Perhaps you are confusing different implementations of the API with the 'official' maps page
I'm talking about the space to the left of the map, where it shows your search results, directions, etc. I'm almost positive that's what the person I responded to was talking about. As I said, the equivelant on ask.com maps is easy to hide. Google's doesn't appear to be so easy.
Ask.com's has no dragging or scrolling Maybe you should turn on javascript
doesn't show local things on the map with pop-up details It can pinpoint addresses with the popup bubble, but other than that...I agree
doesn't allow you to click to recenter the map Again, maybe you should turn on javascript
has no satellite photo view Not sure how to explain this one, but there is very clearly an "Aerial" link on the map.
no combined satellite/roadmap view I'll agree
doesn't fill the available browser window space Actually, they are superior to google maps in this aspect. With Google maps, sometimes the sidebar is there and sometimes it isn't, and when it appears I've never been able to figure out an easy way of making it disappear. With ask.com's map, you just click on the panel divider and the sidebar minimizes. It would be better if it were draggable so you could resize it, but even in it's current form I'd say that feature is better than Google Maps
So what exactly would they be doing with 1000 cell phones?
Does the answer to that question really matter? We've now had a couple of groups of arabs arrested for buying quantities of cell phones, and, as far as I know, all have been released without any charges of terrorism filed (though I think some of them were charged with something unrelated...kind of a "since we wasted our time and you were innocent, we'll find something we can get you on to make it worth our while").
The problem is that there was a rush to judgement and arrest made without any sort of investigation taking place. Consider the 2 possibilities that exist:
1) The arabs were involved in terrorist activity. The authorities rushed to arrest them, but in the process, they failed to acquire the necessary evidence to charge them. A good strategy would be to covertly investigate them and get solid evidence with which to charge them. Along the way, the investigation could lead them to learn of other terrorists to whom they were linked. Once they had the evidence in hand, they could then have charged them. Instead, they rushed in and blew the case. Now they A) have nothing on these terrorists and let them get away with whatever they were doing, B) potentially lost out on opportunities to uncover other terrorists, and C) alerted the other terrorists out there that buying quantities of cell phones is a good way to get caught, so avoid that.
2) The arabs were honestly and completely innocent of any connection to terrorism. In this case, the whole situation could likely have been avoided by covert investigation into the matter. Sure, the "arrest them now and sort it out later" method probably saved time and effort for the authorities, but it's a bad idea for all the reasons I pointed out in #1 above. In addition, they have also screwed with the life of innocent people by plastering their names and faces on the news, likely irreversibly negatively affecting their relationships with neighbors and coworkers (now those people will always have suspicions about them). They've also probably scared these people out of doing things that are well within their legal rights to do, simply because they want to avoid anything which could accidentally put them through more inconvenience (ie: a chilling effect)
he can serve his 6 years and still come out a rich man.
I'm not so sure about that. He has to pay $4.1 million, and they are talking about liquidating his assets to collect on it. Granted, he could have stashed a bunch away somewhere that noone knows about. The article doesn't say how much he made selling the software. It mentions that it could have cost the companies more than $20 million, but that doesn't tell you much about what he actually brought in (selling a $100 program for $20, then making $4.1mil "could" have cost the company $20mil in sales).
Notepad on the other hand... has it even learned to do syntax highlighting yet?
Syntax highlighting? Ha! The thing STILL doesn't even handle unix newline characters properly. I'm not holding my breath for that feature, much less syntax highlighting.
in one case it's Criminal Damage, for which you don't call a lawyer but a certain familiar three-digit number beginning with 9
Operator: This is 911, what's your emergency
You: The satellite company has disabled my PVR and now it won't record any programs
Operator: Ok sir, I'll send an officer out right away to fine you for abusing the 911 emergency response service. Please stay on the line until the officer arrives.
"it will become completely impossible for any fully independent developer to compete against the collosal pyramid of software resources being constructed by the FOSS movement"
there are literally thousands of niche areas that are completely ignored by FOSS, and many more that are not ignored but not well done either. I never said they COULDN'T create a good bingo program. Just that they HAVEN'T. And I bet new niches pop up just as fast as the FOSS movement could fill the existing ones (if not faster).
Yet for all this supposed power of the FOSS movement, if the author of this bingo card creator is to be believed, there isn't even a really good open source bingo card creator.
We're mighty and powerful, and you can't compete with us....oh, bingo card creator? no we don't have a good one of those.
Another downfall of FOSS is thier inability to conduct expensive usability research studies. A thousand times that many unpaid giants will get absolutely nowhere towards making usable software without standing on the shoulders of those who actually make the money and can afford to do the usability studies. Every single FOSS product I've tried either has a sucky interface, or it has a nice interface which is more or less modelled after the closed source commercial software it tries to replace.
