With all due respect, the meaning of the word "leverage" in every example you gave is plainly obvious, and not really even that buzzwordy.
Really? Let's try replacing the word 'leverage' with the word 'use' in all the three examples, and see if we lose any significant meaning:
Most of the exploits that used IE vulnerabilities to plant spyware were based on ActiveX and JavaScript, said Gribb.
World Wind uses satellite imagery and elevation data to allow users to experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there.
learn how other organizations leverage the pod
Even given your argument concerning business use of 'leverage' - which I still consider dubious - the only one of the three that might fall into that category is the last one. The other two work just fine with 'use', and so to use the word 'leverage' can only be put down to the author thinking that it makes him seem more intelligent to leverage a long word when he could equally well use a short one.
I say cram as much stuff as you possibly can into it, just don't let the price go too high.
That's precisely the problem, though.
The more you cram in, the higher the price goes. That's just the way things are. Now, it looks likely that the Xbox 360 will be cheaper than the PS3, and the Revolution will probably be quite a lot cheaper. Given that, will the PS3's superior hardware be worth the extra cost?
In theory one could probably cram half a dozen Opterons and a pair of top-end SLI nVidia cards into a PS3's case... it would certainly be high-performance, but it would cost so much that nobody would buy it. Where's the sweet spot? We won't know for a while, but it's possible that Sony have overshot it somewhat.
Moreover, innovation is the key to longevity. Think of how long Radiohead and OutKast have been popular, especially by comparison to [insert top 40 hack here].
Consider here the most successful band there's ever been: The Beatles.
Listen to, shall we say, Help!. Then listen to Revolver. Then listen to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Then listen to the White Album.
The reason they're remembered so very positively is because they tried new things all the time. They only lasted, what, seven or eight years? Yet in that time, they covered so much ground. Everyone has at least something from the Beatles back catalogue that they like.
Now, picture yourself on a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies...
despite the fact that it was built by the British, who are notoriously bad at building road-worthy vehicles
Now, come on. We can build cars just fine. We just can't run car companies. Once owned by foreigners (whether Japanese, German, or even the bloody colonials) British car manufacturing goes really well.
That's it. I'm going to write a letter of complaint to Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd to express my disgust at being deceived for the past 20 years.
Be glad you've been getting your time travel ideas from American pop culture, that's all I can say. I got mine from the BBC. The result being that I've now got a list of no less than TEN people I have to contact to express my disgust at their deception - for FORTY years.
Worse yet, the first, second and third of those ten foul misrepresenters of the nature of time and relative dimensions in space are all dead. In order to express my disgust, I need to find a time machine. Which it now seems I can't do. Oh, the frustration...
you can't help but come to the conclusion that Muslim, as it exists in the real world today (and not in theory), is a barbaric, violent, repressive religion.
Whatever happened to Islam? What went wrong? I remember reading about old Baghdad, of the culture of the Arabian Nights, of the Arab astronomers who gave us half the names of our stars, of their preservation of the knowledge of old through the dark age of Europe, and their continual improvement upon it. About Richard and Saladin. About the glorious culture built in the name of Allah and the Prophet.
And this all bears no resemblance whatever to what passes for Islam today. Some say that old Araby never recovered from the depredations of Genghis Khan, others that it was the doing of European powers and the carving-up of the Ottoman Empire, others that it's about America and Israel, and the militant resistance to their imperialism cloaking itself in the banners of Islam just as the IRA claimed to be fighting as Catholics...
Something's horribly wrong with Islam today. But it's not something we can do anything about from outside. It's for them to change. We can help, if help is asked, but we can't be seen to impose our values on others by force - that just inspires more resistance.
Starlight has already helped foil some terror plots, says Jim Thomas, one of its developers and director of the government's new National Visualization Analytics Center in Richland, Wash. He can't elaborate because the cases are classified, he adds. But "there's no question that the technology we've invented here at the lab has been used to protect our freedoms - and that's pretty cool."
Excuse me?
If what he says is true, then it's possible that the technology has been used to protect our lives. Our freedoms are a different matter. Which of the two you consider to be the more important is a pretty strong indicator of whether you're a free country or a police state.
