If you're going to invoke "back of the bus", you should know that beyond the initial Rosa Parks incident, the tactic that turned out to be effective was not insisting on sitting in the front -- which wouldn't have worked -- but rather a boycott of the segregated busses.
You'd think the Disney people would be aware of people with names such as, just spitballing here, JOHN GODDAMM LASSETER. (Inspired by a reference two postings up, yes., Also -- with an E not an I? I never noticed that before.)
The guy seems to be talking about some other crazy thing, where he says:
Asking the devices which connect to this vast complex network of networks to detect, and then transparently fix problems in the infrastructure without the permission of the administrators is, well, it’s absolutely the pinnacle of buzzword driven product management. Real pointy-haired boss territory.
-- "fix problems in the infrastructure?" What? This is working around problems. The phone isn't being asked to reconfigure everyone else's WiFi, which is what he seems to describe -- nor could it. So, again...what?
Is that a deductible, or what? Either way, the question is, what would the bills have been if you showed up as an uninsured person? Notoriously, the non-insured rate is often higher than the insured-rate-before-insurance.
This has been not explained well, so here's my try: to win big money, you do NOT try to maximize your expected score, you maximize your chance of taking one of the top spots, because those pay big. Given that everybody has their complete pick of all the players (ignoring salary cap), the strategy is to pick at least some players that do well that nobody else has picked. So if you know who the other players do NOT have, you can find a few of those that you have some hope might suddenly have a big week and give you lots of points. That's half the battle; the other half, that you can't control, is getting those players to actually do well.
The summary and Slashdot headline are inaccurate; the story makes clear that it's only talking about tool-assisted speedruns, which do require a ROM. (And the concrete example in the Times article refers to a hacked ROM.)
Isn't the picture just window dressing, though? The ransom is to unlock your phone, not delete your picture. (The FBI warning is obviously fake.)
I think "wipe and reinstall" on iOS is no problem, because that's what it does when I get a new iPhone: during setup it logs into your iCloud/iTunes/etc and replicates everything from your old phone onto your new phone (except passwords). I'd expect wipe and reinstall to do the exact same thing. Android, I don't know.
You must not know about the Wachowski/Straczynski "Sense8". Unless by big-budget you mean SFX-laden? But it's beautifully shot on location around the world.
That article is pretty light on actual information...anyway, here's a paper about getting machine learning to recognize opportunities for "that's what she said":
If the various content providers could come up with a way that people like me could buy individual episodes of the shows we are interested in -- buy, not rent -- then they would lure me back. I'm simply not going to pay $100+ a month just to watch Game of Thrones, Doctor Who or what ever the flavor of the month is..
They've come up with at least four ways I can access right now: iTunes, Amazon Instant (not Prime) Video, Xbox Video, and Playstation Store Video. Each of these gets single episodes of most shows day after air. Yes, it's buy, not rent. No, you can't get Game of Thrones; cable premium shows are the exception. Doctor Who next day, yes.
2. VM is the most efficient way to get spam callers out of your face. They know if they are transferred to voice mail there is no hope of getting a callback so 9 out of 10 times they just hang up and save you the trouble.
Not the ones I get. Their auto-thing knows that VM is picking up, so it marks it as a failure, and they call twice a day for months.
The networks have to comply with copyright law and the contracts they've signed with TV studios, so that makes it harder for them because they're obliged to control access to their streams and/or compensate the studios.
Let me just randomly chime in and say that my Boston area TiVo/Comcast On Demand works perfectly. My understanding is that it uses an app over IP to select the program, but the actual playback is over a normal cable TV channel, with the app tuning it correctly. So watching On Demand takes up one of the TiVo's tuners, for instance.
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If you're going to invoke "back of the bus", you should know that beyond the initial Rosa Parks incident, the tactic that turned out to be effective was not insisting on sitting in the front -- which wouldn't have worked -- but rather a boycott of the segregated busses.
Unlimited time to read, to write, to learn, to teach, to create.
Time enough at last!
