The market for vinyl still exists because there are some audiophiles who believe the sound quality of vinyl is superior to that of CDs. No one can reasonably hold the belief that VHS is of higher quality than DVD.
Another thing is that some people buy vinyl because you can physically manipulate the disk to speed it up, slow it down, or cue certain points. Mix DJs need this functionality to do what they do. I have never seen a medium for audio that can otherwise do this, even fancy CD player setups.
Not to discount your point, but there are more reasons too!
Actually, it's more secure if you travel to the server where the information is stored, remove the hard drive, and perform forensics on it to determine what the data you are seeking is.
One of my biggest pet peeves is that if I make the Windows XP taskbar 2 rows tall instead of one, the start button only takes up the top row instead of spanning both or taking up the bottom row.
This results in a spot underneath the start button that has no use. This also breaks the shortcut of clicking on the bottom left corner of the screen to access the start menu.
This post couldn't be more timely! I went through the tryout process for Millionaire over the summer and was just selected to tape down in NYC on October 19th.
A few observations: it helps incredibly to give a good interview. Sure, you can get the good trivia questions answered, but what will interest viewers at home? Think hobbies, quirky facts, personality traits...
Also, I have some friends who have tried out for Jeopardy!, and they tell me you can expect to play a mock game if you make it far enough, and that it's hard for middle-aged white males to make it on (they get a ton of those, if you can imagine).
And, sadly, I must tell you that there are a lot of people that make it to the tryouts and very few that make it onto the show! You really have to differentiate yourself from the crowd.
If Jeopardy! is anything like Millionaire, you won't be able to tell anyone the results of the show until it airs. For Millionaire, you don't even get paid until 30 days after your air date (mine is January 24th, by the way). So if you get on, get ready to keep a big secret.
The answer is simple. If this guy can convince sponsors that an average dork kid will stare at the screen for 150 hours, the game becomes prime real estate for logos emblazoned everywhere.
Seems to me like you could use this to trace someone down by text messaging them repeatedly and tracking them down. Coupled with using something like Yahoo! Mobile to send the messages, this seems like it could cause some definite privacy concerns.
It can take
less than a minute to obtain an individual student's email password. A student at College B whose password was compromised told The OxStu: "It's absolutely ridiculous that security could be so light. I'll certainly be changing my password regularly in the future."
It seems to me that unless his password changes every minute or so this tactic will prove useless!
I wonder if it's something as simple as unencrypted passwords going a wireless network or some nonsense like that.
Not exactly the worst thing to do, except that it was to someone else's system.
I did a
chown -R root:root.*
on my friend's machine, in order to change permission on all of the hidden directories and files. I didn't think that ".." and all of its subdirectories would also be traversed, which coupled with the "-R" changed ownership on every file on her computer.
I seriously doubt that indie label punk would even average $15. I have bought so many CDs at 3 dollars or less that I don't think your argument holds up. For argument sake let's say 5 dollars.
So let's say the collection took 6 years to build up (starting at 15 years old is not unreasonable), that would make it about 300 dollars a year, or around 30 dollars a week. Not entirely impossible for even an enterprising minimum wage worker.
Maybe you ought to try CygWin and therefore compile Gimp for Windows in a Linux-like environment without needing to install an entirely new operating system. I am assuming of course that the ability to build Gimp for Windows comes easily provided you're building in Linux.
I think that Google News shouldn't be used as the only story link because after the story gets old and rotates out of Google News after two or so weeks, then the old Slashdot post will not link to any stories and the archives will lose some value.
If you read the article, Nielsen never mentions one-click patents. In my opinion he never even implies that one-click is patentable. The way I read his argument is that if you come up with a novel solution to a usability problem that requires enough work on your part as a company to even come up with, it deserves a patent.
I only hope that I can type in the beginning of the name of a file and have it jump to that file in the list! I still haven't found a GTK+ file select dialog that does that before.
What would Linus Torvalds say?
on
Source Code Escrow
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· Score: 1, Funny
Real men don't use code escrow agents, they upload their code to an FTP site and let everyone else put up mirrors.
It seems like a logical business plan until you realize that you're losing money and aren't making up enough afterwards. Apple didn't really have a lot to show for dumping machines at low cost, did they?
Or you could tell your poker buddies the key in person and then send the stuff to them once you get home and have complete security with your friends, even if you know that they would never understand "real" encryption.
That gives you security real cheap. I know something like GPG is free and assymetrical and all that, but it's not necessarily cheap in that you have to set it up at every point and educate all the users. This scheme doesn't even make you send an encrypted key to the person beforehand, which eliminates an extra step that Joe and Bob might not care about while they swap stories about cheating on their wives.
No highly secretive government assassin and spy program (or the equivalent) would use something like this for sure, but they're not the audience. This is more of a toy than anything, useful for personal stuff instead of sensitive stuff.
They found twice as much new information had been created in 2002 as in 1999, the last year they studied.
This time, they even had to employ a new term of measurement: the exabyte, or a million terabytes. (A terabyte is a million megabytes.)
How did they measure it last year if this "new" measurement didn't exist yet? How would they have measured the sum of all information ever created?
If I say zettabyte and yottabyte did I just create new measurement terms?
I think you're oversimplifying the issue and in the process coming to some false conclusions. Sure, each human has 46 chromosomes... 23 from each parent.
You wrote:
"Well every human actually has 2 complete sets of DNA. Even the Y chromosome. Only half are expressed at a time."
Every human has two copies of each kind of chomosome, making a total of 46, which is ONE complete set! For some traits, one of the chromosomes has a dominant gene that is expressed, in many cases. However, sometimes neither gene dominates and they are both partially expressed.
