Slaved? Slaved? Oxygen is their poop!!! We're finally just recycling the damn stuff. And yes I think that watching Family Guy on Hulu at a Starbucks is a fine use for archaic anaerobacteria poop... it's strangely fitting in fact.
Still the cellphone is applicable (well mine is anyways)... in that it makes decisions on it's own based on environmental data it collects, then acts on those decisions. My phone knows when it's in a wifi zone and switches receivers, it has a proximity sensor that tells it when to turn off it's touch screen, it receives information from the internet and knows to display a message for me to read... all on it's own without my input or control.
Increasing fuel economy works for the vast majority of people the vast majority of the time.
People tend to drive the same amount on a day to day basis because they work. Drive to work, drive home. That's it. The only time when it would be variable is on the weekends and for vacations. Many people do not go anywhere on the weekends or if they do it's just a substitute for the normal errand running and shopping they do. Vacations - many people do not drive for vacations, most take a plane.
So it works 95% of the time that people will use less fuel if their vehicles use less fuel per mile driven and they aren't likely to make up for that 95% more efficient driving with driving longer distances during their 5% variable time (which will still be more efficient).
I had 6 websites infected by this last month. Flash and PDF downloads starting in iframes offscreen.... based out of China.
Not sure if it was a web exploit or ftp login theft. We looked at both early on as the footprint was confusing in that things were happening that shouldn't be possible without direct access to the server via ftp.
We changed all passwords to be sure that there weren't any old ones floating around on insecure PCs in the company or with clients, then updated all applications do remove any known exploits. Then added in rewrite rules to stop libwww and other known agents from accessing any files via the web.
Seems to have worked, no more exploits happening (lots of tagging was happening in addition to Gumblar).
It's odd that it took so long for this advisory to come out though. Maybe we should have reported it but we did not know it was new as both exploits were known at the time, just no connected with a specific initiative by a hacker/botnet.
Let the parents or guardians decide. If the guardians ARE the state then they can do what they need to do to stay organized... if not then whomever is will make the decision that makes the most sense to them. Additionally whatever the result it, the records should be sealed automatically on their age of majority birthday... and a new 'adult' record opened when/if they become a person of interest.
Just open a new window for each site/activity/grouping that you have... does firefox let you drag and drop tabs between windows? Safari does so i use that... I'll open something randomly as a tab and decide to follow it so it gets opened in a new window (right click tab "open in new window", then anything related in other windows can be dragged over to it. The whole shebang can be minimized if I move to something else temporarily or if I need to save it I save it as a grouped bookmark.
A ribbon is a dynamic horizontal menu. It is contextual to what you are doing in your workspace. There is nothing dynamic about a set of urls that the user has selected.. it is very static. There is nothing contextual about browser features for each url selected.
A ribbon does not fit the UI needs of a browser.
A ribbon could be used if you were to integrate a browser within a productivity application... at which point the user would be switching to the 'browser' workspace wherein the options for 'browsing' would be presented within the ribbon menu, replacing whatever options were present in the other tools.
Not everyone is looking for a *fun* game. At a certain level of play many games are no longer fun but are still challenging and rewarding. I'm not just talking about PC Games.
Football at a professional level can not be called *fun*. It is hard, requires incredible amounts of training and experience and is a very competitive exercise in athletics, skill and strategy. Yet when you played it in elementary school it was a *fun* game.
Chess is a *fun* game when you first start out, learning the rules and putting yourself against your other peers who also are novices. When you begin competing it may still be fun but after a few years of rising through the ranks at a certain point it will stop being *fun* and will simply be challenging and rewarding as you reach your own limits and abilities.
The same observations apply to almost any game where skill is involved. They are typically easy to spot as they have "levels" which let the player know how far they have progressed both in terms of the game but also in terms of the skills required to play. Multi-player games however do not follow such a tradition and certainly competitive games do not though they may have "leagues" or ratings which helped to group players of different skill levels so that there is not an unfair matchup.
There are games which do not reward the player for improving their skills, such as The SIMS or Hungry Hungry Hippos which have built in limits to play which are set extremely low so as to be accessible to the youngest of players or are completely arbitrary in their reward system based on frequency of play rather than level of play.
