It's actually common for a 'large-hype' show to have it's first episode free on iTunes, either for just a week or for longer. They are trying to get you to watch and like the show. (The rest of the episodes won't be free.)
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A knowledgeable computer person can probably find a better job. There's not so many other jobs for people who know about cell phone handsets...
That's probably the difference between 'worst case' and 'normal case': If they can avoid the worst case most of the time average times will be much faster. But that doesn't mean that you couldn't get yourself into the special case where it will take ages.
I don't know... More and more the actual base-level production is handled by machines operated by very few people. Most of the economy is either providing services to other people, or coming up with ideas on how to make those machines and services better. (As well as entertaining the people.) The latter of those two is the more profitable, in the long run.
Basically, copyright has become the foundation of much of our economy, and the percentage of our economy it influences is getting greater and greater. Given that copyright/patents was one of the main points that caused the USA to revolt against England back in the day (there were several large areas where a colonial couldn't hold or use patent/copyright, but someone in England could... Also, things like the Stamp Act were copyright-related), it might well be important enough to be part of the very foundation of the country.
Well, duh: They don't want you paying for an unknown artist. They want you paying for their over-hyped sensation-of-the-week.
Because being able to create and throw away those sensations-of-the-week is what keeps the record companies in business: It's their advertising, their handling, and their contacts that make that possible. If you start buying artists you've never heard of because you like their music their entire business model goes out the window.
Usually such a law is supported by the argument that an undercover police officer can't record what you say without you knowing about it.
I'm with you: I can see the ability to make such recordings being a great safety tool in some circumstances, but I can also see great potential for abuse.
Actually, from the older article, and from their website, they only transferred 4GB. From their website, the pigeon isn't trained to fly directly to their other location: They got one that would go someplace close, and then drove the data the last few miles.
I suspect the card also my have needed some cleaning before it could be used.
I remember back ages ago I went to Missing Sync because some of the conduits I wanted to use didn't work with Palm Desktop. (But they worked fine with Missing Sync.) It's a good product.
At this point is basically is the official sync solution for Palm, even for the Pre. (The Pre version of Missing Sync was available before the Pre was released.)
(Actually: They bought a piece of software Apple discontinued in the late 90's*, updated it a bit, then discontinued it themselves about 5 years later. Which is around 5 years ago at this point.)
...Which they all have anyway, because you've actually wanted to sync a Palm to a Mac for the bast 5 years or so that was the only way that really worked.
Really, this is a non-issue. Apple stopped trying to make something that no one actually used work.
Given that syncing a Mac with a Palm (using their software) has been functionally broken for years, I'd say just go get Missing Sync like everyone else with a Palm and a Mac has done.
I wasn't even aware that it was still considered 'supported'.
If you really want to nitpick, why do they design fighters to require an external loading of astromechs from the outside? Wouldn't it make more sense to put the loading hatch in the bottom so the mech could be winched in on its own?
This as least is defensible: While it'd save a bit of effort to have the droid be able to load itself, it's not really that much extra for a fighter base to have a loader, and there may be other mechanicals that would be harder to move around to allow bottom-access. Given that space and weight are always at a premium in a fighter, any design decision which can improve that is likely worth it.
So, given a choice, it would be better to have the droids able to load themselves, but it may not be worth the other trade-offs in a fighter. (And they do load themselves in anything larger, from what I recall.)
They do manifest in reality: They are why I don't have an IPv6 address: It's to much work for too little benefit. It can be worked around, but it's just more work, and wouldn't really get me anything.
Basically all he is saying is 'accept an IPv4 address as an IPv6 address'. Which would mean that 'upgrading' would be as simple as getting software that can handle being sent IPv6 addresses. (Which basically everyone's already got at this point.)
Instead at the current situation you have to figure out how and were to get an IPv6 address, and either keep an IPv4 as well (and switch between the two as the situation demands) or work out how you are going to talk to the 90+% of the world that doesn't have an IPv6 address. Either of those require extra work, for every person trying to connect to the network.
So, in the current situation, everyone who switches to IPv6 needs to be a network engineer. Because it's a complicated setup at the user's endpoint. Guess how long it'll take Grandma to switch then.
