The problem is, I want to know what happens to Neo and Trinity. Good, bad story, I still want to
"know".
Read the spoilers, and then rent it. Less money paid to Hollywood for a bad movie.
Or, better yet, borrow a copy, or download it. No money for Hollywood.
In Norton Internet Security 2003 it is possible to allow advertising from specific sites. I quote:
You can also create permit strings that allow Web sites to display images that match the string. This allows you to override the blocking effect of any string in the (Defaults) block list for individual sites. Permit rules take precedence over Block rules on any site.
--User's Guide, page 169
Of course, Joe User is never going to get to page 169 of the users guide, and even if he did he probably wouldn't change the defaults even if he understood how.
One flaw in your argument is that the American government has gotten very good at keeping people satiated. The French and the Russians were beyond poor, they were starving. Why do you think the government spends enormous amounts of money subsidising farming? Its not to protect jobs, most of the work is automated anyway. When I was in college a decade ago, I had to live off of $20 a week in groceries. Recently, I went through a period of unemployment, and I discovered that, despite ten years of inflation in other sectors, I could still live off the same $20.
Another way the government keeps people from noticing how little they have, is entertainment. Did you know that most people on welfare have cable? The government actually underwrites telecommunication and entertainment. Bill Watterson had it right when he pointed out that religion isn't the opiate of the masses anymore, television is. It is also a perfect vehicle for disseminating ideas that are beneficial to the government, and large corporations, and they have gotten much better at doing that more subtely.
If the government can keep people at a bare minimum level of sustenance and distraction, there isn't going to be a bloody revolution.
There are also reports of friends and families living in different countries using Xbox Live as an alternative to telephoning.
I think this might be the most important part of the article. Traditional phone companies might not be happy to find Microsoft honing in on their market.
Pre-configured hardware, talk all you want for a flat monthly rate. All MS has to do is put out an "MS Telephony" disc for X-Box. I know the quality is not the same, yet. But, they are a big company. They could give the others a run for their money.
I am a big fan of online comics, but I have trouble with UComics' site layout. Sites like comics.com have a link above each comic that says "NEXT." So if I want to I can browse through all the comics. Ucomics, on the other hand only lists their comics in an index. If you want to read several comics, you have to constantly use the back button, or sign up for their My Comics page, and therefore give information to marketers.
This annoyed me so much, in fact, that I made my own comics page on my website, just so I didn't have to put up with this.
However, I probably will sign up with UComics. There is no way I will miss one of my favorite comics of all time.
I assure you that my post was not meant as a troll. My only "real" source of information on this was "The Pirates of Silicon Valley" which definitely gives you the impression that Apple gave up some of its control to Microsoft in the end. Thank you for clearing up my misconception.
If your going to mention geekiness and Tolkein in the same post on Slashdot, you'd better have your facts straight:
Boromir, and Faramir were sons of Denethor, who was the steward of Gondor. Aragorn (Strider) was the king, remember?
When I lived in Boston there was a pizza parlor right next to a stop that had the brilliant idea of installing a camera focused on the track a few blocks away. Paying customers could stay inside, warm and dry, and see when the next train was about to arrive. On a cold, wet day it was worth a few bucks to be waiting inside eating pizza.
I, like many people, am suprised that this is news. We went through this problem a few years ago in Connecticut, and they really bunged it up.
First, they split the state in to two area codes. Ok, I can live with that, but if you live on the edge of an area code a local call may require you to use the ten digit number. So this is how they "solved" that problem:
If it is a local call within your area code, you dial seven digits.
If it is a long distance call within your area code, you dial 11 digits (1 + 10).
If it is a local call outside your area code, you dial 10 digits, no 1!
And last, if it is a long distance call you go back to dialing 11 digits.
Are you confused yet? I live in Meriden (203), and not only are we on the edge of the area code, but during the switch we voted that calls to all New Haven (203), and Hartford (860) switches would be local calls in exchange for a slightly higher base monthly fee. That means that I can call some towns 30+ miles away, and it is a local call, and yet two towns over east or west is a long distance call. It also means that in order to know whether or not I am making a local call I would have to remember something like a hundred different switches. Because of this, every time I dial a new number I basically end up guessing whether or not I have to dial the area code, XOR one, OR both.
