Free Speech applies to political speech. It is not an applicable principle in this case. It's possible that the perpetrator of this stunt could face fraud charges actually for how he went about getting the information.
Who said anything about sentience? We're talking about genetic complexity here, not neurological advancement. I think you have the wrong article! Ah, you didn't read it.
Experience doesn't bear that out. You *can* be a Jack of all Trades somewhat in UO for example, but you'll be terribly weak. In practices most people have their character specialize in a couple of areas.
The readily available information out there, not just strategy guides but informal stuff on the Internet, has helped drive increased complexity in strategy games. However, the market has as well. People want more challenge, not rehashed games over and over. Unfortunately this has also led to many games becoming needlessly complex IMO and focused on complicated game mechanics at the expense of storyline and overall gameplay.
Games with relatively simple rulesets and execution like Chess can, after all, be extremely challenging. Just layering on complexity is in many ways a cop out.
I have a feeling that had Apple thought of this feature first, GP would have lauded it as an amazing advancment. I can easily see this being useful to people on trains, college campuses, etc.
For projects like F@H, which are doing important research that might help cure disease, perhaps the government should offer tax credits based on how many units one puts out? It *does* cost money, which is precisely why SETI pioneered the idea. Low funding levels coupled with the need for supercomputing like capabilities. In essence *any* distributed computing project distributes not only the computational work, but the expense as well.
It's obvious that said kids are hypothetical, because it most certainly IS a parents job to know where their kids are, who they are with, and what they are doing. It's part of this thing called 'responsible parenting', which is sadly an increasingly rare commodity.
We (the wife and I) usually ask ourselves a question. Is it a 'Big Screen' movie or a 'Wait for the DVD' movie? Movies with lots of blockbuster special effects are still better in the theatre in our opinion. Others, where it's more story/character driven, are fine on the small screen.
That's a common fallacy. They cannot drink in the US, though some establishments ignore this rule and I'm sure a lot of law enforcement do as well. Soldiers stationed in countries with drinking ages lower than those in the US follow guildlines established by the CO of whatever base they are stationed at.
They apparently just forgot to update bits of code with the 'final' bits. They aren't removing any features and I highly doubt WinFS was included in the build.
The article cites 'non-final code' that was found in the audit. At least they found the error before it went out to the public. It's a bit slim on details but it sounds like no end user organizations are using it yet. So, in a way kudos to MS for finding the problem and addressing it rather than just sitting on their hands and making users download even more patches to replace the 'non-final' code.
Humans are the first dominant species on the planet who have shown a huge ability to adapt to adverse conditions. Even if we lost most of our technology, we'll still have that wonderful gray matter in our heads and will just have to start over. We are the cockroaches of the mammilian family.
The real problem is a lot of the easy to get to resources are already used up. If we don't get off this rock soon and civilization falls first, the odds are we'll never do so.
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Try clicking on the link that says 'People's Experiences.'
Reading is fundamental...
They are't talking about private videoconferencing. They are talking about 'productions' made for public consumtion. Think YouTube.
It's free at our airport, Greater Pittsburgh International. It's also one of the nicest airports in the country in many other ways.
Free Speech applies to political speech. It is not an applicable principle in this case. It's possible that the perpetrator of this stunt could face fraud charges actually for how he went about getting the information.
While I'd love it too (I use DVD's to backup our various boxen as well), what you are asking for already exists. It's called a 'tape backup'.
Who said anything about sentience? We're talking about genetic complexity here, not neurological advancement. I think you have the wrong article! Ah, you didn't read it.
Experience doesn't bear that out. You *can* be a Jack of all Trades somewhat in UO for example, but you'll be terribly weak. In practices most people have their character specialize in a couple of areas.
The readily available information out there, not just strategy guides but informal stuff on the Internet, has helped drive increased complexity in strategy games. However, the market has as well. People want more challenge, not rehashed games over and over. Unfortunately this has also led to many games becoming needlessly complex IMO and focused on complicated game mechanics at the expense of storyline and overall gameplay.
Games with relatively simple rulesets and execution like Chess can, after all, be extremely challenging. Just layering on complexity is in many ways a cop out.
It's obvious that Gartner doesn't understand computers at all...well, at least Microsoft.
Those who can do, do. Those who can't, consult.
Hey, you might be on to something. Can we ban Jack Thompson? He's inciting violence!
I have a feeling that had Apple thought of this feature first, GP would have lauded it as an amazing advancment. I can easily see this being useful to people on trains, college campuses, etc.
Ah you are right. I should have recalled the proper chronology since I used to run both, years ago. My bad.
Most people just don't consider the cost. OP never said anyone was forced into it, but then again we all know you're trolling.
For projects like F@H, which are doing important research that might help cure disease, perhaps the government should offer tax credits based on how many units one puts out? It *does* cost money, which is precisely why SETI pioneered the idea. Low funding levels coupled with the need for supercomputing like capabilities. In essence *any* distributed computing project distributes not only the computational work, but the expense as well.
That sounds you just heard was his joke going whooosh right over your head :-)
It's obvious that said kids are hypothetical, because it most certainly IS a parents job to know where their kids are, who they are with, and what they are doing. It's part of this thing called 'responsible parenting', which is sadly an increasingly rare commodity.
We (the wife and I) usually ask ourselves a question. Is it a 'Big Screen' movie or a 'Wait for the DVD' movie? Movies with lots of blockbuster special effects are still better in the theatre in our opinion. Others, where it's more story/character driven, are fine on the small screen.
Not on /.
That's a common fallacy. They cannot drink in the US, though some establishments ignore this rule and I'm sure a lot of law enforcement do as well. Soldiers stationed in countries with drinking ages lower than those in the US follow guildlines established by the CO of whatever base they are stationed at.
Read carefully. 3600 units of SBS went out. None went to end users. They were still in the process of building systems around it.
They apparently just forgot to update bits of code with the 'final' bits. They aren't removing any features and I highly doubt WinFS was included in the build.
The article cites 'non-final code' that was found in the audit. At least they found the error before it went out to the public. It's a bit slim on details but it sounds like no end user organizations are using it yet. So, in a way kudos to MS for finding the problem and addressing it rather than just sitting on their hands and making users download even more patches to replace the 'non-final' code.
"Human activity uses natural resources, film at 11"
Some people/groups won't be happy until humans are gone and use nothing at all...
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Humans are the first dominant species on the planet who have shown a huge ability to adapt to adverse conditions. Even if we lost most of our technology, we'll still have that wonderful gray matter in our heads and will just have to start over. We are the cockroaches of the mammilian family.
The real problem is a lot of the easy to get to resources are already used up. If we don't get off this rock soon and civilization falls first, the odds are we'll never do so.