Any movie or TeeVee show has shown this for years... there is a caveat, however...They can be good-looking and convicted if theyhave menacing music to accompany them...
Were this simply a matter of trust, then no big deal, but this is about weird hacker exploits. When you attach a computer to a simple device, you enable an assortment of unforseen additional functionality... stuff the designers never intended.
Why not provide manual overrides for things like door locks and windows. Even CD drives have that little pinhole reset so you can manually pop the sucker open. It just seems ridiculous to automate everything in a device that is always going to be mechanical in nature.
Um. What's the difference between "=" vs ==" in C and Pascal's use of ":=" and "="? They both seem to serve the same purpose, and there's nothing confusing about that, is there?
Where does one get appropriate training for media management these days?
Last time I checked, the most valuable classes were laden with difficult concepts and required a lot of work to master.
This isn't a teaching thing, it's a matter of self-discipline.
In moderation media's helpful and can provide interesting and thought-provoking enhancements to one's studies, but consider the way that edu-info-tainment channels like History channel and Discovery are approaching the subject matter that they attempt to teach, and it's kinda funny. Lots of CGI, fast-paced music, jiggly cameras, and an overly dramatic announcer with a famous voice like Oprah or Morgan Freeman, all talking about what? Mating penguins? And then there's all the unscholarly conjecture, speculation and personification that goes on in these shows to make them more "accessible" to the audience.
While I'm no serious fan of Obama, and think it's ridiculous to restrict information with which I personally disagree, I do see how a constant dependence upon devices for our information and entertainment needs could create weak-minded adults.
The ability to play flash games that are on facebook from your iPhone is a huge draw for a lot of folks. In the last couple weeks, I've chatted with folks that play such games, and all of them based their purchase of the iPhone based upon their ability to play their facebook games 24/7 (at any hour of the day). Flash is big right now, for that reason. With Android and other phone systems starting to catchup technologically, this move could be a bigger deal than Apple thinks.
[quote]By comparison, the Itanium wants to run native 32bit code (though it certainly doesn't do it well).[/quote]
Not really true. The problem Itanium has had from the beginning is that it's an intel chip capable of running native 64 bit, it was a genuinely new architecture. Yes, the chip had what Intel called the "IVE" or "Intel Value Engine" in it, which is essentially an x86 compatibility core, but the CPU was designed 64 bit native and that was actually added later. That's why the compilers never worked well, too. Because the x86 features are kinda like a GPU, and yet everyone wanted to run (it being an intel processor) x86 code as if it was the latest greatest pentium.
The Xeon and the Itanium are two entirely different archictectures. The multicore technology that Intel is currently leading in processor popularity is ironically based upon 64 bit technology that was AMD's origintally.
In hindsight, Intel's attempts to sell everyone on the Itanium as another x86 box, kinda backfired, because it gave folks the wrong idea about the technology and its origins. They wanted to bank off their success, but those who needed the firepower of a native 64 cpu were less impressed--especially by the price which never did come down due to low volume sales.
This is why Microsoft has no interest in it, too. It's expensive for them to develop windows on something other than x86. Everything is different, including the chipsets, and the expertise required to understand both windows and a new chip architecture is very steep. IMO, the problem isn't the hardware, it's the software support--nowadays, we're all expecting feature sets that are so mature that it is exceedingly expensive to keep those feature sets going on an architecture that's only had limited commercial success.
I'm doing fine destroying USB sticks on my own... why would I ever want to do so deliberately... can't count how many have gone through the wash. I've run a couple over with my car... My kids who think they can be jammed into the airconditioning slots in the car... sigh...
And why anyone would want to revive the Commodore name is beyond me. Commodore killed one of the best computers of its age... (the Amiga) Might as well brand your product the "Mein Furher" brand...
I played SC2 over and over and over again. It will always be my personal fave for PC gaming. Though as to how much impact it had upon all gaming, I'd have to say it had very little influence. It was one of those games that the reviewers never could quite classify or put in their little charts under one genre or another. And the follow-on SC3 was a soul-sucking disappointment--where they decided to replace the 2D anims with muppets that were horrible and not at all funny and that fake 3D combat mode, which was still 2Dish... Sigh...
And we all know that girls really only come in two varieties. Dirty or Flirty... sigh... as a father of many daughters, this just pisses me off... then again, videogame females have always been little more than balloon animals...
...and thus we see why people hate developing for Linux...
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Now that there's gov-run healthcare, we can start to have beauty contests for which disease/disorder/medical convenience is the most popular and therefore the most subsidized. Viagara is probably already covered by the drug-benefit to seniors, but there will be other popular diseases too. We can all get our popular flu-shots, too. And there's never been a better time to get in a free abortion and weightloss surgery! Don't forget to give the government a DNA sample while you're at it, and get your own free organ-donating clone with your next visit to the government mandated blood-donation center.
