Any song you buy on iTunes is automatically available to download on your device. Plus if you pay the 25 bucks a year fee, any song you obtained elsewhere (ripped from CD, bought from amazon, bought from allofmp3, pirated, whatever) that can be matched to a song on iTunes, you get the iTunes copy to download to your device. And if the song you have cant be matched to an iTunes song (e.g. songs from artists not willing to sign up to iTunes, songs from your mates band, that leaked copy of the new album that's not in stores yet etc) it gets uploaded to the cloud and can be downloaded to your device.
The obvious answer is that airlines should bring in strict cabin baggage limits and enforce them. If your bag is larger than a certain size, tough, either check it in or it wont go on the airplane. Solves the problem of people trying to fit bags that are too big into the overhead lockers.
Based on the fact that the code contains addresses in the names of some functions (mysub_SessionManager_CMD_RECV_Process_00788E80 for example) and based on the mentions of "Hexrays" in the source, this was most likely reverse engineered using IDA pro and the HexRays decompiler. (HexRays is a great tool, I use it myself for some things)
It depends on where you get the degree. If your CS degree is from a degree mill or a local community college, it wont matter to the employers.
But if its from a reputable university (especially one often associated with "tech" and "computers" like MIT or otherwise with a reputation for computer science) it will likely help.
Another example of where "big agriculture" got involved was in IRAQ after the fall of Saddam. The provisional administrator in IRAQ passed a regulation requiring the use of GM wheat from the big companies like Monsanto. Said regulation was drawn up by the US department of agriculture. At that point in time, the higher-ups in the USDA had previously been high-ups in big agriculture companies.
Or take the example of the guy who got sued because he had a machine that was used in the saving-and-reusing of Canola seeds. Monsanto basically said that unless he can prove in court that not a single Monsanto GM seed had passed through his machine, he should be forced to pay big bucks and to get rid of his machine.
Or for that matter, new regulation being pushed through US congress that effectively bans organic farming, farmers markets, small guys selling food directly from their farm etc. I cant find an exact cite for it or its current status but I do know there was a huge uproar because of what it did and because of how much power it gave to the big agriculture firms (I think one version of the bill even regulated people growing food for their own use and people killing wild animals or catching fish for their own use)
What most people ignore (but that a LOT more people should be focusing on) is energy efficiency. We should be making it MUCH easier for consumers to compare running costs of everything from air conditioners to plasma TVs to George Foreman grills so they can make an informed decision based on how much electricity those devices need.
If people could see how much the running costs were on the Sony TV vs the LG TV vs the Samsung TV, they are likely to factor that into their purchasing decisions. Even more so for high energy use products like hot water systems, fridges, freezers, washing machines, clothes dryers, dish washers, ovens and air conditioners
Factory farming (mostly enabled via the production of corn for animal feed at prices far below the actual cost to produce thanks to subsidies) is the reason why Americans can get a hamburger for just $1. Its also one of the biggest reasons why modern Americans are the fattest people in the history of humanity.
Does this mean that I will be able to buy whatever the sequel to the Desire Z is and flash a new kernel and software without the need to use exploits to do it?
The first Android vendor who makes a phone with a decent physical keyboard and touchscreen, 900/2100 UMTS, the latest version of Android and NO locks preventing me from replacing the kernel and root filesystem will get my business when I replace my current phone.
Unless hell freezes over and Nokia releases a decent sequel to the N900.
Pascal has pointers and has ever since I first started programming with Turbo Pascal 6 (although whether pointers were a Borland addition or part of the language I dont know:)
How an injunction granted by a UK court can apply to a web site hosted in the US or to users of that web site who are located in countries other than the UK.
Yep, its all about control. Before Napster, YouTube, BitTorrent etc came along, the only way to get entertainment content distributed to the masses was to go through a big media company with the capability to distribute that content. Same with news, if you wanted news you had to switch on CNN or Fox or NBC or whatever. Or go to one of the big news sites (also owned by CNN or Fox or NBC or whatever). Or you could read a newspaper (or visit a newspaper website). But now thanks to social media and other sources, your options for finding out whats going on in the world are growing, including options that give you all the stories that the old-guard has decided to ignore.
