absolute crap. The radio is certified, then can be inserted into any standard device. The 3G bios lock is to protect revenues, not to protect the RF spectrum. If you can buy a 3G modem in your country it will have been certified there, and so will work fine when used in the conditions it was certified for, i.e. stuck inside a laptop.
I assume you've used the excellent sysinternals tools to show you a live view of what areas of disk or registry the app is trying and failing to write to, so you can create a custom set of permissions in AD?
And that's fine. They've not told him he cant' do this, or said it's illegal - they've said they don't support it, and they'd prefer them to be used with Xboxes. No-one's stopping him from doing anything with his Kinect. Seems kind of reasonable to me.
What else would you expect their PR to say? All they'ev said is they won't support it (duh) and they'd like you to buy Xboxes (also duh). I'd imagine they're thinking that they need to point this out so that when someone comes out with a PC game using the Kinect sensor, they're distanced from it as they didn't write the code.
Woah, hang on. It doesn't *look* like they made it deliberately hard to reverse engineer. OK, they didn't publish the protocols, but it's a games console accessory that as has been rightly pointed out, is likely sold at a loss. We'd all have been a bit freaked out if MS had launched Kinect and said "by the way, it's GPL'd and here's all the source", wouldn't we?
The response from MS is probably just a kneejerk PR response to someone contacting them and saying "what's your position on someone fiddling with your devices".
I've not had them in years either. Went through a phase where I'd have them at least once a week, but it just stopped one day and never came back. Suspect I read/. too much.
The Lib Dems manifesto included a number of things diametrically opposed to the Tories - e.g. tuition fees in universities. Don't expect much help from their quarter.
Hang on, I think there's some confusion here. First off, hitting the rev limiter does not damage your car. If revving at that level was going to cause damage, the rev limiter would be set lower. BMW's older M3 with clutchless manual SMG had a hidden feature where you could enable launch control by a combination of button presses, which would allow you to from rest floor the accelerator and on click into first gear it would launch at max attack. They enabled a feature where after 5 such actions they would void your transmission warranty.
Is this what you're thinking of?
I was tempted on several occasions to drive over my old RAZR, or throw it out of the window. I always thought that Moto's hardware designers might have put some extra effort into the robustness of the handset given they knew what software was going to end up on there...!
I know we've always had a degree of product placement, whether overt or just because the producer got some nice freebie samples from a company, but that one really was cringeworthy. And I'm someone who owns both an Omega Seamaster Automatic (bought in 2000: got engaged and didn't see why I should miss out on something nice after buying her the diamond ring!) and an Omega Planet Ocean, which have been the Bond watches in recent years....Hmm, maybe I'm not immune to advertising after all.
see also:
Girl to Bond: "Nice watch".
Bond: "Omega"
Girl: (breathes) "...beautiful"
In the UK, film critic Mark Kermode let a successful campaign to have audiences shout "KERCHING!" at this point when watching the film. More of this kind of thing is required.
Dude, I'd forgotten about that. I was working 2nd line at the time, and a few of us were messing around with it, knocking out each other's PCs for lulz. Until one guy whacked the Exchange server...!
I hear what you're saying, but it's not really the case. Take first-into-man, Phase 1 Clinical Trials. I've implemented systems to control this and have a bit of experience - at this phase, you're not testing the efficacy of the drug, you're testing how it's affecting vital signs - i.e. you're not trying to cure people, you're seeing at what doseage it has any effect on lung function, or heart rate, or temperature etc. This is a long and complex process tested on healthy volunteers - you can't afford to miss an effect that may be disasterous at a later stage. An example of this might be any drug that affects the Q-T rhythm of the heart, as regardless of how clinically effective such a drug might be it will have such a negative effect just due to this one effect on the heart that it's better the candidate drug is killed early before going up the logarithmic scale of cost and patient numbers in Phase 2, 3 and 4 trials.