Most FPS war games are of the "level" type of game play though with different leagues as well (beginner, intermediate, advanced, expert) which determines the starting skill level of the opponents. These can in fact be *fun* as they do not require the player to max out their own skills as a competitive multiplayer game would, regardless of the goals in the game... it is always *fun* to learn new skills and new game rules.
Games cease to be *fun* when you as the player are already an expert and have to compete against other experts which requires you to try new things, be creative, break the rules in undetectable ways or otherwise apply innovative strategies to overcome your opponent.
They should be contacting everyone they can to see if they can't simply collect all the data again. Surely of all the members who contributed there's got to be someone who has an additional archive of the hard assets (terrains, models, etc). Even if a single individual does not have them all the group as a whole may have them in aggregate.
They should just do whatever Starbucks is doing.... they're already stealing all the other ideas, i'm sure Starbucks has it all figured out already. I rarely sit around there for long anymore either - seems like all the chairs are always broken, the tables wonky or missing and generally it's uncomfortable to stay for very long.
The problem with this argument is that it is very short-sighted. Yes with current technology it is expensive to find/isolate/etc genes. It was even more expensive to do so 10 years ago. It was impossible to do so 20 years ago. However in another 20 years it could be cheap and not because of the work that these researchers are doing but because completely unrelated technology (better tools) will allow researchers to do the same work in 1/100th the time.
The economic incentive for a company to pursue this type of research is to be a leader in the field and therefore to have the experience and level of trust associated with that experience to continue to be a leader in the field. They don't need patent protection or other legal monopolies on this type of research. There are already enough barriers to entry into this field of development to make it hard for a newcomer to catch up simply by having free access to the methods.
An obligatory car analogy:
I as an amateur car enthusiast can get my hands on a repair manual for any vehicle in the world. I can even purchase specialty tools or make my own for those cars which require them. Having this knowledge and equipment does not make me competitive with existing auto shops which specialize in a particular vehicle or even with a generic repair shop. They have a vast amount of experience in the details of repair that I do not have. They can do the job faster, cheaper, more efficiently and can offer a warranty on said repairs due to the fact that they are an ongoing business. Patenting the method and process of repair or even the method to diagnose a repair problem is not necessary for a repair shop or a manufacturer to maintain their competitive advantage. It would on the other hand limit a consumer's ability to find a repair shop that was affordable (if it was a patented method) and thereby discourage the consumer from buying any vehicle which is so encumbered.
The only protection that is warranted in this scenario is a Trademark on a seal of approval for those companies which would be performing a method. A Trademark can be loaded with a recognized level of competency and trust so that a consumer (individual or business) knows that the company which displays it on their product or service is following a recognized best practice aka "Authorized Service Provider" or similar designation. A Trademark can be protected easily without limiting the ability of competing providers to offer a similar service or even to establish their own "Trademarked" best practice seal of approval.
If his father has a house, a wife and a gaggle of teen age kids to provide for he better live in a major city... cause otherwise there may not be another company close by worth working for.
Relocating a mature family is not an easy decision to make. It is possible but it becomes a pros/cons thing and it may be that the cons out weigh the pros even when there's a substantial pay increase involved.
Fencing - could lead to school slayings Martial Arts - you never know when someone could go lethal weapon on you Archery - snipers don't have to use guns
Spend an extra $200 bucks on a good antennae + receiver with HDMI and you'll feel even better about canceling cable (that is if you get good OTA HD reception). It's a one time cost and you get very high quality HD of network shows which may or may not make it to Hulu (Olympics was a good example).
Heh, it happens. You'll see, it's not cynicism at all... it's biological. The interests you are imprinted with in your youth stay with you for the rest of your life. Sure you will notice new things and check them out but when you want to feel youthful again - strangely enough you'll go listen to the band you listened to in high school. That's how memory imprinting works.
Neither company really knew what to do with the other. It was a bad merger but could have been great if only they'd had less clueless management. The only thing they looked at was subscriber base and thought that somehow that would be all they needed.
AOL could have evolved into Facebook or MySpace with a re-branding effort and a move to less proprietary hardware/software. They were stuck with their own homegrown stuff... look at Facebook which started as a ColdFusion application and has since moved on (or was it MySpace that was CF? oh well).
In any case they needed to open up to the developer community and let people use their platform as a tool, rather than feeling the need to roll out features themselves. They missed the web 2.0 bus so to speak by not providing an API.
