Sir, I think you are projecting yourself =) I was born in America the continent, but not in the USA. While I've lived there, I was speaking from my experience in (admittedly big) cities in general. I've been in Vancouver, Mexico City, Canberra to name a few dissimilar examples outside the States, and it's always the same in general terms.
Come to think of it, that seems to be more frequent the higher the income of the 'random stranger' is. People of low socioeconomic strata seem to be more friendly. In the countryside it seems to be the exact opposite of this.
But then again, I'm no more than an armchair sociologist so what do I know? =)
I guess a bunch of medium-to-high-income antisocial people will be mad at Microsoft for displaying them in public:)
> There will always be more important things to do than those currently being done for as long as people
> have individual opinions.
Weasel words. Why thank you =) Although they were intended more like an abstract of the points I made afterwards.
I'm saying they shouldn't have been given that money in the first place, because what they're doing isn't worth the money they've been given, considering the other things that money could be spent on.
I got that but maybe I didn't address it as clearly as I thought. Allow me to try again, by joining these two statements of yours thus:
I'm saying they shouldn't have been given that money in the first place, because what they're doing isn't worth the money they've been given, considering the other things that money could be spent on.
So why don't we give them 100 billion dollars and let them do research with that?
Obviously, because it's disproportionate. You don't spend THAT much money on this, because you need the money for other things and also the benefits you'll get become progressively more expensive to have obtained because it cost you so much more in the first place.
What I tried to say —and hopefully will be more clear now— is that they were allocated whatever resources they currently have because someone thinks its worth it. You and I my disagree on this worthiness, but people found 'reasonable reasons' for doing this. Besides, the budget they have is but a fraction of the whole, where the rest has been earmarked for some other uses. This is the fraction (big or small) that the people doing the slicing deemed reasonable to spend in this particular task.
My point in saying that there are many different opinions is that we wouldn't be (aren't?) able to agree on what is more or less important, so we allocate some resources to this, some to that. There is simply no consensus over what to prioritize as you and I are illustrating, so we have to split the cake several ways. But its not like this guys are getting the whole enchilada.
I for one think it's cool that they are doing it, and if what they say about their AI is true, it looks like in the near future computer assisted tasks might get a big boost. That's a direct result of the program, "make AI smart enough so it can self-direct through its activities". Automation makes certain things run smoother (meaning cheaper and faster).
To sum: I contend this does have value, and the fact that there are other valuable things as well does not diminish the value of this one or make it inappropriate to invest in it.
Since when you can even talk to people near you? =P If you are a guy try talking to a random woman nearby when you are on the street. Unless you are asking for directions, fat chance of getting almost any sort of communication.
I'd say people expect a minimum of privacy. Yeah, all bystanders will see me, but I expect them to mind their own business, or to the very least not interfere with mine. And I will potentially know they are there and I can watch them back.
Technology and the Brave New Surveillant States do not grant this two-way channel. They see me, I can't see them.
Why do they hate America? I suspect we will both get modded down as trolling flamebaiters but here are my.0002 cents:
First, many people hate the USA, not America. America is a continent. I am perfectly aware that people from the USA call their own country that, but if you are going to inquire about the rest of the world's opinions, this is the first indicative of the different points of view. Most of the rest of the people in America the continent dislike the fact that people from USA have appropriated the name. I don't say either of them are wrong, that's just the way it is.
But that is just a minor nitpick. I personally know several people from the States, and they are quite nice people. Most individuals are if you take the time to know them. The problem is that people as a herd are a bunch of irrational and evil animals, and it just so happens that the evil animals from the USA have more power both economic and military to force their brand of irrationality upon the rest of us evil animals. Again in America, most people hate the USA because their tendency to intervene in other countries' domestic affairs, sometimes even deposing democratically elected officials and substituting them with dictators (Google is your friend).
Of course the USA is no worse than any other country, really, like I said they just have more power to do things their way, and because they exercise that power they end up pissing off a lot of people that then take some small comfort and vindication seeing them suffer. Why? Again, because we are an irrational lot even if we are quite nice as individual persons.
