Okay, you seem to have missed the *entire* point of the previous post. You are basing skepticism on the probability of an even occurring. Congratulations, thats what I was suggesting. There has to be a way of separating the higgs boson from the tooth fairy. And absence of proof isn't enough.
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I never said it was. Santa Clause can be proven to not exist because his existence predicts events, and those events have never happened. Its testable as a hypothosis, and can therefore be disproved. Non testable theories can never be disproved. Does that mean the can be proved. again no.
Of course for all of the above a wise saying bears repeating:
Absence of Proof, is not Proof of Absence.
And of course, we cannot find anything if we do not seek it. Which is exactly what this is. I suppose you don't believe in the higgs boson either?
Now you *can* logically argue that we are unlikely to find these things, or its not economically in our interests to devote resources to the search for them. But Please, if you're going to be a "skeptic" at least base your skepticism in something more "scientific" than absence of proof.
Well, I know this old British woman who travels through the USA a couple times a year. Each time she goes through US customs, they take her finger prints and tell her they don't match the ones they have on file. Of course, she's never had her finger prints taken. So they take her back to a room while they talk about it and eventually let her through. The same rigmarole happens every time. So maybe thats just a database on the US side that links her passport with her fingerprints. I don't really know. I just think the whole thing is funny.
I could be wrong, but I believe some of the information stored on the rfid ( or linked in a database of some kind) chips is biometric. Ie ( finger print information, retinal scan). So you'd have to beat that level of security as well. Not impossible, but not a walk in the park.
No way -- everyone would be asleep or bored to tears (well, unless it was Perl, then they'd probably be waiting for his face to just fall off).
Actually, I've long suspected that the Necronomicon was written in Perl. Any substantial recitation of a non trivial Perl application should open a gateway to another dimension, or at open a portal to another time. I highly suggest that you replace one of your arms with a chainsaw, before attempting reading it. That always seems to come in handy.
He was referring to the fact that some company has taken Eclipse, slapped it on a box and charged a yearly "membership" fee as well as rebranding it "MyEclipse".
The names a bit confusing to me. Isn't it more "MyEcplise" when its.. free? If I'm paying for it then I think its really "YourEclipse" that I'm just renting. Or maybe the My just refers to them in the first place.
The problem with this is that if nothing else, Microsoft is good at making money and the Microsoft Mac Business unit is quite profitable, with Office as one of their biggest revenue generators.
Thats true today 2007, not when the memo was written in 1997.
Ok, I guess I don't know much about the internals of AVG. The other antivirus programs tell you with big warning dialogs whenever a virus is found. I don't really want to have to know the internals of any AV, to be honest. In any case it has missed several virus that others, with much older definition files have found.
I don't trust it. I don't like it. It doesn't get a second chance from me.
it failed in the marketplace, not technologically. MS wants to succed marketwise.They realised that they controling software and hardware helps to create a "brand".
The record companies don't care about apple or microsoft's fortunes. They apparently beleive a Wintel style of open competition will generate more sales than the apple model of control.
As I said in my post, I don't know what apple means when it says it thinks open drm is impossible. Is it trying to say its technically impossible, or that it will lead to worse customer experience, and hence a decline in purchases.
By the same token, I've never seen AVG prevent, or detect an actual virus. I've then removed avg and installed f-prot/or fsecure and watched the virus count run up. But at least avg is free, right? I'm sure it prevents some, but for my parents, it doesn't deal with their weekly virus infection. always YMMV
It was modded up three points, in the time it took me to comment. Thats a fairly accurate portrayal of whats actually going on. Don't believe the crap around here that "open drm" isn't possible. Thats exactly what MS has done, and exactly what the labels want out of apple.
It *is* possible, but Apple is either trying to maintain it supremacy, or is actually trying to wrest control of music distribution away from the labels. The latter seems a bit too idealistic for me, but its a consequence of them following the former.
I think we'll end up with more expensive, but drm free music from the major labels. Unfortunately, no company is in a similar situation to do the same with the movie studios, and given the close relationship between apple and Disney I don't see that happening for a long long time.
We had it, it was before DRM existed in any practical sense. I found new good artists, downloaded for free. If I liked it, I payed for it.
Not suprisingly, it was soon crushed by the big record companies. Slowly they added their craptacular artists sample tracks, artificially inflated their ratings and drowned out the indipendants. Then when it was so lame and no one used anymore they killed it
The iphone shuffle. It has no screen and only has one button, when pressed calls one of your contacts at random. If you really want to call some one specific, keep calling until they answer he phone, or conversely only store one contact.
It provides a brief explanation of how fairplay works, then descends into sheer madness. Remember, these are the same geniuses that defended PPC up until the end, explaining why osx on intel was impossible and would lead to the end of apple.