Why, when the Chinese government ask for information to enforce a law, is it wrong but when the American, or other Weston governments ask for information it isn't?
Who ever said it wasn't wrong when Western governments do it? I don't care if it's to crack down on dangerous democratic activists or to protect us from the terrorist bogeyman, I don't want the government snooping on my emails.
when are people going to stop selling out their brothers and sisters for a few dollars?
When the American economy collapses and hyperinflation kicks in. Then people will sell out their brothers and sisters for a few euro, or a few yen, or a few trillion dollars.
It seems that we have here people employed by the Party to edit articles about their masters. They are actually throwing inconvenient facts down the memory hole. It's pure 1984.
And somebody thinks it's funny. Christ. Perhaps Ingsoc could add a fourth slogan...
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
WAR IS PEACE
TOTALITARIANISM IS FUNNY
That is the most shocking thing I have read since hearing that protests are now banned outside parliament.
The interesting thing about this law is how it's applied.
25-year-old woman reading out names of war dead at war memorial as protest against war: arrested and fined.
Large number of people with signs saying shit like HOORAY FOR 7/7 and SHEIKH OSAMA IS COMING TO GET YOU and BEHEAD THE DANISH KAFFIRS: left entirely unmolested.
And, so I hear, counterprotesters to the above on the same day, with signs bearing reproductions of certain Danish artwork - you guessed it, arrested!
Meanwhile: nutty old bloke who's been camped outside Parliament protesting against this and that for years, against whose ongoing minor nuisance this silly law was passed in the first place... still there! The courts held that the law only applied to new protests, and that since his was an ongoing protest he could not be removed.
"We want you to always do the 'right thing', unless we're the ones asking you."
Of course. When the US government asks for information to help their struggle against dangerous evildoers, it is right and proper to hand it over. When the Chinese government asks for information to help their struggle against brave democratic agitators, it is right and proper to deny them that information. Similarly, four legs good, two legs bad; and evolution is an atheist lie, but the government should do more to protect us against the threat of a mutation of bird flu. It's called Doublethink, and it's actually quite easy with a bit of practice.
We salute revisionist government and it's retro-active position on history.
What is the past? It does not exist, in any physical sense. It is only what people remember, and what the records show. But memories are pliable, people are prone to forgetfulness and false recollection, and of course the records show what we want them to show.
Really, it's quite a simple system. You don't seem to understand. History is never rewritten, because once rewritten it always was that way - unless you believe, rather unscientifically, in a past world that somehow exists in 'reality', independent of the evidence in the present.
Perhaps you could use a little time in the Ministry of Love? They're very good at educating people to understand this kind of thing.
that orbital fuel depot sounds like a great place for one of those space elevators.
Well, more the other way round. The top of a space elevator is a good place for a fuel depot. You'd place your space elevator on the equator, preferably on a fairly remote island so that you can easily maintain a secure perimeter around it.
Having built a space elevator, the top thereof is the start point for everything you do in space. You'd have workshops, shipyards, and yes, big badass fuel tanks.
But to build a space elevator you need a reasonably well-established orbital infrastructure to begin with. You want to get a lot of mass to geostationary orbit to provide your topside anchor. And to do that, orbiting fuel dumps will be very, very handy.
Painful though it is to admit, Americans outnumber the rest of the native English speakers, and other languages have entirely different words meaning 'mathematics' and abbreviate them if necessary in their own way.
Don't the French say 'le math'? I'm not certain - it's been a while since high school...
Having seen Link repeatedly try and fail to cop a snog off Zelda in this cartoon before acquiring Zelda II, I found the ending to that game (in which Link and Zelda seem to embrace, and ostensibly kiss, behind a curtain) oddly satisfying.
Different Zelda. Zelda II takes place a couple of years after Zelda I, but the princess sleeping in the North Castle has been there for centuries. According to the Zelda II manual, after the wizard put the sleeping spell on her, a law was made that all Hyrule's princesses would henceforth be called Zelda.
By my count, there are at least three Zeldas around. There's Zelda (OoT) who established the Sages' Seal, Zelda (LttP) who was used by Agahnim to break it, and Zelda (LoZ). Zelda (AoL), the sleeping princess, is possibly but not certainly Zelda (LttP), and I'm assuming she is because three Zeldas ought to be enough for anybody.
