That might work for simple online games where it's mostly about the gameplay (say, EA sports games), but for anything with persistent objects that have value because of their scarcity, it won't make a difference. You need a secure central database/service to prevent hacking, duplicating objects, or whatever other form of cheating people can come up with.
If you let anyone run a mint, money will rapidly lose its value:)
Yeah, some of these are really "top brilliant tech writer jokes". The SGI mouse warning was obviously a joke (and funnier than the author's lame comment about it). Same with the TV antenna (which I think was my personal favorite).
As far as the 3D TV... reminds me of a subtly different message/grammatical error I saw on an LG TV:
"Prevent women, the elderly, children, or sufferers of serious medical conditions should not use the 3D functions of this device."
There is no reason to be hypothetical, and there was no ambiguity - why don't you RTFA first?
His friend REPLIED to his post about taking a hostage, for chrissakes! He had already bragged about shooting at the police, and claimed that police actions might jeopardize her life. The whole thing had been televised for hours, and the SWAT team was present. And his friend's comment was "gunner in the bushes, keep your head down".
Anyway, of course I agree they will have establish intent, but considering the situation described and that these guys literally left a message log of the exact information they were given and the timing of their replies - I think that's not a problem.
This guy is no righteous vigilante, he's been convicted of domestic violence and assault, and was holding a woman at gunpoint.
Hopefully his friends get charged and convicted of obstruction. And if his hostage had been killed, they should have been charged with accessory to murder. Morons.
That would be completely useless, as the entire point of his post was to upload legal music to cloud services, and neither Google Music nor iCloud even supports FLAC.
If it's just a colo, the customers may own their own servers (and be responsible for the software on them as well as backups).
If the servers were important, it's even possible they had a few for redundancy - unfortunately, redundancy is usually designed to account for simple hardware (or software) failures, and doesn't do much good when someone takes ALL of them...
I do use iTunes because I have an iPhone... but I'd hate it a lot less if it would stop overwriting all of my media file associations even after I click everything possible in the installer to tell it not to...
I think you overestimate the IRS's competence as well as motivation for going after someone who is effectively a high-end dumpster diver:)
But regardless of the tax consequences, after this article his Diamond District gold mining days are numbered. As a few posters have pointed out, if you strike a gold vein the LAST thing you want to do is tell everyone where it is! (especially if it's on land you don't own...)
Yeah, Expression Blend is a GUI tool to create animations in XAML/Silverlight.
It has some nice integration with Visual Studio (I have used ActionScript and C#, and much preferred C#), but the animation features definitely don't compare to Flash CS.
Tax rate? You seriously think he's filing income taxes from sifting trash from the gutters? Plus, he lives in Queens. He can probably afford a decent 1BR on what he makes...
Scott Adams has already won plenty of awards. Dilbert is a comic strip, though, not an editorial cartoon.
As for the others - they are great humor/satire websites, but they aren't newspapers. Yes, the Onion is also a print newspaper, and has been for over 20 years...
This isn't about anecdotes, it's about statistics. Many more 24 year olds are living with their parents than buying their own houses. And your anecdote doesn't mean much anyway, you're an anonymous coward...
There is no obfuscation or excuses, unless that's what you call correcting your mistakes. The FACT is, if you want to use it as a relatively short distance commuter car, it IS effectively an electric vehicle. There is no debate about that. And it's a fact that millions of people commute to work in a range where they'd be able to take advantage of that.
Did they overstate the electric range? Maybe, but that's probably because they used the same flawed system to calculate as all of the other mileage-overstated vehicles on the road. As a competitive business, they'd be stupid to do otherwise.
As I said, I think it's overpriced (I'd bet it's possible to build a really cheap all electric commuter car AND a half decent ICE car for less). But it's not remotely similar to a Prius - it is a plug in electric with supplemental IC engine, not a "hybrid".
No, he had "taken all the coursework". The difference between "taken all the coursework" and "finished your dissertation" can be YEARS. He did what a lot of people who take the course but don't do a dissertation did - he accepted a masters and left. Unfortunately he then decided to lie about it...
Cringely isn't even a real person, it's just a pseudonym for an InfoWorld column Mark Stephens (among others) wrote for in the early 90's.
I can't even believe people still reference, let along read, this guy. One of his most famous quotes (after having been caught lying about claiming he had Ph.D. from Stanford): "a new fact has now become painfully clear to me: you don't say you have the Ph.D unless you really have the Ph.D." Really, he had to "learn" that fact? Wonder how many other "facts" he's learned...
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That might work for simple online games where it's mostly about the gameplay (say, EA sports games), but for anything with persistent objects that have value because of their scarcity, it won't make a difference. You need a secure central database/service to prevent hacking, duplicating objects, or whatever other form of cheating people can come up with.
If you let anyone run a mint, money will rapidly lose its value :)
Yeah, some of these are really "top brilliant tech writer jokes". The SGI mouse warning was obviously a joke (and funnier than the author's lame comment about it). Same with the TV antenna (which I think was my personal favorite).