If I buy a stolen car not knowing it's stolen, when it all comes to light, unless the police can track down the theif I bought it from, I'm out the money even though I did nothing wrong.
When you run out of arguments, you just settle for slinging insults? You didn't even make a single point in that post. See watch, I can say just as little as you did with just as little evidence to back it up:
ROM piracy on PCs is NOT hurting portable console sales? Are you high?
Now I'll go one step further and actually make some sort of point. If you were trying to say something about portable vs non-portable gaming - you can just as easily play ROMs on laptop PCs. Besides that, there is also the GBA player for gamecube which lets you play GBA games on your home console, and I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that there is no overlap between the PC and console markets.
My bigger point was that you can't just start making up reasons why YOU feel you are justified in pirating games, especially when it turns out your justification is completely unfounded.
No additional money or effort is being spent by the copyright owners, and the games are no longer offered for sale. To me, that signals product abandonment.
Actually, moreso than that, I hope the WiFi is fully compliant & compatible with wireless standards. The WiFi in the DS has horrible compatability problems. There is a huge list of wireless routers from major vendors which are only partially compatible (if not completely incompatible) with the DS. For instance, my D-Link DI-514 only works with the DS periodically. I've found that if I reboot the router immediately before I try to connect, then I have about a 99% success rate. However, if I don't reboot I only have about a 20% chance of it working. If I disconnect and reconnect several times, it will usually fail to connect the 5th or 6th time. The only mostly safe bet is to reboot EVERY time I make a new connection.
Then why don't you record it off the air and watch your recording? Could it be that the DVD offers you something that the broadcast version doesn't? Convenience of not having to skip commercials? Better quality? Bonus features? Whatever it is, it obviously offers you something extra, so why don't you pay for the privilege of getting that something extra?
You're basically in the same situation as somebody trying to make a living operating a pay toilet in a forest. Ask yourself the questions: Why would someone pay me to do basically the same thing as they could do for nothing elsewhere?
Well then go take your shit in the woods instead of busting your way into his pay toilet without paying him. But what's that? Oh, it's more comfortable to shit on a toilet than it is squatting over a hole in the ground? Well there you go...IT'S NOT THE SAME THING, IS IT?
I seriously doubt anyone is going to confuse an email from nigeria with a food product. However, if people started referring to a whole group of canned meat products as spam, I'm sure Hormel would be right on top of that one.
The third step is pure genius though. First of all the page displays an image and phrase that you pre-selected.
For my account, I set my secret phrase to be "false sense of security". However, I was disappointed that for the image they didn't seem to have any pictures that looked like a man in the middle of anything.
What are the image and phrase really supposed to do for you? They are supposed to let you know "hey, this really is the ING site, so it's safe now to login". If you go to a fake ING site (either by DNS poisoning, URL typo, phishing link, etc), they won't have the picture and phrase there, so you know it's a fake website. Well, the problem is, all the fake website has to do is play man-in-the-middle.
1) You provide you account number and submit 2) The fake site connects to ING using your account number and retrieves the page with your 2 security questions and echos them back to you. 3) You answer the security questions and submit. 4) The fake site submits your answers to ING, then on the next page it retrieves your secret phrase and security image and echos them back to you 5) You see the phrase and image and say "yep...this is really ING, it's safe to provide my PIN". At that point, even if something later tips you off that the site might not be legit, you are likely to think "well, that seems odd, but they DID have my image and phrase, so it's got to be alright". Instead of reporting something suspecious, you are lured in by a false sense of security and probably won't report anything.
Looking at the site you posted, it looks like the cars are stacked on top each other, with nothing in between (or if there is anything, you can't see it. I'd sure hate to have someone's clunker dripping oil onto my windshield.
how will this stand up against a knife or a bayonet? I know in the modern era this is more or less mute
The article suggests near the beginning that it would protect against knives. Also, one of the earlier comments contained a link to a CNN video ( http://www.break.com/movies/newarmor23.html ), and near the end of the video one of the researchers (I believe that's who it was) explicitly says that it can protect against ballistics and knives.
That's a violation of almost every merchant account agreement I've ever seen. You ARE allowed to offer a cash discount, but you may NOT charge a price higher than the displayed price for credit card purchases.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps you are confusing different implementations of the API with the 'official' maps page
I'm talking about the space to the left of the map, where it shows your search results, directions, etc. I'm almost positive that's what the person I responded to was talking about. As I said, the equivelant on ask.com maps is easy to hide. Google's doesn't appear to be so easy.