In that light New York has it much better off, 11 digits for everything, and let the phone company figure out whether or not it is local.
Iain Banks (or Iain M. Banks, whatever) is a great writer because he writes in whatever genre he feels like. The Wasp Factory was easily one of the more powerful books I have read, although it has nothing to do with sci-fi, and Feersum Endjinn knocked sci-fi on its ass, like a combination of Flowers for Algernon and cyberpunk.
I personally would recommend staying away from Complicity. It seems to me his editors came to him and said, "Do the same thing you did with The Wasp Factory." So he did, with all the perversion, and none of the poetry.
Did anyone else notice the glaring change of quality in the English in the last two paragraphs? It seems to me that the author, who is apparently German, copied most of the article, and then added his own paranoid rant at the end. Although this is an interesting idea, the author offers no proof for any of his conclusions.
This ride can only hold two people, so it doesn't really save space. Trends in new rollercoasters are for more people on more cars, and fast turnover; one car loading while another is on the track. A line of people that is waiting for this ride will only be decreased by two per cycle, and the next people will have to wait for the riders to get off. You could, have a whole bunch of these lined up, but there goes your space savings.
OK, I read the sample, or at least the first few chapters, and it is not starting out as great literature. Cookie-cutter characters, and contrived cliches. It does move along, and it does have enough perversion to keep one titillated. It is the kind of book I would read if I was trapped, waiting for an airplane, with nothing better to do. I definitely wouldn't go out of my way to find this book, or recommend it to my friends.
I agree with your opinions about software that is released to early without proper testing. However, your analogies to physical products are flawed. In those cases the presence of a condition is an an immediate threat, and therefore you should know about it immediately. In the case of software vulnerabilities the announcement of a working exploit increases the potential threat because of script kiddies. A more appropriate analogy would be a bank privately telling its customers that there might be a way to gain access to their accounts, rather than the bank going public and saying to any potential thieves, "Hey! Want to know how to get free money?"
From what I understand of the policy, if the exploit appeared in 2600 then it would be considered "in the wild" and would therefore qualify for immediate release by ISS.
Slashdot Mirror
Or, better yet, borrow a copy, or download it. No money for Hollywood.
In Norton Internet Security 2003 it is possible to allow advertising from specific sites. I quote:
Of course, Joe User is never going to get to page 169 of the users guide, and even if he did he probably wouldn't change the defaults even if he understood how.A website that is succesful:
homestarrunner.com
Consistently good content, and they only make money by selling t-shirts.
Norton offers Flash blocking also.
I don't think this is the Mentor mentioned in the article. Another poster showed pictures of a much smaller vehicle with four wings.
One flaw in your argument is that the American government has gotten very good at keeping people satiated. The French and the Russians were beyond poor, they were starving. Why do you think the government spends enormous amounts of money subsidising farming? Its not to protect jobs, most of the work is automated anyway. When I was in college a decade ago, I had to live off of $20 a week in groceries. Recently, I went through a period of unemployment, and I discovered that, despite ten years of inflation in other sectors, I could still live off the same $20.
Another way the government keeps people from noticing how little they have, is entertainment. Did you know that most people on welfare have cable? The government actually underwrites telecommunication and entertainment. Bill Watterson had it right when he pointed out that religion isn't the opiate of the masses anymore, television is. It is also a perfect vehicle for disseminating ideas that are beneficial to the government, and large corporations, and they have gotten much better at doing that more subtely.
If the government can keep people at a bare minimum level of sustenance and distraction, there isn't going to be a bloody revolution.
Pre-configured hardware, talk all you want for a flat monthly rate. All MS has to do is put out an "MS Telephony" disc for X-Box. I know the quality is not the same, yet. But, they are a big company. They could give the others a run for their money.
I am a big fan of online comics, but I have trouble with UComics' site layout. Sites like comics.com have a link above each comic that says "NEXT." So if I want to I can browse through all the comics.
Ucomics, on the other hand only lists their comics in an index. If you want to read several comics, you have to constantly use the back button, or sign up for their My Comics page, and therefore give information to marketers.
This annoyed me so much, in fact, that I made my own comics page on my website, just so I didn't have to put up with this.
However, I probably will sign up with UComics. There is no way I will miss one of my favorite comics of all time.
