How many military-esque games have civilians (particularly in multi-player mode)? In any of the games I've played where drones etc were an option, it's just "your team" (good guys) and the "other team" (bad guys). A drone strike/airstrike/satellite bombardment/etc only hurt military characters. Heck, on many settings you don't even get friendly-fire.
Is your average gamer going to know what a real drone strike is like? Probably not. Accompany the poll with some documentation + pictures of mangled civilians and see if what approval rate you get.
Heck, I have my family members and a good friend on my latitude account. Normally it's logged out/turned off, but when I'm doing a long drive on possibly poor road-conditions (snowy highway at night), I flip it on and text where I'm doing. If I don't text that I've arrived by a reasonable time, my friends/family can see my last position and check that I didn't run off the road or whatever.
Would I "bug" my teenagers without their permission/knowledge. No. If I had young kids making a long walk to school, travelling for the first time, whatever, I might go with a GPS. Depending on the age of the kid, it'd be an option. If the kid is old enough to take care of himself/herself, then he/she is probably old enough to turn the thing off anyhow or just make the choice not to have it.
I had until more recently been getting a bunch of "backscatter" hits to my gmail hosted account. While the return message seemed legit, the email that supposedly went out from (an nonexistent account) at my domain was not.
I wonder if the spammers were already taking advantage of this vulnerability. I do notice that more recently I haven't got any of these.
Actually, their windows drivers have been pretty good. Linux drivers are better than they used to be, but still buggy. For example, I've been recently coding with Ogre3d, and was ready to pull my hair out when terrain textures would not render. Then I tested the built-in Ogre demos, and... the textures didn't render. So it appears to be an issue with my laptop's ATI GPU+driver, and not my code at all. Frustrating!
Apparently this was also a similar ">issue with textures on some Catalyst drivers in windows running back quite a bit.
Competition also tends to push down costs. The mini is a response to many of the smaller (Nexus 7, kindle, etc) tablets that are gaining popularity at the $200-$300 price-mark.
The iPod doesn't seem to have similar competition in terms of popularity.
You could, in a way. Block incoming calls on your cell except from the asterisk/VOIP gateway, and then have it assigned a number that forwards calls to your cell with a white-listed number.
The downside is you won't get caller-ID as it will also be the asterisk box forwarding through. The upside is that you could probably get one of those plans that lets you have unlimited calls to $X numbers and then set the asterisk box as one of them.
Even if it's not very efficient, could this be a missing step in making solar/wind/etc farms work in off-production hours (e.g. when there's little wind or sun).
For example, with solar: During sunny days, use some of the solar power collected to run a process collecting CO2 and creating petrol. During the night, burn the petrol to continue power generation.
I wonder if this might be more efficient than the "molten salt" approach? At the least it would also work for power sources other than solar (wind, wave, etc)
I used to be able to VPN to home on my old carrier. More recently I attempted, and neither PPTP and L2TP worked. I'm still investigating for other causes, but I wouldn't be surprised to find it's blocked.
Microsoft sold an operating system to you, the customer, or worse they had it pre-installed on machines so that you had little choice but to pay for the license with the machine. They then used the built-in browser etc to attempt to lock out competition. Even then, I would say that the browser wasn't so damaging as they attempted to push an MS-only browser/internet standard to go along with it.
For Google, your use of their product line starts when you go to www.google.com. But at that point, you're not really the customer, you're the product.
Google suggests their products, or those of their associates, on their site. It's a suggestion, followed by plenty of other results, sometimes for competitors (in other markets) sites/products.
Ever buy a baking product and notice where they have helpful recipes on the site. The recipe comes free, and suggests you use same-brand ingredients to bake the cake or whatever. Same with building supplies, often you'll have a suggestion with the "Ace tiles" to use "Ace grout" or "Ace sealer."
What was the solution to IE's on windows? Give users the choice of other browsers. Google may display their stuff first, but they also show stuff from others' sites as well. How is that different?
Actually, I've always figured that Europe/Asia did better with rail because of population density. When you've got a system used by (and paid into) by millions of people, then it tends to have the funds to self-sustain a lot better than something which might move only thousands in the same time period.
I believe what sealed it in the end was that he eventually led them to the body in return for more lenient sentence. Pretty hard to argue his innocence after that.
Back in the day, reiser was faster. Unfortunately it also had some really nasty issues with nested filesystems and btree corruption (I believe in cases where you had a loopback/VM filesystem using reiserfs on a disk also using reiserfs).
