doctor's left"
Also known as a "gorilla arm" interface, because that's what you'll feel like after 4 hours of "ook, point, ook"
Indeed, most of these errors don't sound like Therac-25 type errors, more like PEBKAC errors.
These can only be solved by double checking(more labor costs? not likely) or by patients who care enough about themselves to take a black marker and write "radiation goes here, dumbass".
I've done similar things ever since I went in for an operation where they started the incision on the wrong side then decided they'd just go with it and tunnel across my abdomen instead of starting over in the right spot.
I'm guessing somebody was sitting in a warehouse of LCDs with stuck pixels thinking "what the hell can I do with these?"
Fortunately, the special paper is easily made with a laser printer of sufficiently high DPI. You can use a copier too, but the dots encode position so writing on a photocopied sheet immediately after writing on the original will produce a scribbled mess on the computer.
Inkjet doesn't work unless the ingredients are easily detectable with an IR camera.
Priced at the retail $1 US per song and assuming 3 megs per song, it'd take most people 1.5-3 months to inflict $54k. Seriously overkill.
They blame it on video games because last time they tried blaming it on excessive sunblock use and got reamed by the cancer prevention groups.
I can look up "Scheinwerfer" in a dictionary and figure out "light thrower" means "headlight". It's rather harder to look up a "triangle with 3 lines" and get "headlight" instead of "ignite boost rockets".