What does telemarketing has to do with phonebooks?
Anyway, where I live telemarketing is illegal on both mobile and fixed phones, but I still dont see what that has to do with phonebooks. Mobile numbers are listed in the phonebooks of the carrier.
Some phonebooks doesn't list all mobile numbers because there are multiple carriers and they don't always share information, but you will still be in in the phonebook of your carrier if has your name and address (prepaid cards in some countries allow full anonymity).
That is what I thought, but according to the summary he was sued for violating the policy not for violating the law. This might be a misunderstandment or this might be a devious attempt to set a precedence by using the wrong violation in an otherwise obvious case.
How could breach of contract EVER be a crime?? It is a breach of contract, not a violation of a law, when you breach a contract you get the consequences listed in the contract, or if you refuse them a civil law suit, but not a fine and not a prison sentence.
The problem with most non-sensical answers as they are still vulnerable to dictionary attacks. In fact almost any security question has this critical flaw. There is just no way of making it safe, except by instructing users to never answer the asked question and instead insert a secondary strong password.
This is why the requirement for external sources is such a stupid one. No they should have a policy of "Because I say so", because I am never wrong, and only lie, when it is really funny... Now: Laugh!!
However, as soon as you enter into an agreement with the company wherein you are expected to provide your own computer for work,
This depend heavily on the prevaling business culture. I can't imagine any companies that would do this, or any employee who would accept that, of course I highly suspect it would invalid contract terms where I live, which might explain why it seems like such an odd demand to me.
And funny enough the research shows that physical books that are even easier to read tend to be more persistant in memory. Maybe you are confusing the ease of understanding a text with the easy of which to perceive it? As in technical books are remembered more than pixie books? But what on earth does content have to do with presentation?
You are quite right, I didn't realise the wordplay also present in the answer, my comment was based on the assumption that we were talking about a movie based on a novel.
It is interesting how Watson solved this. I wonder if this type of mixing multiple answers happens often enough that Watson is specially programmed to do that.
Most likely it gets multiple answers and needs the clues and the context to guess which one is the right one. This is problem with most trivia quizes. If you know too many answer you never known which one is considered the "trivia"
I am surprised it hasn't happened already. I have a 4 year old CowOn MP3 player that has a dual-core MIPS processor. It makes perfect sense to do something simple like that. These devices need to be snappy, but are not expected to do anything really processing heavy, so multiple execution threads speeding up response-time is really the sensible thing to do.
That is not how it works. A number of companies draft a standard. The objective of each company is to make the standard infringe on their patents, or secrectly patent parts of the standard as it is being drafted (happens all the time). If the participating companies could not do this they would get no value for their VERY expensive membership of a standardization organization.
KDE for Windows is not a desktop environment. This is part of the deal with the rebranding of KDE, because on Windows KDE is a just a bunch of free applications, of the KDE application on Windows I use Okular the most, but K3B and Amarok would probably also be useful if I used Windows at home.
You want it because it can be hard to find good free tools for Windows, that isn't either nackware, adware, or in most cases these days: Spyware. With KDE you get good free tools that is guaranteed malware-free, this is common on the linux platform but is really groundbreaking on Windows.
That is what the news at the time reported. AMD and Alpha already cooperated on hypertransport before, and the Alpha engineers joined the Athlon team, which might have helped make it the fastest available CPU for several years.
NVidia's linux drivers have been incredibly buggy for years now. I recently changed the open source nouveau drivers which easily solved all performance problems I had. NVidia is both poorly implemented, has poor support for moderen X11 extensions (XRandr), the recent 26x series also has VERY serious memory-leaks which slowly brings your computer to a crawl.
Btw. I am not stating this as a user, I am stating this as a develop who has been working on getting KDE to work better on NVidia hardware.
In Denmark the facebook penetration is around 90%, just a few percent point short of broadband penetration. If I remember correctly this is also the highest percentage of facebook users in the world, and the statistics about a year old.
I dont think facebook is going to die that easy, it has reached critical mass, and is beyond the normal tech-cycles. Now replacing facebook is more like replacing Google or Internet Explorer, not impossible, but very difficult.
Sorry, that was not my point. Of course no one should be vaccinated against small pox (unless they research the stuff).
My point was that small pox vaccines is a bad example because it was the most dangerous vaccine ever used generally, there was a real risk involved getting it, and even that risk was quite small. If you are using small pox as an example, you are distorting the issue with extreme examples.
Modern vaccines are not anywhere near as dangerous and vaccinates against diseases that still are commonplace, even in majority vaccinated populations. If 85% is vaccinated, you are still taking a risk by being among the 15%, because statics shows that people are still getting the disease, which means the disease can still harm your kid more than the mostly imaginary threats associated with vaccination.
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What does telemarketing has to do with phonebooks?
Anyway, where I live telemarketing is illegal on both mobile and fixed phones, but I still dont see what that has to do with phonebooks. Mobile numbers are listed in the phonebooks of the carrier.
So? You think they are magically different?