The dinosaur media companies are worried that they will lose their status as the arbiters of what content people consume (and the profit that goes with that status) and will do ANYTHING they can to stop that from happening. Some examples of where the big media companies have tried to protect their business models: 1.Richard Branson (of Virgin fame) wanted to open a movie theater chain in the UK designed to have the lowest possible overheads so he could offer lower ticket prices. Even though he was going to pay the studios exactly the same amount as every other cinema in the UK, the studios refused to allow him to operate this model 2.If you wish to have music (live or pre-recorded) in a venue, you have to deal with/pay license fees to "rights organizations" even if you have written permission from all the copyright holders of all the music being played. 3.Just as with live music, if you want to stream music online, you have to file mountains of paperwork and pay fees even if you have permission from the copyright holders of all the content you are streaming on your streaming station. 4.You can't produce a blu-ray disk (with menus and etc) that plays in a normal blu-ray player unless its a pressed disk (not a burnt one) and unless it is protected with AACS. 5.Attacks by Rupert Murdoch (and others) against the BBC (and specifically against the BBC online news site) because the BBC gives away content at a price (free) that is impossible for Murdoch and the others to match and still stay in business. 6.Any one of a number of cellphones where you can only load content (e.g. ringtones) from "authorized" sources.
My modem says I get a notional 16Mb/s, speedtest.net says I get somewhere in the neighborhood of 14Mb/s and I have actually seen real-world numbers approaching that when downloading large files.
If the CIA etc really wanted to infect these things, why wouldn't they just infect the machines at the factory then use a front company to sell them to IRAN or whoever on the cheap.
I remember seeing a JAG episode once where the spooks deliberatly allowed some bad guys to steal an F-14 and extract its control software (knowing that the software was to be given to IRAN for an upgrade of its F-14s and knowing that the software was deliberatly defective) and I see no reason it couldn't happen in the real world.
Find a friend or workmate and borrow their phone for the call. Go into a carrier store and report it (and get a new SIM card and possibly a new phone at the same time). Find another phone somewhere you can use.
3D is not the real problem (done right by someone who knows what they are doing, e.g. James Camron and Avatar it can be good), its films shot in 2D and then "upconverted" to "fake" 3D. Either old films redone in 3D to make a buck *cough*Star Wars*cough* or new films shot in 2D because shooting in 3D is more expensive than shooting in 2D and upconverting into 3D later. (the recent THOR film is good example of the latter)
If they actually shoot this film in 3D (or bits of it in 3D and bits in 2D like they did with Tron Legacy), it could work. If they shoot it in 2D then upconvert the film (or bits of it) into 3D later, forget about it.
Would work on any device from a mobile phone through to that shiny new 100" plasma TV you bought (the one with the inbuilt web browser)
No I dont have any connection to these guys, I just think their product is a brilliant idea and it could eliminate phishing almost entirely with far less cost to the banks than any of the electronic devices (SecurID, little calculators to generate special hashes etc) currently being used by some institutions.
The real answer is that the tax system shouldn't be favoring one kind of crop over another.
Eliminate sales tax, GST, VAT, land tax, fringe benefits tax, capital gains tax, cellphone tax, luxury tax, gas tax etc. Eliminate all the loopholes, deductions, earmarks and special crap.
Declare a list of what counts as "income" and what doesn't and then everything is taxed with the normal sliding scale of income tax. Because everyone is being charged income on things that weren't counted as income before and because all the deductions and crap are gone, everyone would pay more income tax so you reduce the income tax rates across the board. (and maybe increase the tax bracket thresholds)
In addition to income tax, the only other taxes that would exist are taxes like tobacco tax that exist for public policy reasons. (e.g. taxing tobacco in order to discourage smoking)
The vast amount of subsidies that are given should be changed to be more focused on specific outcomes.
For example all subsidies for the airlines should be removed and replaced with subsidies for specific air routes and destinations that would otherwise not receive service due to not being profitable enough without a subsidy.
There is no such thing as a cellphone with a good camera. I have a Canon IXUS 80IS entry level point & shoot and I can guarantee that its going to take better photos than all the cellphones I have seen with their tiny lens and sensor (and fixed focal length/lack of optical zoom)
Having a cellphone camera is great for taking photos when you have no other camera. But using a cellphone to take photos instead of investing in a good entry-level digicam when you want to actually go out somewhere with the intent to take photos is stupid.
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Any song you buy on iTunes is automatically available to download on your device.
Plus if you pay the 25 bucks a year fee,
any song you obtained elsewhere (ripped from CD, bought from amazon, bought from allofmp3, pirated, whatever) that can be matched to a song on iTunes, you get the iTunes copy to download to your device.