Just needed to turn down the sensitivity a little... like people who put their mouse on super slow tracking vs. those who prefer a quick twitch approach. Personally I'd like a trackpad replacement with this interface, I don't want to have to move my whole arm around. Make it plenty sensitive or rather make the sensor's grid scaled appropriately for the size of the input.
DId you follow all of the instructions... you may need to install the Perian set of video codecs as well. It comes as a control panel BTW so you can turn it on/off and set preferences easily. It's a standard part of the AppleTV download but something that could be missed by those installing on a Mini or other Mac.
What good is a rootkit in a VM? It'll be open just as long as the user needs to open some legacy app, won't have access to their file system, except what documents they choose to copy over temporarily and may or may not have internet access.
Running Windows in a VM is actually the ideal solution. Do all your net connected stuff via a secure OS like Linux, then open up a few ports for the VM to run games or whatever.
Apple called from the year 2000 and wants their legacy transition strategy back... but hey it did work, so I say go for it Microsoft.
BTW virtualization need not be in a window. When Apple provided OS 9 aka "Classic" support they didn't make the apps second class citizens in any way relevant to getting work done. Sure they were running in emulated mode and were not as fast as they could be but they had access to all peripherals, etc.
Modern virtualization allows for way better performance, full access to all hardware and as importantly can still be sandboxed.
They should hide all the virtualization aspects though and just let the apps open like they are regular apps with maybe a title bar note saying "(Windows XP) or something so there is a clue when an app gets updated to full native capabilities (the note will go away.
When Mac OS did this transition it was actually quite exciting (though also frustrating) as I would be on the look-out for the OSX native version of some software to come out.... then we got to do it again when the Intel binaries came out...
Anyways, if Microsoft does it right it will be transparent and will allow them to finally do away with the legacy support roadmap. This XP virtual mode will be there as long as it takes for companies to move their apps over to 64 bit Windows 7/8 whatever compatibility.
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Slaved? Slaved? Oxygen is their poop!!! We're finally just recycling the damn stuff. And yes I think that watching Family Guy on Hulu at a Starbucks is a fine use for archaic anaerobacteria poop... it's strangely fitting in fact.
Still the cellphone is applicable (well mine is anyways)... in that it makes decisions on it's own based on environmental data it collects, then acts on those decisions. My phone knows when it's in a wifi zone and switches receivers, it has a proximity sensor that tells it when to turn off it's touch screen, it receives information from the internet and knows to display a message for me to read... all on it's own without my input or control.
Increasing fuel economy works for the vast majority of people the vast majority of the time.
People tend to drive the same amount on a day to day basis because they work. Drive to work, drive home. That's it. The only time when it would be variable is on the weekends and for vacations. Many people do not go anywhere on the weekends or if they do it's just a substitute for the normal errand running and shopping they do. Vacations - many people do not drive for vacations, most take a plane.
So it works 95% of the time that people will use less fuel if their vehicles use less fuel per mile driven and they aren't likely to make up for that 95% more efficient driving with driving longer distances during their 5% variable time (which will still be more efficient).
I had 6 websites infected by this last month. Flash and PDF downloads starting in iframes offscreen.... based out of China.
Not sure if it was a web exploit or ftp login theft. We looked at both early on as the footprint was confusing in that things were happening that shouldn't be possible without direct access to the server via ftp.
We changed all passwords to be sure that there weren't any old ones floating around on insecure PCs in the company or with clients, then updated all applications do remove any known exploits. Then added in rewrite rules to stop libwww and other known agents from accessing any files via the web.
Seems to have worked, no more exploits happening (lots of tagging was happening in addition to Gumblar).
It's odd that it took so long for this advisory to come out though. Maybe we should have reported it but we did not know it was new as both exploits were known at the time, just no connected with a specific initiative by a hacker/botnet.
Let the parents or guardians decide. If the guardians ARE the state then they can do what they need to do to stay organized... if not then whomever is will make the decision that makes the most sense to them. Additionally whatever the result it, the records should be sealed automatically on their age of majority birthday... and a new 'adult' record opened when/if they become a person of interest.
The correct answer - "I don't know, take it off, I need to compare" at which point you go down on her and she forgets all about it.
