It changes color for "any toxin"? What exactly is a "toxin". As any toxicologist will tell you, poison is all about the dosage.
If only you'd RTFA before posting, you'd see that a PARTICULAR sugar (not just sugar as the summary suggests) is bound to the gold to detect a PARTICULAR toxin.
The question is, if rolling a die a thousand times in a specific order would give you a horrible, disfiguring and probably deadly disease, would you rather roll the die 1 billion times, or 100 billion times?
Since each die roll would take at least two seconds, a billion die rolls would take at least two billion seconds or over 126 years. Therefore, I really don't care if it's a billion or 100 billion rolls - either way I'm rolling the die my entire life. And if I must spend my entire life rolling a die, I'm hoping the deadly sequence shows up before puberty.
I quit playing games awhile back because I was sick of the selection being limited to Hollywood Crap, Sports Crap, and tired FPS. Let's get back to the innovative games that are fun to play instead of just franchising the same old shit.
oh, I don't know, notification about a new brand of tampon (the sorts of adverts that I always see on TV for some reason).
For example, Google would know that by reading Slashdot, you must be male, and automatically exclude you from receiving such misdirected advertisements.
And we'd get to see endless adds for online dating services featuring scantily-clad hotties that would never use a dating service. Saves on your pr0n bill!
Yeah, the calls will be silenced during the show, but when intermission comes, all those pent up calls notify the all the phones of waiting voice mails at one time. As soon as the signal is allowed through a bunch of phones all ring at once and everybody starts talking at once.
I have to say that I side with the judge on this one. Claiming you can send payloads into space for 25% the cost and actually doing it are two completely different things. He is welcome to bid on the Air Force contracts. One of the things the Air Force weighs into proposal evaluation is the contractors' history and chances of successful execution. SpaceX basically has zero there. Also, they have no experience in delivering the kind of reliability the Air Force demands. This reliability is one huge factor in the cost of the system.
If you lived at the top of a steep hill, would you hire a hobo living under a bridge to fix the brakes on your car for 25% of the cost of a mechanic?
In the gigantic aerospace company I work for, "policy" is routinely ignored by one and all whenever possible. Top-level management spends all their time generating policies to cover their collective ass, but the reams of paper are so volumnious that no one has time to read, much less follow, the actual liability-avoidance policies.
At the risk of being attacked (as you already have), I utterly agree. Graffitti is vandalism, whether it is some gangsta's sig or a swastika. Why is one a hate crime and the other not? I hate the whole hate crime rap.
AAPL is down 20 percent and looks like it is on its way to the mid-50s support level.
You obviously got modded "insightful" by an Apple-basher. Yes, Apple is down 20% from its peak, but it's still up 600% in the last two years, up 80% in the last year, up 50% in the last six months, and up 10% in the last three months. That performance whoops ass on just about any other investment out there.
I'm sure glad no one "protected" me from porno when I was a kid. Someone always has an older brother or father with porno mags and they make the rounds. I had a pretty good collection before I turned 18 and it was legal - from playboy to hardcore. What's so wrong with pornography? I'd be surprised if Bush didn't have some stashed away in the oval office.
Apple loves stealing names. Look at what they did to "Apple Records" and "McIntosh Audio" (which they still print a disclaimer about in all their documentation).
That's modded as informative?? That's troll/flamebait if I've ever seen it. I seriously doubt Apple goes looking for names to steal - they do not like all the legal attention. Apple Records sued Apple Computer simply because it saw a chance to gain some revenue. Why don't they sue AppleOne Employment http://appleone.com/? At the very least, they should be suing Bad Apple Records, Big Apple Records, Black Apple Records, Crab Apple Records, Mountain Apple Records, Screaming Apple Records, and Zapple Records, or the very least the City of New York for use of "The Big Apple."
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Okay, so the PM7100 wasn't the greatest machine they ever made. You have to admit that their changing to a completely new processor was an amazing accomplishment - fat binaries, 68K emulation/translation. That successful transition is the only thing that makes investors and users believe that the Intel switch is even possible.
