Actually, I could just reboot the live stick, then run my reset script with my archived settings. But this one particular archive had been saved before I remembered to disable the autoupdate features in FF. Read VortexCortex's comment below, which I wholeheartedly agree with. A sane default option is to "opt in" to auto-updates; it is insane and irrational to require "opting out" of auto-updates. That is the batshit insanity which Firefox has been setting up lately, just like MS Internet Explorer had been doing and the same idiotic crap that chrome was pulling allowing automatic updates to extensions without having the user make that selection. So my complaint is NOT about having to spend the time on installing the old version again. My complaint is the same as VortexCortex: wasn't this shit already solved decades ago and isn't the sensible option "opting in" rather than automatically allowing for updates and forcing people to find the third-subtab on the right-most tab of the "preferences" or "options" menu item of Firefox (which has variously appeared on the "Tools menu" or on the "Edit menu" on the FF menu-bar). Got it yet, madamoiselle anonymous coward? ;>p
Same problem with auto-update on Firefox. At some point, I was running version X of Firefox off of a live-boot-usb-stick, and I hadn't configured Firefox completely, and I forgot to do it for a day. Next afternoon, my version of Firefox had updated to X+2 and then the next day it was updated to Firefox 17 with all of the googley-crap put back into the search box and all of the javascript options I had disabled being re-enabled and all of my addons such as adblock and noscript were disabled because the versions I had installed with saved.xpi files were not compatible with FF17. DAMN IT! If I wanted to fucking upgrade my version of FF I'd have done it myself. And upgrading the whole f*cking browser is fuckloads of worse shit than just sneaking in browser extensions. (Can you tell that I was pissed off? Still am, aren't I? Apologies to those with tender ears)
There is a link at the bottom: a "mailto" link that you can send the correct subject line to, and they'll email you when the contest starts. They can't send a link to pages that aren't live or up yet. If you want to send an email, go ahead and do it.:>)
So here's a correlation confound. Your gut bacteria is a big function of the kind of diet you have. This is advertised heavliy by the yogurt people: live-culture yogurts to help get you "regular", yucko. So people who eat more yogurt will have more acidophilus and lactobacilli. Those who eat meat (and particularly poorly cooked meat) will tend to have bacteria associated with those meats. Beef-eaters may have more e. coli (Jack-in-the-Box infected burgers, anyone), chicken-eaters may have more salmonella than others, and pork could mean many bacteria and even trichinosis (worms) or brain-monsters. .
So since your meat-eating habits may influence your bacteria, cutting down on meat will simultaneously improve your dietary intake and change your gut bacteria. This creates the confound. Is it the bacteria that created the bad health, or was the bacteria another symptom of the bad health that came along with the unhealthy diet?
Re: The actual DARPA page, with rules/etc., is here. .
Except for the fact that right now (~1pm PST 2012-12-22) that page has grayed out tabs for
1 -- Rules
2 -- Register
3 -- Q&A ;>)
The only tab that is live currently is the "Home" tab at that direct link http://www.darpa.mil/spectrumchallenge/. I don't think the other tabs go live until January 2013, so the rules and such are not available yet.
I welcome these Gnus bearing free gifts! (valid to say "free gifts" in this context, with free as in software freedom. It's redundant to say "free gifts" with "free as in beer" as the word "gift" by itself implies "free as in beer"). [On Grimm, they mentioned that "gift" means "poison" in German, {'Geschenk' is the german word of the english word "gift"}so is it necessary to disavow that meaning? Free as is beer not as in poison?]
Interesting. I hadn't considered that the concept was subjectively created and he did not have an experimental basis for his ideas. I'll have to continue reading the book with that criticism in mind and look for any evidence he produces for this theory of his. I had been wondering why he'd considered "kinesthetic/bodily" as an "intelligence" rather than as a talent or as an ability. My worry was the same as your criticism: including "bodily/kinesthetic intelligence" as a category of "intelligence" rather than of athletic or bodily prowess is just a way to be inclusive of the sportsmen/dancers/athletes as being smart in their own way. .
This over-inclusiveness tends to go along with people who like to give out awards and certificates for participation and just for showing up and devalue the concept of competition or actual work efforts leading to success. They are too caught up in making sure that no-one's feelings get hurt for being left out of awards or ceremonies. Blech.