And if the song you have cant be matched to an iTunes song (e.g. songs from artists not willing to sign up to iTunes, songs from your mates band, that leaked copy of the new album that's not in stores yet etc) it gets uploaded to the cloud and can be downloaded to your device.
Heroes of Might and Magic isn't an adventure game (or a Diablo style RPG), its a turn based strategy game.
That said, it IS fun (if you are patient enough to handle the long wait whilst other players take their turn)
The obvious answer is that airlines should bring in strict cabin baggage limits and enforce them. If your bag is larger than a certain size, tough, either check it in or it wont go on the airplane.
Solves the problem of people trying to fit bags that are too big into the overhead lockers.
Based on the fact that the code contains addresses in the names of some functions (mysub_SessionManager_CMD_RECV_Process_00788E80 for example) and based on the mentions of "Hexrays" in the source, this was most likely reverse engineered using IDA pro and the HexRays decompiler. (HexRays is a great tool, I use it myself for some things)
It depends on where you get the degree.
If your CS degree is from a degree mill or a local community college, it wont matter to the employers.
But if its from a reputable university (especially one often associated with "tech" and "computers" like MIT or otherwise with a reputation for computer science) it will likely help.
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Another example of where "big agriculture" got involved was in IRAQ after the fall of Saddam.
The provisional administrator in IRAQ passed a regulation requiring the use of GM wheat from the big companies like Monsanto. Said regulation was drawn up by the US department of agriculture. At that point in time, the higher-ups in the USDA had previously been high-ups in big agriculture companies.
Or take the example of the guy who got sued because he had a machine that was used in the saving-and-reusing of Canola seeds. Monsanto basically said that unless he can prove in court that not a single Monsanto GM seed had passed through his machine, he should be forced to pay big bucks and to get rid of his machine.
Or for that matter, new regulation being pushed through US congress that effectively bans organic farming, farmers markets, small guys selling food directly from their farm etc. I cant find an exact cite for it or its current status but I do know there was a huge uproar because of what it did and because of how much power it gave to the big agriculture firms (I think one version of the bill even regulated people growing food for their own use and people killing wild animals or catching fish for their own use)
Such labeling doesn't exist around here (but it should)
What most people ignore (but that a LOT more people should be focusing on) is energy efficiency. We should be making it MUCH easier for consumers to compare running costs of everything from air conditioners to plasma TVs to George Foreman grills so they can make an informed decision based on how much electricity those devices need.
If people could see how much the running costs were on the Sony TV vs the LG TV vs the Samsung TV, they are likely to factor that into their purchasing decisions.
Even more so for high energy use products like hot water systems, fridges, freezers, washing machines, clothes dryers, dish washers, ovens and air conditioners
Factory farming (mostly enabled via the production of corn for animal feed at prices far below the actual cost to produce thanks to subsidies) is the reason why Americans can get a hamburger for just $1. Its also one of the biggest reasons why modern Americans are the fattest people in the history of humanity.
Does this mean that I will be able to buy whatever the sequel to the Desire Z is and flash a new kernel and software without the need to use exploits to do it?
The first Android vendor who makes a phone with a decent physical keyboard and touchscreen, 900/2100 UMTS, the latest version of Android and NO locks preventing me from replacing the kernel and root filesystem will get my business when I replace my current phone.
Unless hell freezes over and Nokia releases a decent sequel to the N900.
Brisbane, same as my bag.
I flew out of Perth around xmas on QANTAS and my luggage made it to Brisbane no problems.
Pascal has pointers and has ever since I first started programming with Turbo Pascal 6 (although whether pointers were a Borland addition or part of the language I dont know :)
How an injunction granted by a UK court can apply to a web site hosted in the US or to users of that web site who are located in countries other than the UK.
Yep, its all about control.
Before Napster, YouTube, BitTorrent etc came along, the only way to get entertainment content distributed to the masses was to go through a big media company with the capability to distribute that content.
Same with news, if you wanted news you had to switch on CNN or Fox or NBC or whatever. Or go to one of the big news sites (also owned by CNN or Fox or NBC or whatever). Or you could read a newspaper (or visit a newspaper website). But now thanks to social media and other sources, your options for finding out whats going on in the world are growing, including options that give you all the stories that the old-guard has decided to ignore.