Plain stats give you an idea of the number of healthy volunteers you need at this stage, and the time it's going to take to statistically prove that the results you've got are conclusive before going to the next level.
Between each phase there'll be long review, ethics boards, etc. Bear in mind that for every successful drug there are going to be hundreds or thousands of candidate drugs which didn't make it.
In short, you can criticise the FDA for some things, but they serve a vital purpose which is ensuring to as high a level as possible that the drugs that are approved are both safe and effective.
The fact that a drug has passed FDA approval does not shield the Pharma company that made it from any liability - this is a common misconception that is categorically not true.
In terms of the common cold, I'd kind of agree with you but I'd also say that once the mechanism for defeating the cold is understood it'll almost certainly give us the ability to treat a lot of more critical illnesses than we currently can - there's no reason not to research into it, anyway.
All pharma companies are trying like mad to shorten the 8-12 year process of taking a drug to market - they'd be mad if they didn't just from a commercial point of view - the length it takes is indicative of effort required.
Presumably because Apple doesn't want to bid for these contracts, and would prefer to make money from selling expensive hardawre to hipsters, and making money hand over fist from their new position of media vendor? Look at their financials - they're not exactly doing badly...
In the UK, Sky TV supply satellite service to millions of homes. You sign up on a 12 month contract, get given a set top box and the contract states it has to be connected to the phone line at all times, otherwise they'll bill you. In theory the box supplies them with user watching profiles etc. I know a LOT of people who have these boxes, connected to the phone, and get hit with a 14.99 UKP / month "fee" for it being disconnected. When you phone customer services (on a non-free number, on hold for up to an hour, bounced from desk to desk) you'll get it refunded with a promise that it won't happen again. Until next month, when it does.
Some of this is bureaucracy and incompetent helpdesks. But probably not all. Sure, you can fight it, but a lot of people won't notice, or will give up before getting it sorted.
Never done meth, but in my youth I've done speed. Tried Modafinil a year or two back. Best way i can describe it is "speed for the brain, not the body". Absolutely no physical buzz, no heightened heart rate or signs of physical arousal. The brain? Felt stimulated - alert, awake, able to concentrate (and I was very tired at the time after birth of our 2nd child, hence the Modafinil test!). Advised a dose first thing, and another at lunchtime. Without the 2nd dose I felt like crap after lunch - sleepy, tired, headaches. The stuff *does* work.
How so? Assuming the US wasn't planning a nuclear strike at that time, the impact was that for a short period of time, the balance of power shifted, In a world where game theory and Mutually Assured Destruction exist, this wasn't a good thing. OK, we're not in the cold war anymore, but unilateral loss of power like this destabilises the balance of power, and does not necessarily improve security for the world...
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"So all those music files I bought on the iTunes Store yesterday don't work on my Linux box... oh wait, they do."
Can you say the same about the video you've bought or rented from Apple?
first draft did say that, it just took it over 140 chars
absolute crap. The radio is certified, then can be inserted into any standard device. The 3G bios lock is to protect revenues, not to protect the RF spectrum. If you can buy a 3G modem in your country it will have been certified there, and so will work fine when used in the conditions it was certified for, i.e. stuck inside a laptop.
I assume you've used the excellent sysinternals tools to show you a live view of what areas of disk or registry the app is trying and failing to write to, so you can create a custom set of permissions in AD?
And that's fine. They've not told him he cant' do this, or said it's illegal - they've said they don't support it, and they'd prefer them to be used with Xboxes. No-one's stopping him from doing anything with his Kinect. Seems kind of reasonable to me.
Or "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are different"!
What else would you expect their PR to say? All they'ev said is they won't support it (duh) and they'd like you to buy Xboxes (also duh). I'd imagine they're thinking that they need to point this out so that when someone comes out with a PC game using the Kinect sensor, they're distanced from it as they didn't write the code.