At the time of the attacks I was in a country where the main reaction was something like "serves them right!" because they were still resented at them. Only after I talked with them one on one or small groups of no more than three people they were willing to view the victims as mere human beings and not as 'Americans' (in your sense). Only then they agreed that what happened was sad and wrong, but even if it really is a big deal, there have been a lot worse man-made tragedies in the world. Many of them in Africa, for instance. I am now in a different country where the local government is one of Bush's closest allies, but the people I know dislike the USA almost as much as where I was before, albeit for different reasons.
People may have been biologically "created equal" (by their parents, God, the cosmic rays) but their culture makes them grow apart and be different, see things in a different way, assign value differently to the same things. Otherwise perhaps we would be living in a society that resembled more that of an Anthill, uniform, with individuals indistinguishable from one another.
There will always be more important things to do than those currently being done for as long as people have individual opinions. Resources are limited, and the way those resources are used is determined by those people that can gather enough of them.
In this case, the purpose of this satellite is specifically to look around for things that are out of the ordinary, and as such there is nothing more important for their team to do with their resources because this is exactly what they wanted to do. Many times science for the sake of science has yielded unexpected and highly beneficial results that can have practical applications. Think microwaves. And also the way they are using AI and networking with other satellites may in itself become useful in the future. I can imagine this satellite working together with the early warning systems currently being deployed to warn against future tsunamis for example.
The fact that so many people has so many different viewpoints, opinions and priorities is the main reason IMHO that we as a race can make any progress at all. I think it would be nice, and morally better to tackle world hunger first, but I'm sure some people consider other things to be more pressing. So to close, there is little point in saying that some project is a waste and its resources would be better employed elsewhere unless you have some direct say in how those resources are being allocated.
IANAL. This is a case of fair use, whereas most RIAA cases are for copyright infringement. In the Barney case the purple lawyers wanted to make it appear as if this guy was making illegal reproductions of copyrighted work, which he was not.
"Piracy" copyright infringement means that you are unlawfully stepping over somebody's exclusive "right to copy", that is, to produce duplicates of a work. When the RIAA sues (whether with merit or not) they claim that you are illegally making a copy of something for which you don't have the right to reproduce. If I download a song from a P2P network for which I didn't pay the legal copyright holder for the rights to do so, then I'm breaking the law because I created a copy without authorization.
If I make a copy of a CD that I purchased through legal channels (including second-hand purchases) and then make a copy of that its fair use.
Parody is somewhat different because I'd be producing a copy or an altered copy of something in order to make a statement. In this case, what matters is not the copy itself but the intent. In the case of the music it's the other way around because one wants to have an exact replica of the "original".
Please, if you reply to this, take into account that I'm not saying whether I'm for or against the status quo, merely trying to depict it.
This is a very small IT community. There aren't a lot of IT-related jobs that don't have something to do with my company. At some point even if I did leave this job for another in the area I will likely work for or with one of the people that I believe is causing these problems at my company. I don't particularly want to move to a new market.
With all due respect to your motives, I think that moving to a new market is precisely the best thing you can do. You can also choose to fight the roots of this problem, but if you don't have the inclination/resources/connections/support to do that, it usually is an uphill battle even more damaging that simply staying put and taking the abuse.
It is scary and a bit hard to start over in a new place, but if you take the time to think about what your skills and your needs you would probably find something better suited to you. Maybe it's in a town close by, or in the opposite coast, but there are many more opportunities out there than one might have guessed. I did just that moving to Australia this year, and I'm quite happy with the results. Of course, there is no such thing as a perfect place, but if you are unhappy with your current situation and on top of that you have identified the causes, I would say that you owe it to yourself to do something about it.
This may even help solve the problem indirectly, if many people start quitting their job at a company or leaving town altogether it will start to send the message that those aren't good places to be, and then they will either have to improve or fail. I know that fighting the root causes directly is best, but like I said above, it's not always a task we are willing to tackle. Just don't stay put and complain, you've already figured out its unhealthy.