When you by Lego products, you help offset the Muslims in their attempt to cause damage to Denmark, and you defend freedom of speech for all of Western Civilization!
As I understand it, Denmark's other exports consist almost exclusively of lager and bacon.
I'm not entirely clear, then, on what a Muslim boycott of these products is supposed to achieve.
You'll never see Infocom's graphics on any computer screen. Because there's never been any computer built by man that could handle the images we produce. And there never will be. We draw our graphics from the limitless imagery of your imagination - a technology so powerful, it makes any picture that's ever come out of a screen look like graffiti by comparison.
Dead right there.
See, over the years, I've been all over the place. I've been all through Black Mesa. I've seen Amn and Neverwinter and Baldur's Gate. I've made my way through Sigil and walked on the rivers of Morrowind. Sometimes I still dream of Citadel Station, of the murderous AI I half loved, half hated, of the strange alien beauty of the infected grove. All wonderful exotic marvels.
But you know what?
Nothing has ever come close to the first time I emerged blinking from the grue-infested dark to gaze upon the glory of Flood Control Damn #3, that magnificent piece of ancient architecture. The glittering lake, the fast-flowing river, the perfect beach. And the oh-so-reliable inflatable boat...
I was working in some warehouse that summer, refilling my student beer budget as is the usual way of things while not actively at university. I'm hauling a cart around the place and picking up stock to meet orders. Dull. Easy. And we usually hyperextended the lunch breaks.
So. I'm heading down a long narrow passage between rows of shelves. Turns out the item I want is down in the dark, where the lights have failed. OK. In I go. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I see a red lamp glowing on the ceiling...
CAMERA! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! I quickly duck for cover behind my cart and reach for my gun to shoot the damn thing out, all in one movement, all instant, pure reflex... and my hand finds no gun, but only the knife I use for slashing open boxes, and I return to the real world with great relief.
It's not enough to have better graphics and stuff, they need to evolve the gameplay, and not just in minor tweaks.
I recall GTA: London 1969, which is still probably my favourite GTA game - simply because it let me play at being Michael Caine. I drove madly around that map on a variety of exciting heists all the while singing The Self-Preservation Society very loudly. And then got on a scooter and zipped around with some Mods. And then there were James Bond missions. All a wonderful parody of a certain era.
It was too short. It was too easy. But damn, it was fun while it lasted.
So: my proposal for the next instalment of GTA?
GTA: Tokyo 2050.
Just imagine it. GTA... except the most expensive sports cars can fly, and if you piss off the military then they turn up in tanks that transform into mecha. A futuristic GTA playing off anime and SF cliches, with fully destructible buildings - which will, of course, have been mysteriously repaired by the Tokyo Police Cataclysm Division when you come back to the same spot ten minutes later...
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Really? Let's try replacing the word 'leverage' with the word 'use' in all the three examples, and see if we lose any significant meaning:
Most of the exploits that used IE vulnerabilities to plant spyware were based on ActiveX and JavaScript, said Gribb.
World Wind uses satellite imagery and elevation data to allow users to experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there.
learn how other organizations leverage the pod
Even given your argument concerning business use of 'leverage' - which I still consider dubious - the only one of the three that might fall into that category is the last one. The other two work just fine with 'use', and so to use the word 'leverage' can only be put down to the author thinking that it makes him seem more intelligent to leverage a long word when he could equally well use a short one.
How unimaginative. Take a stanley knife to these things: free shuriken. Then you can flip out like a ninja, 'cos that's what ninjas do!
That's precisely the problem, though.
The more you cram in, the higher the price goes. That's just the way things are. Now, it looks likely that the Xbox 360 will be cheaper than the PS3, and the Revolution will probably be quite a lot cheaper. Given that, will the PS3's superior hardware be worth the extra cost?
In theory one could probably cram half a dozen Opterons and a pair of top-end SLI nVidia cards into a PS3's case... it would certainly be high-performance, but it would cost so much that nobody would buy it. Where's the sweet spot? We won't know for a while, but it's possible that Sony have overshot it somewhat.
Who are you, and how did you end up posting to Slashdot?