On my map, there is a lake called Ontario then a dark mysterious region to the north of it with the cryptic warning "here be dragons".
I think subconsciously, we United Statsians mentally block out Canada's existence ( on many maps Alaska looks like its an island) to salve the pains of our failure to liberate the northern part of the continent from the British imperialists back in 1812.
You just have to respond appropriately to those concerns in a constructive manner.
Think its dangerous? Suggest marketing it to the 18-24 demographic and an "extreme" advertising comparing while continuing to evaluate the potential liability throughout focus group tests.
Think there isn't a market? Suggest a test marketing campaign " to see which market it would best be leveraged in" Then with firm data about its failure, suggest gradual improvements until the device is no longer a hoola hoop and is now a covert ops weapon marketed to the Military, or until the company has moved on to the next gadget.
Think you can't give more than 100%? It depends what you define as 100%. Just schedule 30% of your time to reading slashdot and count the remaining 70% your total available time, then stop reading slashdot and boom now you are giving over 100% of your effort!
Forget to clean the fridge? Easy defense, you cut out time to clean the fridge to give 130% of your time to the death-a-hoop while questioning the commitment of your not so committed " quote- unquote teammates" ( and actually say quote unquote while making air quotes).
That post was too funny to be a troll. it was obviously not serious, and facitious on many levels. Oh well, I guess I have a bit of karma to burn. But seriously that was lame. Come to think of it many people here are lame. We need to work on applying the lameness filter to mods, and general readers of the site. When you attempt to access slashdot it does an ajax request to search google for things you've done on the web and evaluates a lameness quotient. Too many postings on anime sites, and your're banned for life. Now attempting to access slashdot will result in a custom 500 error message ERROR 555 User too lame to access site! we know who you are and we don't want you here.... ever. Go somewhere else, or just wait and this page will redirect you to a known exploit site. Unfortuantly we've determined that the owners of the botnet will make better use of your computer online than you have. May God have mercy upon your soul, but we have no such divine patience.
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Okay, you seem to have missed the *entire* point of the previous post. You are basing skepticism on the probability of an even occurring. Congratulations, thats what I was suggesting. There has to be a way of separating the higgs boson from the tooth fairy. And absence of proof isn't enough. .
I never said it was. Santa Clause can be proven to not exist because his existence predicts events, and those events have never happened. Its testable as a hypothosis, and can therefore be disproved. Non testable theories can never be disproved. Does that mean the can be proved. again no.
Of course for all of the above a wise saying bears repeating:
Absence of Proof, is not Proof of Absence.
And of course, we cannot find anything if we do not seek it. Which is exactly what this is. I suppose you don't believe in the higgs boson either?
Now you *can* logically argue that we are unlikely to find these things, or its not economically in our interests to devote resources to the search for them. But Please, if you're going to be a "skeptic" at least base your skepticism in something more "scientific" than absence of proof.
Well, I know this old British woman who travels through the USA a couple times a year. Each time she goes through US customs, they take her finger prints and tell her they don't match the ones they have on file. Of course, she's never had her finger prints taken. So they take her back to a room while they talk about it and eventually let her through. The same rigmarole happens every time. So maybe thats just a database on the US side that links her passport with her fingerprints. I don't really know. I just think the whole thing is funny.
Cool, but can't we just use the contraction ::1 ?
So , Mrs Gates defected dis she? Or was she simply a Trojan horse working under an assumed identity?
I could be wrong, but I believe some of the information stored on the rfid ( or linked in a database of some kind) chips is biometric. Ie ( finger print information, retinal scan). So you'd have to beat that level of security as well. Not impossible, but not a walk in the park.
No way -- everyone would be asleep or bored to tears (well, unless it was Perl, then they'd probably be waiting for his face to just fall off).
Actually, I've long suspected that the Necronomicon was written in Perl. Any substantial recitation of a non trivial Perl application should open a gateway to another dimension, or at open a portal to another time. I highly suggest that you replace one of your arms with a chainsaw, before attempting reading it. That always seems to come in handy.
MySql. But, in retrospect, it would make more sense to name it something else. like SQLicious, SQLator, SQLphin ( SQL + Dolphin).
He was referring to the fact that some company has taken Eclipse, slapped it on a box and charged a yearly "membership" fee as well as rebranding it "MyEclipse".
.. free? If I'm paying for it then I think its really "YourEclipse" that I'm just renting. Or maybe the My just refers to them in the first place.
The names a bit confusing to me. Isn't it more "MyEcplise" when its
The problem with this is that if nothing else, Microsoft is good at making money and the Microsoft Mac Business unit is quite profitable, with Office as one of their biggest revenue generators.
