I think this whole article is a troll. Someone didn't like criticism of Islam, and it taking every avenue to censor and suppress it -- and trying to get the rest of us to go along. Islam is richly deserving of criticism and scholarly discussion, but try that in an actual Islamic country and you may easily find yourself in jail, if not having already had your head cut off. If you support Free Speech on the Internet, then you must be against this censorship, even if you find the site itself distasteful.
I'm sure that the RIAA is in line for the first dozen.
But how can it read reformatted data? I was always of the impression that to read more than the most recent data required removing the platters and using special equipment on the naked disc surface. If the original disc heads were reading all these previous layers, they'd never be able to accurately read the current data on the hard drive.
I actually had a program like that about 10 years ago. Universe explorer? Something along those lines. Anyway, you could put in a date and look at the sky for whenever you wanted, you could find the next solar or lunar eclipse, etc. It was cool while I was hooked on astronomy.
And now there's Stellarium available for free to do this.
"The FCC should be highly skeptical of calls to substitute special economic regulation of the Internet for free and open competition enforced by the antitrust laws."
Open competition means nothing when you have one cable ISP monopoly and one telco DSL monopoly who has yet to drop a DSLAM anywhere nearby, and no other options. The DoJ is Scum here, when it comes to protecting the citizen against predatory big business.
Google tried to just give credit back when they shut down their video service. The weight of protest resulted in cash refunds and they got to keep the Google credits as well!
Maybe Apple just didn't sell enough iPhones for there to be enough angry people.
A query on a row store has to query entire rows, which means you'll often end up hitting fields you don't give a damn about while looking for the specific fields you want to return. With column stores, you can ignore any columns that aren't referenced in your query...Additionally, your data is homogenous in a column store, so you lose overhead attached to having to deal with different datatypes and can choose the best data compression by field rather than by data block.
forcing investigators to go through the courts to obtain approval before ordering ISPs to give up information on customers, instead of just sending them a National Security Letter.
If only this made it a little bit harder for the RIAA to also get ISP subscriber data too.
The only real question is - is the battery user-replaceable, or will we have to go through the class action lawsuit with every portable device Apple puts out?
The battery is not replaceable, so start up your lawyers. Or simply blame yourself for buying products that you know are Defective by Design.
Now you can pay twice as much for a fraction as much music as you paid for the whole song before. And just how is this Apple making things better for the rest of us?
And I'm surprised Apple hasn't learned about the non-replaceable battery issue yet. Or maybe it's just us consumers who have yet to learn our lesson here, as we line up to buy yet again.
Why oh why do these investigations take TEN YEARS to happen! To my mind, it takes ten minutes to realize what Scientology is doing, and why it's to wrong!
Comcast is perfectly within its right to filter the Internet traffic that flows over its network.
I don't agree that this is withing Comcasts's rights at all. They are in the business of selling me access to the Internet -- not just the portion of the Internet they agree with. Their ToS says nothing about we prevent connections we don't want you making, and you have to live with it.
The police need to pay big-time on this one. This officer was so far out of line in demanding things he has no right to, that this should really cost him, and the city!
and the once lucrative album market has been overshadowed by downloaded singles, which mainly benefits Apple
This is simple greed. The record companies used to be able to sell a whole album for $15.99 that contained the only single you actually wanted. Now Apple sells that for $0.99, giving the record company about $0.70. Everything is available for single sale, meaning they can't pick your pockets nearly as much as as they once did, and artists now need to produce 10X more actually good music as before to sell it all. Oh, the poor dears! As for the rest of us, that $0.99 buys DRM laden highly compressed crap recordings that only play on expensive iPods at that price, so only the uncritical among us (used to be referred to as the "AM radio set") can be completely happy with this.
Of course, the record stores and pressing plants are cut out of the equation, meaning some savings for the record industry, but they won't prosper until they again sell a quality product at a fair price, both of which they continue to not do with their current digital sales model.
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Seems to me you can say the same thing about Hemp.
Doesn't that describe the current college campus rather well?
I think this whole article is a troll. Someone didn't like criticism of Islam, and it taking every avenue to censor and suppress it -- and trying to get the rest of us to go along. Islam is richly deserving of criticism and scholarly discussion, but try that in an actual Islamic country and you may easily find yourself in jail, if not having already had your head cut off. If you support Free Speech on the Internet, then you must be against this censorship, even if you find the site itself distasteful.
Easy fix, just remove the battery.
Oh!
I guess no more iPhones on airliners.
When the Storm Worm writers are caught, they should be publicly beaten to death immediately, as a warning to all who would follow in their footsteps.
This doesn't add up. If it doesn't burden existing machines, then why do we need more of them?
This makes the argument for keeping all your important data on a drive with an interface so old and obscure that this new box can't interface to it.
But how can it read reformatted data? I was always of the impression that to read more than the most recent data required removing the platters and using special equipment on the naked disc surface. If the original disc heads were reading all these previous layers, they'd never be able to accurately read the current data on the hard drive.
A fine idea, until it filters/absorbs enough radioactivity and goes critical!
And now there's Stellarium available for free to do this.
Actually, yes we do.
Open competition means nothing when you have one cable ISP monopoly and one telco DSL monopoly who has yet to drop a DSLAM anywhere nearby, and no other options. The DoJ is Scum here, when it comes to protecting the citizen against predatory big business.
Maybe Apple just didn't sell enough iPhones for there to be enough angry people.
The CCIA is scum, and there's no point in mincing words about it.
Excuse me but, isn't that what an index is for?
And besides, I thought Object Databases were the next new thing.
If only this made it a little bit harder for the RIAA to also get ISP subscriber data too.
$1299.00. Boy, I just can't wait to get one -- or a pair -- for my home.
As soon as you unlock yours.
Current unlock price a pristine Z350, and rapidly dropping.
The battery is not replaceable, so start up your lawyers. Or simply blame yourself for buying products that you know are Defective by Design.
Now you can pay twice as much for a fraction as much music as you paid for the whole song before. And just how is this Apple making things better for the rest of us?
And I'm surprised Apple hasn't learned about the non-replaceable battery issue yet. Or maybe it's just us consumers who have yet to learn our lesson here, as we line up to buy yet again.
Why oh why do these investigations take TEN YEARS to happen! To my mind, it takes ten minutes to realize what Scientology is doing, and why it's to wrong!
I don't agree that this is withing Comcasts's rights at all. They are in the business of selling me access to the Internet -- not just the portion of the Internet they agree with. Their ToS says nothing about we prevent connections we don't want you making, and you have to live with it.
The police need to pay big-time on this one. This officer was so far out of line in demanding things he has no right to, that this should really cost him, and the city!
This is simple greed. The record companies used to be able to sell a whole album for $15.99 that contained the only single you actually wanted. Now Apple sells that for $0.99, giving the record company about $0.70. Everything is available for single sale, meaning they can't pick your pockets nearly as much as as they once did, and artists now need to produce 10X more actually good music as before to sell it all. Oh, the poor dears! As for the rest of us, that $0.99 buys DRM laden highly compressed crap recordings that only play on expensive iPods at that price, so only the uncritical among us (used to be referred to as the "AM radio set") can be completely happy with this.
Of course, the record stores and pressing plants are cut out of the equation, meaning some savings for the record industry, but they won't prosper until they again sell a quality product at a fair price, both of which they continue to not do with their current digital sales model.