Sue early: people say 'Ah, well we'll just use some other video codec, then.'
Sue late: people say 'Shit, we've committed our whole business to this technology. Better pay up.'
There's more profit to be had this way, which is why it's done like this. What, you expected some ethical or technical reason?
Why do you hate America so much?
Consider here the most successful band there's ever been: The Beatles.
Listen to, shall we say, Help!. Then listen to Revolver. Then listen to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Then listen to the White Album.
The reason they're remembered so very positively is because they tried new things all the time. They only lasted, what, seven or eight years? Yet in that time, they covered so much ground. Everyone has at least something from the Beatles back catalogue that they like.
Now, picture yourself on a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies...
Now, come on. We can build cars just fine. We just can't run car companies. Once owned by foreigners (whether Japanese, German, or even the bloody colonials) British car manufacturing goes really well.
Be glad you've been getting your time travel ideas from American pop culture, that's all I can say. I got mine from the BBC. The result being that I've now got a list of no less than TEN people I have to contact to express my disgust at their deception - for FORTY years.
Worse yet, the first, second and third of those ten foul misrepresenters of the nature of time and relative dimensions in space are all dead. In order to express my disgust, I need to find a time machine. Which it now seems I can't do. Oh, the frustration...
Whatever happened to Islam? What went wrong? I remember reading about old Baghdad, of the culture of the Arabian Nights, of the Arab astronomers who gave us half the names of our stars, of their preservation of the knowledge of old through the dark age of Europe, and their continual improvement upon it. About Richard and Saladin. About the glorious culture built in the name of Allah and the Prophet.
And this all bears no resemblance whatever to what passes for Islam today. Some say that old Araby never recovered from the depredations of Genghis Khan, others that it was the doing of European powers and the carving-up of the Ottoman Empire, others that it's about America and Israel, and the militant resistance to their imperialism cloaking itself in the banners of Islam just as the IRA claimed to be fighting as Catholics...
Something's horribly wrong with Islam today. But it's not something we can do anything about from outside. It's for them to change. We can help, if help is asked, but we can't be seen to impose our values on others by force - that just inspires more resistance.
Excuse me?
If what he says is true, then it's possible that the technology has been used to protect our lives. Our freedoms are a different matter. Which of the two you consider to be the more important is a pretty strong indicator of whether you're a free country or a police state.
Who ever said it wasn't wrong when Western governments do it? I don't care if it's to crack down on dangerous democratic activists or to protect us from the terrorist bogeyman, I don't want the government snooping on my emails.
When the American economy collapses and hyperinflation kicks in. Then people will sell out their brothers and sisters for a few euro, or a few yen, or a few trillion dollars.
It seems that we have here people employed by the Party to edit articles about their masters. They are actually throwing inconvenient facts down the memory hole. It's pure 1984.
And somebody thinks it's funny. Christ. Perhaps Ingsoc could add a fourth slogan...
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
WAR IS PEACE
TOTALITARIANISM IS FUNNY
The interesting thing about this law is how it's applied.
25-year-old woman reading out names of war dead at war memorial as protest against war: arrested and fined.
Large number of people with signs saying shit like HOORAY FOR 7/7 and SHEIKH OSAMA IS COMING TO GET YOU and BEHEAD THE DANISH KAFFIRS: left entirely unmolested.
And, so I hear, counterprotesters to the above on the same day, with signs bearing reproductions of certain Danish artwork - you guessed it, arrested!
Meanwhile: nutty old bloke who's been camped outside Parliament protesting against this and that for years, against whose ongoing minor nuisance this silly law was passed in the first place... still there! The courts held that the law only applied to new protests, and that since his was an ongoing protest he could not be removed.
Of course. When the US government asks for information to help their struggle against dangerous evildoers, it is right and proper to hand it over. When the Chinese government asks for information to help their struggle against brave democratic agitators, it is right and proper to deny them that information. Similarly, four legs good, two legs bad; and evolution is an atheist lie, but the government should do more to protect us against the threat of a mutation of bird flu. It's called Doublethink, and it's actually quite easy with a bit of practice.
Last time around, it was a bit of a geek niche thing. Now it's being reported on by the mainstream. Surely that's worthy of note?