Also, a man has one X chromosome and one Y chromosome, not two of each. Half of his sperm cells will have a copy of the X, and the other half a copy of the Y. And a female's DNA is finalized when the sperm meets the egg in the mother! Any egg cells produced contain merely half of the 46 chromosomes already present in the zygote at conception! Since the grandfather's Y chromosome could never be present in a mother's DNA, she will never pass a Y to her children, which is why we never see a YY-gendered person.
People steal links from Slashdot and put them on their blogs or Fark or somewhere. I've found several stories this way, thought "wow I can't believe this person found this out!", only to go to Slashdot later that day and see it way down on the list.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like as good a time as any to advertise one of my favorite newsgroups:
alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe
Or if you don't have a good newsreader and server try the Google Groups link
Another thing is that some people buy vinyl because you can physically manipulate the disk to speed it up, slow it down, or cue certain points. Mix DJs need this functionality to do what they do. I have never seen a medium for audio that can otherwise do this, even fancy CD player setups.
Not to discount your point, but there are more reasons too!
Actually, it's more secure if you travel to the server where the information is stored, remove the hard drive, and perform forensics on it to determine what the data you are seeking is.
Eeek! Point taken. Went right under my radar.
One of my biggest pet peeves is that if I make the Windows XP taskbar 2 rows tall instead of one, the start button only takes up the top row instead of spanning both or taking up the bottom row.
This results in a spot underneath the start button that has no use. This also breaks the shortcut of clicking on the bottom left corner of the screen to access the start menu.
You probably meant pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
A few observations: it helps incredibly to give a good interview. Sure, you can get the good trivia questions answered, but what will interest viewers at home? Think hobbies, quirky facts, personality traits...
Also, I have some friends who have tried out for Jeopardy!, and they tell me you can expect to play a mock game if you make it far enough, and that it's hard for middle-aged white males to make it on (they get a ton of those, if you can imagine).
And, sadly, I must tell you that there are a lot of people that make it to the tryouts and very few that make it onto the show! You really have to differentiate yourself from the crowd.
If Jeopardy! is anything like Millionaire, you won't be able to tell anyone the results of the show until it airs. For Millionaire, you don't even get paid until 30 days after your air date (mine is January 24th, by the way). So if you get on, get ready to keep a big secret.
The answer is simple. If this guy can convince sponsors that an average dork kid will stare at the screen for 150 hours, the game becomes prime real estate for logos emblazoned everywhere.
Seems to me like you could use this to trace someone down by text messaging them repeatedly and tracking them down. Coupled with using something like Yahoo! Mobile to send the messages, this seems like it could cause some definite privacy concerns.
I wonder if it's something as simple as unencrypted passwords going a wireless network or some nonsense like that.
I did a
on my friend's machine, in order to change permission on all of the hidden directories and files. I didn't think that ".." and all of its subdirectories would also be traversed, which coupled with the "-R" changed ownership on every file on her computer.So let's say the collection took 6 years to build up (starting at 15 years old is not unreasonable), that would make it about 300 dollars a year, or around 30 dollars a week. Not entirely impossible for even an enterprising minimum wage worker.
Maybe you ought to try CygWin and therefore compile Gimp for Windows in a Linux-like environment without needing to install an entirely new operating system. I am assuming of course that the ability to build Gimp for Windows comes easily provided you're building in Linux.
Just a thought
Or an interesting scroll down memory lane more like it!
If you read the article, Nielsen never mentions one-click patents. In my opinion he never even implies that one-click is patentable. The way I read his argument is that if you come up with a novel solution to a usability problem that requires enough work on your part as a company to even come up with, it deserves a patent.
Why did the man who jumped off the 100 foot building die when he used a Fifty Foot bungee cord?
After a ton of frustrating questions like "Was it cut?" or "Was it around his neck?", I would give the answer:
"Fifty Foot is the brand name, it's 200 feet long."
It seems like a logical business plan until you realize that you're losing money and aren't making up enough afterwards. Apple didn't really have a lot to show for dumping machines at low cost, did they?
That gives you security real cheap. I know something like GPG is free and assymetrical and all that, but it's not necessarily cheap in that you have to set it up at every point and educate all the users. This scheme doesn't even make you send an encrypted key to the person beforehand, which eliminates an extra step that Joe and Bob might not care about while they swap stories about cheating on their wives.
No highly secretive government assassin and spy program (or the equivalent) would use something like this for sure, but they're not the audience. This is more of a toy than anything, useful for personal stuff instead of sensitive stuff.
Is anybody else bothered by this statement? "Almost every year"? I can certainly find hundreds of examples for each year.
If I say zettabyte and yottabyte did I just create new measurement terms?
Silly reporters!
You wrote:
Every human has two copies of each kind of chomosome, making a total of 46, which is ONE complete set! For some traits, one of the chromosomes has a dominant gene that is expressed, in many cases. However, sometimes neither gene dominates and they are both partially expressed.Also, a man has one X chromosome and one Y chromosome, not two of each. Half of his sperm cells will have a copy of the X, and the other half a copy of the Y. And a female's DNA is finalized when the sperm meets the egg in the mother! Any egg cells produced contain merely half of the 46 chromosomes already present in the zygote at conception! Since the grandfather's Y chromosome could never be present in a mother's DNA, she will never pass a Y to her children, which is why we never see a YY-gendered person.
People steal links from Slashdot and put them on their blogs or Fark or somewhere. I've found several stories this way, thought "wow I can't believe this person found this out!", only to go to Slashdot later that day and see it way down on the list.