Thomas A. Anderson is specialized in killing Agents, John Connor in killing Terminators, and now M.J. Keith kill Androids... that comes just in time when Hollywood was running out of ideas for a new movie.
With pretty long battery duration (15+ hs?) and very low cost (not a lot of local storage required, no software licences, etc... maybe less than US$100?) it could have an edge. Ok, maybe more than an edge, a 3g, as probably cellphone companies could bundle them for close to free with data contracts.
Instead of hitting the right spot, you have to "draw" something around those sectors. But drawing letters requires a not so different effort (if you want, old palm simplification of letters instead of "correct" ones) and this seem to have a steep learning curve. Still prefer my old N900 keyboard, if you can write complex shell commands and regular expressions with it, it must be good.
Yes! DST should the culprit. In fact, i would go a bit further, why to have such complex timezones if anyway don't always say when is day and when is night? Lets go all the world to UTC and a fixed clock will work right everywhere, even in space (unless you travel too fast, of course)
But that don't take out the blame from the software. DSTs are around since a century ago, so you have to deal with them. And is something usually well handled by software, unless you have badly defined the timezones or have a coding bug, So if well DSTs could be wrong or right, implementing them badly is Apple's fault.
The input potentially is not coming from a representative sample of the voters, but from the people that is willing to search for it, if the voters for one of the options are more probable to do that than the ones for the other option (for direct or indirect reasons).
Don't mix Google the search engine (probably the biggest one in internet, that have their own small ads in the results), with Google the ad network with a lot of big and small competitors, where webmasters decide to put their ads, and how. If you complain about internet pollution because a site is having too much ads, is probably webmaster/designer fault, not Google.
Im usually critical to facebook, and how "respectful" is to users, and would be screaming because of this one if werent quitted it a year ago. But the trend in something as big as facebook have a potential.. What if facebook and their "bad according with our culture" privacy measures instead of making a mass exodus of users actually do a big change on the global culture around that? I mean, IS already doing changes in our culture, in most countries (maybe except north korea and a few others), but usually taking the way of lesser resistence, but what about harder to do changes?
Internet is a disruptive technology, is making changes in our civilization and culture, some of them facing resistence (i.e. *AA, patents and copyright groups) and some not. And some popular enough sites (from google to 4chan) are doing its share of changing us. But what if they move us to dangerous waters? Things could get worse than mothers killing their kids because don't let them playing Farmville.
Physical activity (i.e. not just playing in computer/cellphone or watching tv) is an important factor... and they are in te right place to promote or enforce them.
.. is that you cant avoid thinking. In voice controlled interfaces exist the problem of what happens when you talk with someone, but with tougth, is just worse. Imagine that the computer detect the pattern needed for some action when you watch porn, or read a particular word or phrase (that could get a new via for malware)
now all that contributed in some way with the development of linux can reclaim MS their (retroactive) salary! Even the ones that work for competitors like IBM, Oracle or RedHat.
If they want to damage us, wont be more efficient to just change the curse of an asteroid so it hits earth? Oh, the need the money, but dont carre about damege then? auction nukes then, or spy satellites. There are less evil people looking for buying nukes than patent trolls by now, but still they could manage to get a sell.
For some of the botnet activities, size matters. If want to steal cc numbers or passwords, being in more places mean more chances to get something useful. Other common use of botnets is sending spam, where more machines=better (harder to block because the numbers, and less chances to fill the bandwidth of those computers, and be noticed because that, if want to send a lot of spam).
Instead of just going small, there are 2 tactics that could be used by botnets: try being more stealth (i.e. sending out information only when the user does), or resizing by quality of the machines they run on (i.e. stay active only in machines where actually they are putting credit card info, or their spam is not being bounced, or having better bandwidth)
MeeGo seem to be targetted for the same kind of devices than Android, but as still didnt come out to compete. In cellphones Nokia won't take out cellphones with it till next year, and other devices with it are slow to come out, if any (WeTab? cars?). So so far is only having a good potential, only time will tell.
Regarding apps, there the needed skill will be more likely Qt instead of Java. There the apps have the potential to run or be easily ported in more things than just MeeGo, like desktop operating systems (or even other mobile operating systems).
The last part of the equation could be the market, where ive hear some concerns about Android one. That is a factor in the flow of apps for that platform. Will be an app market for Meego too (appupp? ovi?), but not a lot of apps yet, so not sure if it will catch steam. At least in that front, from the Maemo experience, a good number of linux apps can be ported to it (and most maemo apps)
Wonder how important would have been Abby's brain. All the others in the Normal family were pretty average, but he was truly special, according to his doctor Frederick F.
For once, Slashdot has been too fast publishing an article. This one should have been released in Halloween, telling that scientists are competing with zombies in the used brains market or something similar.
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Thomas A. Anderson is specialized in killing Agents, John Connor in killing Terminators, and now M.J. Keith kill Androids... that comes just in time when Hollywood was running out of ideas for a new movie.
Photoshop didnt invented photo retouching as most in the western world seem to believe.