As far as the 3D TV... reminds me of a subtly different message/grammatical error I saw on an LG TV:
"Prevent women, the elderly, children, or sufferers of serious medical conditions should not use the 3D functions of this device."
Healthy young men, only, please!
2 Senators, 4 first names!
They could name it the Ron-Paul-Barney-Frank Bill, and it would sound like 4 senators are sponsoring it. Or 5, if you get really confused.
There is no reason to be hypothetical, and there was no ambiguity - why don't you RTFA first?
His friend REPLIED to his post about taking a hostage, for chrissakes! He had already bragged about shooting at the police, and claimed that police actions might jeopardize her life. The whole thing had been televised for hours, and the SWAT team was present. And his friend's comment was "gunner in the bushes, keep your head down".
Anyway, of course I agree they will have establish intent, but considering the situation described and that these guys literally left a message log of the exact information they were given and the timing of their replies - I think that's not a problem.
This guy is no righteous vigilante, he's been convicted of domestic violence and assault, and was holding a woman at gunpoint.
Hopefully his friends get charged and convicted of obstruction. And if his hostage had been killed, they should have been charged with accessory to murder. Morons.
That would be completely useless, as the entire point of his post was to upload legal music to cloud services, and neither Google Music nor iCloud even supports FLAC.
If it's just a colo, the customers may own their own servers (and be responsible for the software on them as well as backups).
If the servers were important, it's even possible they had a few for redundancy - unfortunately, redundancy is usually designed to account for simple hardware (or software) failures, and doesn't do much good when someone takes ALL of them...
I do use iTunes because I have an iPhone... but I'd hate it a lot less if it would stop overwriting all of my media file associations even after I click everything possible in the installer to tell it not to...
Great bit from U.C.B...
Upright Citizen's Brigade - Ass Pennies
...THAT IMAGE is the best they can do depicting it? It looks like it was photoshopped by a 12 year old.
I think you overestimate the IRS's competence as well as motivation for going after someone who is effectively a high-end dumpster diver :)
But regardless of the tax consequences, after this article his Diamond District gold mining days are numbered. As a few posters have pointed out, if you strike a gold vein the LAST thing you want to do is tell everyone where it is! (especially if it's on land you don't own...)
Yeah, Expression Blend is a GUI tool to create animations in XAML/Silverlight.
It has some nice integration with Visual Studio (I have used ActionScript and C#, and much preferred C#), but the animation features definitely don't compare to Flash CS.
Tax rate? You seriously think he's filing income taxes from sifting trash from the gutters? Plus, he lives in Queens. He can probably afford a decent 1BR on what he makes...
Scott Adams has already won plenty of awards. Dilbert is a comic strip, though, not an editorial cartoon.
As for the others - they are great humor/satire websites, but they aren't newspapers. Yes, the Onion is also a print newspaper, and has been for over 20 years...
Ward Sutton definitely deserves one. Not necessarily for his "Kelly" Onion comics, though, he's done a lot of amazing work...
...and their teeth were probably a mess.
Yep. Once I realized what it really said I was pretty bummed.
Ah, but we can always build more killbots!
This isn't about anecdotes, it's about statistics. Many more 24 year olds are living with their parents than buying their own houses. And your anecdote doesn't mean much anyway, you're an anonymous coward...
There is no obfuscation or excuses, unless that's what you call correcting your mistakes. The FACT is, if you want to use it as a relatively short distance commuter car, it IS effectively an electric vehicle. There is no debate about that. And it's a fact that millions of people commute to work in a range where they'd be able to take advantage of that.
Did they overstate the electric range? Maybe, but that's probably because they used the same flawed system to calculate as all of the other mileage-overstated vehicles on the road. As a competitive business, they'd be stupid to do otherwise.
As I said, I think it's overpriced (I'd bet it's possible to build a really cheap all electric commuter car AND a half decent ICE car for less). But it's not remotely similar to a Prius - it is a plug in electric with supplemental IC engine, not a "hybrid".
Where is my flying ca ...
You from Boston?
You mean because from his typing he seems completely pissed?
No, he had "taken all the coursework". The difference between "taken all the coursework" and "finished your dissertation" can be YEARS. He did what a lot of people who take the course but don't do a dissertation did - he accepted a masters and left. Unfortunately he then decided to lie about it...
Cringely isn't even a real person, it's just a pseudonym for an InfoWorld column Mark Stephens (among others) wrote for in the early 90's.
I can't even believe people still reference, let along read, this guy. One of his most famous quotes (after having been caught lying about claiming he had Ph.D. from Stanford): "a new fact has now become painfully clear to me: you don't say you have the Ph.D unless you really have the Ph.D." Really, he had to "learn" that fact? Wonder how many other "facts" he's learned...
Nah. Electric only for the daily commute and Mr. Fusion for the long trips through time...
My (and MANY others') daily commute round trip is under 25 miles, so the probability of someone making an all electric trip is 1.
Not that I would get one, because it is still way overpriced, and I'd much prefer driving something *fun* on my relatively short daily commute...
And I'll give you all of my Monopoly money, as apparently even Parker Brothers has switched to debit cards.