That was one issue among various, so speed wasn't a problem so much as integrity. Reiser's case may have spawned dark jokes about it killing your files, but when the FS ran into issues, it usually did just that.
Unfortunately, in early October automated systems at ServerBeach spotted a copy of the disputed blog entry stored in the working memory of software Edublogs uses to make sure web pages are displayed quickly.
What frightens me is that hosting apparently have these programs running and actively scanning *memory* How many providers do this, and for how much content? Seems like it would be a significant performance hit if your server is running some app that is constantly scanning through RAM for a huge list of copyrighted material.
As a Canadian, I wonder how this will work out. Currently, the price of many mainstream/popular eBooks exceed (sometimes greatly) the $CAD price of their paperback counterpart. The paperback price is also $2-3+ higher than the US counterpart, despite the CAD being at par or higher than the USD. The (lame) argument for this has traditionally been the extra costs for shipping the books to Canada etc.
So if this reduces the overall eBook price to something reasonable, will I as a Canadian be able to buy an eBook at a par price to that in the US?
Only up to the point where people want to trade up to the newest iGadget and realize they won't be able to sell their old one to do so.
Yes, the iHoard has shiny gadgetitis when it comes to iProducts, but even they tend to sell/trade their old stuff when purchasing a new one, which means restrictions on used sales would probably impact new sales quite heavily.
Not small-beans at all. The thing is that the current conflict all seems to be about design (probably because you can copyright that), but in reality it wasn't the design so much as the tech behind it that was great. I don't think people were buying iPhone just because they *looked* better than BB, but rather because the use of a multitouch capacitive display (and an app store for of useful stuff) made a cool new type of tech.
Were all the other smartphone vendors making large full-screen phones because they wanted to copy iPhone's design? Probably not. Were they making large full-screen phone because Apple helped enable the mass-production of phone-sized capacitive touchscreens (and a full-sized screen makes sense for such devices) that seems more feasible
Yes, I definitely meant in the phone arena. There were touch options prior to iPhone/iPod, but nothing comparable in the same form-factor came to mind.
As for stylus: Great if you're doing drawing or something that needs fine detail. For something that just needs a quick poke or for quick-and-easy use of a phone, having to whip out the stylus was usually awkward and annoying. I think the SGN merged those two quite nicely.
I'm no fan of jobs... but Way back when, I bought an iPhone 3G. The alternative at the time was a blackberry.
BB had a keyboard, but the screen, web-browser, and apps in general were shyte. Moreover, the iPhone could be rooted to install some pretty cool stuff. It had a decent touch-screen tech, and a bunch of apps (both on-market and in Cydia) which were useful to my lifestyle and profession. The design wasn't perfect: The lack of expandable storage capacity or removable battery pissed me off to no end, BUT I could do a lot more with it than a BB.
Fast-forward a few years. I bought an Android (my first one was a Milestone/droid). It lacked the games and iTunes support, but I could do a lot more with it. It also brought back a physical keyboard, which is something that I always found as better on a BB. The Droid worked, but it lacked horsepower, and Motorola's support of updates was terrible. After the last update it ran slow as molasses (though better with GO launcher). I've had a GS2 since shortly after they were available in Canada, which supplanted the Motorola. I do miss the physical keyboard, but the higher-res screen somewhat compensates for that as at least I can still cram content above the onscreen keyboard.
So what does the iPhone have to do with this? Well, somebody had to take a risk with these pricey multi-touch devices. Prior to iPhone, I mostly recall crappy stylus-style touchscreens. It was a gamble, one that SJ seems to have pushed. It paid off big for Apple, and later led to an improvement in the industry. Whatever you may say about the guy, he had the balls to push a relatively immature tech towards maturity+populatity.
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Good thing you didn't get marked BCS instead. If I see that one on my ticket, then I'll be really worried.
How many military-esque games have civilians (particularly in multi-player mode)?
In any of the games I've played where drones etc were an option, it's just "your team" (good guys) and the "other team" (bad guys).
A drone strike/airstrike/satellite bombardment/etc only hurt military characters. Heck, on many settings you don't even get friendly-fire.
Is your average gamer going to know what a real drone strike is like? Probably not. Accompany the poll with some documentation + pictures of mangled civilians and see if what approval rate you get.