When I was doing my masters school policy was that mobiles were not allowed. With most of the students being graduates that were already working and had responsibilities, it was quite possible that some of them would receive a call. So at the beginning of each course, and for the first two or three classes, this teacher would warn us something like this: Use of cell phones is not allowed. It's in the school rules, and it's my rule. You have agreed to take this class under those conditions. If a cell rings in my class, the owner will loose 20% of his score in next exam. Second time offenders will fail the course. If you are not willing to commit yourself to study and give this degree its required attention, you don't deserve to be here occupying a place that many others are waiting in line to take.
It was a bit pompous but effective. He also said that if his own phone should ring, then he would give everybody in the class 5% score for free on next exam.
So people that absolutely needed to be on call used to approach him at the end of class to negotiate, and they usually kept their phones in vibrating mode and sat close to the door so they could sneak out to answer. To my knowledge he did fail one guy once, and the honor commission upheld the teacher's decision.
There has to be a way to get the same point across rebellious teenagers.
Now, I did RTFA and I know this was staged by the girls with the purpose of getting that reaction from the teacher and filming it. I don't think this is an issue of technology, but of education. Some people were asking why should anybody respect authority? I say we should respect EVERYBODY by default, always. Those girls (and apparently many here) should be taught that respect and submission are not the same, and that rules and regulations are not bad per se. A minimum amount of order is needed for society to exist, and sometimes that order implies discomfort for some that would like to do things differently.
I think the trick is to really keep that imposed order to a bare minimum, and enforce it.
I have one mobile that does almost exactly what you want. Its the Nokia 6280 and it has a slide form-factor so it takes up very little space when closed and has a decent keyboard when open. It takes mini-sd and I use it all the time to listen to music with a 1GB card and stereo bluetooth headphones which of course can also be used as a headset to initiate calls with the voice recognition feature. The audio quality is excellent, both the mobile and the headphones support the A2DP standard (although I had to update the 6280's flash from vesion 3.4 to version 5.1) The only down side is the battery, it lasts for a whole day of music listening, but if you make more than one call the battery takes a big hit.
What this guy did is just plain old fraud. IF — however unlikely — he was thinking something along the lines of what you describe, he should have approached his employees and ask them for their support.
This "I borrowed without permission" bullshit is just a cynical attempt at reality-engineering to make things appear as something other that theft.
The story is from Tito Monterroso and it reads: "cuando despertó, el dinosaurio seguía ahí"
Interestingly, that's even more open in Spanish that it can be in English because in Spanish the subject is ommited, thus could be either male or female.
When (s/he) awoke, the dinosaur remained
(it was a dinosaur, not a nightmare. I need to play more Brain Training:P )
There is one very famous in Spanish, but I couldn't find the author in Google.
"Cuando despertó, la pesadilla seguía ahí."
I think in six words it would translate as:
I am running Win XP (Gasp!) and I installed yesterday's "unofficial" release in a separate directory. Both installations worked perfectly. Then today I uninstalled 2.0 and reinstalled it on top of the old 1.5.x version, and everything continues to work perfectly, including bookmarks and plugins (now collectively called add-ons together with the extensions).
So it might not be Firefox but your particular machine.
It all has to do with people bracing for the upcoming worldwide shortage of oil supplies. It matters little whether you believe it will be in 20 years, 50 or 2. Nothing is going to reshape the face of global economy like the drying up of relatively cheap-to-extract crude oil.
I thought it was just another of my paranoid friends conspiracy theories but if you take a bit of time to look into it, you will see. Just google for http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cantarell+produc tion+down and see what I'm talking about. Those are mainstream reports, not Chicken Little nutjobs.
This tax oil scheme is another subtle effort to curve the problem without raisint too many eyebrows amongst the general population because many believe it would cause widespread panic. I know I hate the guy that told me about this because every time I see news like this I fear he might not be just some wacko doomsayer. So if I am a somewhat rational and mildly educated guy and hate the messenger, what would do the masses?
The war on Irak was never properly explained. First it was WMD, then Saddass, then whatnot. Some say the truth is that the USA is fighting a resource war to secure one of the few oil reservoirs still worth something.