Thats true today 2007, not when the memo was written in 1997.
Ok, I guess I don't know much about the internals of AVG. The other antivirus programs tell you with big warning dialogs whenever a virus is found. I don't really want to have to know the internals of any AV, to be honest. In any case it has missed several virus that others, with much older definition files have found.
I don't trust it.
I don't like it.
It doesn't get a second chance from me.
it failed in the marketplace, not technologically. MS wants to succed marketwise.They realised that they controling software and hardware helps to create a "brand". The record companies don't care about apple or microsoft's fortunes. They apparently beleive a Wintel style of open competition will generate more sales than the apple model of control. As I said in my post, I don't know what apple means when it says it thinks open drm is impossible. Is it trying to say its technically impossible, or that it will lead to worse customer experience, and hence a decline in purchases.
By the same token, I've never seen AVG prevent, or detect an actual virus. I've then removed avg and installed f-prot /or fsecure and watched the virus count run up. But at least avg is free, right? I'm sure it prevents some, but for my parents, it doesn't deal with their weekly virus infection. always YMMV
It was modded up three points, in the time it took me to comment. Thats a fairly accurate portrayal of whats actually going on. Don't believe the crap around here that "open drm" isn't possible. Thats exactly what MS has done, and exactly what the labels want out of apple.
It *is* possible, but Apple is either trying to maintain it supremacy, or is actually trying to wrest control of music distribution away from the labels. The latter seems a bit too idealistic for me, but its a consequence of them following the former.
I think we'll end up with more expensive, but drm free music from the major labels. Unfortunately, no company is in a similar situation to do the same with the movie studios, and given the close relationship between apple and Disney I don't see that happening for a long long time.
We had it, it was before DRM existed in any practical sense. I found new good artists, downloaded for free. If I liked it, I payed for it.
Not suprisingly, it was soon crushed by the big record companies.
Slowly they added their craptacular artists sample tracks, artificially inflated their ratings and drowned out the indipendants.
Then when it was so lame and no one used anymore they killed it
Classic embrace, extend, extinguish maneuver.
If you are in math for fame and fortune, you should really switch over to the business college. Preferably, the marketing dept.
The iphone shuffle. It has no screen and only has one button, when pressed calls one of your contacts at random. If you really want to call some one specific, keep calling until they answer he phone, or conversely only store one contact.
It provides a brief explanation of how fairplay works, then descends into sheer madness. Remember, these are the same geniuses that defended PPC up until the end, explaining why osx on intel was impossible and would lead to the end of apple.
On my map, there is a lake called Ontario then a dark mysterious region to the north of it with the cryptic warning "here be dragons".
I think subconsciously, we United Statsians mentally block out Canada's existence ( on many maps Alaska looks like its an island) to salve the pains of our failure to liberate the northern part of the continent from the British imperialists back in 1812.
Yeah, I was thinking about checking old DDj out to see if its worth subscribing again. Thanks for saving me the trouble slashdot!
I second. Good idea, bad implementation.
You just have to respond appropriately to those concerns in a constructive manner.
Think its dangerous? Suggest marketing it to the 18-24 demographic and an "extreme" advertising comparing while continuing to evaluate the potential liability throughout focus group tests.
Think there isn't a market? Suggest a test marketing campaign " to see which market it would best be leveraged in" Then with firm data about its failure, suggest gradual improvements until the device is no longer a hoola hoop and is now a covert ops weapon marketed to the Military, or until the company has moved on to the next gadget.
Think you can't give more than 100%? It depends what you define as 100%. Just schedule 30% of your time to reading slashdot and count the remaining 70% your total available time, then stop reading slashdot and boom now you are giving over 100% of your effort!
Forget to clean the fridge? Easy defense, you cut out time to clean the fridge to give 130% of your time to the death-a-hoop while questioning the commitment of your not so committed " quote- unquote teammates" ( and actually say quote unquote while making air quotes).
Thats my rules to success in any buisness
apparently, they read slashdot.
That post was too funny to be a troll. it was obviously not serious, and facitious on many levels. Oh well, I guess I have a bit of karma to burn. But seriously that was lame. Come to think of it many people here are lame. We need to work on applying the lameness filter to mods, and general readers of the site. When you attempt to access slashdot it does an ajax request to search google for things you've done on the web and evaluates a lameness quotient. Too many postings on anime sites, and your're banned for life. Now attempting to access slashdot will result in a custom 500 error message ERROR 555 User too lame to access site! we know who you are and we don't want you here .... ever. Go somewhere else, or just wait and this page will redirect you to a known exploit site. Unfortuantly we've determined that the owners of the botnet will make better use of your computer online than you have. May God have mercy upon your soul, but we have no such divine patience.