The dinosaur media companies are worried that they will lose their status as the arbiters of what content people consume (and the profit that goes with that status) and will do ANYTHING they can to stop that from happening. Some examples of where the big media companies have tried to protect their business models:
1.Richard Branson (of Virgin fame) wanted to open a movie theater chain in the UK designed to have the lowest possible overheads so he could offer lower ticket prices. Even though he was going to pay the studios exactly the same amount as every other cinema in the UK, the studios refused to allow him to operate this model
2.If you wish to have music (live or pre-recorded) in a venue, you have to deal with/pay license fees to "rights organizations" even if you have written permission from all the copyright holders of all the music being played.
3.Just as with live music, if you want to stream music online, you have to file mountains of paperwork and pay fees even if you have permission from the copyright holders of all the content you are streaming on your streaming station.
4.You can't produce a blu-ray disk (with menus and etc) that plays in a normal blu-ray player unless its a pressed disk (not a burnt one) and unless it is protected with AACS.
5.Attacks by Rupert Murdoch (and others) against the BBC (and specifically against the BBC online news site) because the BBC gives away content at a price (free) that is impossible for Murdoch and the others to match and still stay in business.
6.Any one of a number of cellphones where you can only load content (e.g. ringtones) from "authorized" sources.
My modem says I get a notional 16Mb/s, speedtest.net says I get somewhere in the neighborhood of 14Mb/s and I have actually seen real-world numbers approaching that when downloading large files.
If the CIA etc really wanted to infect these things, why wouldn't they just infect the machines at the factory then use a front company to sell them to IRAN or whoever on the cheap.
I remember seeing a JAG episode once where the spooks deliberatly allowed some bad guys to steal an F-14 and extract its control software (knowing that the software was to be given to IRAN for an upgrade of its F-14s and knowing that the software was deliberatly defective) and I see no reason it couldn't happen in the real world.
Find a friend or workmate and borrow their phone for the call.
Go into a carrier store and report it (and get a new SIM card and possibly a new phone at the same time).
Find another phone somewhere you can use.
To be fair, memory technology that would allow you to fit even 120GB in a space small enough to be implanted into the head is still science-fiction.
3D is not the real problem (done right by someone who knows what they are doing, e.g. James Camron and Avatar it can be good), its films shot in 2D and then "upconverted" to "fake" 3D. Either old films redone in 3D to make a buck *cough*Star Wars*cough* or new films shot in 2D because shooting in 3D is more expensive than shooting in 2D and upconverting into 3D later. (the recent THOR film is good example of the latter)
If they actually shoot this film in 3D (or bits of it in 3D and bits in 2D like they did with Tron Legacy), it could work. If they shoot it in 2D then upconvert the film (or bits of it) into 3D later, forget about it.
Will it be one of their "shared source" licenses or will it be a true open source license like the BSD license or the IBM Common Public License?
Forget about needing expensive hardware. Just use a system like PassWindow
http://www.passwindow.com/
Would work on any device from a mobile phone through to that shiny new 100" plasma TV you bought (the one with the inbuilt web browser)
No I dont have any connection to these guys, I just think their product is a brilliant idea and it could eliminate phishing almost entirely with far less cost to the banks than any of the electronic devices (SecurID, little calculators to generate special hashes etc) currently being used by some institutions.
The real answer is that the tax system shouldn't be favoring one kind of crop over another.
Eliminate sales tax, GST, VAT, land tax, fringe benefits tax, capital gains tax, cellphone tax, luxury tax, gas tax etc.
Eliminate all the loopholes, deductions, earmarks and special crap.
Declare a list of what counts as "income" and what doesn't and then everything is taxed with the normal sliding scale of income tax. Because everyone is being charged income on things that weren't counted as income before and because all the deductions and crap are gone, everyone would pay more income tax so you reduce the income tax rates across the board. (and maybe increase the tax bracket thresholds)
In addition to income tax, the only other taxes that would exist are taxes like tobacco tax that exist for public policy reasons. (e.g. taxing tobacco in order to discourage smoking)
The vast amount of subsidies that are given should be changed to be more focused on specific outcomes.
For example all subsidies for the airlines should be removed and replaced with subsidies for specific air routes and destinations that would otherwise not receive service due to not being profitable enough without a subsidy.
There is no such thing as a cellphone with a good camera.
I have a Canon IXUS 80IS entry level point & shoot and I can guarantee that its going to take better photos than all the cellphones I have seen with their tiny lens and sensor (and fixed focal length/lack of optical zoom)
Having a cellphone camera is great for taking photos when you have no other camera. But using a cellphone to take photos instead of investing in a good entry-level digicam when you want to actually go out somewhere with the intent to take photos is stupid.