Battery life - that's the user's choice, it won't drain batteries unless you use it. Like the GBA backlight though, it's nice to have the option there just in case.
Crashing, audio quality, range - the bread and butter of cell phone companies is calling. While this is becoming less true over time, it's still mostly true, and you can be sure that they focused a lot of their quality improvement and bugfinding efforts on calling.
I am not claiming its illegal. I am claiming its lame and wrong.
Would you consider it to be similarly lame and wrong for a company to release a new CPU with a higher MHz rating, but without a corrosponding overall performance increase?
They are disallowing anyone from displaying the MHz - they are suprressing it on the hardware level - forbidding people to speak about it!
Oh, c'mon. We're able to talk about it. Tom's Hardware's reviews will always have the MHz listed, it's not like you won't be able to find the information if you want to.
It's similar to various private tidbits about yourself. Some of them, if spread far and wide publicly, could probably be interpretted incorrectly if a good explanation didn't accompany them. As such, you probably choose to keep those facts private, and only tell those people whom you think will more thoroughly understand the meaning behind those facts. That's all AMD is doing.
Seriously. Just search for {lyrics In A Gadda Da Vida}. It might take 15 seconds longer to find lyrics through Google. But there are so many personal lyrics pages right now that it's going to take the RIAA a while to put a sufficient dent in those sites.
My Fortune 100 company has propoganda screensavers running everywhere that encourages employees to meet our ship dates, with phrases like "let's have a blitz to get it done!".
Finally, a case where the word "pirate" really applies.
The English tried this before... giving ships the right to be privateers, attack their opponents, and keep the loot. When the war ended, the government took back the permission, and pirates were born.
Buffy and Enterprise are exclusively on UPN. My local cable provider picked up UPN a couple weeks ago. I imagine UPN was hoping for this sort of thing to happen.
It seems that there's at least a small amount of libertarian streak in the slashdot crowd. Some think that making more laws is not necessarily the way to go. For those people, education is the best way to improve the lives of others. Let them know of the alternatives and give them arguments for which might be best, don't force them to choose your alternative.
And lucky you: education can be done easily, by you, today. Spend some time thinking about how you can present your viewpoint, sift the wheat from the chaf, and when your topic of interest pops up during conversation, try to explain your viewpoint in the most consise and clear way possible.
What about community sites that allow user posting? If the admin doesn't wish to read every single post to be able to remove all disparaging remarks about Microsoft, then they can't use FrontPage Web components anywhere on that site?
From observation, it seems to me that it takes quite a while for obvious improvements to be included in new worms.
For instance, it's somewhat obvious to me that it'd be good (for a virus) to leave open backdoors, so that your future viruses can springboard off your installed user base. If an old virus can spread from one computer to 20,000 in a week, then a virus that piggybacks on another virus could go from 20,000 infections to 40,000,000 in a week. AFAIK, CodeRed + Nimda was the first to do this.
As the author stated, many networks only use 20-30% of their IP space. The other 70-80% can be used as a tarpit. The XX threads that aren't trapped will process their real host quickly, and then likely get stuck in the tarpit on the next try.
Well, for one, this will immensely help corporations with large networks... once you filter incoming email for the specific.exe at the firewall, you need to start cleaning up internal IIS servers. LaBrea will slow the IIS servers down to keep them from hosing your network while you hunt them down and clean them up.
For two... (drum roll please...) What if we had a LaBrea Beowulf? If major network providers (eg. UUNet) implement this across their networks, it would save themselves bandwidth and thus cost, and would make their customers happier.
It doesn't kill worms, it just greatly reduces their impact on the network. Sounds good to me.
Public libraries are run locally. Note that the federal government uses financial incentives to encourage libraries to add internet filters. It doesn't matter that we're only talking about municipalities.
My friend reports that ICS requires no setup whatsoever, moreover, several different computers can run counterstrike behind it. I don't understand how this works, it doesn't seem that linksys or any standard NAT software can possibly do this. Has microsoft made a better product than Linksys could do?
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The "cloud" seen in the radar image is not a result of the smoke/dust cloud. This is the standard interference pattern seen nearby any weather radar in a large city.
In general, most arcade games aren't any more violent than Lemmings.
In particular, I mention Crazy Taxi, because its non-violence is almost amusing. There are times when you accidentally drive the car off the road and you drop into oblivion, and your passenger's only comment is "turn right!", minus the expected screaming or flailing of hands.
Yes, robocode is not the first, see DMOZ's entry. Corewars was perhaps the most famous. Okay, now we can move on to talking about Robocode's merits instead of talking about its family tree.
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Simple, I think.
Stifle progress in the short term, in order to promote progress in the long term.
It's like capitalism really... capitalism is a mechanism by which things can be produced in the most efficient and economic way. Yet a fundamental part of capitalism is competition... that is, having multiple groups of people doing nearly the exact same thing. It's inefficient in the short term, but quite efficient in the long term.
The point (or so the politic-speak goes) was not to bring stem cell research to full fruition. The point was to determine whether or not stem cells will be able to do the fantastic things that scientists think they might be able to do.
They just pushed off the impending philisophical debate, basically.