Some phonebooks doesn't list all mobile numbers because there are multiple carriers and they don't always share information, but you will still be in in the phonebook of your carrier if has your name and address (prepaid cards in some countries allow full anonymity).
Since phonebook where invented. I estimate for 50-100 years. Of course you can ask to be delisted..
Don't use any Nvidia driver later than 195.xx, they are all fatally broken. Even when they do run they leak memory like BP leaks oil.
That is what I thought, but according to the summary he was sued for violating the policy not for violating the law. This might be a misunderstandment or this might be a devious attempt to set a precedence by using the wrong violation in an otherwise obvious case.
How could breach of contract EVER be a crime?? It is a breach of contract, not a violation of a law, when you breach a contract you get the consequences listed in the contract, or if you refuse them a civil law suit, but not a fine and not a prison sentence.
The problem with most non-sensical answers as they are still vulnerable to dictionary attacks. In fact almost any security question has this critical flaw. There is just no way of making it safe, except by instructing users to never answer the asked question and instead insert a secondary strong password.
This is why the requirement for external sources is such a stupid one. No they should have a policy of "Because I say so", because I am never wrong, and only lie, when it is really funny... Now: Laugh!!
This depend heavily on the prevaling business culture. I can't imagine any companies that would do this, or any employee who would accept that, of course I highly suspect it would invalid contract terms where I live, which might explain why it seems like such an odd demand to me.
And funny enough the research shows that physical books that are even easier to read tend to be more persistant in memory. Maybe you are confusing the ease of understanding a text with the easy of which to perceive it? As in technical books are remembered more than pixie books? But what on earth does content have to do with presentation?
You are quite right, I didn't realise the wordplay also present in the answer, my comment was based on the assumption that we were talking about a movie based on a novel.
It is interesting how Watson solved this. I wonder if this type of mixing multiple answers happens often enough that Watson is specially programmed to do that.
The grand-parent post is refering to Jonathan Pollard
That one sounds easy.
After very basic language processing:
Search for novel movie, keywords: Jodes, Oklahoma, Ricardo Montelban
Especially the full character name would make it easy for the computer.
Most likely it gets multiple answers and needs the clues and the context to guess which one is the right one. This is problem with most trivia quizes. If you know too many answer you never known which one is considered the "trivia"
I assume they mean Qt application, not QuickTime, or whatever.
I am surprised it hasn't happened already. I have a 4 year old CowOn MP3 player that has a dual-core MIPS processor. It makes perfect sense to do something simple like that. These devices need to be snappy, but are not expected to do anything really processing heavy, so multiple execution threads speeding up response-time is really the sensible thing to do.
That is not how it works. A number of companies draft a standard. The objective of each company is to make the standard infringe on their patents, or secrectly patent parts of the standard as it is being drafted (happens all the time). If the participating companies could not do this they would get no value for their VERY expensive membership of a standardization organization.
Microsoft reporters? How do you figure that? I thought Ars was heavy pro-Apple, and just took a dip into the crazy Apple fanatics part of blogoville.
Well, at least the article is pure FUD, except of course for the parts that is crazy ramblings and orwellian doublespeak.
KDE for Windows is not a desktop environment. This is part of the deal with the rebranding of KDE, because on Windows KDE is a just a bunch of free applications, of the KDE application on Windows I use Okular the most, but K3B and Amarok would probably also be useful if I used Windows at home.
You want it because it can be hard to find good free tools for Windows, that isn't either nackware, adware, or in most cases these days: Spyware. With KDE you get good free tools that is guaranteed malware-free, this is common on the linux platform but is really groundbreaking on Windows.
That is what the news at the time reported. AMD and Alpha already cooperated on hypertransport before, and the Alpha engineers joined the Athlon team, which might have helped make it the fastest available CPU for several years.
NVidia's linux drivers have been incredibly buggy for years now. I recently changed the open source nouveau drivers which easily solved all performance problems I had. NVidia is both poorly implemented, has poor support for moderen X11 extensions (XRandr), the recent 26x series also has VERY serious memory-leaks which slowly brings your computer to a crawl.
Btw. I am not stating this as a user, I am stating this as a develop who has been working on getting KDE to work better on NVidia hardware.
In Denmark the facebook penetration is around 90%, just a few percent point short of broadband penetration. If I remember correctly this is also the highest percentage of facebook users in the world, and the statistics about a year old.
I dont think facebook is going to die that easy, it has reached critical mass, and is beyond the normal tech-cycles. Now replacing facebook is more like replacing Google or Internet Explorer, not impossible, but very difficult.
Sorry, that was not my point. Of course no one should be vaccinated against small pox (unless they research the stuff).
My point was that small pox vaccines is a bad example because it was the most dangerous vaccine ever used generally, there was a real risk involved getting it, and even that risk was quite small. If you are using small pox as an example, you are distorting the issue with extreme examples.
Modern vaccines are not anywhere near as dangerous and vaccinates against diseases that still are commonplace, even in majority vaccinated populations. If 85% is vaccinated, you are still taking a risk by being among the 15%, because statics shows that people are still getting the disease, which means the disease can still harm your kid more than the mostly imaginary threats associated with vaccination.