The recent trends towards fascism within Amerika, Britain, France and some other developed countries seem to be in preparation to handle mass unrest in their populations. Why would they bother when everything seems so quiet? Apparently, because it won't be quiet for much longer; once the 'easy oil' runs out ther will *still* be oil around but it will be expensive to obtain and process and inflation might run rampant. Imagine having 15 or 20 dollar prices per gallon of gasoline, how would that affect the industry? Transport? Food production?
The warnings against global warming and calls for carbon production are another related issue. Earth is in fact warming, but reducing pollution means less consumption of Oil and coal (which is not an endlessly renewable source either) and might push back the effects of the oil shortage long enough to develop alternatives.
The call for development of alternative energy sources is getting stronger every year as more people realize that oil dependancy is unsustainable in a shorter term than previously believed.
So maybe its a good thing that they are trying to get the money to develop the stuff that might cushion the blow that we all know is comming (even if we can't agree on when)
I followed your link and it specifically states Vista Enterprise. It says nothing at all of any other versions so I wonder, will it be sandboxed in its home edition?
As someone who lived in Mexico for quite a long time and has seen firsthand the horror stories of the cuban refugees that went there fleeing the malnutrition and opression I tend to believe that while the numbers might seem consistent they do not represent the reality very well.
It is true that they have very high levels of education. It is also true that they have nothing to eat many days a week if they don't work for the government or prostitute to the tourists (And there are thousands of international toursist, not just Evil Americans (tm)). I know personally 3 cases of cuban people that married just so they could get out. But as you may very well expect, there the vast majority of the population can't work for the gov or prostitute, so they just try to make do day to day as ordinary people do all over the world. That said, it is also true that there are people in Cuba that believe that they are better off.
And going back to topic: The Napster brand has lost most of its hype. It's no longer the Rebel darling of the mass media and most people don't even remember it existed. The "only" online store in the mainstream collective mind is iTunes, and all those who are into illegal (as per the current laws) file sharing are clueful enough to tell the difference between a site where they have to pay as opposed to one where they download stuff for free even if not clever enough so they don't get swamped in malware in the process.
So in my opinion Napster is going down because they didn't come up with anything new/cool/useful enough to maintain or augment the mindshare and these days all John Q. Public reads about it is foretellings of its demise.
I think everybody got it wrong. You lock the Borg in a room with the devil and you are creating something infinitely worse.
"Resistance is futile. Prepare to go to hell"
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Sure, the page is for the Real Academia Española and the tool is in the option "Diccionario de la lengua española".
Although I have to admit the patent states that this method would give you the choice of different meanings in other languages, so this dictionary doesn't do "exactly the same as this patent describes" as I said before and that last +1 Informative I got is undeserved I'm afraid =P
In the spanish speaking world, unlike in english, there is an official academy of the language which monitors its development throughout all the spanish-speaking countries and updates the official Dictionary of the Academy accordingly. In their website they have a tool that does exactly the same as this patent describes. Would that count as prior-art or the fact that its in a different language might count as sufficient difference even though the process is about the same (if not more complex given that there are a lot more perks to spanish conjugation)?
Maybe those clear and easy steps should be placed there for those who want to unsecure their network for whatever reason, but sitll have it WAP-protected right out of the box. Both 'sides' win.
I don't know and couldn't care less about the inner workings of a car. I insert the key, turn it around and it works. I know how to properly operate it, but I couldn't save my life by servicing it. The car comes with the dials and indicators I need to know everything is in order: I need to keep track of the oil, so my car has a motor-oil-level indicator. I need to keep track of the gas in the tank, so there is an indicator for that. There is an indicator that tells me that "something is seriously fcuked up with the engine" and then I call the mechanics to fix it. Some/.rs are pedantic enough to suggest that anyone that uses [name techdevice] should know how to service the device, when in fact all that is reasonable to ask of the consumer is that they learn to operate it. Operating a wifi technology should include things like knowing how to activate/deactivate the techlology, and how to add/remove their own devices to the net. Asking them to know how to shield the net from unauthorized access is asking them to be able to serice the technology and that's absurd. As may have already pointed out, what should be done is ship a secure in-a-sandbox technology. If companys market a product for mass-consumption it should be treated as any other non-tech mass-market item. If they want to ship open and unsecured products, they should market them at "expert users" who would know what to do with products in that state.
