I don't see any segment where Apple has anywhere near a monopoly. They're strong in several markets, and in particular the more profitable ends of them, but all those markets have plenty of competitors who are generally doing much better by volume.
Microsoft has done considerably worse things, and they are a monopoly in a few things.
Yes, but Microsoft also got convicted and sentenced to be split in three until president W. junior pardoned them.
There are, in fact, several species of blueberries. The commercial cultivates in the USA and Europe are nowadays (unfortunately) the American high brush blueberries, but the European wild blueberry tastes far more intensive. They are small berries with violet flesh and red-violet juice and they will colour your tongue to the hue of the tongue of a Chow-Chow dog.
And if you get some of their juice on your clothes it will dye them, permantly.
AV scanners on Android would be for Trojans intentionally placed in things you buy. It doesn't fit the conventional profile of malware and certainly isn't comparable to the Windows situation.
The virus scanners that Linux and MacOS have are to clean WINDOWS viruses.
No, OS X has plenty of viruses now. Linux has had worms but they mostly targets servers.
True, but most who uses LaTex often tend to evolve their own defaults. I rarely see CMR, either a paper has its own style, the style forced on them by publisher, or a wellknown default package downloaded from the internet.
This seems entirely contradictory to their stance on Assange. I wonder why.
It's a wild guess, but perhaps Snowden being a whistle blower that helped (indirectly) the EU in their privacy concernings, in contrast with Assange, that is a whistle blower that fsckd up every single Country in the World, can be a reason.
Assange is offically not wanted by the US, and he already have the right to be in EU. Snowden needs an Asylum to protect him from being extradicted, and to be allowed to stay in EU in the first place.
Politicians never do something because it is the right thing to do. There must be a lot of pressure from the commoners motivating this.
No, it is the parliament. They do that sort of thing (right) all the time. It is basically a polical afterlife for politicians who were burned out at home, and have gone somewhere they have much less power, but what they have they can atleast use for good.
Is Apple finally a large enough company for antitrust regulators to be concerned about illegal product tying?
It has nothing to do with company size, but is based on market power. And if it has to happen anywhere it has to be in the US, their market power is a lot smaller elsewhere.
Agreed. I'm automatically more likely to trust a paper if it uses Computer Modern font. And less likely to trust it if I can tell that instances of "fl" and "fi" have not been converted to ligatures.:)
I am generally less like to trust article using Computer Modern, it is one of the first things students learn to change in LaTex, and if I see ligatures in computer code, something has gone very very wrong.
I don't think I've reviewed a single paper written on a word processor which was't utter junk. Papers in computer vision are almost universally written in LaTeX. It tends to be that the people who don't use the de-facto tools of the trade also don't tend to write terribly good papers.
But yes, a wordprocessor or even half decent text editor will catch spelling errors. The grammar checker is totally useless though.
If you speak a halfway decent language the spellchecker is totally useless too as it will expect your language to consist of a finite amount of words.
It is wrong, IMO, to describe it as addictive due to the connotations of that word. There are no cravings that result from Afrin use. No one is going to feel a compulsion that they "just gotta have it". No junkie related crime. What *does* happen is that your body starts to rely on Afrin to keep the airways clear. Without it, you are stopped up and cannot breath. Even worse, after prolonged use the efficacy of Afrin is decreased. So eventually you will be using it three shots each nostril several times a day and still not be able to breathe.
That is EXACTLY what addictive means, it is in fact the worst form of addiction: A physical one, a psychological addiction is considered less of a problem medically.
Perhaps the best way to illustrate it is to use Mickey Mouse. I think Steamboat Willie or the other early cartoons should be in the public domain and freely accessible, but I don't think that entitles anyone to make a Mickey Mouse cartoon as Disney is still actively using the character and creating new works with the character.
I guess that is the difference between copyright and trademark. The copyright can expire, which means the material can be copied, but the trademark does not expire which means no one can make unofficial Mickey Mouse cartoons.
As far as Japan and the end of WWII is concerned, we should have forgone the nukes, invaded and if it caused hundreds of thousands of deaths
You first.
Accepting the surrender they already offered would have been easier. All they asked for was that we dind't prosecute the Emperor for war-crimes, which we didn't
Of course this should only happen if you know for a fact that what you typed was correct. Retyping wrong code, I give you that, is useless.
Usually the error turns out to be somewhere else, with typos in C it can also be errors headers you are including. Particular annoying if the official function name is misspelled or has a typo in it, and you accidently get it wrong by spelling it right every single time.