Indeed. It's pretty hard to say "random search" if the guy's badge code has a special section selecting him for "extra screening"
This sounds more like a special code that exempts people from a full search, but I wonder what other codes there might be.
Depends on the situation, age of child, etc.
Heck, I have my family members and a good friend on my latitude account. Normally it's logged out/turned off, but when I'm doing a long drive on possibly poor road-conditions (snowy highway at night), I flip it on and text where I'm doing. If I don't text that I've arrived by a reasonable time, my friends/family can see my last position and check that I didn't run off the road or whatever.
Would I "bug" my teenagers without their permission/knowledge. No.
If I had young kids making a long walk to school, travelling for the first time, whatever, I might go with a GPS. Depending on the age of the kid, it'd be an option. If the kid is old enough to take care of himself/herself, then he/she is probably old enough to turn the thing off anyhow or just make the choice not to have it.
I had until more recently been getting a bunch of "backscatter" hits to my gmail hosted account.
While the return message seemed legit, the email that supposedly went out from (an nonexistent account) at my domain was not.
I wonder if the spammers were already taking advantage of this vulnerability. I do notice that more recently I haven't got any of these.
When service-packs were slow in coming for previous windows OS's, weren't there some "unofficial" bundles that basically did the same thing?
It seems to me that the "half the time" is when Gnome sucks badly.
Gnome crap, used KDE
KDE4 ran like crap, switched to Gnome
Gnome3+Unity = sucks, switched back to KDE4
KDE4 on Ubuntu is actually quite nice. The major issue is the Nepomuk file indexing slowing stuff down (I recommend just disabling Nepomuk).
Actually, their windows drivers have been pretty good. ... the textures didn't render. So it appears to be an issue with my laptop's ATI GPU+driver, and not my code at all. Frustrating!
Linux drivers are better than they used to be, but still buggy. For example, I've been recently coding with Ogre3d, and was ready to pull my hair out when terrain textures would not render.
Then I tested the built-in Ogre demos, and
Apparently this was also a similar ">issue with textures on some Catalyst drivers in windows running back quite a bit.
Competition also tends to push down costs.
The mini is a response to many of the smaller (Nexus 7, kindle, etc) tablets that are gaining popularity at the $200-$300 price-mark.
The iPod doesn't seem to have similar competition in terms of popularity.
asshat, asset... they sound pretty close
Serious, if a computer is
a) So easily broken into
b) Now infected with spyware
How could evidence from it not be considered tainted?
I just wish I could do this with my cellphone
You could, in a way. Block incoming calls on your cell except from the asterisk/VOIP gateway, and then have it assigned a number that forwards calls to your cell with a white-listed number.
The downside is you won't get caller-ID as it will also be the asterisk box forwarding through.
The upside is that you could probably get one of those plans that lets you have unlimited calls to $X numbers and then set the asterisk box as one of them.
Even if it's not very efficient, could this be a missing step in making solar/wind/etc farms work in off-production hours (e.g. when there's little wind or sun).
For example, with solar:
During sunny days, use some of the solar power collected to run a process collecting CO2 and creating petrol. During the night, burn the petrol to continue power generation.
I wonder if this might be more efficient than the "molten salt" approach? At the least it would also work for power sources other than solar (wind, wave, etc)
I used to be able to VPN to home on my old carrier.
More recently I attempted, and neither PPTP and L2TP worked. I'm still investigating for other causes, but I wouldn't be surprised to find it's blocked.
Microsoft sold an operating system to you, the customer, or worse they had it pre-installed on machines so that you had little choice but to pay for the license with the machine. They then used the built-in browser etc to attempt to lock out competition. Even then, I would say that the browser wasn't so damaging as they attempted to push an MS-only browser/internet standard to go along with it.
For Google, your use of their product line starts when you go to www.google.com. But at that point, you're not really the customer, you're the product.
Google suggests their products, or those of their associates, on their site. It's a suggestion, followed by plenty of other results, sometimes for competitors (in other markets) sites/products.
Ever buy a baking product and notice where they have helpful recipes on the site. The recipe comes free, and suggests you use same-brand ingredients to bake the cake or whatever. Same with building supplies, often you'll have a suggestion with the "Ace tiles" to use "Ace grout" or "Ace sealer."
What was the solution to IE's on windows? Give users the choice of other browsers.
Google may display their stuff first, but they also show stuff from others' sites as well. How is that different?
Actually, I've always figured that Europe/Asia did better with rail because of population density.