5.175 petabits is about 1 bit per square centimeter of earth.
So, what do we call that, a terra-bit?
I assure you that my post was not meant as a troll. My only "real" source of information on this was "The Pirates of Silicon Valley" which definitely gives you the impression that Apple gave up some of its control to Microsoft in the end. Thank you for clearing up my misconception.
Um... isn't Apple partly owned by Microsoft anyway?
The ONION has a list of ideas on its front page this week.
If your going to mention geekiness and Tolkein in the same post on Slashdot, you'd better have your facts straight: Boromir, and Faramir were sons of Denethor, who was the steward of Gondor. Aragorn (Strider) was the king, remember?
When I lived in Boston there was a pizza parlor right next to a stop that had the brilliant idea of installing a camera focused on the track a few blocks away. Paying customers could stay inside, warm and dry, and see when the next train was about to arrive. On a cold, wet day it was worth a few bucks to be waiting inside eating pizza.
Do I really need to point out that this grid is 6X6? A chess board is 8X8.
Bombe de Terre
I, like many people, am suprised that this is news. We went through this problem a few years ago in Connecticut, and they really bunged it up.
First, they split the state in to two area codes. Ok, I can live with that, but if you live on the edge of an area code a local call may require you to use the ten digit number. So this is how they "solved" that problem:
If it is a local call within your area code, you dial seven digits.
If it is a long distance call within your area code, you dial 11 digits (1 + 10).
If it is a local call outside your area code, you dial 10 digits, no 1!
And last, if it is a long distance call you go back to dialing 11 digits.
Are you confused yet? I live in Meriden (203), and not only are we on the edge of the area code, but during the switch we voted that calls to all New Haven (203), and Hartford (860) switches would be local calls in exchange for a slightly higher base monthly fee. That means that I can call some towns 30+ miles away, and it is a local call, and yet two towns over east or west is a long distance call. It also means that in order to know whether or not I am making a local call I would have to remember something like a hundred different switches. Because of this, every time I dial a new number I basically end up guessing whether or not I have to dial the area code, XOR one, OR both.
In that light New York has it much better off, 11 digits for everything, and let the phone company figure out whether or not it is local.
Iain Banks (or Iain M. Banks, whatever) is a great writer because he writes in whatever genre he feels like. The Wasp Factory was easily one of the more powerful books I have read, although it has nothing to do with sci-fi, and Feersum Endjinn knocked sci-fi on its ass, like a combination of Flowers for Algernon and cyberpunk. I personally would recommend staying away from Complicity. It seems to me his editors came to him and said, "Do the same thing you did with The Wasp Factory." So he did, with all the perversion, and none of the poetry.
Did anyone else notice the glaring change of quality in the English in the last two paragraphs? It seems to me that the author, who is apparently German, copied most of the article, and then added his own paranoid rant at the end. Although this is an interesting idea, the author offers no proof for any of his conclusions.
This ride can only hold two people, so it doesn't really save space. Trends in new rollercoasters are for more people on more cars, and fast turnover; one car loading while another is on the track. A line of people that is waiting for this ride will only be decreased by two per cycle, and the next people will have to wait for the riders to get off. You could, have a whole bunch of these lined up, but there goes your space savings.
OK, I read the sample, or at least the first few chapters, and it is not starting out as great literature. Cookie-cutter characters, and contrived cliches. It does move along, and it does have enough perversion to keep one titillated. It is the kind of book I would read if I was trapped, waiting for an airplane, with nothing better to do. I definitely wouldn't go out of my way to find this book, or recommend it to my friends.
I agree with your opinions about software that is released to early without proper testing. However, your analogies to physical products are flawed. In those cases the presence of a condition is an an immediate threat, and therefore you should know about it immediately. In the case of software vulnerabilities the announcement of a working exploit increases the potential threat because of script kiddies. A more appropriate analogy would be a bank privately telling its customers that there might be a way to gain access to their accounts, rather than the bank going public and saying to any potential thieves, "Hey! Want to know how to get free money?"
From what I understand of the policy, if the exploit appeared in 2600 then it would be considered "in the wild" and would therefore qualify for immediate release by ISS.
I actually watched a classmate get tricked by one of these fake Windows messages. The sad thing is, she was on a Mac.