A couple more might join the fray, but the lines have essentially already been drawn, with everyone gunning for iTunes to take chunks out of its share. That could well happen; the ongoing supremacy of Steve Jobs's baby is far from guaranteed. Once someone else figures out a model that works better for the consumer, actually listening to and providing what customers really want, all bets will be off. And, sure as eggs is eggs, it'll happen.
I don't buy that. What the consumers want is 95% of what Apple is already delivering. Consumers prefer ala carte music tracks to forced albums or subscription models by far. Consumers want ease of use and they want simplicity. They want an all-in-one solution. The only way you can beat Apple now is on price or on freedom (no DRM portability-type freedom). Apple probably has enough clout to beat most competitors on price and the RIAA simply isn't going to agree to any less restrictive DRM or DRM free solutions.
Its too bad "all bets will be off." Apple keeping their dominance is a bet I'd gladly take.
-- Elephant Essays - Custom Ivy-league papers at community college prices.
Actually, this was allowed. As the article notes they were highly suspicious of the press, because they thought he could actually be a member of the opposing team. You are right though, with the teams sitting in front of the computers the whole time, the chances of any social engineering hacks were pretty limited and real systems admins can't be at every computer all the time.
The stub title says Students vs. Hackers, but the article seams to imply that students were divided into a red team and a blue team and had to hack each others systems. Notable events include the red team attempting to secure their router firmware and accidentally killing their router and one team got into the other team's mailbox.
It's interesting that a human could receive image data and be unable to remember what it means, but receive touch data and be able to remember its meaning.
The issue isn't memory, its recognition. Those suffering from autism may not be able to connect to the people around them on a more emotional level, however vibration like from a ringtone is a que to stop doing whatever it is you are doing. It makes perfect sense that someone could not recognize the emotional state of another, but could easily recognize the vibration of a mobile device.
As the article goes on to state, when an item is censored Google will tell you it has censored the searched item to comply with local laws. This sort of censorship where you know something is being kept from you is much less scary than the type where you simply don't know what is being kept from you.
To use your own analogy this would be like Poland Spring putting lead in their water, and then putting a bit notice on every bottle that said "To comply with Chinese law we have put lead in this water."
If you know the water is posion you can choose to drink elsewhere if you wish.
As the article goes on to state, when an item is censored Google will tell you it has censored the searched item to comply with local laws. This sort of censorship where you know something is being kept from you is much less scary than the type where you simply don't know what is being kept from you. Simply providing their search engine to China in censored form, and admitting to users they are being censored isn't evil. What is evil is the Chinese governments restrictions on free speech, but Google can only choose to provide a censored search engine or not provide one at all.
They aren't guessing. It looked exactly like that. Everyone knows that the moon being made of green cheese is a myth, as the picture clearly illustrates, the cheese is yellow. Probably chedder.
1. MS DOS 6.0 has bad compression software that doesn't work and can destroy your data. 2. Microsoft is sued because people bought something, didn't get what they thought they did and are forced to pay more to just get what they should have already had. 3. Supreme court nominee argues based on the technicality that the mere presense of the fault isn't enough to count as an "injury" but you need to actually have destroy data and since the suit wasn't brought forth on that basis, calls for dismissal. 4. Microsoft wins. Lawyers win. People loose.
So remember, if a contractor ever builds your house out of paper mache instead of bricks like he promised, sue only AFTER it collapses.
"Many scientists are objecting to whether the new planet really is a new planet" when they should really be objecting to the fact that this 10th planet is named after a bad fantasy TV show!
I totally agree, but increased automation through these methods will ultimately result in more concentrated centers of wealth. You need plan to smooth out unemployment and wage issues along with it. If you don't, you get your highly automated efficient society, but you also get a little dystopia mixed in.
Actually it doesn't. You are confusing a sentence with a phrase. A search engine like Google rips out most punctutation and so you are really searching for phrases. Phrases can be inside sentences. Imagine a sentence like this:
Some might think Bill Gates is the devil, but I think he is God incarnate.