Just open a new window for each site/activity/grouping that you have... does firefox let you drag and drop tabs between windows? Safari does so i use that... I'll open something randomly as a tab and decide to follow it so it gets opened in a new window (right click tab "open in new window", then anything related in other windows can be dragged over to it. The whole shebang can be minimized if I move to something else temporarily or if I need to save it I save it as a grouped bookmark.
A ribbon is a dynamic horizontal menu. It is contextual to what you are doing in your workspace. There is nothing dynamic about a set of urls that the user has selected.. it is very static. There is nothing contextual about browser features for each url selected.
A ribbon does not fit the UI needs of a browser.
A ribbon could be used if you were to integrate a browser within a productivity application... at which point the user would be switching to the 'browser' workspace wherein the options for 'browsing' would be presented within the ribbon menu, replacing whatever options were present in the other tools.
Not everyone is looking for a *fun* game. At a certain level of play many games are no longer fun but are still challenging and rewarding. I'm not just talking about PC Games.
Football at a professional level can not be called *fun*. It is hard, requires incredible amounts of training and experience and is a very competitive exercise in athletics, skill and strategy. Yet when you played it in elementary school it was a *fun* game.
Chess is a *fun* game when you first start out, learning the rules and putting yourself against your other peers who also are novices. When you begin competing it may still be fun but after a few years of rising through the ranks at a certain point it will stop being *fun* and will simply be challenging and rewarding as you reach your own limits and abilities.
The same observations apply to almost any game where skill is involved. They are typically easy to spot as they have "levels" which let the player know how far they have progressed both in terms of the game but also in terms of the skills required to play. Multi-player games however do not follow such a tradition and certainly competitive games do not though they may have "leagues" or ratings which helped to group players of different skill levels so that there is not an unfair matchup.
There are games which do not reward the player for improving their skills, such as The SIMS or Hungry Hungry Hippos which have built in limits to play which are set extremely low so as to be accessible to the youngest of players or are completely arbitrary in their reward system based on frequency of play rather than level of play.
Most FPS war games are of the "level" type of game play though with different leagues as well (beginner, intermediate, advanced, expert) which determines the starting skill level of the opponents. These can in fact be *fun* as they do not require the player to max out their own skills as a competitive multiplayer game would, regardless of the goals in the game... it is always *fun* to learn new skills and new game rules.
Games cease to be *fun* when you as the player are already an expert and have to compete against other experts which requires you to try new things, be creative, break the rules in undetectable ways or otherwise apply innovative strategies to overcome your opponent.
They should be contacting everyone they can to see if they can't simply collect all the data again. Surely of all the members who contributed there's got to be someone who has an additional archive of the hard assets (terrains, models, etc). Even if a single individual does not have them all the group as a whole may have them in aggregate.
They should just do whatever Starbucks is doing.... they're already stealing all the other ideas, i'm sure Starbucks has it all figured out already. I rarely sit around there for long anymore either - seems like all the chairs are always broken, the tables wonky or missing and generally it's uncomfortable to stay for very long.
The problem with this argument is that it is very short-sighted. Yes with current technology it is expensive to find/isolate/etc genes. It was even more expensive to do so 10 years ago. It was impossible to do so 20 years ago. However in another 20 years it could be cheap and not because of the work that these researchers are doing but because completely unrelated technology (better tools) will allow researchers to do the same work in 1/100th the time.
The economic incentive for a company to pursue this type of research is to be a leader in the field and therefore to have the experience and level of trust associated with that experience to continue to be a leader in the field. They don't need patent protection or other legal monopolies on this type of research. There are already enough barriers to entry into this field of development to make it hard for a newcomer to catch up simply by having free access to the methods.
An obligatory car analogy:
I as an amateur car enthusiast can get my hands on a repair manual for any vehicle in the world. I can even purchase specialty tools or make my own for those cars which require them. Having this knowledge and equipment does not make me competitive with existing auto shops which specialize in a particular vehicle or even with a generic repair shop. They have a vast amount of experience in the details of repair that I do not have. They can do the job faster, cheaper, more efficiently and can offer a warranty on said repairs due to the fact that they are an ongoing business. Patenting the method and process of repair or even the method to diagnose a repair problem is not necessary for a repair shop or a manufacturer to maintain their competitive advantage. It would on the other hand limit a consumer's ability to find a repair shop that was affordable (if it was a patented method) and thereby discourage the consumer from buying any vehicle which is so encumbered.