You'd think the Disney people would be aware of people with names such as, just spitballing here, JOHN GODDAMM LASSETER. (Inspired by a reference two postings up, yes., Also -- with an E not an I? I never noticed that before.)
I'm also starting to see "streaming" where "downloading" would be correct, as in buying music from iTunes.
For another example, the copyright status of all the various Wizard of Oz properties and components is pretty interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The guy seems to be talking about some other crazy thing, where he says:
-- "fix problems in the infrastructure?" What? This is working around problems. The phone isn't being asked to reconfigure everyone else's WiFi, which is what he seems to describe -- nor could it. So, again...what?
Is that a deductible, or what? Either way, the question is, what would the bills have been if you showed up as an uninsured person? Notoriously, the non-insured rate is often higher than the insured-rate-before-insurance.
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
This has been not explained well, so here's my try: to win big money, you do NOT try to maximize your expected score, you maximize your chance of taking one of the top spots, because those pay big. Given that everybody has their complete pick of all the players (ignoring salary cap), the strategy is to pick at least some players that do well that nobody else has picked. So if you know who the other players do NOT have, you can find a few of those that you have some hope might suddenly have a big week and give you lots of points. That's half the battle; the other half, that you can't control, is getting those players to actually do well.
The summary and Slashdot headline are inaccurate; the story makes clear that it's only talking about tool-assisted speedruns, which do require a ROM. (And the concrete example in the Times article refers to a hacked ROM.)
So instead of one made-up arbitrary prize, it's a different made-up arbitrary prize with the same name?
Isn't the picture just window dressing, though? The ransom is to unlock your phone, not delete your picture. (The FBI warning is obviously fake.)
I think "wipe and reinstall" on iOS is no problem, because that's what it does when I get a new iPhone: during setup it logs into your iCloud/iTunes/etc and replicates everything from your old phone onto your new phone (except passwords). I'd expect wipe and reinstall to do the exact same thing. Android, I don't know.
You must not know about the Wachowski/Straczynski "Sense8". Unless by big-budget you mean SFX-laden? But it's beautifully shot on location around the world.
That article is pretty light on actual information...anyway, here's a paper about getting machine learning to recognize opportunities for "that's what she said":
http://www.aclweb.org/antholog...
As an NYC-specific fact: right turn on red is explicitly illegal within city limits.
Was disappointed.
That's why they're called "plugins".
I think you're described an ad from this year's Super Bowl, although it may have been based on a real incident.
Goddammit, I read your comment out loud and Siri recognized my bank password and withdrew all my money. You're in big trouble now, bub.
If the various content providers could come up with a way that people like me could buy individual episodes of the shows we are interested in -- buy, not rent -- then they would lure me back. I'm simply not going to pay $100+ a month just to watch Game of Thrones, Doctor Who or what ever the flavor of the month is..
They've come up with at least four ways I can access right now: iTunes, Amazon Instant (not Prime) Video, Xbox Video, and Playstation Store Video. Each of these gets single episodes of most shows day after air. Yes, it's buy, not rent. No, you can't get Game of Thrones; cable premium shows are the exception. Doctor Who next day, yes.
2. VM is the most efficient way to get spam callers out of your face. They know if they are transferred to voice mail there is no hope of getting a callback so 9 out of 10 times they just hang up and save you the trouble.
Not the ones I get. Their auto-thing knows that VM is picking up, so it marks it as a failure, and they call twice a day for months.
You had parents. Sorry, but you had at least a parent, probably parents, and got told not to be an asshole.
These kids, unfortunately, don't have parents,
I see no indication from the news story that the East Side Community High School is an orphanage.
I just ran into this in iBooks, and was very nervous until I confirmed that other normal books still had prices. So "Get" means "free iBook", too.
The networks have to comply with copyright law and the contracts they've signed with TV studios, so that makes it harder for them because they're obliged to control access to their streams and/or compensate the studios.
Let me just randomly chime in and say that my Boston area TiVo/Comcast On Demand works perfectly. My understanding is that it uses an app over IP to select the program, but the actual playback is over a normal cable TV channel, with the app tuning it correctly. So watching On Demand takes up one of the TiVo's tuners, for instance.