But this whole story just seems... odd. Just to rehash it - a billionaire deuce canoe "with much evil" buys a company and hikes a drug price, and goes on TV to brag about it. Anyone not mentally retarded knows what happens here, it generates such outcry against the canoe captain that he gets 24x7 news coverage for a few weeks. Nobody is naive enough to think they would be immune to backlash here. Before the price hike can have any real long-term impact, angel company #2 comes out and says they'll supply our little angels with this miracle for $1, because think of the children.
Does anyone not find this odd? I mean, I don't know what the world has done to me, but it sounds like a setup from the very beginning. Either a bid to kill off the original company, to drive up stock in angel company #2, or some other motive that I just can't fathom.
Apparently he shorted the stock and profitted off the dropping share price caused by the outrage, plus bonus for increasing revenue this quarter.
Besides, anyone here who can honestly say he never did the "magic" thing, i.e. delete a line and retype it only to have it suddenly work for no good reason whatsoever?
Yeah, except for the last part. I always feel like an idiot when it doesn't work. Well of course it doesn't work, I just retyped the same very thing!
Doesn't matter if it's encrypted. There are only 10,000 four-digit PIN combinations, and iPhones don't self-destruct after a certain number of tries. Pretty easy to brute force it.
Encryption is a necessary but not sufficient condition for security.
Even if it did self-destruct, that wouldn't help. You wouldn't bruteforce on a live device, you do it offline.
I know a way to break any encryption based on a password, passphrase, pincode or fingerprint, it is called brute-force, with normal length passwords and pin-codes it is even doable in a reasonable timescale. Of course Apple is under no obligation to do hacking on behalf of the court system, so they can honestly say they have no way of bypassing the encryption, all they can do is assist in brute forcing it.
Not really. It is not hard to break, just not something they want to, or can do automatically. So yes there is no easy way of doing, so it is "impossible"...
I'll bite. What is in your email that you don't want Google knowing?
It is not just that they know it, they claim to own it, which is a problem if you do any kind of corporate emailing. Of course the EULA is bullshit, but who wants to get into a legal fight with Google about who owns everything you have ever invented and done?
You certainly need to travel less distance. However, modern container ships are fearsomely efficient. They've been banging on about "green" and "low carbon" recently, but they've always been practicing that since it reduces costs and increases the very slim profit margins.
The ships are running on some really dirty cheap diesel though that is not legal to use in any country on Earth, but unregulated in international waters. So while they don't contribute much CO2 they contribute a large amount of the rest of the harmfull emmissions from fossil fuels.
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I don't see any segment where Apple has anywhere near a monopoly. They're strong in several markets, and in particular the more profitable ends of them, but all those markets have plenty of competitors who are generally doing much better by volume.
Microsoft has done considerably worse things, and they are a monopoly in a few things.
Yes, but Microsoft also got convicted and sentenced to be split in three until president W. junior pardoned them.
There are, in fact, several species of blueberries. The commercial cultivates in the USA and Europe are nowadays (unfortunately) the American high brush blueberries, but the European wild blueberry tastes far more intensive. They are small berries with violet flesh and red-violet juice and they will colour your tongue to the hue of the tongue of a Chow-Chow dog.
And if you get some of their juice on your clothes it will dye them, permantly.
AV scanners on Android would be for Trojans intentionally placed in things you buy. It doesn't fit the conventional profile of malware and certainly isn't comparable to the Windows situation.
The virus scanners that Linux and MacOS have are to clean WINDOWS viruses.
No, OS X has plenty of viruses now. Linux has had worms but they mostly targets servers.
No ;)
Though more accurately English is fine, but many spell-checkers are poorly implemented for other languages.
True, but most who uses LaTex often tend to evolve their own defaults. I rarely see CMR, either a paper has its own style, the style forced on them by publisher, or a wellknown default package downloaded from the internet.
This seems entirely contradictory to their stance on Assange.
I wonder why.
It's a wild guess, but perhaps Snowden being a whistle blower that helped (indirectly) the EU in their privacy concernings, in contrast with Assange, that is a whistle blower that fsckd up every single Country in the World, can be a reason.
Assange is offically not wanted by the US, and he already have the right to be in EU. Snowden needs an Asylum to protect him from being extradicted, and to be allowed to stay in EU in the first place.
Politicians never do something because it is the right thing to do. There must be a lot of pressure from the commoners motivating this.
No, it is the parliament. They do that sort of thing (right) all the time. It is basically a polical afterlife for politicians who were burned out at home, and have gone somewhere they have much less power, but what they have they can atleast use for good.
Is Apple finally a large enough company for antitrust regulators to be concerned about illegal product tying?
It has nothing to do with company size, but is based on market power. And if it has to happen anywhere it has to be in the US, their market power is a lot smaller elsewhere.
Agreed. I'm automatically more likely to trust a paper if it uses Computer Modern font. And less likely to trust it if I can tell that instances of "fl" and "fi" have not been converted to ligatures. :)
I am generally less like to trust article using Computer Modern, it is one of the first things students learn to change in LaTex, and if I see ligatures in computer code, something has gone very very wrong.
