So Google plans to copy what AOL was trying to do with Alto? Sheesh. I have an account at altomail.com; I wasn't very impressed and haven't been using it.
This is not like the "triple core" or "double core" CPUs being "hacked" into quad-cores when the crippling was just the setting low of a line or setting of a jumper on the chip.
I beg to differ. That is precisely what this hack resembles. Quoth the article:
The tech inside the 50D looks like it borrows a lot more from its higher-end siblings....
Translated, that means the camera already has the hardware required for the task; it simply lacked the firmware/software to implement it. The camera wasn't "crippled" per se, but the "extra core" was already there waiting to be utilized.
It doesn't actually "make your point" at all, but whatever. I see someone else already corrected you... as much as that is possible for someone with a knee he can't control.
Makes you wonder about the idiots who feel compelled to expel the stuff all the time, doesn't it? They must get sick a lot. Maybe that's a good thing for the gene pool.
The psychiatrists are angry about this statement because it threatens their ability to bilk patients and healthcare systems out of money for pills that cost nothing to produce. The psychologists issued the statement because they're butthurt that the psychiatrists have been edging them out of their own turf and their ability to charge people $100 an hour for a service that guarantees no results at all. The pills carry no guarantee of success either, but at least they don't cost $100 per hour.
The statement has a political and financial motive, not an objective medical one. It's medical mafia turf wars, nothing more.
Insects are anything but addicted to it. It' kills 'em dead. That's the entire reason the nicotine is flowing through plants' veins in the first place: it's their natural insecticide.
Now why anybody would wanna smoke insecticide....;-)
If this device becomes a commodity found in every home, it will spawn a whole new generation of pranksters who will sneak up to houses and "hack" the lighting and appliances with a whistle. We'll wind up needing two-factor authentication for our whistle-houses.
I was willing to grant your argument some shred of credibility until I read the last sentence. Apparently you didn't even take your own argument seriously enough to maintain a straight face.
Software subscriptions have been the Holy Grail for decades now. Consumers have generally - so far - been wise enough to reject it in general, but like IP legislation the potential gains are so enormous that corporations will never stop trying to reinvent it in a palatable fashion. Here we go again....
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If you call that incremental evolution, then you'll have to credit AOL, not Google, with this increment (altomail.com).
So Google plans to copy what AOL was trying to do with Alto? Sheesh. I have an account at altomail.com; I wasn't very impressed and haven't been using it.
This is not like the "triple core" or "double core" CPUs being "hacked" into quad-cores when the crippling was just the setting low of a line or setting of a jumper on the chip.
I beg to differ. That is precisely what this hack resembles. Quoth the article:
The tech inside the 50D looks like it borrows a lot more from its higher-end siblings....
Translated, that means the camera already has the hardware required for the task; it simply lacked the firmware/software to implement it. The camera wasn't "crippled" per se, but the "extra core" was already there waiting to be utilized.
It doesn't actually "make your point" at all, but whatever. I see someone else already corrected you... as much as that is possible for someone with a knee he can't control.
They're cloned, silly. They don't infringe if they're cloned, right?
Makes you wonder about the idiots who feel compelled to expel the stuff all the time, doesn't it? They must get sick a lot. Maybe that's a good thing for the gene pool.
Tinfoil is your friend. Always has been, always will be.
Deep underneath the hood... it might very well be that all art is math. Shhh! Don't repeat such heresy.
The 19th century called and wants its algorithm back.
Corollary to Clarke's Third Law: all math, sufficiently abstracted and obfuscated, is indistinguishable from art.
Yes, yes it is. You want we should stop?
The psychiatrists are angry about this statement because it threatens their ability to bilk patients and healthcare systems out of money for pills that cost nothing to produce. The psychologists issued the statement because they're butthurt that the psychiatrists have been edging them out of their own turf and their ability to charge people $100 an hour for a service that guarantees no results at all. The pills carry no guarantee of success either, but at least they don't cost $100 per hour.
The statement has a political and financial motive, not an objective medical one. It's medical mafia turf wars, nothing more.
If you got 15 minutes you were lucky. I got ten, a scrip, and a followup cancelled by the doctor.
Spray him with tree pruning sealer and then smack him with ripped goosefeather pillows.
Laws don't dictate, PHBs do. ;-)
Laws and guns are both tools... they don't think and don't murder.
If he wrote with a lisp would ya make fun of that, too?
I hope it goes well! You can send me a consulting fee from that extra $300, eh?
Insects are anything but addicted to it. It' kills 'em dead. That's the entire reason the nicotine is flowing through plants' veins in the first place: it's their natural insecticide.
Now why anybody would wanna smoke insecticide.... ;-)
I hate when that happens!
Woz would like that!
If this device becomes a commodity found in every home, it will spawn a whole new generation of pranksters who will sneak up to houses and "hack" the lighting and appliances with a whistle. We'll wind up needing two-factor authentication for our whistle-houses.
What Would You Look For In a Prosthetic Hand?
I dunno... why don't we ask Howard Wolowitz?
I was willing to grant your argument some shred of credibility until I read the last sentence. Apparently you didn't even take your own argument seriously enough to maintain a straight face.
Software subscriptions have been the Holy Grail for decades now. Consumers have generally - so far - been wise enough to reject it in general, but like IP legislation the potential gains are so enormous that corporations will never stop trying to reinvent it in a palatable fashion. Here we go again....