Ask.com's has no dragging or scrolling
Maybe you should turn on javascript
doesn't show local things on the map with pop-up details
It can pinpoint addresses with the popup bubble, but other than that...I agree
doesn't allow you to click to recenter the map
Again, maybe you should turn on javascript
has no satellite photo view
Not sure how to explain this one, but there is very clearly an "Aerial" link on the map.
no combined satellite/roadmap view
I'll agree
doesn't fill the available browser window space
Actually, they are superior to google maps in this aspect. With Google maps, sometimes the sidebar is there and sometimes it isn't, and when it appears I've never been able to figure out an easy way of making it disappear. With ask.com's map, you just click on the panel divider and the sidebar minimizes. It would be better if it were draggable so you could resize it, but even in it's current form I'd say that feature is better than Google Maps
So what exactly would they be doing with 1000 cell phones?
Does the answer to that question really matter? We've now had a couple of groups of arabs arrested for buying quantities of cell phones, and, as far as I know, all have been released without any charges of terrorism filed (though I think some of them were charged with something unrelated...kind of a "since we wasted our time and you were innocent, we'll find something we can get you on to make it worth our while").
The problem is that there was a rush to judgement and arrest made without any sort of investigation taking place. Consider the 2 possibilities that exist:
1) The arabs were involved in terrorist activity. The authorities rushed to arrest them, but in the process, they failed to acquire the necessary evidence to charge them. A good strategy would be to covertly investigate them and get solid evidence with which to charge them. Along the way, the investigation could lead them to learn of other terrorists to whom they were linked. Once they had the evidence in hand, they could then have charged them. Instead, they rushed in and blew the case. Now they A) have nothing on these terrorists and let them get away with whatever they were doing, B) potentially lost out on opportunities to uncover other terrorists, and C) alerted the other terrorists out there that buying quantities of cell phones is a good way to get caught, so avoid that.
2) The arabs were honestly and completely innocent of any connection to terrorism. In this case, the whole situation could likely have been avoided by covert investigation into the matter. Sure, the "arrest them now and sort it out later" method probably saved time and effort for the authorities, but it's a bad idea for all the reasons I pointed out in #1 above. In addition, they have also screwed with the life of innocent people by plastering their names and faces on the news, likely irreversibly negatively affecting their relationships with neighbors and coworkers (now those people will always have suspicions about them). They've also probably scared these people out of doing things that are well within their legal rights to do, simply because they want to avoid anything which could accidentally put them through more inconvenience (ie: a chilling effect)
he can serve his 6 years and still come out a rich man.
I'm not so sure about that. He has to pay $4.1 million, and they are talking about liquidating his assets to collect on it. Granted, he could have stashed a bunch away somewhere that noone knows about. The article doesn't say how much he made selling the software. It mentions that it could have cost the companies more than $20 million, but that doesn't tell you much about what he actually brought in (selling a $100 program for $20, then making $4.1mil "could" have cost the company $20mil in sales).
Notepad on the other hand... has it even learned to do syntax highlighting yet?
Syntax highlighting? Ha! The thing STILL doesn't even handle unix newline characters properly. I'm not holding my breath for that feature, much less syntax highlighting.
The problem here isn't that the movie only made 13.8 million, the problem is that it cost 30 million to produce it.
Yeah. It's too bad that movies don't get more than a single weekend in the box office to earn back their money.
in one case it's Criminal Damage, for which you don't call a lawyer but a certain familiar three-digit number beginning with 9
Operator: This is 911, what's your emergency
You: The satellite company has disabled my PVR and now it won't record any programs
Operator: Ok sir, I'll send an officer out right away to fine you for abusing the 911 emergency response service. Please stay on the line until the officer arrives.
Exactly my point. Despite your claims that
"it will become completely impossible for any fully independent developer to compete against the collosal pyramid of software resources being constructed by the FOSS movement"
there are literally thousands of niche areas that are completely ignored by FOSS, and many more that are not ignored but not well done either. I never said they COULDN'T create a good bingo program. Just that they HAVEN'T. And I bet new niches pop up just as fast as the FOSS movement could fill the existing ones (if not faster).
Yet for all this supposed power of the FOSS movement, if the author of this bingo card creator is to be believed, there isn't even a really good open source bingo card creator.
We're mighty and powerful, and you can't compete with us....oh, bingo card creator? no we don't have a good one of those.
Another downfall of FOSS is thier inability to conduct expensive usability research studies. A thousand times that many unpaid giants will get absolutely nowhere towards making usable software without standing on the shoulders of those who actually make the money and can afford to do the usability studies. Every single FOSS product I've tried either has a sucky interface, or it has a nice interface which is more or less modelled after the closed source commercial software it tries to replace.
If I buy a stolen car not knowing it's stolen, when it all comes to light, unless the police can track down the theif I bought it from, I'm out the money even though I did nothing wrong.
>I was really disappointed that this photo [CC] didn't get more publicity
Would you care to tell me what I'm even looking at?
>>When you run out of arguments, you just settle for slinging insults?
>Grow up.
Well that answers that question. No point discussing it any further.