When you've got a system used by (and paid into) by millions of people, then it tends to have the funds to self-sustain a lot better than something which might move only thousands in the same time period.
I believe what sealed it in the end was that he eventually led them to the body in return for more lenient sentence. Pretty hard to argue his innocence after that.
Back in the day, reiser was faster. Unfortunately it also had some really nasty issues with nested filesystems and btree corruption (I believe in cases where you had a loopback/VM filesystem using reiserfs on a disk also using reiserfs).
That was one issue among various, so speed wasn't a problem so much as integrity. Reiser's case may have spawned dark jokes about it killing your files, but when the FS ran into issues, it usually did just that.
Unfortunately, in early October automated systems at ServerBeach spotted a copy of the disputed blog entry stored in the working memory of software Edublogs uses to make sure web pages are displayed quickly.
What frightens me is that hosting apparently have these programs running and actively scanning *memory*
How many providers do this, and for how much content? Seems like it would be a significant performance hit if your server is running some app that is constantly scanning through RAM for a huge list of copyrighted material.
What else do they scan for? Music? Videos?
As a Canadian, I wonder how this will work out.
Currently, the price of many mainstream/popular eBooks exceed (sometimes greatly) the $CAD price of their paperback counterpart.
The paperback price is also $2-3+ higher than the US counterpart, despite the CAD being at par or higher than the USD. The (lame) argument for this has traditionally been the extra costs for shipping the books to Canada etc.
So if this reduces the overall eBook price to something reasonable, will I as a Canadian be able to buy an eBook at a par price to that in the US?
Just remember every time your MacFish stick or burger tastes like shit.
How would we be able to tell the different from now, most of it already does.
Only up to the point where people want to trade up to the newest iGadget and realize they won't be able to sell their old one to do so.
Yes, the iHoard has shiny gadgetitis when it comes to iProducts, but even they tend to sell/trade their old stuff when purchasing a new one, which means restrictions on used sales would probably impact new sales quite heavily.
Not small-beans at all.
The thing is that the current conflict all seems to be about design (probably because you can copyright that), but in reality it wasn't the design so much as the tech behind it that was great.
I don't think people were buying iPhone just because they *looked* better than BB, but rather because the use of a multitouch capacitive display (and an app store for of useful stuff) made a cool new type of tech.
Were all the other smartphone vendors making large full-screen phones because they wanted to copy iPhone's design? Probably not. Were they making large full-screen phone because Apple helped enable the mass-production of phone-sized capacitive touchscreens (and a full-sized screen makes sense for such devices) that seems more feasible
I should clarify:
Yes, I definitely meant in the phone arena. There were touch options prior to iPhone/iPod, but nothing comparable in the same form-factor came to mind.
As for stylus: Great if you're doing drawing or something that needs fine detail. For something that just needs a quick poke or for quick-and-easy use of a phone, having to whip out the stylus was usually awkward and annoying. I think the SGN merged those two quite nicely.
I'm no fan of jobs... but
Way back when, I bought an iPhone 3G. The alternative at the time was a blackberry.
BB had a keyboard, but the screen, web-browser, and apps in general were shyte.
Moreover, the iPhone could be rooted to install some pretty cool stuff. It had a decent touch-screen tech, and a bunch of apps (both on-market and in Cydia) which were useful to my lifestyle and profession. The design wasn't perfect: The lack of expandable storage capacity or removable battery pissed me off to no end, BUT I could do a lot more with it than a BB.
Fast-forward a few years. I bought an Android (my first one was a Milestone/droid). It lacked the games and iTunes support, but I could do a lot more with it. It also brought back a physical keyboard, which is something that I always found as better on a BB.
The Droid worked, but it lacked horsepower, and Motorola's support of updates was terrible. After the last update it ran slow as molasses (though better with GO launcher).
I've had a GS2 since shortly after they were available in Canada, which supplanted the Motorola. I do miss the physical keyboard, but the higher-res screen somewhat compensates for that as at least I can still cram content above the onscreen keyboard.
So what does the iPhone have to do with this? Well, somebody had to take a risk with these pricey multi-touch devices. Prior to iPhone, I mostly recall crappy stylus-style touchscreens.
It was a gamble, one that SJ seems to have pushed. It paid off big for Apple, and later led to an improvement in the industry. Whatever you may say about the guy, he had the balls to push a relatively immature tech towards maturity+populatity.