Not all SPAM is the same. For all the Cialviagradvilvalium and goatse.cs offers that arrive to the mail, there is a lot of othter different kinds of unwanted email from less shady sources. Some businesses view this as analogous to radio and tv advertisement: you don't want it but it is there along with the regular programming. I don't say this is correct or good, just that they treat it that way.
Anyway, I saw an advert for a migration agent, did my research, checked it out and now I'm living in a different country. I'm afraid I contributed to the perpetuation of SPAM; I have never purchased anything else from SPAM adverts again, but I'm quite sure stories like mine are what keep it coming to our mailboxes.
"I'm afraid there is no easy answer"
I don't say it was easy as I have absolutely no background, but in Australia you routinely see some weird newsbits about a "man in his 30's whose name can't be revealed by law was acused today of [insert henious crime] in the Sydney area of wherever. We will be closely monotoring this in the following weeks".
They publish all the gory facts, but they don't even mention whether the subject is tall, fat, green... nothing that can lead to identification until after the veredict is reached.
Please note the part where s/he can't be identified by law.
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Come to think of it, that seems to be more frequent the higher the income of the 'random stranger' is. People of low socioeconomic strata seem to be more friendly. In the countryside it seems to be the exact opposite of this.
But then again, I'm no more than an armchair sociologist so what do I know? =)
I guess a bunch of medium-to-high-income antisocial people will be mad at Microsoft for displaying them in public :)
I got that but maybe I didn't address it as clearly as I thought. Allow me to try again, by joining these two statements of yours thus:
I'm saying they shouldn't have been given that money in the first place, because what they're doing isn't worth the money they've been given, considering the other things that money could be spent on. So why don't we give them 100 billion dollars and let them do research with that? Obviously, because it's disproportionate. You don't spend THAT much money on this, because you need the money for other things and also the benefits you'll get become progressively more expensive to have obtained because it cost you so much more in the first place.What I tried to say —and hopefully will be more clear now— is that they were allocated whatever resources they currently have because someone thinks its worth it. You and I my disagree on this worthiness, but people found 'reasonable reasons' for doing this. Besides, the budget they have is but a fraction of the whole, where the rest has been earmarked for some other uses. This is the fraction (big or small) that the people doing the slicing deemed reasonable to spend in this particular task.
My point in saying that there are many different opinions is that we wouldn't be (aren't?) able to agree on what is more or less important, so we allocate some resources to this, some to that. There is simply no consensus over what to prioritize as you and I are illustrating, so we have to split the cake several ways. But its not like this guys are getting the whole enchilada.
I for one think it's cool that they are doing it, and if what they say about their AI is true, it looks like in the near future computer assisted tasks might get a big boost. That's a direct result of the program, "make AI smart enough so it can self-direct through its activities". Automation makes certain things run smoother (meaning cheaper and faster).
To sum: I contend this does have value, and the fact that there are other valuable things as well does not diminish the value of this one or make it inappropriate to invest in it.
I'd say people expect a minimum of privacy. Yeah, all bystanders will see me, but I expect them to mind their own business, or to the very least not interfere with mine. And I will potentially know they are there and I can watch them back.
Technology and the Brave New Surveillant States do not grant this two-way channel. They see me, I can't see them.
First, many people hate the USA, not America. America is a continent. I am perfectly aware that people from the USA call their own country that, but if you are going to inquire about the rest of the world's opinions, this is the first indicative of the different points of view. Most of the rest of the people in America the continent dislike the fact that people from USA have appropriated the name. I don't say either of them are wrong, that's just the way it is.
But that is just a minor nitpick. I personally know several people from the States, and they are quite nice people. Most individuals are if you take the time to know them. The problem is that people as a herd are a bunch of irrational and evil animals, and it just so happens that the evil animals from the USA have more power both economic and military to force their brand of irrationality upon the rest of us evil animals. Again in America, most people hate the USA because their tendency to intervene in other countries' domestic affairs, sometimes even deposing democratically elected officials and substituting them with dictators (Google is your friend).
