People play 80-hour single-player games... the urge to accomplish something short-term is satiated by being able to level-up, or gaining access to a new level, etc.
Or think about it in the context of World War 2. No single person could have won WW2... that doesn't mean that there weren't individual achievements that were difficult and gave people great satisfaction...
I'm not so sure... Previously, the only way to communicate with anyone on a 14 hour flight was voice calls which are quite expensive as well. At least this way business travellers could get some extra work done, and not be completely out of touch with the world for a whole 14-hour period. Even hotels charge you for internet access (especially business-oriented ones).
Wikis are better at presenting a single summary of discussions. In a forum, minor mistakes don't get fixed easily (eg. if one person corrects another person, you have to read through the whole conversation to get an accurate glimpse of the conslusions drawn).
That doesn't mean wikis present only one view... a page can note that disagreement exists, and the page can present different views of a situation by different groups of people. But when there's longer amounts of discussion, having a single-page summary is far far better for newcomers, and for decision-makers to scan the arguments more quickly.
Do anybody know the scientific arguments for defining an object based primarily on what it orbits around, rather than only its own properties (fussion or no, gravity-rounded or no)? I understand the barycenter definition, but... does the position of the barycenter have major scientific relevance? Aren't there situations where a moon becomes a moon not because of shared formation histories, but because objects collided and happened to fall into a stable orbit?
It just seems like many people who try to move away from Windows seem to want to at least have the option to use Windows once in a while.... The Mac-moving-to-Intel thing was met with a lot of excitement because of this, a lot of linux people seem to say this, and it seems like in a lot of companies employees must be productive with specific document formats. Certainly Windows isn't the only point of virtualization, but it seems like it's a really big one, especially for desktop users.
The whole point of virtualization is so you can run your favoriate OS most of the time, and only switch over to Windows when you want to run games, isn't it?
Well, I suppose if choose to stay in the Windows world most of the time, the whole point of VM is to try to keep malware off your computer... But either way, you're not getting a FLOSS paravirtualized Windows kernel any time soon.
There was a talk at the university I was at about the security measures on US government firewalls, for particularly secure computers. Covert timing channels are one clear class of things that a very security firewall needs to protect against (not just for JitterBugs... trojans/viruses could try to communicate this way as well), and they did just that... changed the timing of the packets at the firewall to try to prevent covert timing channels from being possible.
Right, even outside the.com =>.cm typosquatting though, it's still a bad idea because it creates many downsides for legitimate users of.cm. With any TLD on the public internet, it's probably extremely difficult/impossible to get informed consent from even a majority of involved users.
But all the arguments the judge used appeared to apply to cases where a vendor would provide any sort of transcoding services for you (eg. you would give them your media, they would transcode it into a new format, they'd hand you both formats back, and you'd give them a little money for the service). MP3.com seemed to imply that the only legal way for commercial entties to help people transcode was to only provide the mechanism (the software, for instance) to transcode, but they couldnt' do the actual transcoding for you.
It doesn't really matter whether admins are warned ahead of time or not... pages are only protected once there's a real pattern of vandalism. Some pages weren't protected until long after the vandalism started, because nobody was hitting them at first.
Wikipedia had to limit editing to pages that got vandalized. That doesn't mean any of this "truth by mob" will actually stay in... Wikipedia requires information to be cited by reliable sources, so there's no way that the statements will stick for longer than a few minutes.
Look at the timestamps. The edits were made sometime before the show aired. I agree, it didn't look like he was really interacting with the computer on the parts of the video that aired... nonethless, somebody made the edits. Maybe it was him before he taped the show, maybe it was a staffer instructed by him, just to make it more funny / authentic, I don't know.
Another game: Monica '95. There could be different mini-games... one where you have to aim for a specific location on a blue dress... another minigame where the Wiimote functions as a cigar... the possibilities are endless.
How about if game journalists get more than 3 minutes of hands-on time with new products, rather than just writing stories about how long they had to wait in line for the Wii?
The point is: if the computer trusts someone else more than the end-user, in a security sense, then the end-user is not in control of the security of their machine. In a corporate IT context, this is (generally) a good thing. In an individually-owned computer, this is not really a good thing.
IE 7 prompts the user and asks whether they want to install, whenever a new update is available. In other words, it's exactly like Firefox. With as many new browser exploits that are revealed constantly, frankly, this is a good thing.
Send them a reply complaining about the hours you've spent trying adding hacks just to get MSIE to render like all the other browsers do. Seriously, it's web authors who are shouldering most of the problems that MSIE causes, and users should be made more aware of the problems their choices are causing.
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Or think about it in the context of World War 2. No single person could have won WW2... that doesn't mean that there weren't individual achievements that were difficult and gave people great satisfaction...
... which is why I added "especially for business travellers". Some mainstream business-oriented hotels charge as high as $20/day for internet+VPN.