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In partial defense of Carl, let the record show that Apple was designing three PowerMacs right then:
PM 6100: codename Piltdown Man, famous archaeology hoax
PM 7100: codename Sagan
PM 8100: codename Cold Fusion, overhyped physics flop du jour
In his place, I'd also be unhappy about the implication of being placed in between those two.
That's one take on things. Another is to note that the PM6100/7100/8100 were the first Macs to be powered by the PowerPC - a major evolution for Macs (first processor family change). Piltdown man was supposed to be the missing link that would revolutionalize the theories of evolution, whereas Cold Fusion was supposed to revolutionalize power generation. Did Carl Sagan revolutionalize physics? Well, he certainly brought it to the masses.
Still, it was a friggin' internal codename. I'm glad he lost the suit (and the BHA suit).
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When's the last time a code name was also used for the retail product? I can't remember that ever happening. It's a "code name" for a reason - the developers and designers needed something to call it, without the hassle of all of the due diligence and legal work.
Of course, this being America, you can sue any time you want - including when it's just a codename. That's what Carl Sagan did over the use of Sagan as a codename by Apple. Apple responded by using the codename BHA, which stood prominently for Butt-Head Astronomer.
Could some of the suppliers actually buy 1M X360's, tear them down and resell the parts to Microsoft for a profit?
No, for several reasons. First, they use multiple suppliers, so you'd have to form a cabal (they're not going to be buying microprocessors from a capacitor company!). Also, the cost to disassemble would eat your profits in no time. Lastly, if you sell used components as new, you are committing fraud.
Even my tolerance for ad-supported TV has almost run out. The only thing that keeps me watching TV is the ability to record shows on my DVR and skip over commercials when I watch later.
Yeah, but with all the product placement in TV shows, the ads are now embedded and you can't get away from them. Don't even get me started on the fake entertainment news where the evening news just advertises their own shows (or parent company's movies).
Regarding the age-old question: Are you a mouse or a man? You now want to be a mouse - they are fearless.
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The kinds of machines that are in these secure environments are locked down big time...most don't even have a CD-ROM attached to the machine. The networks are closed (no direct internet access) and the machines with CD-ROMs/RWs have their lasers aligned differently so as to not be able to be read on a standard drive...one of the benifits of purposefuly misaligning the laser that writes the disks to be read in these machines is that you can't just insert a standard CD...
Yes, contrary to what the media would have you belive, the folks in secure/top-secret/classified government positions are not stupid...
All I can say is I am in the know with regard to such matters and you are so amazingly wrong it is unbelieveable. There may be EXTREMELY isolated cases of such Machiavellian security measures, but it has been my experience that music CDs are always making it into secured areas and being played on secure machines.
Perhaps the user installed the anti-spyware program? And thus may be assumed to accept the anti-spyware software's definition of spyware? So if it flags innocent software, so what. Can I not install an anti-everythingware program if I so desire?
Certainly, you may. However, your original statement that no damage was done is the point against which I was arguing. If a program is sold as anti-spyware, but is truly anti-everything, then perhaps damage is done to a third-party, though unknowing to the end user.
Bottom line: I concede that the lawsuit is most surely baseless and should be thrown out. I often fantasize of drawing jury duty on such an absolutely lame case.
What damage was done by the anti-spyware company downloading the software? A few cents' worth of bandwidth at the most. What damage was done by installing it? None at all. This is surely the most baseless lawsuit ever.
Though I am by NO means defending a spyware company, damage you overlook can most certainly be alleged to have been done. For example, having your program classified as spyware and blocking it from being installed costs said spyware company "customers" and hence, potentially at least, revenue. For example, if the anti-spyware program labeled your innocent shareware game as spyware and blocked it from being installed, I bet you'd be pretty pissed. Also, it could be alleged that blocking a program as spyware is an anticompetitive act.
Before you flame, you should know that I hate the heinous spyware people and am merely pointing out some legalities that could give the case a dollop of merit.
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It changes color for "any toxin"? What exactly is a "toxin". As any toxicologist will tell you, poison is all about the dosage.
If only you'd RTFA before posting, you'd see that a PARTICULAR sugar (not just sugar as the summary suggests) is bound to the gold to detect a PARTICULAR toxin.