Word processors
the what now?
I don't think I've reviewed a single paper written on a word processor which was't utter junk. Papers in computer vision are almost universally written in LaTeX. It tends to be that the people who don't use the de-facto tools of the trade also don't tend to write terribly good papers.
But yes, a wordprocessor or even half decent text editor will catch spelling errors. The grammar checker is totally useless though.
If you speak a halfway decent language the spellchecker is totally useless too as it will expect your language to consist of a finite amount of words.
Uhh, why was this moderated down? The mods haven't see Spaceballs?
Somebody switched the mods to blow.
That is EXACTLY what addictive means, it is in fact the worst form of addiction: A physical one, a psychological addiction is considered less of a problem medically.
I guess that is the difference between copyright and trademark. The copyright can expire, which means the material can be copied, but the trademark does not expire which means no one can make unofficial Mickey Mouse cartoons.
As far as Japan and the end of WWII is concerned, we should have forgone the nukes, invaded and if it caused hundreds of thousands of deaths
You first.
Accepting the surrender they already offered would have been easier. All they asked for was that we dind't prosecute the Emperor for war-crimes, which we didn't
Of course this should only happen if you know for a fact that what you typed was correct. Retyping wrong code, I give you that, is useless.
Usually the error turns out to be somewhere else, with typos in C it can also be errors headers you are including. Particular annoying if the official function name is misspelled or has a typo in it, and you accidently get it wrong by spelling it right every single time.
But this whole story just seems... odd. Just to rehash it - a billionaire deuce canoe "with much evil" buys a company and hikes a drug price, and goes on TV to brag about it. Anyone not mentally retarded knows what happens here, it generates such outcry against the canoe captain that he gets 24x7 news coverage for a few weeks. Nobody is naive enough to think they would be immune to backlash here. Before the price hike can have any real long-term impact, angel company #2 comes out and says they'll supply our little angels with this miracle for $1, because think of the children.
Does anyone not find this odd? I mean, I don't know what the world has done to me, but it sounds like a setup from the very beginning. Either a bid to kill off the original company, to drive up stock in angel company #2, or some other motive that I just can't fathom.
Apparently he shorted the stock and profitted off the dropping share price caused by the outrage, plus bonus for increasing revenue this quarter.
And we need more like him. Pharma companies that outright RAPE people for maximum profits do not deserve to exist.
We are talking about the figurative "rapist" here, not the new guy undercutting him.
Besides, anyone here who can honestly say he never did the "magic" thing, i.e. delete a line and retype it only to have it suddenly work for no good reason whatsoever?
Yeah, except for the last part. I always feel like an idiot when it doesn't work. Well of course it doesn't work, I just retyped the same very thing!
Doesn't matter if it's encrypted. There are only 10,000 four-digit PIN combinations, and iPhones don't self-destruct after a certain number of tries. Pretty easy to brute force it.
Encryption is a necessary but not sufficient condition for security.
Even if it did self-destruct, that wouldn't help. You wouldn't bruteforce on a live device, you do it offline.
You know of a way of breaking AES encryption?
I know a way to break any encryption based on a password, passphrase, pincode or fingerprint, it is called brute-force, with normal length passwords and pin-codes it is even doable in a reasonable timescale. Of course Apple is under no obligation to do hacking on behalf of the court system, so they can honestly say they have no way of bypassing the encryption, all they can do is assist in brute forcing it.
Sounds like a challenge!
Not really. It is not hard to break, just not something they want to, or can do automatically. So yes there is no easy way of doing, so it is "impossible"...
1) Make the code work
2) Make the code readable
4) Make the code flexible.
0) Make the code on time
3) ???
5) Make the code - PROFIT!
Race and sex *are* protected classes. If there's any evidence of this policy you've got a potentially lucrative lawsuit on your hands.
Not if you are white and male. "Positive discrimination" as it is called is not only legal, it is often legally mandated in many places.
I'll bite. What is in your email that you don't want Google knowing?
It is not just that they know it, they claim to own it, which is a problem if you do any kind of corporate emailing. Of course the EULA is bullshit, but who wants to get into a legal fight with Google about who owns everything you have ever invented and done?
Define: less.
You certainly need to travel less distance. However, modern container ships are fearsomely efficient. They've been banging on about "green" and "low carbon" recently, but they've always been practicing that since it reduces costs and increases the very slim profit margins.
The ships are running on some really dirty cheap diesel though that is not legal to use in any country on Earth, but unregulated in international waters. So while they don't contribute much CO2 they contribute a large amount of the rest of the harmfull emmissions from fossil fuels.