Yes, the network works, but there is no decent upgrade plan.
Actually, I've always thought #1 and #2 should be switched. Even for general use.
You don't want the machine second-guessing you every moment of every day, you want it to do what you told it to do. If it harms someone because of your order, that's your responsibility. It should never harm someone without an explicit order to, of course, but it also shouldn't say 'I won't do that, because it might harm someone'.
Maybe there's just a possibility, and you are willing to take that risk. Maybe you'll have further orders for it that will prevent that harm. Maybe you know something it doesn't. Maybe you are just plain smarter than it is. But it shouldn't be overruling you. (You might weight them as Asimov did in his stories, so they aren't quite 'if-then-else', of course.)
There is no technical reason why you'd need voice for DSL. But it wouldn't surprise me if in some areas you were not allowed to by DSL without voice coverage. (Because the phone company wanted to make more money.)
It's expected that the GA will find good solutions. Part of what makes them so cool is that the exact nature of that solution isn't always expected. Who was to say whether the machines would learn to turn off the light near food, or to turn on the light when they know they're not near food to lead other robots on a wild goose chase? Or any other local maximum.
I'd even say it was likely if they continued the experiment for 'no light' to start signaling food, while 'light' signaled poison, and then cycle back.
Also, Perl has a few dedicated sites for language questions. PerlMonks comes to mind, for instance. It gets fairly high visibility in search results, so it's likely to attract more users, instead of them going to a general programming website.
Because there may be actual reasons for people to want to immediately cancel a domain? (Heck, enough people make typos in forms...)
There is probably enough legitimate demand for this service to support something like 5% or so, maybe even the current 10%. Sure, we want to strongly discourage it, but actually disallowing it would be going further than we need to.
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It's actually common for a 'large-hype' show to have it's first episode free on iTunes, either for just a week or for longer. They are trying to get you to watch and like the show. (The rest of the episodes won't be free.)
A knowledgeable computer person can probably find a better job. There's not so many other jobs for people who know about cell phone handsets...
That's probably the difference between 'worst case' and 'normal case': If they can avoid the worst case most of the time average times will be much faster. But that doesn't mean that you couldn't get yourself into the special case where it will take ages.
I don't know... More and more the actual base-level production is handled by machines operated by very few people. Most of the economy is either providing services to other people, or coming up with ideas on how to make those machines and services better. (As well as entertaining the people.) The latter of those two is the more profitable, in the long run.
Basically, copyright has become the foundation of much of our economy, and the percentage of our economy it influences is getting greater and greater. Given that copyright/patents was one of the main points that caused the USA to revolt against England back in the day (there were several large areas where a colonial couldn't hold or use patent/copyright, but someone in England could... Also, things like the Stamp Act were copyright-related), it might well be important enough to be part of the very foundation of the country.
Which is why you go make it a law that everyone has to be paid. Then the unknowns have to take the money, even if it hurts them.
Well, duh: They don't want you paying for an unknown artist. They want you paying for their over-hyped sensation-of-the-week.
Because being able to create and throw away those sensations-of-the-week is what keeps the record companies in business: It's their advertising, their handling, and their contacts that make that possible. If you start buying artists you've never heard of because you like their music their entire business model goes out the window.
And then there are those of us who use different systems entirely. (Go about 1.5 minutes, then turn left 45 degrees...)
Blocks are sections of program that can be passed around between functions as arguments. They basically allow 'functional' programming in C.
Usually such a law is supported by the argument that an undercover police officer can't record what you say without you knowing about it.
I'm with you: I can see the ability to make such recordings being a great safety tool in some circumstances, but I can also see great potential for abuse.
Actually, from the older article, and from their website, they only transferred 4GB. From their website, the pigeon isn't trained to fly directly to their other location: They got one that would go someplace close, and then drove the data the last few miles.
I suspect the card also my have needed some cleaning before it could be used.
That Paradox ignores the year. Add that in and it starts to become harder.
I remember back ages ago I went to Missing Sync because some of the conduits I wanted to use didn't work with Palm Desktop. (But they worked fine with Missing Sync.) It's a good product.