The only protection that is warranted in this scenario is a Trademark on a seal of approval for those companies which would be performing a method. A Trademark can be loaded with a recognized level of competency and trust so that a consumer (individual or business) knows that the company which displays it on their product or service is following a recognized best practice aka "Authorized Service Provider" or similar designation. A Trademark can be protected easily without limiting the ability of competing providers to offer a similar service or even to establish their own "Trademarked" best practice seal of approval.
If his father has a house, a wife and a gaggle of teen age kids to provide for he better live in a major city... cause otherwise there may not be another company close by worth working for.
Relocating a mature family is not an easy decision to make. It is possible but it becomes a pros/cons thing and it may be that the cons out weigh the pros even when there's a substantial pay increase involved.
Fencing - could lead to school slayings
Martial Arts - you never know when someone could go lethal weapon on you
Archery - snipers don't have to use guns
Add to the list if you've got one
Spend an extra $200 bucks on a good antennae + receiver with HDMI and you'll feel even better about canceling cable (that is if you get good OTA HD reception). It's a one time cost and you get very high quality HD of network shows which may or may not make it to Hulu (Olympics was a good example).
Heh, it happens. You'll see, it's not cynicism at all... it's biological. The interests you are imprinted with in your youth stay with you for the rest of your life. Sure you will notice new things and check them out but when you want to feel youthful again - strangely enough you'll go listen to the band you listened to in high school. That's how memory imprinting works.
You mean the cost of the Iraq War right? Wait am I trolling or being trolled?
What sites don't load in Safari? You could send the list over to the Webkit team... I haven't run across any myself.
Neither company really knew what to do with the other. It was a bad merger but could have been great if only they'd had less clueless management. The only thing they looked at was subscriber base and thought that somehow that would be all they needed.
AOL could have evolved into Facebook or MySpace with a re-branding effort and a move to less proprietary hardware/software. They were stuck with their own homegrown stuff... look at Facebook which started as a ColdFusion application and has since moved on (or was it MySpace that was CF? oh well).
In any case they needed to open up to the developer community and let people use their platform as a tool, rather than feeling the need to roll out features themselves. They missed the web 2.0 bus so to speak by not providing an API.
Just needed to turn down the sensitivity a little... like people who put their mouse on super slow tracking vs. those who prefer a quick twitch approach. Personally I'd like a trackpad replacement with this interface, I don't want to have to move my whole arm around. Make it plenty sensitive or rather make the sensor's grid scaled appropriately for the size of the input.
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DId you follow all of the instructions... you may need to install the Perian set of video codecs as well. It comes as a control panel BTW so you can turn it on/off and set preferences easily. It's a standard part of the AppleTV download but something that could be missed by those installing on a Mini or other Mac.
What good is a rootkit in a VM? It'll be open just as long as the user needs to open some legacy app, won't have access to their file system, except what documents they choose to copy over temporarily and may or may not have internet access.
Running Windows in a VM is actually the ideal solution. Do all your net connected stuff via a secure OS like Linux, then open up a few ports for the VM to run games or whatever.
Apple called from the year 2000 and wants their legacy transition strategy back... but hey it did work, so I say go for it Microsoft.
BTW virtualization need not be in a window. When Apple provided OS 9 aka "Classic" support they didn't make the apps second class citizens in any way relevant to getting work done. Sure they were running in emulated mode and were not as fast as they could be but they had access to all peripherals, etc.
Modern virtualization allows for way better performance, full access to all hardware and as importantly can still be sandboxed.
They should hide all the virtualization aspects though and just let the apps open like they are regular apps with maybe a title bar note saying "(Windows XP) or something so there is a clue when an app gets updated to full native capabilities (the note will go away.
When Mac OS did this transition it was actually quite exciting (though also frustrating) as I would be on the look-out for the OSX native version of some software to come out.... then we got to do it again when the Intel binaries came out...
Anyways, if Microsoft does it right it will be transparent and will allow them to finally do away with the legacy support roadmap. This XP virtual mode will be there as long as it takes for companies to move their apps over to 64 bit Windows 7/8 whatever compatibility.