Fox has usually been on the side of the "climate change deniers", so this change where Fox is even reporting on the topic is news in a way. However, not to be a denier just a questioner, how can we tell if this is just part of the statistical variations to be expected over time rather than an actual real trend? . Sort of like the "hundred year flood", is there a "hundred year freeze" or a "hundred year overheat" which marks the extreme cold or hot temperatures one would expect to find once in one-hundred years just from normal statistical fluctuations and a normal distribution? . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100-year_flood
Gracias, I mean >! I did not know that. Perhaps the french nuance does play a role in this. It's always been one of my pet peeves (reticent v. reluctant, lose v. loose) but I will try to be more understanding now that I realize the possible source of this confusion. (and re the UTF8, I agree. That was part of my usage of $\noteq$ instead of the unicode "not equal symbol".)
re:Normal people would write "\gr \lt" or "!="
I don't think that less-than-or-greater-than would apply because the use of "lessthan" or "greaterthan" implies the presence of a partial ordering, and though words are ordered alphabetically, I am talking about inequality. "a \lt \gt b" (sort of) implies "a \lt b" or "b \lt a", which also implies some ordering. You are, however, correct that "!=" would also work and be correctly interpreted. The fact that I could not get the unicode "not-equal sign" to be accepted by slash-dot is why I went ahead and used the $LaTeX$ symbol and the wacky "=/=" to get the visual effect of the "not equal" symbol and spelling it out. But I must admit that I have never been accused of being normal, so even though normal people might write or "greater-than" or "less-than", I would not.
reticent =/= reluctant
"reticent" $\notequal$ "reluctant"
reticent â reluctant .
How many ways can I type that "not-equal sign"? (not in unicode, obvviously damn it) Seriously, to paraphrase
Inigo Montoya,
that word in this article summary does NOT mean what they think it means.
Reticent can mean modest or keeping something to oneself, or keeping quiet about something.
Reluctant can mean not willing or inclined to do something, which is the meaning that must have been intended. .
Seriously, do they need a high-schooler like me to be an editor who's not afraid of looking up word and perhaps actually editing the content and form of the submissions and cleaning things up and really behaving like an editor? I would seriously do it if asked;>) . My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die! [temporary sig, please wait while construction continues]
I would actually call this more of a "finder of the decryption key if left hiding in RAM or hibernation file while encrypted partition is mounted":
It works only if
(1) you can get a volatile memory dump while the encrypted partition is mounted and the decryption key currently resides in the volatile memory or (2) if you can get access to a hibernation partition/file which contains the decryption key from when the encrypted partition was mounted. From the linked article
So, how does it work? Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor acquires the necessary decryption keys by analyzing memory dumps and/or hibernation files obtained from the target PC. Youâ(TM)ll thus need to get a memory dump from a running PC (locked or unlocked) with encrypted volumes mounted, via a standard forensic product or via a FireWire attack. Alternatively, decryption keys can also be derived from hibernation files if a target PC is turned off.
So saying that this software is capable of decrypting PGP / Bitlocker / Truecrypt partitions is hyperbole. A more accurate assessment of this software is capable of finding the decrpytion/encryption key in RAM or hibernation files.
Yes, the idea of multiple intelligences which cannot be captured or conveyed by a single numerical result has been brought up before. I just last year read a book called Frames of Mind by Howard Gardner which talks about the Theory of multiple intelligences.
In fact, I believe that Gardner came up with the idea of multple intelligences in 1983 when he published that book. Gardner broke down the "intelligences" into:
-- 1.1 Logical-mathematical
-- 1.2 Spatial
-- 1.3 Linguistic
-- 1.4 Bodily-kinesthetic
-- 1.5 Musical
-- 1.6 Interpersonal
-- 1.7 Intrapersonal
-- 1.8 Naturalistic
-- 1.9 Existential .
I am assuming that a "score" can be generated in each of these categories, and thus your "IQ" according to Howard Gardner would actually be a point in 9-dimensional space rather than distributed along just a one-dimensional axis. I've skimmed through the entire book and read the first 5 sections almost thoroughly. I highly recommend it.
I'd guess near-earth orbit salvage operations will occur privately first before asteroid exploration and exploitation crews fly out and figure out how to mine and build out there or mine out there and ship it back to earth. .
