No, the other OS will become inaccessible after the firmware update (the linked article warns users to back up any data on their "Other OS" partition prior to the firmware update).
You could just not install the firmware update, but then you can't use a lot of online features that check for current firmware.
It's not totally implausible that the feature allows some sort of exploit, but I can't seem to find anything about one actually existing, or it having come up in the past as a security concern. Is that just a cover to remove it, or are there actually security concerns?
Sounds cool! I've read a good bit of his stuff, though never met him. I've taken two classes from the other co-author (Ian Bogost), though, which is how I found out about the book.
Do you really think GSoC alumni generally have trouble getting jobs? So far I've never heard of that. If anything, Google themselves hire lots of them.
I fervently disagree with this sentiment. I'm also a soon to graduate developer and have received offers from almost every company that I applied to.
Overall there are pretty conflicting reports on that sort of thing. I wonder if it's regional, or market segments? A decent number of techie folks, even straight out of college, report tons of offers; others seem to have trouble getting any interviews. Some companies report getting 1000 applicants for one position, while others complain that the U.S. isn't producing enough programmers.
Among people I know (for my own part, I'm in grad school so mostly insulated), things tend towards jobs being really easy rather than really hard to find. Even people with only minimal tech skills seem to have no problem landing e.g. PHP jobs.
It could be because we mostly hear about economic issues, not cultural/nationalist sort of issues. On economics, Sarkozy is considerably to the left of even the U.S. left, being pretty openly against "Anglo-Saxon capitalism".
This is actually an attempt to make it more uniform, isn't it? Currently, if you write software and start selling it, you must collect sales tax. But if it's custom software, it's common to account for it as part of a service, not a sale of software, so sales tax isn't collected. This bill would essentially add sales tax to all software sales, including those that are done as custom-software deals rather than retail sales.
Sorry, that isn't a fact. All taxies levied against corporations come out of: customers, employees, or profits. What the proportion is depends on various kinds of price elasticity. Your statement only works if levels of profit are somehow fixed and unmovable, which is clearly not the case.
The first-sale doctrine is unfortunately fairly weak: it only means that companies can't use something like an EULA to prohibit resale, but it doesn't say that they can't use technological measures to make resale hard.
An interesting case would be if people found ways to resell the DLC along with the used game. This is probably legal under the first-sale doctrine (regardless of what the game companies' EULAs say about it), but would be technologically difficult, especially on consoles.
Yeah, but the number of people trying to break in also goes up when you have $1m. Especially in a country like Russia, where being rich is likely to attract attention from people you probably don't want attention from. Being a broke crazy mathematician, on the other hand, will probably not result in such people paying much attention to you.
I'm in my late 20s, and my schedule sounds more like the grandparents than the one you list, at a fairly good suburban public school system. In the mid-1990s, we did pre-algebra in 7th grade, algebra in 8th grade, geometric proofs in 9th grade, trigonometry/precalculus in 10th, calculus in 11th, and optionally calculus 2 in 12th.
I've found this in computing also, though it doesn't tend to come up until later (since we don't make serious attempts to teach programming to elementary school kids). Stuff presented as a bunch of facts and givens with no motivation is hard for anyone to care about or learn. It's essential to include some context: why was this invented at all? Usually there are pretty good reasons, even really interesting ones, and it can make a lot more sense to learn something once you have some idea of what problem it was devised in order to solve.
We are--- the restrictions on stem-cell funding have always been on embryonic stem cells, not on research involving stem cells derived from post-fetus-stage living humans, as is the case here.
Article I.5 bans all the use of "riot control agents" in warfare, which is usually understood to include pepper spray, tear gas, and similar chemicals.
Probably has most of all to do with GoDaddy not wanting to figure out the logistics of integrating the new photography/ID requirements into their purchase system.
then again, videogame females have always been little more than balloon animals...
That's unfortunately probably true for the majority of female characters in videogames, but there are some decent ones, e.g. Claire Redfield of Resident Evil 2, Elena Fisher of the Uncharted series, and Sarah Kerrigan of Starcraft. There's also Carmen Sandiego, of course.
Not to mention that you'd have to do it at exactly the same time as an actual earthquake, since afaict they plan to use the laptop data only as supplemental data to get more detail about events that they detect with the traditional seismometer network.
At least in the context of ADC, sensitivity seems like the right term. Mic and line-in ports both map analog voltage levels to digital sample values, and the difference between the two is their sensitivity to the input voltage. Mic ports are more sensitive, i.e. will register higher sample values for a given input voltage, and will register a greater change in sample value for a given change in input voltage.
The summary (and article) are better than the headline. This isn't either: a) the first supersonic cruise missile; or b) the first maneuverable cruise missile. But it is, apparently, the first maneuverable supersonic cruise missile.
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Ah, that makes sense--- so it's Sony's security they're worried about, rather than, as the press release implies, the security of Playstation owners.
No, the other OS will become inaccessible after the firmware update (the linked article warns users to back up any data on their "Other OS" partition prior to the firmware update).
You could just not install the firmware update, but then you can't use a lot of online features that check for current firmware.