The question is, if rolling a die a thousand times in a specific order would give you a horrible, disfiguring and probably deadly disease, would you rather roll the die 1 billion times, or 100 billion times?
Since each die roll would take at least two seconds, a billion die rolls would take at least two billion seconds or over 126 years. Therefore, I really don't care if it's a billion or 100 billion rolls - either way I'm rolling the die my entire life. And if I must spend my entire life rolling a die, I'm hoping the deadly sequence shows up before puberty.
I quit playing games awhile back because I was sick of the selection being limited to Hollywood Crap, Sports Crap, and tired FPS. Let's get back to the innovative games that are fun to play instead of just franchising the same old shit.
oh, I don't know, notification about a new brand of tampon (the sorts of adverts that I always see on TV for some reason). For example, Google would know that by reading Slashdot, you must be male, and automatically exclude you from receiving such misdirected advertisements.
And we'd get to see endless adds for online dating services featuring scantily-clad hotties that would never use a dating service. Saves on your pr0n bill!
I predict that by 2025 the average movie will cost only $15 million.
In other news, the ticket price will also be $15 million.
Yeah, the calls will be silenced during the show, but when intermission comes, all those pent up calls notify the all the phones of waiting voice mails at one time. As soon as the signal is allowed through a bunch of phones all ring at once and everybody starts talking at once.
I have to say that I side with the judge on this one. Claiming you can send payloads into space for 25% the cost and actually doing it are two completely different things. He is welcome to bid on the Air Force contracts. One of the things the Air Force weighs into proposal evaluation is the contractors' history and chances of successful execution. SpaceX basically has zero there. Also, they have no experience in delivering the kind of reliability the Air Force demands. This reliability is one huge factor in the cost of the system.
If you lived at the top of a steep hill, would you hire a hobo living under a bridge to fix the brakes on your car for 25% of the cost of a mechanic?
In the gigantic aerospace company I work for, "policy" is routinely ignored by one and all whenever possible. Top-level management spends all their time generating policies to cover their collective ass, but the reams of paper are so volumnious that no one has time to read, much less follow, the actual liability-avoidance policies.
At the risk of being attacked (as you already have), I utterly agree. Graffitti is vandalism, whether it is some gangsta's sig or a swastika. Why is one a hate crime and the other not? I hate the whole hate crime rap.
AAPL is down 20 percent and looks like it is on its way to the mid-50s support level.
You obviously got modded "insightful" by an Apple-basher. Yes, Apple is down 20% from its peak, but it's still up 600% in the last two years, up 80% in the last year, up 50% in the last six months, and up 10% in the last three months. That performance whoops ass on just about any other investment out there.
They can put my two middle fingers on the card.
"This is all the more serious because the habitat of this fish is disappearing very fast, and the fate of the species is now in doubt."
Nothing like having your fate in doubt the moment you're discovered!
I'm sure glad no one "protected" me from porno when I was a kid. Someone always has an older brother or father with porno mags and they make the rounds. I had a pretty good collection before I turned 18 and it was legal - from playboy to hardcore. What's so wrong with pornography? I'd be surprised if Bush didn't have some stashed away in the oval office.
Apple loves stealing names. Look at what they did to "Apple Records" and "McIntosh Audio" (which they still print a disclaimer about in all their documentation).
That's modded as informative?? That's troll/flamebait if I've ever seen it. I seriously doubt Apple goes looking for names to steal - they do not like all the legal attention. Apple Records sued Apple Computer simply because it saw a chance to gain some revenue. Why don't they sue AppleOne Employment http://appleone.com/? At the very least, they should be suing Bad Apple Records, Big Apple Records, Black Apple Records, Crab Apple Records, Mountain Apple Records, Screaming Apple Records, and Zapple Records, or the very least the City of New York for use of "The Big Apple."
Okay, so the PM7100 wasn't the greatest machine they ever made. You have to admit that their changing to a completely new processor was an amazing accomplishment - fat binaries, 68K emulation/translation. That successful transition is the only thing that makes investors and users believe that the Intel switch is even possible.