In this case the phrase would be on the page, but the sentence itself carries the opposite connotation. Many of the Google pages are like this, calling Bill Gates the devil hypothetically or in jest, not out of serious hatred. This seems to follow Bill Gates meaning. In a way he is right.
Now, excuse me while I log off my PowerMac G5 to vomit.
Conduct the radiation up to your head? Its radiation, from the word radiate! It goes out in all directions! Radiation (at least certain types) needs thick lead to block it. Other types are stopped by your skin. Now why in the world would radiation be conducted by a wire? It would either pass through the wire or be stopped by it.
However, there might be a few other good reasons for not putting a radiation-emitting device in your pants;).
You forget that by sending thousands of geeks over to Wikipedia one of them was bound to edit the article. It now contains the update that "On December 19, Slashdot carried the story that he is recovering and returning to work." Eat that turnaround Britannica!
What I believe he means is that dogs are not the product of natural selection, but rather a product of artificial selection.
This situation is fundimentally different from the evolution of dogs because there was no 3rd party species to artificially select for traits in humans. When artificially selecting certain traits it is much easier to speed along evolution, resulting in vastly different traits being exibited by the same species. Here it looks like natural selection created these traits, requiring more time and making us expect species-level differences.
I do, however, share your fear of the word natural and conversly, unnatural. We tend to misappropriate this word to justify all sorts of neferious undertakings.
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A couple more might join the fray, but the lines have essentially already been drawn, with everyone gunning for iTunes to take chunks out of its share. That could well happen; the ongoing supremacy of Steve Jobs's baby is far from guaranteed. Once someone else figures out a model that works better for the consumer, actually listening to and providing what customers really want, all bets will be off. And, sure as eggs is eggs, it'll happen.
I don't buy that. What the consumers want is 95% of what Apple is already delivering. Consumers prefer ala carte music tracks to forced albums or subscription models by far. Consumers want ease of use and they want simplicity. They want an all-in-one solution. The only way you can beat Apple now is on price or on freedom (no DRM portability-type freedom). Apple probably has enough clout to beat most competitors on price and the RIAA simply isn't going to agree to any less restrictive DRM or DRM free solutions.
Its too bad "all bets will be off." Apple keeping their dominance is a bet I'd gladly take.
--
Elephant Essays - Custom Ivy-league papers at community college prices.
Actually, this was allowed. As the article notes they were highly suspicious of the press, because they thought he could actually be a member of the opposing team. You are right though, with the teams sitting in front of the computers the whole time, the chances of any social engineering hacks were pretty limited and real systems admins can't be at every computer all the time.
The stub title says Students vs. Hackers, but the article seams to imply that students were divided into a red team and a blue team and had to hack each others systems. Notable events include the red team attempting to secure their router firmware and accidentally killing their router and one team got into the other team's mailbox.
Exciting stuff...*yawn*
What's so funny about a Virtual Reality Spray Paint Simulator?
As you can see from the picture next to the posting, the device looks remarkably like a spoon.
It's interesting that a human could receive image data and be unable to remember what it means, but receive touch data and be able to remember its meaning.
The issue isn't memory, its recognition. Those suffering from autism may not be able to connect to the people around them on a more emotional level, however vibration like from a ringtone is a que to stop doing whatever it is you are doing. It makes perfect sense that someone could not recognize the emotional state of another, but could easily recognize the vibration of a mobile device.
And for Australia everything else *is* an overseas source, so the answer is 99%. Pretty simple math.
(also...1% is a percent...not a rate...a rate would be like 1000 / spam an hour...silly news people)
Its not a dodge at all. Our current sample size of worlds thoroughly surveyed for life is 1. Its not a very statistically signifigant sample.
I've got to admit obliterating AIDs from the world with only a submachine gun does sound appealing.
I hate slippery slope arguements. You never know if you truely are on a slippery slope or on a plateu in the fog.