Of course the USA is no worse than any other country, really, like I said they just have more power to do things their way, and because they exercise that power they end up pissing off a lot of people that then take some small comfort and vindication seeing them suffer. Why? Again, because we are an irrational lot even if we are quite nice as individual persons.
At the time of the attacks I was in a country where the main reaction was something like "serves them right!" because they were still resented at them. Only after I talked with them one on one or small groups of no more than three people they were willing to view the victims as mere human beings and not as 'Americans' (in your sense). Only then they agreed that what happened was sad and wrong, but even if it really is a big deal, there have been a lot worse man-made tragedies in the world. Many of them in Africa, for instance. I am now in a different country where the local government is one of Bush's closest allies, but the people I know dislike the USA almost as much as where I was before, albeit for different reasons.
People may have been biologically "created equal" (by their parents, God, the cosmic rays) but their culture makes them grow apart and be different, see things in a different way, assign value differently to the same things. Otherwise perhaps we would be living in a society that resembled more that of an Anthill, uniform, with individuals indistinguishable from one another.
In this case, the purpose of this satellite is specifically to look around for things that are out of the ordinary, and as such there is nothing more important for their team to do with their resources because this is exactly what they wanted to do. Many times science for the sake of science has yielded unexpected and highly beneficial results that can have practical applications. Think microwaves. And also the way they are using AI and networking with other satellites may in itself become useful in the future. I can imagine this satellite working together with the early warning systems currently being deployed to warn against future tsunamis for example.
The fact that so many people has so many different viewpoints, opinions and priorities is the main reason IMHO that we as a race can make any progress at all. I think it would be nice, and morally better to tackle world hunger first, but I'm sure some people consider other things to be more pressing. So to close, there is little point in saying that some project is a waste and its resources would be better employed elsewhere unless you have some direct say in how those resources are being allocated.
If you fidget a little I'm pretty sure you can unearth some others. For a good reference list where else but here?
"Piracy" copyright infringement means that you are unlawfully stepping over somebody's exclusive "right to copy", that is, to produce duplicates of a work. When the RIAA sues (whether with merit or not) they claim that you are illegally making a copy of something for which you don't have the right to reproduce. If I download a song from a P2P network for which I didn't pay the legal copyright holder for the rights to do so, then I'm breaking the law because I created a copy without authorization.
If I make a copy of a CD that I purchased through legal channels (including second-hand purchases) and then make a copy of that its fair use.
Parody is somewhat different because I'd be producing a copy or an altered copy of something in order to make a statement. In this case, what matters is not the copy itself but the intent. In the case of the music it's the other way around because one wants to have an exact replica of the "original".
Please, if you reply to this, take into account that I'm not saying whether I'm for or against the status quo, merely trying to depict it.
With all due respect to your motives, I think that moving to a new market is precisely the best thing you can do. You can also choose to fight the roots of this problem, but if you don't have the inclination/resources/connections/support to do that, it usually is an uphill battle even more damaging that simply staying put and taking the abuse.
It is scary and a bit hard to start over in a new place, but if you take the time to think about what your skills and your needs you would probably find something better suited to you. Maybe it's in a town close by, or in the opposite coast, but there are many more opportunities out there than one might have guessed. I did just that moving to Australia this year, and I'm quite happy with the results. Of course, there is no such thing as a perfect place, but if you are unhappy with your current situation and on top of that you have identified the causes, I would say that you owe it to yourself to do something about it.
This may even help solve the problem indirectly, if many people start quitting their job at a company or leaving town altogether it will start to send the message that those aren't good places to be, and then they will either have to improve or fail. I know that fighting the root causes directly is best, but like I said above, it's not always a task we are willing to tackle. Just don't stay put and complain, you've already figured out its unhealthy.
It was a bit pompous but effective. He also said that if his own phone should ring, then he would give everybody in the class 5% score for free on next exam.
So people that absolutely needed to be on call used to approach him at the end of class to negotiate, and they usually kept their phones in vibrating mode and sat close to the door so they could sneak out to answer. To my knowledge he did fail one guy once, and the honor commission upheld the teacher's decision.