Unfortunately those of you with unpopular diseases will just have to hope they blow over... otherwise you're really not contributing to the genepool of quality disorders and diseases. You can wait in a subcommittee waiting-room until you're blue in the face... though I hear blue-face may be the new trend... in which case you're covered!
Going through college, I was like a level 50 Suck-up. I was so good at it, that once I got partial credit on a True/False question... I wonder what other sorts of character classes one could obtain at a University Dungeon.
I assume someone's telling the gift shops to stop selling flowers--or as they're called among the medical staff in oversensitive hospitals: Death Weed.
Who really benefits from the Streisand effect here? Sure, you'll want to see this documentary because of legal rangling and its publicity, but you're in no danger of joining Scientology, and you've no love of such things. Even the most critical attack pieces on a topic, often end up generating sympathy for the target. It's entirely possible that the sort of folks who join an organization like scientology will only be emboldened by this particular situation. It looks to me like Scientology will protest its way into "Cha-ching!" every home.
I don't necessarily disagree with the programming that's being offered, though I do think that if one wants to get a good feel for a religion, the dissenters of that religion are probably not your best source, but more troubling to me is the blind faith the above "5 point post" puts in government...
You don't see an inherent conflict of interest in having the government run a media outlet? In Germany? Oh how quickly we forget...
...of course the downside to supercharged fuel is the tendency of the car to explode upon the slightest impact......which is no downside, if you're in the movie business where everything explodes upon the slightest impact...
The game development cycle is already airtight, because competition is fierce, and every new feature is old news in a few months, when your competitor games catch up. They hardly have time to test games, these days. Every day the game isn't on the market is money lost. And it's hard enough to debug a game with all the standard set of PC's, now add to that specific hardware configurations with specific feature sets, and you've got a testing nightmare. And what if there's a bug? what sort of support comes, if at all? it's more likely the game project management will more likely instruct the testers/devs to turn off the feature and go gold.
--Ray
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Any movie or TeeVee show has shown this for years... there is a caveat, however...They can be good-looking and convicted if theyhave menacing music to accompany them...
Were this simply a matter of trust, then no big deal, but this is about weird hacker exploits. When you attach a computer to a simple device, you enable an assortment of unforseen additional functionality... stuff the designers never intended.
Why not provide manual overrides for things like door locks and windows. Even CD drives have that little pinhole reset so you can manually pop the sucker open. It just seems ridiculous to automate everything in a device that is always going to be mechanical in nature.
Um. What's the difference between "=" vs ==" in C and Pascal's use of ":=" and "="? They both seem to serve the same purpose, and there's nothing confusing about that, is there?
Where does one get appropriate training for media management these days?
Last time I checked, the most valuable classes were laden with difficult concepts and required a lot of work to master.
This isn't a teaching thing, it's a matter of self-discipline.
In moderation media's helpful and can provide interesting and thought-provoking enhancements to one's studies, but consider the way that edu-info-tainment channels like History channel and Discovery are approaching the subject matter that they attempt to teach, and it's kinda funny. Lots of CGI, fast-paced music, jiggly cameras, and an overly dramatic announcer with a famous voice like Oprah or Morgan Freeman, all talking about what? Mating penguins? And then there's all the unscholarly conjecture, speculation and personification that goes on in these shows to make them more "accessible" to the audience.
While I'm no serious fan of Obama, and think it's ridiculous to restrict information with which I personally disagree, I do see how a constant dependence upon devices for our information and entertainment needs could create weak-minded adults.
One could argue that DRM actually fixed this movie. :)
The ability to play flash games that are on facebook from your iPhone is a huge draw for a lot of folks. In the last couple weeks, I've chatted with folks that play such games, and all of them based their purchase of the iPhone based upon their ability to play their facebook games 24/7 (at any hour of the day). Flash is big right now, for that reason. With Android and other phone systems starting to catchup technologically, this move could be a bigger deal than Apple thinks.