Yeah, it'll probably be something like a junkyard ship created by a small rag-tag team that gets up there privately and starts salvage operations on things like that left-over North Korean satellite that doesn't work anymore (supposedly) and all of our USA-ian interesting nonoperative satellites: Salvage 1 has a ship made out of
of a Texaco gasoline Semi-trailer with cement mixer as the capsule.
Where's Andy Griffith and Isaac Asimov when you need them?;>)
Or they could be asking because they genuinely want to hear not the opinons of others but commentary about their experiences with different languages. Asking about "choosing between X, Y, or Z in the group of things related by W" often brings answers that are not just -- a terse "Use X" -- but also "did you ever consider C?" -- or "did you ever consider APL?" and also -- "I did C# and regretted it because I forgot that the # can also be read out loud as POUND and not just as SHARP and I got C##'ed" --
"I learned French but found it not so useful here in southern california. I added Spanish and found it useful in more everyday situations and in following the soccer games broadcast from across the border. GOOOOOOOAL!"
;>)
Hearing from more than just one person can provide a larger basket of opinions. Separating the wheat from the chaff may be tougher; that's why there moderation and scoring on here, right?
Good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule: means that as long as the police thought that they had a valid warrant, their behavior is acceptable and that such illegally obtained evidence may be presented rather than excluded. But the point of the exclusionary rule is to stop police/prosecutor misconduct by not rewarding inappropriate behavior. A good faith exception means you can be sneaky and side-step the law by having a detective obtain a search warrant in bad faith (by providing or proclaming certain facts which are known to be untrue) and then by having separate police officers "act in good faith" by carrying out that warrant. .
Why is it that for civilians/non-law-officers the concept is "ignorance of the law is no excuse"? Police instead get the "well as long as you intended/meant to do good, it's alright..." Regular people are held to the letter of the law even if they are not aware of the existence of the law. Why should police/detectives/prosecutors be rewarded for gaming the system or for an illegal search warrant? [warning, IANAL and this post strongly follows the story line of something from Law and Order about one or two years ago...:>) ]
Yes, there are lots of other false come-ons for lead generation. The other standard one you see near the side of cash-registers at pizza places (at Little Caesars in Kearny Mesa) or other restaurants or at the entry/exit of gyms: little entry boxes that you stuff with your contact info and email and cell phone number in the hopes of "winning a cruise!" or of getting "a free vacation!". Of course, the only thing that really comes out of this is that your contact information which you've willing released is sold on to marketers everywhere. One friend of mine XX filled out another friend's (YY) contact info on a slip just to annoy YY.
Gracias! Pardon my misunderstanding, and Thanks for telling me. The first thing that came to my mind was M.I.T. the school in Massachusetts. (My dad said that when he first moved to San Diego he kept misreading the "S.D." initials in the local paper as "South Dakota" and kept wondering why they would print so much news about South Dakota here in California. His "L.A." frame of mind must have rubbed off on me) Good luck with your Masters Degree!
re: "the technology field as we know it would be completely different" .
Yes and no. There would be a different balance of powers. But I'm willing to bet that there would have been some other one or two or three person company that would instead have become the leader in supplying personal computers. And that other company would also probably have had a mix of creative talent and marketing/sales talent. . The converse of your specific example is also true. If Jobs hadn't teamed with Wozniak, perhaps Jobs might not have gotten as far in his life either. Or perhaps he would have found another partner to work with. Perhaps even Woz might have talked to someone else at HP who could have seen his talents and his electronic creations and a different company might have arisen near Sand Hill Drive. .
As the song says, "Perhaps... Perhaps... Perhaps!"
And how long will this really last before they're stopped? .
How soon will it be before they get charged with secretly supporting terrorism by money laundering? Or to make it scarier in the internet domain, get charged with secretly supporting child prnography with these washed/laundered funding mechanisms? Isn't that why Visa and Mastercard jumped to quickly block funding?
i don't get what you're implying... (sarcasm, in case anyone wants to respond to me with a "whoosh!" comment") [also a comment on people who confuse/misuse "infer" and "imply" in place of each other].
