Wouldn't work. Alice and Bob have no way of knowing whether the detected correlation is from Victor observing an earthquake, or Victor being instructed to entangle. Alice, Bob, nor Victor have any way of telling how many times this "message" has repeated backwards in time. Your process creates an infinite loop backwards in time "starting" from an earthquake. The lab staff noticing that Alice and Bob have correlated polarization only tells them that a disaster will occur, not "shortly" because the process has no timeout.
You realize if you stole-- PHYSICALLY THIEVED-- and in doing so denied someone else their ownership by removing the album from their car... it would be petit misdemeanor theft ($100), which has a maximum sentence of about $1000 and/or 90 days in jail. Doing a quick scan of the web, most petit thefts gets $300-$500 fine and a year of probation. But no, you're right, copying a CD which doesn't deny the original purchaser's ownership should be in the millions.
Glut!? Sure, there've been a bunch in very recent history, most of them crap, but here's what I don't get-- every year, there's hundreds of new games based on tolkien-esque fantasy (dragons, elves, drawves, etc) and no one ever complains about that glut.
I was amazed how many of these games got passed off as a "GTA clone" or a blatant rip-off or bandwagon... I don't see the hundreds of tolkien genre games all being called rip-offs of Rogue or Wizardry. I don't see every new racing game being dismissed as a clone of Pole Position. I don't see every damn FPS in space being subjected to the "Doom-Clone" treatment or WWII ones shot down as copying Wolfenstein. (although in this last case, many do) Why does GTA and the urban/gangster genres consistently get this kind of treatment???
The ads are there... Currently they're disguised as "Email Beta Tip #n", but the fact that they even put those huge top and side banners in the beta shows us that, yes, in fact, there is going to be huge, obtrusive, annoying, (and hopefully AdBlockable) ads.
I wonder if this is gonna work on any browser other than IE on Windows... Start.com, amazingly, works with Firefox for Windows... (Sorry, haven't checked Firefox for Linux)
Why can't they just co-exist and play nice with Google, rather than insist that they have to compete and overcome Google!? Google is in markets that MS traditionally is NOT in (that is until they saw Google making money in those markets)... Yesh...
Florescent tape on a fencing sabre and some black lights makes a nice glowing effect on COMBAT READY weapons. (Be sure ya got proper head and groin protection.) Sure you need to fight around a few black lights, but most groups that do live fencing/swordfighting have some sort of restricted area they fight in. Yeah, it doesn't look QUITE right, but it DOESN'T EXPLODE! Plus on video, it does look pretty convincing.
What really cheeses me off about this whole thing (even though the article is cool and idea of statistically generating music is very interesting to me) is how he describes Pitchfork as a review source of "pop" music and then turns around and describes their dislike for "coporate" or "capitalist" music-- in other words, POPULAR music. If it's not popular, isn't it not "pop"? I thought that's what "pop" stood for. So what Pitchfork is about isn't popular/pop music, but indie artists.
And on an aside for what cheeses me off is people who automatically discredit anything popular. Yes, as a musician, I have a visceral reaction to fake corporately built music a la Spears, nsync, etc. but people like the reviewers on Pitchfork who would love a group like Disturbed (who, living near Chicago, I knew of before the broke) when no one knows them only to turn on them as soon as they start selling CDs need to be shot along with every "too cool for the room" asshole in a black beret.
Don't worry, SAG is already having a fit over this and is having emergency closed session meetings to figure out how they can get money out of these "actors" who aren't paid in the first place, don't need their representation, and certainly would not benefit from paying union dues.
Shit, he lives up the street from me!!! Good thing I don't have kids, in that school district or otherwise!
Christ if busybody parents want to sue over something, they should sue the NEA (teachers union) and the article should read something like this:
"Both news.com and Wired are reporting that an Illinois school district is being sued by parents over their use of a teachers union at a local elementary school. Apparently the parents of 5 students are concerned about potential health risks to their children by the lack of education. The parents are seeking class-action status for their suit, which seeks to halt the use of ineffective teachers but does not ask for monetary damages. The complete complaint is also available for your reading pleasure on screwtheneanews.com."
Them running software on my computer without my permission
Actually you gave them permission when you inserted the CD. If you don't like programs autorunning, it's very easy to disable.
So... okay follow me here... By disabling Autorun, I've circumvented copyright protection-- therefore violating the DMCA. Microsoft has provided, and sold, me the tools used to circumvent that copy protection-- are they therefore also violating the DMCA then?
Someone actually needs to develop a small alpha numeric keypad that's optimized for two-thumb typing, like they did for stylus typing w/ FITALY... Neither QWERTY or ABCDEF are--- and neither is T9.