With pretty long battery duration (15+ hs?) and very low cost (not a lot of local storage required, no software licences, etc... maybe less than US$100?) it could have an edge. Ok, maybe more than an edge, a 3g, as probably cellphone companies could bundle them for close to free with data contracts.
Instead of hitting the right spot, you have to "draw" something around those sectors. But drawing letters requires a not so different effort (if you want, old palm simplification of letters instead of "correct" ones) and this seem to have a steep learning curve. Still prefer my old N900 keyboard, if you can write complex shell commands and regular expressions with it, it must be good.
Yes! DST should the culprit. In fact, i would go a bit further, why to have such complex timezones if anyway don't always say when is day and when is night? Lets go all the world to UTC and a fixed clock will work right everywhere, even in space (unless you travel too fast, of course)
But that don't take out the blame from the software. DSTs are around since a century ago, so you have to deal with them. And is something usually well handled by software, unless you have badly defined the timezones or have a coding bug, So if well DSTs could be wrong or right, implementing them badly is Apple's fault.
This bug don't work, woke up an hour later and got fired.
xkcd. Maybe the question is not how much we need math, is how much everything else needs it.
The input potentially is not coming from a representative sample of the voters, but from the people that is willing to search for it, if the voters for one of the options are more probable to do that than the ones for the other option (for direct or indirect reasons).
Don't mix Google the search engine (probably the biggest one in internet, that have their own small ads in the results), with Google the ad network with a lot of big and small competitors, where webmasters decide to put their ads, and how. If you complain about internet pollution because a site is having too much ads, is probably webmaster/designer fault, not Google.
Maybe is ok to forget stupidity, but what about malice? We got already too much rewriting of history to let that happens.
for 80 Billon of budget their should be the only ones that knows everything that God does.
Im usually critical to facebook, and how "respectful" is to users, and would be screaming because of this one if werent quitted it a year ago. But the trend in something as big as facebook have a potential.. What if facebook and their "bad according with our culture" privacy measures instead of making a mass exodus of users actually do a big change on the global culture around that? I mean, IS already doing changes in our culture, in most countries (maybe except north korea and a few others), but usually taking the way of lesser resistence, but what about harder to do changes?
Internet is a disruptive technology, is making changes in our civilization and culture, some of them facing resistence (i.e. *AA, patents and copyright groups) and some not. And some popular enough sites (from google to 4chan) are doing its share of changing us. But what if they move us to dangerous waters? Things could get worse than mothers killing their kids because don't let them playing Farmville.
Is not just the hardware, but what your OS enable to do with it.
Physical activity (i.e. not just playing in computer/cellphone or watching tv) is an important factor... and they are in te right place to promote or enforce them.
.. is that you cant avoid thinking. In voice controlled interfaces exist the problem of what happens when you talk with someone, but with tougth, is just worse. Imagine that the computer detect the pattern needed for some action when you watch porn, or read a particular word or phrase (that could get a new via for malware)
now all that contributed in some way with the development of linux can reclaim MS their (retroactive) salary! Even the ones that work for competitors like IBM, Oracle or RedHat.
If they want to damage us, wont be more efficient to just change the curse of an asteroid so it hits earth?
Oh, the need the money, but dont carre about damege then? auction nukes then, or spy satellites. There are less evil people looking for buying nukes than patent trolls by now, but still they could manage to get a sell.
Instead of doing a step forward, force all the others do a step backward
Your privacy will be at big risk connecting with domains that end in facebook.com
Dont attribute to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by stupidity
For some of the botnet activities, size matters. If want to steal cc numbers or passwords, being in more places mean more chances to get something useful. Other common use of botnets is sending spam, where more machines=better (harder to block because the numbers, and less chances to fill the bandwidth of those computers, and be noticed because that, if want to send a lot of spam).
Instead of just going small, there are 2 tactics that could be used by botnets: try being more stealth (i.e. sending out information only when the user does), or resizing by quality of the machines they run on (i.e. stay active only in machines where actually they are putting credit card info, or their spam is not being bounced, or having better bandwidth)
MeeGo seem to be targetted for the same kind of devices than Android, but as still didnt come out to compete. In cellphones Nokia won't take out cellphones with it till next year, and other devices with it are slow to come out, if any (WeTab? cars?). So so far is only having a good potential, only time will tell.
Regarding apps, there the needed skill will be more likely Qt instead of Java. There the apps have the potential to run or be easily ported in more things than just MeeGo, like desktop operating systems (or even other mobile operating systems).
The last part of the equation could be the market, where ive hear some concerns about Android one. That is a factor in the flow of apps for that platform. Will be an app market for Meego too (appupp? ovi?), but not a lot of apps yet, so not sure if it will catch steam. At least in that front, from the Maemo experience, a good number of linux apps can be ported to it (and most maemo apps)
Wonder how important would have been Abby's brain. All the others in the Normal family were pretty average, but he was truly special, according to his doctor Frederick F.
For once, Slashdot has been too fast publishing an article. This one should have been released in Halloween, telling that scientists are competing with zombies in the used brains market or something similar.
Must be true AI to take out the biggest security problem... the user.