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Actually, I could just reboot the live stick, then run my reset script with my archived settings. But this one particular archive had been saved before I remembered to disable the autoupdate features in FF. Read VortexCortex's comment below, which I wholeheartedly agree with. A sane default option is to "opt in" to auto-updates; it is insane and irrational to require "opting out" of auto-updates. That is the batshit insanity which Firefox has been setting up lately, just like MS Internet Explorer had been doing and the same idiotic crap that chrome was pulling allowing automatic updates to extensions without having the user make that selection. So my complaint is NOT about having to spend the time on installing the old version again. My complaint is the same as VortexCortex: wasn't this shit already solved decades ago and isn't the sensible option "opting in" rather than automatically allowing for updates and forcing people to find the third-subtab on the right-most tab of the "preferences" or "options" menu item of Firefox (which has variously appeared on the "Tools menu" or on the "Edit menu" on the FF menu-bar). Got it yet, madamoiselle anonymous coward?
;>p
Same problem with auto-update on Firefox. At some point, I was running version X of Firefox off of a live-boot-usb-stick, and I hadn't configured Firefox completely, and I forgot to do it for a day. Next afternoon, my version of Firefox had updated to X+2 and then the next day it was updated to Firefox 17 with all of the googley-crap put back into the search box and all of the javascript options I had disabled being re-enabled and all of my addons such as adblock and noscript were disabled because the versions I had installed with saved .xpi files were not compatible with FF17. DAMN IT! If I wanted to fucking upgrade my version of FF I'd have done it myself. And upgrading the whole f*cking browser is fuckloads of worse shit than just sneaking in browser extensions. (Can you tell that I was pissed off? Still am, aren't I? Apologies to those with tender ears)
There is a link at the bottom: a "mailto" link that you can send the correct subject line to, and they'll email you when the contest starts. They can't send a link to pages that aren't live or up yet. If you want to send an email, go ahead and do it. :>)
So here's a correlation confound. Your gut bacteria is a big function of the kind of diet you have. This is advertised heavliy by the yogurt people: live-culture yogurts to help get you "regular", yucko. So people who eat more yogurt will have more acidophilus and lactobacilli. Those who eat meat (and particularly poorly cooked meat) will tend to have bacteria associated with those meats. Beef-eaters may have more e. coli (Jack-in-the-Box infected burgers, anyone), chicken-eaters may have more salmonella than others, and pork could mean many bacteria and even trichinosis (worms) or brain-monsters.
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So since your meat-eating habits may influence your bacteria, cutting down on meat will simultaneously improve your dietary intake and change your gut bacteria. This creates the confound. Is it the bacteria that created the bad health, or was the bacteria another symptom of the bad health that came along with the unhealthy diet?
Re: The actual DARPA page, with rules/etc., is here.
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Except for the fact that right now (~1pm PST 2012-12-22) that page has grayed out tabs for
1 -- Rules
2 -- Register
3 -- Q&A
;>)
The only tab that is live currently is the "Home" tab at that direct link http://www.darpa.mil/spectrumchallenge/. I don't think the other tabs go live until January 2013, so the rules and such are not available yet.
I welcome these Gnus bearing free gifts! (valid to say "free gifts" in this context, with free as in software freedom. It's redundant to say "free gifts" with "free as in beer" as the word "gift" by itself implies "free as in beer"). [On Grimm, they mentioned that "gift" means "poison" in German, {'Geschenk' is the german word of the english word "gift"}so is it necessary to disavow that meaning? Free as is beer not as in poison?]
Interesting. I hadn't considered that the concept was subjectively created and he did not have an experimental basis for his ideas. I'll have to continue reading the book with that criticism in mind and look for any evidence he produces for this theory of his. I had been wondering why he'd considered "kinesthetic/bodily" as an "intelligence" rather than as a talent or as an ability. My worry was the same as your criticism: including "bodily/kinesthetic intelligence" as a category of "intelligence" rather than of athletic or bodily prowess is just a way to be inclusive of the sportsmen/dancers/athletes as being smart in their own way.
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This over-inclusiveness tends to go along with people who like to give out awards and certificates for participation and just for showing up and devalue the concept of competition or actual work efforts leading to success. They are too caught up in making sure that no-one's feelings get hurt for being left out of awards or ceremonies. Blech.
Fox has usually been on the side of the "climate change deniers", so this change where Fox is even reporting on the topic is news in a way. However, not to be a denier just a questioner, how can we tell if this is just part of the statistical variations to be expected over time rather than an actual real trend?