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... The door warps outward exaggeratedly before it bursts, whereupon the soldier stands in a cloud of smoke....
C'mon, it's not just the rendering technique. Video games are always moving closer to looking like your character is part of a movie. Graphics alone doesn't do it... art and atmosphere contribute significantly to that. If Zelda can do all this when you're playing, it will be a lot better than Jet Grind Radio.
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Crashing, audio quality, range - the bread and butter of cell phone companies is calling. While this is becoming less true over time, it's still mostly true, and you can be sure that they focused a lot of their quality improvement and bugfinding efforts on calling.
Would you consider it to be similarly lame and wrong for a company to release a new CPU with a higher MHz rating, but without a corrosponding overall performance increase?
They are disallowing anyone from displaying the MHz - they are suprressing it on the hardware level - forbidding people to speak about it!
Oh, c'mon. We're able to talk about it. Tom's Hardware's reviews will always have the MHz listed, it's not like you won't be able to find the information if you want to.
It's similar to various private tidbits about yourself. Some of them, if spread far and wide publicly, could probably be interpretted incorrectly if a good explanation didn't accompany them. As such, you probably choose to keep those facts private, and only tell those people whom you think will more thoroughly understand the meaning behind those facts. That's all AMD is doing.
People want to believe that a number means speed.
Neither AMD or Intel's number tells the whole story-- no single number is able to do that.
If you're naive and want to boycott AMD because they're twisting meaningless numbers, go ahead.
How often do you have to enter a lot of text with only one hand free?
Seriously. Just search for {lyrics In A Gadda Da Vida}. It might take 15 seconds longer to find lyrics through Google. But there are so many personal lyrics pages right now that it's going to take the RIAA a while to put a sufficient dent in those sites.
My Fortune 100 company has propoganda screensavers running everywhere that encourages employees to meet our ship dates, with phrases like "let's have a blitz to get it done!".
I can't put my finger on why it bugs me so much.
The English tried this before... giving ships the right to be privateers, attack their opponents, and keep the loot. When the war ended, the government took back the permission, and pirates were born.
Is anyone working on a website where a consumer can go and see how broken his or her possible purchase is, before they buy it?
Buffy and Enterprise are exclusively on UPN. My local cable provider picked up UPN a couple weeks ago. I imagine UPN was hoping for this sort of thing to happen.
And lucky you: education can be done easily, by you, today. Spend some time thinking about how you can present your viewpoint, sift the wheat from the chaf, and when your topic of interest pops up during conversation, try to explain your viewpoint in the most consise and clear way possible.
For the same reason, rambus will become more desirable as time passes.
What about community sites that allow user posting? If the admin doesn't wish to read every single post to be able to remove all disparaging remarks about Microsoft, then they can't use FrontPage Web components anywhere on that site?
For instance, it's somewhat obvious to me that it'd be good (for a virus) to leave open backdoors, so that your future viruses can springboard off your installed user base. If an old virus can spread from one computer to 20,000 in a week, then a virus that piggybacks on another virus could go from 20,000 infections to 40,000,000 in a week. AFAIK, CodeRed + Nimda was the first to do this.
As the author stated, many networks only use 20-30% of their IP space. The other 70-80% can be used as a tarpit. The XX threads that aren't trapped will process their real host quickly, and then likely get stuck in the tarpit on the next try.
For two... (drum roll please...) What if we had a LaBrea Beowulf? If major network providers (eg. UUNet) implement this across their networks, it would save themselves bandwidth and thus cost, and would make their customers happier.
It doesn't kill worms, it just greatly reduces their impact on the network. Sounds good to me.
Public libraries are run locally. Note that the federal government uses financial incentives to encourage libraries to add internet filters. It doesn't matter that we're only talking about municipalities.
My friend reports that ICS requires no setup whatsoever, moreover, several different computers can run counterstrike behind it. I don't understand how this works, it doesn't seem that linksys or any standard NAT software can possibly do this. Has microsoft made a better product than Linksys could do?
Don't believe me? Check out current radar of Detroit or Denver or Albequerque.
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In the spirit of FBI's tactless naming scheme, how 'bout Mousivore(TM)?
In particular, I mention Crazy Taxi, because its non-violence is almost amusing. There are times when you accidentally drive the car off the road and you drop into oblivion, and your passenger's only comment is "turn right!", minus the expected screaming or flailing of hands.
Yes, robocode is not the first, see DMOZ's entry. Corewars was perhaps the most famous. Okay, now we can move on to talking about Robocode's merits instead of talking about its family tree.
Stifle progress in the short term, in order to promote progress in the long term.
It's like capitalism really... capitalism is a mechanism by which things can be produced in the most efficient and economic way. Yet a fundamental part of capitalism is competition... that is, having multiple groups of people doing nearly the exact same thing. It's inefficient in the short term, but quite efficient in the long term.
They just pushed off the impending philisophical debate, basically.
C'mon, it's not just the rendering technique. Video games are always moving closer to looking like your character is part of a movie. Graphics alone doesn't do it... art and atmosphere contribute significantly to that. If Zelda can do all this when you're playing, it will be a lot better than Jet Grind Radio.