At this point is basically is the official sync solution for Palm, even for the Pre. (The Pre version of Missing Sync was available before the Pre was released.)
Things that in happening, cause themselves to happen again, happen again.
(Actually: They bought a piece of software Apple discontinued in the late 90's*, updated it a bit, then discontinued it themselves about 5 years later. Which is around 5 years ago at this point.)
*Claris Organizer, if you are interested.
...Which they all have anyway, because you've actually wanted to sync a Palm to a Mac for the bast 5 years or so that was the only way that really worked.
Really, this is a non-issue. Apple stopped trying to make something that no one actually used work.
Given that syncing a Mac with a Palm (using their software) has been functionally broken for years, I'd say just go get Missing Sync like everyone else with a Palm and a Mac has done.
I wasn't even aware that it was still considered 'supported'.
The atomic radius of silicon is 111 pm. That's 0.111 nm, so they've got a ways to go there.
If you really want to nitpick, why do they design fighters to require an external loading of astromechs from the outside? Wouldn't it make more sense to put the loading hatch in the bottom so the mech could be winched in on its own?
This as least is defensible: While it'd save a bit of effort to have the droid be able to load itself, it's not really that much extra for a fighter base to have a loader, and there may be other mechanicals that would be harder to move around to allow bottom-access. Given that space and weight are always at a premium in a fighter, any design decision which can improve that is likely worth it.
So, given a choice, it would be better to have the droids able to load themselves, but it may not be worth the other trade-offs in a fighter. (And they do load themselves in anything larger, from what I recall.)
They do manifest in reality: They are why I don't have an IPv6 address: It's to much work for too little benefit. It can be worked around, but it's just more work, and wouldn't really get me anything.
Basically all he is saying is 'accept an IPv4 address as an IPv6 address'. Which would mean that 'upgrading' would be as simple as getting software that can handle being sent IPv6 addresses. (Which basically everyone's already got at this point.)
Instead at the current situation you have to figure out how and were to get an IPv6 address, and either keep an IPv4 as well (and switch between the two as the situation demands) or work out how you are going to talk to the 90+% of the world that doesn't have an IPv6 address. Either of those require extra work, for every person trying to connect to the network.
So, in the current situation, everyone who switches to IPv6 needs to be a network engineer. Because it's a complicated setup at the user's endpoint. Guess how long it'll take Grandma to switch then.
Yes, the network works, but there is no decent upgrade plan.
Actually, I've always thought #1 and #2 should be switched. Even for general use.
You don't want the machine second-guessing you every moment of every day, you want it to do what you told it to do. If it harms someone because of your order, that's your responsibility. It should never harm someone without an explicit order to, of course, but it also shouldn't say 'I won't do that, because it might harm someone'.
Maybe there's just a possibility, and you are willing to take that risk. Maybe you'll have further orders for it that will prevent that harm. Maybe you know something it doesn't. Maybe you are just plain smarter than it is. But it shouldn't be overruling you. (You might weight them as Asimov did in his stories, so they aren't quite 'if-then-else', of course.)
There is no technical reason why you'd need voice for DSL. But it wouldn't surprise me if in some areas you were not allowed to by DSL without voice coverage. (Because the phone company wanted to make more money.)
It's expected that the GA will find good solutions. Part of what makes them so cool is that the exact nature of that solution isn't always expected. Who was to say whether the machines would learn to turn off the light near food, or to turn on the light when they know they're not near food to lead other robots on a wild goose chase? Or any other local maximum.
I'd even say it was likely if they continued the experiment for 'no light' to start signaling food, while 'light' signaled poison, and then cycle back.
I do know about Cobol: I had to learn it in college.
He's never seen it either.
Also, Perl has a few dedicated sites for language questions. PerlMonks comes to mind, for instance. It gets fairly high visibility in search results, so it's likely to attract more users, instead of them going to a general programming website.
Because there may be actual reasons for people to want to immediately cancel a domain? (Heck, enough people make typos in forms...)
There is probably enough legitimate demand for this service to support something like 5% or so, maybe even the current 10%. Sure, we want to strongly discourage it, but actually disallowing it would be going further than we need to.