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Sort of like the "hundred year flood", is there a "hundred year freeze" or a "hundred year overheat" which marks the extreme cold or hot temperatures one would expect to find once in one-hundred years just from normal statistical fluctuations and a normal distribution?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100-year_flood
I wrote Merci with french quotes around it, but slashdot's html parser ate up my $\lt$ and $\gt$ angle-braces!
Gracias, I mean >! I did not know that. Perhaps the french nuance does play a role in this. It's always been one of my pet peeves (reticent v. reluctant, lose v. loose) but I will try to be more understanding now that I realize the possible source of this confusion. (and re the UTF8, I agree. That was part of my usage of $\noteq$ instead of the unicode "not equal symbol".)
re:Normal people would write "\gr \lt" or "!="
I don't think that less-than-or-greater-than would apply because the use of "lessthan" or "greaterthan" implies the presence of a partial ordering, and though words are ordered alphabetically, I am talking about inequality. "a \lt \gt b" (sort of) implies "a \lt b" or "b \lt a", which also implies some ordering. You are, however, correct that "!=" would also work and be correctly interpreted. The fact that I could not get the unicode "not-equal sign" to be accepted by slash-dot is why I went ahead and used the $LaTeX$ symbol and the wacky "=/=" to get the visual effect of the "not equal" symbol and spelling it out. But I must admit that I have never been accused of being normal, so even though normal people might write or "greater-than" or "less-than", I would not.
also note to editors:
reticent =/= reluctant
"reticent" $\notequal$ "reluctant"
reticent is NOT equal to and does not mean reluctant
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reticent =/= reluctant ;>)
"reticent" $\notequal$ "reluctant"
reticent â reluctant
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How many ways can I type that "not-equal sign"? (not in unicode, obvviously damn it) Seriously, to paraphrase Inigo Montoya, that word in this article summary does NOT mean what they think it means.
Reticent can mean modest or keeping something to oneself, or keeping quiet about something.
Reluctant can mean not willing or inclined to do something, which is the meaning that must have been intended.
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Seriously, do they need a high-schooler like me to be an editor who's not afraid of looking up word and perhaps actually editing the content and form of the submissions and cleaning things up and really behaving like an editor? I would seriously do it if asked
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My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die! [temporary sig, please wait while construction continues]
I would actually call this more of a "finder of the decryption key if left hiding in RAM or hibernation file while encrypted partition is mounted":
It works only if
(1) you can get a volatile memory dump while the encrypted partition is mounted and the decryption key currently resides in the volatile memory or
(2) if you can get access to a hibernation partition/file which contains the decryption key from when the encrypted partition was mounted.
From the linked article So, how does it work? Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor acquires the necessary decryption keys by analyzing memory dumps and/or hibernation files obtained from the target PC. Youâ(TM)ll thus need to get a memory dump from a running PC (locked or unlocked) with encrypted volumes mounted, via a standard forensic product or via a FireWire attack. Alternatively, decryption keys can also be derived from hibernation files if a target PC is turned off. So saying that this software is capable of decrypting PGP / Bitlocker / Truecrypt partitions is hyperbole. A more accurate assessment of this software is capable of finding the decrpytion/encryption key in RAM or hibernation files.
Yes, the idea of multiple intelligences which cannot be captured or conveyed by a single numerical result has been brought up before. I just last year read a book called Frames of Mind by Howard Gardner which talks about the Theory of multiple intelligences.
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In fact, I believe that Gardner came up with the idea of multple intelligences in 1983 when he published that book. Gardner broke down the "intelligences" into:
-- 1.1 Logical-mathematical
-- 1.2 Spatial
-- 1.3 Linguistic
-- 1.4 Bodily-kinesthetic
-- 1.5 Musical
-- 1.6 Interpersonal
-- 1.7 Intrapersonal
-- 1.8 Naturalistic
-- 1.9 Existential
I am assuming that a "score" can be generated in each of these categories, and thus your "IQ" according to Howard Gardner would actually be a point in 9-dimensional space rather than distributed along just a one-dimensional axis. I've skimmed through the entire book and read the first 5 sections almost thoroughly. I highly recommend it.