There has to be a way to get the same point across rebellious teenagers. Now, I did RTFA and I know this was staged by the girls with the purpose of getting that reaction from the teacher and filming it. I don't think this is an issue of technology, but of education. Some people were asking why should anybody respect authority? I say we should respect EVERYBODY by default, always. Those girls (and apparently many here) should be taught that respect and submission are not the same, and that rules and regulations are not bad per se. A minimum amount of order is needed for society to exist, and sometimes that order implies discomfort for some that would like to do things differently. I think the trick is to really keep that imposed order to a bare minimum, and enforce it.
I have one mobile that does almost exactly what you want. Its the Nokia 6280 and it has a slide form-factor so it takes up very little space when closed and has a decent keyboard when open. It takes mini-sd and I use it all the time to listen to music with a 1GB card and stereo bluetooth headphones which of course can also be used as a headset to initiate calls with the voice recognition feature. The audio quality is excellent, both the mobile and the headphones support the A2DP standard (although I had to update the 6280's flash from vesion 3.4 to version 5.1) The only down side is the battery, it lasts for a whole day of music listening, but if you make more than one call the battery takes a big hit.
What this guy did is just plain old fraud. IF — however unlikely — he was thinking something along the lines of what you describe, he should have approached his employees and ask them for their support. This "I borrowed without permission" bullshit is just a cynical attempt at reality-engineering to make things appear as something other that theft.
The story is from Tito Monterroso and it reads: "cuando despertó, el dinosaurio seguía ahí"
Interestingly, that's even more open in Spanish that it can be in English because in Spanish the subject is ommited, thus could be either male or female.
When (s/he) awoke, the dinosaur remained
(it was a dinosaur, not a nightmare. I need to play more Brain Training :P )
When he awoke, nightmare still remained
I am running Win XP (Gasp!) and I installed yesterday's "unofficial" release in a separate directory. Both installations worked perfectly. Then today I uninstalled 2.0 and reinstalled it on top of the old 1.5.x version, and everything continues to work perfectly, including bookmarks and plugins (now collectively called add-ons together with the extensions). So it might not be Firefox but your particular machine.
Read Way Station by Clifford D. Simak. It's a wonrderful tale, and it uses this exact same tech. And the story is some 50 years old.
I thought it was just another of my paranoid friends conspiracy theories but if you take a bit of time to look into it, you will see. Just google for http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cantarell+produc tion+down and see what I'm talking about. Those are mainstream reports, not Chicken Little nutjobs.
This tax oil scheme is another subtle effort to curve the problem without raisint too many eyebrows amongst the general population because many believe it would cause widespread panic. I know I hate the guy that told me about this because every time I see news like this I fear he might not be just some wacko doomsayer. So if I am a somewhat rational and mildly educated guy and hate the messenger, what would do the masses?
- The war on Irak was never properly explained. First it was WMD, then Saddass, then whatnot. Some say the truth is that the USA is fighting a resource war to secure one of the few oil reservoirs still worth something.
- The recent trends towards fascism within Amerika, Britain, France and some other developed countries seem to be in preparation to handle mass unrest in their populations. Why would they bother when everything seems so quiet? Apparently, because it won't be quiet for much longer; once the 'easy oil' runs out ther will *still* be oil around but it will be expensive to obtain and process and inflation might run rampant. Imagine having 15 or 20 dollar prices per gallon of gasoline, how would that affect the industry? Transport? Food production?
- The warnings against global warming and calls for carbon production are another related issue. Earth is in fact warming, but reducing pollution means less consumption of Oil and coal (which is not an endlessly renewable source either) and might push back the effects of the oil shortage long enough to develop alternatives.
- The call for development of alternative energy sources is getting stronger every year as more people realize that oil dependancy is unsustainable in a shorter term than previously believed.
So maybe its a good thing that they are trying to get the money to develop the stuff that might cushion the blow that we all know is comming (even if we can't agree on when)I followed your link and it specifically states Vista Enterprise. It says nothing at all of any other versions so I wonder, will it be sandboxed in its home edition?
As someone who lived in Mexico for quite a long time and has seen firsthand the horror stories of the cuban refugees that went there fleeing the malnutrition and opression I tend to believe that while the numbers might seem consistent they do not represent the reality very well.