It's not totally implausible that the feature allows some sort of exploit, but I can't seem to find anything about one actually existing, or it having come up in the past as a security concern. Is that just a cover to remove it, or are there actually security concerns?
Sounds cool! I've read a good bit of his stuff, though never met him. I've taken two classes from the other co-author (Ian Bogost), though, which is how I found out about the book.
Do you really think GSoC alumni generally have trouble getting jobs? So far I've never heard of that. If anything, Google themselves hire lots of them.
Overall there are pretty conflicting reports on that sort of thing. I wonder if it's regional, or market segments? A decent number of techie folks, even straight out of college, report tons of offers; others seem to have trouble getting any interviews. Some companies report getting 1000 applicants for one position, while others complain that the U.S. isn't producing enough programmers.
Among people I know (for my own part, I'm in grad school so mostly insulated), things tend towards jobs being really easy rather than really hard to find. Even people with only minimal tech skills seem to have no problem landing e.g. PHP jobs.
The award he was accepting was just given now: at the 2010 awards, Battlefield Earth won "worst picture of the decade", and he showed up to claim it.
That's true, but my impression is that Sarkozy is left-wing even by European standards on economics--- he's left of the UK Labour party, for example.
It could be because we mostly hear about economic issues, not cultural/nationalist sort of issues. On economics, Sarkozy is considerably to the left of even the U.S. left, being pretty openly against "Anglo-Saxon capitalism".
This is actually an attempt to make it more uniform, isn't it? Currently, if you write software and start selling it, you must collect sales tax. But if it's custom software, it's common to account for it as part of a service, not a sale of software, so sales tax isn't collected. This bill would essentially add sales tax to all software sales, including those that are done as custom-software deals rather than retail sales.
Sorry, that isn't a fact. All taxies levied against corporations come out of: customers, employees, or profits. What the proportion is depends on various kinds of price elasticity. Your statement only works if levels of profit are somehow fixed and unmovable, which is clearly not the case.
I'm sure plenty of Slashdotters work for large corporations like Oracle and Microsoft, which probably qualifies.
The first-sale doctrine is unfortunately fairly weak: it only means that companies can't use something like an EULA to prohibit resale, but it doesn't say that they can't use technological measures to make resale hard.
An interesting case would be if people found ways to resell the DLC along with the used game. This is probably legal under the first-sale doctrine (regardless of what the game companies' EULAs say about it), but would be technologically difficult, especially on consoles.
Yeah, but the number of people trying to break in also goes up when you have $1m. Especially in a country like Russia, where being rich is likely to attract attention from people you probably don't want attention from. Being a broke crazy mathematician, on the other hand, will probably not result in such people paying much attention to you.
I'm in my late 20s, and my schedule sounds more like the grandparents than the one you list, at a fairly good suburban public school system. In the mid-1990s, we did pre-algebra in 7th grade, algebra in 8th grade, geometric proofs in 9th grade, trigonometry/precalculus in 10th, calculus in 11th, and optionally calculus 2 in 12th.
I've found this in computing also, though it doesn't tend to come up until later (since we don't make serious attempts to teach programming to elementary school kids). Stuff presented as a bunch of facts and givens with no motivation is hard for anyone to care about or learn. It's essential to include some context: why was this invented at all? Usually there are pretty good reasons, even really interesting ones, and it can make a lot more sense to learn something once you have some idea of what problem it was devised in order to solve.
It's not entirely unusual grammar in UK English, if somewhat informal.
We are--- the restrictions on stem-cell funding have always been on embryonic stem cells, not on research involving stem cells derived from post-fetus-stage living humans, as is the case here.
Article I.5 bans all the use of "riot control agents" in warfare, which is usually understood to include pepper spray, tear gas, and similar chemicals.
If used in war, it is actually a war crime, since it's a chemical weapon banned under the chemical weapon convention.
Use in domestic policing isn't covered by the Chemical Weapons Convention, so pepper spray used by your local police dept isn't a war crime.
Probably has most of all to do with GoDaddy not wanting to figure out the logistics of integrating the new photography/ID requirements into their purchase system.
That's unfortunately probably true for the majority of female characters in videogames, but there are some decent ones, e.g. Claire Redfield of Resident Evil 2, Elena Fisher of the Uncharted series, and Sarah Kerrigan of Starcraft. There's also Carmen Sandiego, of course.
Not to mention that you'd have to do it at exactly the same time as an actual earthquake, since afaict they plan to use the laptop data only as supplemental data to get more detail about events that they detect with the traditional seismometer network.
At least in the context of ADC, sensitivity seems like the right term. Mic and line-in ports both map analog voltage levels to digital sample values, and the difference between the two is their sensitivity to the input voltage. Mic ports are more sensitive, i.e. will register higher sample values for a given input voltage, and will register a greater change in sample value for a given change in input voltage.
The summary (and article) are better than the headline. This isn't either: a) the first supersonic cruise missile; or b) the first maneuverable cruise missile. But it is, apparently, the first maneuverable supersonic cruise missile.