And for the record, this thing looks as ugly as Anna Nicole.
Nope, still dumb.. How many of us QWERTY users shudder when we approach something that has a keyboard arranged ABCDEFG? Ugh! Not optimized in the slightest! (I know, neither is QWERTY, but atleast we're used to it!)
What I wonder is why no one's invested in finding a unique letter layout that's optimized for two-thumb typing... Kinda like the way the FITALY people developed that layout with stylus-tapping in mind, the keyboard could be arraged in four columns like the one in this article, and then arrange the letters so they're most optimized-- i.e. by analyzing letter-pairs in most english text, one finds out that many pairs are more popular than others, and the best solution would be something that keeps alternating between sides.
Unfortunately, Sharp doesn't appear to be in any hurry to release an english version of the Zaurus c760 (Same form factor as this Clie), which would be more expensive and wouldn't inlcude the bluetooth, wireless, and camera that make this device so spiffy.
And you'll NEVER see a PocketPC in this form factor. Microsoft very narrowly dictates the hardware that a PocketPC device can have. The closest you'll ever come is a iPaq with a detachable thumboard.
I was sitting at my desk that night where my windows face east (I'm northeast of where the explosion was), and remember thinking "Wow.. Lightning", and didn't think anything of it. bah...
People as far away as in Hammond, Indiana were calling into radio stations say they saw the explosion and the trail of sparks afterwards.
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Anyone who's got a PDA and has bought any software from http://www.handago.com knows how this can work very well. I can go download the software any time I want, I just have to authenticate myself by giving them the last 4 digits of the credit card number I used.
This guy gave his full name, and an almost-specific location of his new house... Would you have if you knew you were one of the most hated people on the internet?
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Wouldn't work. Alice and Bob have no way of knowing whether the detected correlation is from Victor observing an earthquake, or Victor being instructed to entangle. Alice, Bob, nor Victor have any way of telling how many times this "message" has repeated backwards in time. Your process creates an infinite loop backwards in time "starting" from an earthquake. The lab staff noticing that Alice and Bob have correlated polarization only tells them that a disaster will occur, not "shortly" because the process has no timeout.
Probably safest not to bite any midges OR hobbits.
You realize if you stole-- PHYSICALLY THIEVED-- and in doing so denied someone else their ownership by removing the album from their car... it would be petit misdemeanor theft ($100), which has a maximum sentence of about $1000 and/or 90 days in jail. Doing a quick scan of the web, most petit thefts gets $300-$500 fine and a year of probation. But no, you're right, copying a CD which doesn't deny the original purchaser's ownership should be in the millions.
Glut!? Sure, there've been a bunch in very recent history, most of them crap, but here's what I don't get-- every year, there's hundreds of new games based on tolkien-esque fantasy (dragons, elves, drawves, etc) and no one ever complains about that glut.
I was amazed how many of these games got passed off as a "GTA clone" or a blatant rip-off or bandwagon... I don't see the hundreds of tolkien genre games all being called rip-offs of Rogue or Wizardry. I don't see every new racing game being dismissed as a clone of Pole Position. I don't see every damn FPS in space being subjected to the "Doom-Clone" treatment or WWII ones shot down as copying Wolfenstein. (although in this last case, many do) Why does GTA and the urban/gangster genres consistently get this kind of treatment???
"WMP is a product that M$ got right."
No.
The ads are there... Currently they're disguised as "Email Beta Tip #n", but the fact that they even put those huge top and side banners in the beta shows us that, yes, in fact, there is going to be huge, obtrusive, annoying, (and hopefully AdBlockable) ads.
I wonder if this is gonna work on any browser other than IE on Windows... Start.com, amazingly, works with Firefox for Windows... (Sorry, haven't checked Firefox for Linux)
Why can't they just co-exist and play nice with Google, rather than insist that they have to compete and overcome Google!? Google is in markets that MS traditionally is NOT in (that is until they saw Google making money in those markets)... Yesh...
Florescent tape on a fencing sabre and some black lights makes a nice glowing effect on COMBAT READY weapons. (Be sure ya got proper head and groin protection.) Sure you need to fight around a few black lights, but most groups that do live fencing/swordfighting have some sort of restricted area they fight in. Yeah, it doesn't look QUITE right, but it DOESN'T EXPLODE! Plus on video, it does look pretty convincing.
How long before people making brute-force dictionary searchers use the internet to find popular phrases and make acronym brute-force guesses?