Welcome to humanity, engineer. :)
[quote]By comparison, the Itanium wants to run native 32bit code (though it certainly doesn't do it well).[/quote] Not really true. The problem Itanium has had from the beginning is that it's an intel chip capable of running native 64 bit, it was a genuinely new architecture. Yes, the chip had what Intel called the "IVE" or "Intel Value Engine" in it, which is essentially an x86 compatibility core, but the CPU was designed 64 bit native and that was actually added later. That's why the compilers never worked well, too. Because the x86 features are kinda like a GPU, and yet everyone wanted to run (it being an intel processor) x86 code as if it was the latest greatest pentium. The Xeon and the Itanium are two entirely different archictectures. The multicore technology that Intel is currently leading in processor popularity is ironically based upon 64 bit technology that was AMD's origintally. In hindsight, Intel's attempts to sell everyone on the Itanium as another x86 box, kinda backfired, because it gave folks the wrong idea about the technology and its origins. They wanted to bank off their success, but those who needed the firepower of a native 64 cpu were less impressed--especially by the price which never did come down due to low volume sales. This is why Microsoft has no interest in it, too. It's expensive for them to develop windows on something other than x86. Everything is different, including the chipsets, and the expertise required to understand both windows and a new chip architecture is very steep. IMO, the problem isn't the hardware, it's the software support--nowadays, we're all expecting feature sets that are so mature that it is exceedingly expensive to keep those feature sets going on an architecture that's only had limited commercial success.
I'm doing fine destroying USB sticks on my own... why would I ever want to do so deliberately... can't count how many have gone through the wash. I've run a couple over with my car... My kids who think they can be jammed into the airconditioning slots in the car... sigh...
And why anyone would want to revive the Commodore name is beyond me. Commodore killed one of the best computers of its age... (the Amiga) Might as well brand your product the "Mein Furher" brand...
I played SC2 over and over and over again. It will always be my personal fave for PC gaming. Though as to how much impact it had upon all gaming, I'd have to say it had very little influence. It was one of those games that the reviewers never could quite classify or put in their little charts under one genre or another. And the follow-on SC3 was a soul-sucking disappointment--where they decided to replace the 2D anims with muppets that were horrible and not at all funny and that fake 3D combat mode, which was still 2Dish... Sigh...
And we all know that girls really only come in two varieties. Dirty or Flirty... sigh... as a father of many daughters, this just pisses me off... then again, videogame females have always been little more than balloon animals...
...and thus we see why people hate developing for Linux...
Now that there's gov-run healthcare, we can start to have beauty contests for which disease/disorder/medical convenience is the most popular and therefore the most subsidized. Viagara is probably already covered by the drug-benefit to seniors, but there will be other popular diseases too. We can all get our popular flu-shots, too. And there's never been a better time to get in a free abortion and weightloss surgery! Don't forget to give the government a DNA sample while you're at it, and get your own free organ-donating clone with your next visit to the government mandated blood-donation center. Unfortunately those of you with unpopular diseases will just have to hope they blow over... otherwise you're really not contributing to the genepool of quality disorders and diseases. You can wait in a subcommittee waiting-room until you're blue in the face... though I hear blue-face may be the new trend... in which case you're covered!
What was COBRA's contribution on the discovery? (And now you know, and knowing is half the battle.)
Going through college, I was like a level 50 Suck-up. I was so good at it, that once I got partial credit on a True/False question... I wonder what other sorts of character classes one could obtain at a University Dungeon.
I assume someone's telling the gift shops to stop selling flowers--or as they're called among the medical staff in oversensitive hospitals: Death Weed.
Who really benefits from the Streisand effect here? Sure, you'll want to see this documentary because of legal rangling and its publicity, but you're in no danger of joining Scientology, and you've no love of such things. Even the most critical attack pieces on a topic, often end up generating sympathy for the target. It's entirely possible that the sort of folks who join an organization like scientology will only be emboldened by this particular situation. It looks to me like Scientology will protest its way into "Cha-ching!" every home.
I don't necessarily disagree with the programming that's being offered, though I do think that if one wants to get a good feel for a religion, the dissenters of that religion are probably not your best source, but more troubling to me is the blind faith the above "5 point post" puts in government...
You don't see an inherent conflict of interest in having the government run a media outlet? In Germany? Oh how quickly we forget...
Thing is: An expanding empire's population never declines. At least not until it stops expanding...
Wait a sec. Since when did the British start having children again?
...of course the downside to supercharged fuel is the tendency of the car to explode upon the slightest impact... ...which is no downside, if you're in the movie business where everything explodes upon the slightest impact...
The game development cycle is already airtight, because competition is fierce, and every new feature is old news in a few months, when your competitor games catch up. They hardly have time to test games, these days. Every day the game isn't on the market is money lost. And it's hard enough to debug a game with all the standard set of PC's, now add to that specific hardware configurations with specific feature sets, and you've got a testing nightmare. And what if there's a bug? what sort of support comes, if at all? it's more likely the game project management will more likely instruct the testers/devs to turn off the feature and go gold. --Ray
In 1984 only the government owned the internet. It was called Darpa.