I'm not so sure... Previously, the only way to communicate with anyone on a 14 hour flight was voice calls which are quite expensive as well. At least this way business travellers could get some extra work done, and not be completely out of touch with the world for a whole 14-hour period. Even hotels charge you for internet access (especially business-oriented ones).
Wikis are better at presenting a single summary of discussions. In a forum, minor mistakes don't get fixed easily (eg. if one person corrects another person, you have to read through the whole conversation to get an accurate glimpse of the conslusions drawn).
That doesn't mean wikis present only one view... a page can note that disagreement exists, and the page can present different views of a situation by different groups of people. But when there's longer amounts of discussion, having a single-page summary is far far better for newcomers, and for decision-makers to scan the arguments more quickly.
I'd rather take 10 minutes for the baggage screeners to give a laptop a "full cavity serch" than to be without a laptop on an international flight.
Do anybody know the scientific arguments for defining an object based primarily on what it orbits around, rather than only its own properties (fussion or no, gravity-rounded or no)? I understand the barycenter definition, but... does the position of the barycenter have major scientific relevance? Aren't there situations where a moon becomes a moon not because of shared formation histories, but because objects collided and happened to fall into a stable orbit?
It just seems like many people who try to move away from Windows seem to want to at least have the option to use Windows once in a while.... The Mac-moving-to-Intel thing was met with a lot of excitement because of this, a lot of linux people seem to say this, and it seems like in a lot of companies employees must be productive with specific document formats. Certainly Windows isn't the only point of virtualization, but it seems like it's a really big one, especially for desktop users.
The whole point of virtualization is so you can run your favoriate OS most of the time, and only switch over to Windows when you want to run games, isn't it?
Well, I suppose if choose to stay in the Windows world most of the time, the whole point of VM is to try to keep malware off your computer... But either way, you're not getting a FLOSS paravirtualized Windows kernel any time soon.
The problem doesn't go away because we provide an easy way to get cocaine.
There was a talk at the university I was at about the security measures on US government firewalls, for particularly secure computers. Covert timing channels are one clear class of things that a very security firewall needs to protect against (not just for JitterBugs... trojans/viruses could try to communicate this way as well), and they did just that... changed the timing of the packets at the firewall to try to prevent covert timing channels from being possible.
Right, even outside the .com => .cm typosquatting though, it's still a bad idea because it creates many downsides for legitimate users of .cm. With any TLD on the public internet, it's probably extremely difficult/impossible to get informed consent from even a majority of involved users.
Root wildcarding considered harmful.
But all the arguments the judge used appeared to apply to cases where a vendor would provide any sort of transcoding services for you (eg. you would give them your media, they would transcode it into a new format, they'd hand you both formats back, and you'd give them a little money for the service). MP3.com seemed to imply that the only legal way for commercial entties to help people transcode was to only provide the mechanism (the software, for instance) to transcode, but they couldnt' do the actual transcoding for you.
mp3.com... They got sued for transcoding user's CD's into MP3's for them, while making a little money off of it.
It doesn't really matter whether admins are warned ahead of time or not... pages are only protected once there's a real pattern of vandalism. Some pages weren't protected until long after the vandalism started, because nobody was hitting them at first.
Wikipedia had to limit editing to pages that got vandalized. That doesn't mean any of this "truth by mob" will actually stay in... Wikipedia requires information to be cited by reliable sources, so there's no way that the statements will stick for longer than a few minutes.
Look at the timestamps. The edits were made sometime before the show aired. I agree, it didn't look like he was really interacting with the computer on the parts of the video that aired... nonethless, somebody made the edits. Maybe it was him before he taped the show, maybe it was a staffer instructed by him, just to make it more funny / authentic, I don't know.
Another game: Monica '95. There could be different mini-games... one where you have to aim for a specific location on a blue dress... another minigame where the Wiimote functions as a cigar... the possibilities are endless.
How about if game journalists get more than 3 minutes of hands-on time with new products, rather than just writing stories about how long they had to wait in line for the Wii?
You're not allowed to visit AMAZON? From a LIBRARY?
I'm trying to come up with something more outrageous for comedic purposes, but I'm at a loss...
So... set up a transparent proxy that filters the myspace music out?
The point is: if the computer trusts someone else more than the end-user, in a security sense, then the end-user is not in control of the security of their machine. In a corporate IT context, this is (generally) a good thing. In an individually-owned computer, this is not really a good thing.
IE 7 prompts the user and asks whether they want to install, whenever a new update is available. In other words, it's exactly like Firefox. With as many new browser exploits that are revealed constantly, frankly, this is a good thing.
Or Wikibooks.
Send them a reply complaining about the hours you've spent trying adding hacks just to get MSIE to render like all the other browsers do. Seriously, it's web authors who are shouldering most of the problems that MSIE causes, and users should be made more aware of the problems their choices are causing.