It is true that they have very high levels of education. It is also true that they have nothing to eat many days a week if they don't work for the government or prostitute to the tourists (And there are thousands of international toursist, not just Evil Americans (tm)). I know personally 3 cases of cuban people that married just so they could get out. But as you may very well expect, there the vast majority of the population can't work for the gov or prostitute, so they just try to make do day to day as ordinary people do all over the world. That said, it is also true that there are people in Cuba that believe that they are better off.
And going back to topic: The Napster brand has lost most of its hype. It's no longer the Rebel darling of the mass media and most people don't even remember it existed. The "only" online store in the mainstream collective mind is iTunes, and all those who are into illegal (as per the current laws) file sharing are clueful enough to tell the difference between a site where they have to pay as opposed to one where they download stuff for free even if not clever enough so they don't get swamped in malware in the process.
So in my opinion Napster is going down because they didn't come up with anything new/cool/useful enough to maintain or augment the mindshare and these days all John Q. Public reads about it is foretellings of its demise.
I think everybody got it wrong. You lock the Borg in a room with the devil and you are creating something infinitely worse. "Resistance is futile. Prepare to go to hell" =P +R
Although I have to admit the patent states that this method would give you the choice of different meanings in other languages, so this dictionary doesn't do "exactly the same as this patent describes" as I said before and that last +1 Informative I got is undeserved I'm afraid =P
In the spanish speaking world, unlike in english, there is an official academy of the language which monitors its development throughout all the spanish-speaking countries and updates the official Dictionary of the Academy accordingly. In their website they have a tool that does exactly the same as this patent describes. Would that count as prior-art or the fact that its in a different language might count as sufficient difference even though the process is about the same (if not more complex given that there are a lot more perks to spanish conjugation)?
Maybe those clear and easy steps should be placed there for those who want to unsecure their network for whatever reason, but sitll have it WAP-protected right out of the box. Both 'sides' win.
I don't know and couldn't care less about the inner workings of a car. I insert the key, turn it around and it works. I know how to properly operate it, but I couldn't save my life by servicing it. The car comes with the dials and indicators I need to know everything is in order: I need to keep track of the oil, so my car has a motor-oil-level indicator. I need to keep track of the gas in the tank, so there is an indicator for that. There is an indicator that tells me that "something is seriously fcuked up with the engine" and then I call the mechanics to fix it. Some /.rs are pedantic enough to suggest that anyone that uses [name techdevice] should know how to service the device, when in fact all that is reasonable to ask of the consumer is that they learn to operate it. Operating a wifi technology should include things like knowing how to activate/deactivate the techlology, and how to add/remove their own devices to the net. Asking them to know how to shield the net from unauthorized access is asking them to be able to serice the technology and that's absurd. As may have already pointed out, what should be done is ship a secure in-a-sandbox technology. If companys market a product for mass-consumption it should be treated as any other non-tech mass-market item. If they want to ship open and unsecured products, they should market them at "expert users" who would know what to do with products in that state.
Not all SPAM is the same. For all the Cialviagradvilvalium and goatse.cs offers that arrive to the mail, there is a lot of othter different kinds of unwanted email from less shady sources. Some businesses view this as analogous to radio and tv advertisement: you don't want it but it is there along with the regular programming. I don't say this is correct or good, just that they treat it that way.
Anyway, I saw an advert for a migration agent, did my research, checked it out and now I'm living in a different country. I'm afraid I contributed to the perpetuation of SPAM; I have never purchased anything else from SPAM adverts again, but I'm quite sure stories like mine are what keep it coming to our mailboxes.
"I'm afraid there is no easy answer" I don't say it was easy as I have absolutely no background, but in Australia you routinely see some weird newsbits about a "man in his 30's whose name can't be revealed by law was acused today of [insert henious crime] in the Sydney area of wherever. We will be closely monotoring this in the following weeks". They publish all the gory facts, but they don't even mention whether the subject is tall, fat, green... nothing that can lead to identification until after the veredict is reached. Please note the part where s/he can't be identified by law.