As the article goes on to state, when an item is censored Google will tell you it has censored the searched item to comply with local laws. This sort of censorship where you know something is being kept from you is much less scary than the type where you simply don't know what is being kept from you.
To use your own analogy this would be like Poland Spring putting lead in their water, and then putting a bit notice on every bottle that said "To comply with Chinese law we have put lead in this water."
If you know the water is posion you can choose to drink elsewhere if you wish.
As the article goes on to state, when an item is censored Google will tell you it has censored the searched item to comply with local laws. This sort of censorship where you know something is being kept from you is much less scary than the type where you simply don't know what is being kept from you. Simply providing their search engine to China in censored form, and admitting to users they are being censored isn't evil. What is evil is the Chinese governments restrictions on free speech, but Google can only choose to provide a censored search engine or not provide one at all.
They aren't guessing. It looked exactly like that. Everyone knows that the moon being made of green cheese is a myth, as the picture clearly illustrates, the cheese is yellow. Probably chedder.
Short Version:
1. MS DOS 6.0 has bad compression software that doesn't work and can destroy your data.
2. Microsoft is sued because people bought something, didn't get what they thought they did and are forced to pay more to just get what they should have already had.
3. Supreme court nominee argues based on the technicality that the mere presense of the fault isn't enough to count as an "injury" but you need to actually have destroy data and since the suit wasn't brought forth on that basis, calls for dismissal.
4. Microsoft wins. Lawyers win. People loose.
So remember, if a contractor ever builds your house out of paper mache instead of bricks like he promised, sue only AFTER it collapses.
"Many scientists are objecting to whether the new planet really is a new planet" when they should really be objecting to the fact that this 10th planet is named after a bad fantasy TV show!
2 out of 3 of those games are availible for Mac. The OS X port of World of Warcraft is quite nice...level 24 Tauren Hunter myself...;)
is the sign of this restaurant, a deli, in Williamsburg, VA accross the street from The College of William and Mary.
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http://www.visitwilliamsburg.com/college_delly_we
(Go Tribe!)
Mod parent up. Mod me up while your at it. :)
I totally agree, but increased automation through these methods will ultimately result in more concentrated centers of wealth. You need plan to smooth out unemployment and wage issues along with it. If you don't, you get your highly automated efficient society, but you also get a little dystopia mixed in.
Actually it doesn't. You are confusing a sentence with a phrase. A search engine like Google rips out most punctutation and so you are really searching for phrases. Phrases can be inside sentences. Imagine a sentence like this:
Some might think Bill Gates is the devil, but I think he is God incarnate.
In this case the phrase would be on the page, but the sentence itself carries the opposite connotation. Many of the Google pages are like this, calling Bill Gates the devil hypothetically or in jest, not out of serious hatred. This seems to follow Bill Gates meaning. In a way he is right.
Now, excuse me while I log off my PowerMac G5 to vomit.
Fuck yeah!
Conduct the radiation up to your head? Its radiation, from the word radiate! It goes out in all directions! Radiation (at least certain types) needs thick lead to block it. Other types are stopped by your skin. Now why in the world would radiation be conducted by a wire? It would either pass through the wire or be stopped by it.
;).
However, there might be a few other good reasons for not putting a radiation-emitting device in your pants
You forget that by sending thousands of geeks over to Wikipedia one of them was bound to edit the article. It now contains the update that "On December 19, Slashdot carried the story that he is recovering and returning to work." Eat that turnaround Britannica!
This situation is fundimentally different from the evolution of dogs because there was no 3rd party species to artificially select for traits in humans. When artificially selecting certain traits it is much easier to speed along evolution, resulting in vastly different traits being exibited by the same species. Here it looks like natural selection created these traits, requiring more time and making us expect species-level differences.
I do, however, share your fear of the word natural and conversly, unnatural. We tend to misappropriate this word to justify all sorts of neferious undertakings.
Actually, LCD is one of those weird acronyms. It can either stand for:
Liquid Crystal Display
-or-
Liquiod Crystal Diode
Because of this "LCD Display" can actually be a valid usage.