Wait, what about the Mensa girls? Are you implying that they would be happy to hear that? ;>)
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Yeah, it'll probably be something like a junkyard ship created by a small rag-tag team that gets up there privately and starts salvage operations on things like that left-over North Korean satellite that doesn't work anymore (supposedly) and all of our USA-ian interesting nonoperative satellites:
Salvage 1 has a ship made out of of a Texaco gasoline Semi-trailer with cement mixer as the capsule.
Where's Andy Griffith and Isaac Asimov when you need them? ;>)
Or they could be asking because they genuinely want to hear not the opinons of others but commentary about their experiences with different languages. Asking about "choosing between X, Y, or Z in the group of things related by W" often brings answers that are not just
-- a terse "Use X"
-- but also "did you ever consider C?"
-- or "did you ever consider APL?" and also
-- "I did C# and regretted it because I forgot that the # can also be read out loud as POUND and not just as SHARP and I got C##'ed"
-- "I learned French but found it not so useful here in southern california. I added Spanish and found it useful in more everyday situations and in following the soccer games broadcast from across the border. GOOOOOOOAL!"
;>)
Hearing from more than just one person can provide a larger basket of opinions. Separating the wheat from the chaff may be tougher; that's why there moderation and scoring on here, right?
Good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule: means that as long as the police thought that they had a valid warrant, their behavior is acceptable and that such illegally obtained evidence may be presented rather than excluded. But the point of the exclusionary rule is to stop police/prosecutor misconduct by not rewarding inappropriate behavior. A good faith exception means you can be sneaky and side-step the law by having a detective obtain a search warrant in bad faith (by providing or proclaming certain facts which are known to be untrue) and then by having separate police officers "act in good faith" by carrying out that warrant. :>) ]
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Why is it that for civilians/non-law-officers the concept is "ignorance of the law is no excuse"? Police instead get the "well as long as you intended/meant to do good, it's alright..." Regular people are held to the letter of the law even if they are not aware of the existence of the law. Why should police/detectives/prosecutors be rewarded for gaming the system or for an illegal search warrant? [warning, IANAL and this post strongly follows the story line of something from Law and Order about one or two years ago...
Yes, there are lots of other false come-ons for lead generation. The other standard one you see near the side of cash-registers at pizza places (at Little Caesars in Kearny Mesa) or other restaurants or at the entry/exit of gyms: little entry boxes that you stuff with your contact info and email and cell phone number in the hopes of "winning a cruise!" or of getting "a free vacation!". Of course, the only thing that really comes out of this is that your contact information which you've willing released is sold on to marketers everywhere. One friend of mine XX filled out another friend's (YY) contact info on a slip just to annoy YY.
Gracias! Pardon my misunderstanding, and Thanks for telling me. The first thing that came to my mind was M.I.T. the school in Massachusetts. (My dad said that when he first moved to San Diego he kept misreading the "S.D." initials in the local paper as "South Dakota" and kept wondering why they would print so much news about South Dakota here in California. His "L.A." frame of mind must have rubbed off on me) Good luck with your Masters Degree!
wow! Thanks for all of the info. Where can I read more details like this? {besides here on /. ;>) . . .}
re: "the technology field as we know it would be completely different"
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Yes and no. There would be a different balance of powers. But I'm willing to bet that there would have been some other one or two or three person company that would instead have become the leader in supplying personal computers. And that other company would also probably have had a mix of creative talent and marketing/sales talent.
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The converse of your specific example is also true. If Jobs hadn't teamed with Wozniak, perhaps Jobs might not have gotten as far in his life either. Or perhaps he would have found another partner to work with. Perhaps even Woz might have talked to someone else at HP who could have seen his talents and his electronic creations and a different company might have arisen near Sand Hill Drive.
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As the song says, "Perhaps... Perhaps... Perhaps!"
And how long will this really last before they're stopped?
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How soon will it be before they get charged with secretly supporting terrorism by money laundering? Or to make it scarier in the internet domain, get charged with secretly supporting child prnography with these washed/laundered funding mechanisms? Isn't that why Visa and Mastercard jumped to quickly block funding?
i don't get what you're implying... (sarcasm, in case anyone wants to respond to me with a "whoosh!" comment") [also a comment on people who confuse/misuse "infer" and "imply" in place of each other].