What is the past? It does not exist, in any physical sense. It is only what people remember, and what the records show. But memories are pliable, people are prone to forgetfulness and false recollection, and of course the records show what we want them to show.
Really, it's quite a simple system. You don't seem to understand. History is never rewritten, because once rewritten it always was that way - unless you believe, rather unscientifically, in a past world that somehow exists in 'reality', independent of the evidence in the present.
Perhaps you could use a little time in the Ministry of Love? They're very good at educating people to understand this kind of thing.
Well, more the other way round. The top of a space elevator is a good place for a fuel depot. You'd place your space elevator on the equator, preferably on a fairly remote island so that you can easily maintain a secure perimeter around it.
Having built a space elevator, the top thereof is the start point for everything you do in space. You'd have workshops, shipyards, and yes, big badass fuel tanks.
But to build a space elevator you need a reasonably well-established orbital infrastructure to begin with. You want to get a lot of mass to geostationary orbit to provide your topside anchor. And to do that, orbiting fuel dumps will be very, very handy.
Painful though it is to admit, Americans outnumber the rest of the native English speakers, and other languages have entirely different words meaning 'mathematics' and abbreviate them if necessary in their own way.
Don't the French say 'le math'? I'm not certain - it's been a while since high school...
Different Zelda. Zelda II takes place a couple of years after Zelda I, but the princess sleeping in the North Castle has been there for centuries. According to the Zelda II manual, after the wizard put the sleeping spell on her, a law was made that all Hyrule's princesses would henceforth be called Zelda.
By my count, there are at least three Zeldas around. There's Zelda (OoT) who established the Sages' Seal, Zelda (LttP) who was used by Agahnim to break it, and Zelda (LoZ). Zelda (AoL), the sleeping princess, is possibly but not certainly Zelda (LttP), and I'm assuming she is because three Zeldas ought to be enough for anybody.
As I understand it, Denmark's other exports consist almost exclusively of lager and bacon.
I'm not entirely clear, then, on what a Muslim boycott of these products is supposed to achieve.
Dead right there.
See, over the years, I've been all over the place. I've been all through Black Mesa. I've seen Amn and Neverwinter and Baldur's Gate. I've made my way through Sigil and walked on the rivers of Morrowind. Sometimes I still dream of Citadel Station, of the murderous AI I half loved, half hated, of the strange alien beauty of the infected grove. All wonderful exotic marvels.
But you know what?
Nothing has ever come close to the first time I emerged blinking from the grue-infested dark to gaze upon the glory of Flood Control Damn #3, that magnificent piece of ancient architecture. The glittering lake, the fast-flowing river, the perfect beach. And the oh-so-reliable inflatable boat...
System Shock 2... egad.
I was working in some warehouse that summer, refilling my student beer budget as is the usual way of things while not actively at university. I'm hauling a cart around the place and picking up stock to meet orders. Dull. Easy. And we usually hyperextended the lunch breaks.
So. I'm heading down a long narrow passage between rows of shelves. Turns out the item I want is down in the dark, where the lights have failed. OK. In I go. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I see a red lamp glowing on the ceiling...
CAMERA! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! I quickly duck for cover behind my cart and reach for my gun to shoot the damn thing out, all in one movement, all instant, pure reflex... and my hand finds no gun, but only the knife I use for slashing open boxes, and I return to the real world with great relief.
I recall GTA: London 1969, which is still probably my favourite GTA game - simply because it let me play at being Michael Caine. I drove madly around that map on a variety of exciting heists all the while singing The Self-Preservation Society very loudly. And then got on a scooter and zipped around with some Mods. And then there were James Bond missions. All a wonderful parody of a certain era.
It was too short. It was too easy. But damn, it was fun while it lasted.
So: my proposal for the next instalment of GTA?
GTA: Tokyo 2050.
Just imagine it. GTA... except the most expensive sports cars can fly, and if you piss off the military then they turn up in tanks that transform into mecha. A futuristic GTA playing off anime and SF cliches, with fully destructible buildings - which will, of course, have been mysteriously repaired by the Tokyo Police Cataclysm Division when you come back to the same spot ten minutes later...