When you run out of arguments, you just settle for slinging insults? You didn't even make a single point in that post. See watch, I can say just as little as you did with just as little evidence to back it up:
ROM piracy on PCs is NOT hurting portable console sales? Are you high?
Now I'll go one step further and actually make some sort of point. If you were trying to say something about portable vs non-portable gaming - you can just as easily play ROMs on laptop PCs. Besides that, there is also the GBA player for gamecube which lets you play GBA games on your home console, and I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that there is no overlap between the PC and console markets.
My bigger point was that you can't just start making up reasons why YOU feel you are justified in pirating games, especially when it turns out your justification is completely unfounded.
They're still not spending any money or development resources on it.
:-)
Yeah...now that nintendo has those Star Trek matter replicators and transporters, the game cartridges practically make and distribute themselves
No additional money or effort is being spent by the copyright owners, and the games are no longer offered for sale. To me, that signals product abandonment.
That's
right.
These
games
have
been
completely
abandoned
by
Nintendo.
P.S.
Actually, moreso than that, I hope the WiFi is fully compliant & compatible with wireless standards. The WiFi in the DS has horrible compatability problems. There is a huge list of wireless routers from major vendors which are only partially compatible (if not completely incompatible) with the DS. For instance, my D-Link DI-514 only works with the DS periodically. I've found that if I reboot the router immediately before I try to connect, then I have about a 99% success rate. However, if I don't reboot I only have about a 20% chance of it working. If I disconnect and reconnect several times, it will usually fail to connect the 5th or 6th time. The only mostly safe bet is to reboot EVERY time I make a new connection.
r tedRouters.do
Here is the current official compatability list:
http://www.nintendowifi.com/customersupport/suppo
Perhaps ...the software wasn't very good.
"Oh man, that product absolutely sucks. I've just GOT to have it!!!!!!"
Then why don't you record it off the air and watch your recording? Could it be that the DVD offers you something that the broadcast version doesn't? Convenience of not having to skip commercials? Better quality? Bonus features? Whatever it is, it obviously offers you something extra, so why don't you pay for the privilege of getting that something extra?
You're basically in the same situation as somebody trying to make a living operating a pay toilet in a forest. Ask yourself the questions: Why would someone pay me to do basically the same thing as they could do for nothing elsewhere?
Well then go take your shit in the woods instead of busting your way into his pay toilet without paying him. But what's that? Oh, it's more comfortable to shit on a toilet than it is squatting over a hole in the ground? Well there you go...IT'S NOT THE SAME THING, IS IT?
I seriously doubt anyone is going to confuse an email from nigeria with a food product. However, if people started referring to a whole group of canned meat products as spam, I'm sure Hormel would be right on top of that one.
The third step is pure genius though. First of all the page displays an image and phrase that you pre-selected.
For my account, I set my secret phrase to be "false sense of security". However, I was disappointed that for the image they didn't seem to have any pictures that looked like a man in the middle of anything.
What are the image and phrase really supposed to do for you? They are supposed to let you know "hey, this really is the ING site, so it's safe now to login". If you go to a fake ING site (either by DNS poisoning, URL typo, phishing link, etc), they won't have the picture and phrase there, so you know it's a fake website. Well, the problem is, all the fake website has to do is play man-in-the-middle.
1) You provide you account number and submit
2) The fake site connects to ING using your account number and retrieves the page with your 2 security questions and echos them back to you.
3) You answer the security questions and submit.
4) The fake site submits your answers to ING, then on the next page it retrieves your secret phrase and security image and echos them back to you
5) You see the phrase and image and say "yep...this is really ING, it's safe to provide my PIN". At that point, even if something later tips you off that the site might not be legit, you are likely to think "well, that seems odd, but they DID have my image and phrase, so it's got to be alright". Instead of reporting something suspecious, you are lured in by a false sense of security and probably won't report anything.
Heres another site with some animations showing how it works:
http://www.robopark.com/
Looking at the site you posted, it looks like the cars are stacked on top each other, with nothing in between (or if there is anything, you can't see it. I'd sure hate to have someone's clunker dripping oil onto my windshield.
how will this stand up against a knife or a bayonet? I know in the modern era this is more or less mute
The article suggests near the beginning that it would protect against knives. Also, one of the earlier comments contained a link to a CNN video ( http://www.break.com/movies/newarmor23.html ), and near the end of the video one of the researchers (I believe that's who it was) explicitly says that it can protect against ballistics and knives.
P.S. It's moot, not mute.
There's really no need for 8 cores until my brain is able to take multitasking to the next level
Video processing
photo processing
Multitrack digital audio recording with multiple real time DSP effects
And that's just what I thought about in 10 seconds. Not to mention what video games could do with all that processing power.
That's a violation of almost every merchant account agreement I've ever seen. You ARE allowed to offer a cash discount, but you may NOT charge a price higher than the displayed price for credit card purchases.