What really cheeses me off about this whole thing (even though the article is cool and idea of statistically generating music is very interesting to me) is how he describes Pitchfork as a review source of "pop" music and then turns around and describes their dislike for "coporate" or "capitalist" music-- in other words, POPULAR music. If it's not popular, isn't it not "pop"? I thought that's what "pop" stood for. So what Pitchfork is about isn't popular/pop music, but indie artists.
And on an aside for what cheeses me off is people who automatically discredit anything popular. Yes, as a musician, I have a visceral reaction to fake corporately built music a la Spears, nsync, etc. but people like the reviewers on Pitchfork who would love a group like Disturbed (who, living near Chicago, I knew of before the broke) when no one knows them only to turn on them as soon as they start selling CDs need to be shot along with every "too cool for the room" asshole in a black beret.
Don't worry, SAG is already having a fit over this and is having emergency closed session meetings to figure out how they can get money out of these "actors" who aren't paid in the first place, don't need their representation, and certainly would not benefit from paying union dues.
Shit, he lives up the street from me!!! Good thing I don't have kids, in that school district or otherwise!
Christ if busybody parents want to sue over something, they should sue the NEA (teachers union) and the article should read something like this:
"Both news.com and Wired are reporting that an Illinois school district is being sued by parents over their use of a teachers union at a local elementary school. Apparently the parents of 5 students are concerned about potential health risks to their children by the lack of education. The parents are seeking class-action status for their suit, which seeks to halt the use of ineffective teachers but does not ask for monetary damages. The complete complaint is also available for your reading pleasure on screwtheneanews.com."
Them running software on my computer without my permission
Actually you gave them permission when you inserted the CD. If you don't like programs autorunning, it's very easy to disable.
So... okay follow me here... By disabling Autorun, I've circumvented copyright protection-- therefore violating the DMCA. Microsoft has provided, and sold, me the tools used to circumvent that copy protection-- are they therefore also violating the DMCA then?
Someone actually needs to develop a small alpha numeric keypad that's optimized for two-thumb typing, like they did for stylus typing w/ FITALY... Neither QWERTY or ABCDEF are--- and neither is T9.
And for the record, this thing looks as ugly as Anna Nicole.
Nope, still dumb.. How many of us QWERTY users shudder when we approach something that has a keyboard arranged ABCDEFG? Ugh! Not optimized in the slightest! (I know, neither is QWERTY, but atleast we're used to it!)
What I wonder is why no one's invested in finding a unique letter layout that's optimized for two-thumb typing... Kinda like the way the FITALY people developed that layout with stylus-tapping in mind, the keyboard could be arraged in four columns like the one in this article, and then arrange the letters so they're most optimized-- i.e. by analyzing letter-pairs in most english text, one finds out that many pairs are more popular than others, and the best solution would be something that keeps alternating between sides.
Acutally this may be something unprecedented: Some new "innovation" from Microsoft that they actually developped rather than bought or stole?
Add this one to the Microsoft Hall of Innovations.
Rob Schneider dee durpee durp deedup dee durp!
Unfortunately, Sharp doesn't appear to be in any hurry to release an english version of the Zaurus c760 (Same form factor as this Clie), which would be more expensive and wouldn't inlcude the bluetooth, wireless, and camera that make this device so spiffy.
And you'll NEVER see a PocketPC in this form factor. Microsoft very narrowly dictates the hardware that a PocketPC device can have. The closest you'll ever come is a iPaq with a detachable thumboard.
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No just combine this initiative with RIAA's desire to be able to remotely disable Swappers' computers, and remotely diable open-relays.
I was sitting at my desk that night where my windows face east (I'm northeast of where the explosion was), and remember thinking "Wow.. Lightning", and didn't think anything of it. bah...
People as far away as in Hammond, Indiana were calling into radio stations say they saw the explosion and the trail of sparks afterwards.
Anyone who's got a PDA and has bought any software from http://www.handago.com knows how this can work very well. I can go download the software any time I want, I just have to authenticate myself by giving them the last 4 digits of the credit card number I used.
This guy gave his full name, and an almost-specific location of his new house... Would you have if you knew you were one of the most hated people on the internet?
Can't use Gnutella if connections are throttled to 1 per second...
Can't play Quake if connections are throttled to 1 per second...
Matthew Williamson deserves to be throttled once per second...
Set up a small, secure server on your mom's computer. She'll never notice the ftp server running, and hopefully she'll never notice the missing 8 gig.
While I agree that 'r', 'u', '2' are not valid replacements for "are", "you", and "to", I can:
Dr., Mr., Mrs., Inc., Co., etc., vol., ed., assoc., IL, FL, CA (etc) are all very acceptable in the most formal written english...