In partial defense of Carl, let the record show that Apple was designing three PowerMacs right then:
PM 6100: codename Piltdown Man, famous archaeology hoax
PM 7100: codename Sagan
PM 8100: codename Cold Fusion, overhyped physics flop du jour
In his place, I'd also be unhappy about the implication of being placed in between those two.
That's one take on things. Another is to note that the PM6100/7100/8100 were the first Macs to be powered by the PowerPC - a major evolution for Macs (first processor family change). Piltdown man was supposed to be the missing link that would revolutionalize the theories of evolution, whereas Cold Fusion was supposed to revolutionalize power generation. Did Carl Sagan revolutionalize physics? Well, he certainly brought it to the masses.
Still, it was a friggin' internal codename. I'm glad he lost the suit (and the BHA suit).
When's the last time a code name was also used for the retail product? I can't remember that ever happening. It's a "code name" for a reason - the developers and designers needed something to call it, without the hassle of all of the due diligence and legal work.
Of course, this being America, you can sue any time you want - including when it's just a codename. That's what Carl Sagan did over the use of Sagan as a codename by Apple. Apple responded by using the codename BHA, which stood prominently for Butt-Head Astronomer.
...the proverbial win/win scenario.
No, I'd say it's the proverbial noWindows/noWindows solution.
...then you're in Goto Hell.
Could some of the suppliers actually buy 1M X360's, tear them down and resell the parts to Microsoft for a profit?
No, for several reasons. First, they use multiple suppliers, so you'd have to form a cabal (they're not going to be buying microprocessors from a capacitor company!). Also, the cost to disassemble would eat your profits in no time. Lastly, if you sell used components as new, you are committing fraud.
Even my tolerance for ad-supported TV has almost run out. The only thing that keeps me watching TV is the ability to record shows on my DVR and skip over commercials when I watch later.
Yeah, but with all the product placement in TV shows, the ads are now embedded and you can't get away from them. Don't even get me started on the fake entertainment news where the evening news just advertises their own shows (or parent company's movies).
Regarding the age-old question: Are you a mouse or a man? You now want to be a mouse - they are fearless.
The kinds of machines that are in these secure environments are locked down big time...most don't even have a CD-ROM attached to the machine. The networks are closed (no direct internet access) and the machines with CD-ROMs/RWs have their lasers aligned differently so as to not be able to be read on a standard drive...one of the benifits of purposefuly misaligning the laser that writes the disks to be read in these machines is that you can't just insert a standard CD... Yes, contrary to what the media would have you belive, the folks in secure/top-secret/classified government positions are not stupid...
All I can say is I am in the know with regard to such matters and you are so amazingly wrong it is unbelieveable. There may be EXTREMELY isolated cases of such Machiavellian security measures, but it has been my experience that music CDs are always making it into secured areas and being played on secure machines.
Perhaps the user installed the anti-spyware program? And thus may be assumed to accept the anti-spyware software's definition of spyware? So if it flags innocent software, so what. Can I not install an anti-everythingware program if I so desire?
Certainly, you may. However, your original statement that no damage was done is the point against which I was arguing. If a program is sold as anti-spyware, but is truly anti-everything, then perhaps damage is done to a third-party, though unknowing to the end user.
Bottom line: I concede that the lawsuit is most surely baseless and should be thrown out. I often fantasize of drawing jury duty on such an absolutely lame case.
What damage was done by the anti-spyware company downloading the software? A few cents' worth of bandwidth at the most. What damage was done by installing it? None at all. This is surely the most baseless lawsuit ever.
Though I am by NO means defending a spyware company, damage you overlook can most certainly be alleged to have been done. For example, having your program classified as spyware and blocking it from being installed costs said spyware company "customers" and hence, potentially at least, revenue. For example, if the anti-spyware program labeled your innocent shareware game as spyware and blocked it from being installed, I bet you'd be pretty pissed. Also, it could be alleged that blocking a program as spyware is an anticompetitive act.
Before you flame, you should know that I hate the heinous spyware people and am merely pointing out some legalities that could give the case a dollop of merit.