Woah, hang on. It doesn't *look* like they made it deliberately hard to reverse engineer. OK, they didn't publish the protocols, but it's a games console accessory that as has been rightly pointed out, is likely sold at a loss. We'd all have been a bit freaked out if MS had launched Kinect and said "by the way, it's GPL'd and here's all the source", wouldn't we?
The response from MS is probably just a kneejerk PR response to someone contacting them and saying "what's your position on someone fiddling with your devices".
I've not had them in years either. Went through a phase where I'd have them at least once a week, but it just stopped one day and never came back. Suspect I read /. too much.
The Lib Dems manifesto included a number of things diametrically opposed to the Tories - e.g. tuition fees in universities. Don't expect much help from their quarter.
"The Tesla has a gas engine "
For fuck's sake...
Hang on, I think there's some confusion here. First off, hitting the rev limiter does not damage your car. If revving at that level was going to cause damage, the rev limiter would be set lower. BMW's older M3 with clutchless manual SMG had a hidden feature where you could enable launch control by a combination of button presses, which would allow you to from rest floor the accelerator and on click into first gear it would launch at max attack. They enabled a feature where after 5 such actions they would void your transmission warranty.
Is this what you're thinking of?
I was tempted on several occasions to drive over my old RAZR, or throw it out of the window. I always thought that Moto's hardware designers might have put some extra effort into the robustness of the handset given they knew what software was going to end up on there...!
No, French is conventionally the language of love
inB4 "O RLY!"
I know we've always had a degree of product placement, whether overt or just because the producer got some nice freebie samples from a company, but that one really was cringeworthy. And I'm someone who owns both an Omega Seamaster Automatic (bought in 2000: got engaged and didn't see why I should miss out on something nice after buying her the diamond ring!) and an Omega Planet Ocean, which have been the Bond watches in recent years....Hmm, maybe I'm not immune to advertising after all.
Not necessarily. I can put up a sign in my shop saying I have the right to punch you in the face, but I'd get arrested if I did it...
see also:
Girl to Bond: "Nice watch".
Bond: "Omega"
Girl: (breathes) "...beautiful"
In the UK, film critic Mark Kermode let a successful campaign to have audiences shout "KERCHING!" at this point when watching the film. More of this kind of thing is required.
Dude, I'd forgotten about that. I was working 2nd line at the time, and a few of us were messing around with it, knocking out each other's PCs for lulz. Until one guy whacked the Exchange server...!
I hear what you're saying, but it's not really the case. Take first-into-man, Phase 1 Clinical Trials. I've implemented systems to control this and have a bit of experience - at this phase, you're not testing the efficacy of the drug, you're testing how it's affecting vital signs - i.e. you're not trying to cure people, you're seeing at what doseage it has any effect on lung function, or heart rate, or temperature etc. This is a long and complex process tested on healthy volunteers - you can't afford to miss an effect that may be disasterous at a later stage. An example of this might be any drug that affects the Q-T rhythm of the heart, as regardless of how clinically effective such a drug might be it will have such a negative effect just due to this one effect on the heart that it's better the candidate drug is killed early before going up the logarithmic scale of cost and patient numbers in Phase 2, 3 and 4 trials.
Plain stats give you an idea of the number of healthy volunteers you need at this stage, and the time it's going to take to statistically prove that the results you've got are conclusive before going to the next level.
Between each phase there'll be long review, ethics boards, etc. Bear in mind that for every successful drug there are going to be hundreds or thousands of candidate drugs which didn't make it.
In short, you can criticise the FDA for some things, but they serve a vital purpose which is ensuring to as high a level as possible that the drugs that are approved are both safe and effective.
The fact that a drug has passed FDA approval does not shield the Pharma company that made it from any liability - this is a common misconception that is categorically not true.
In terms of the common cold, I'd kind of agree with you but I'd also say that once the mechanism for defeating the cold is understood it'll almost certainly give us the ability to treat a lot of more critical illnesses than we currently can - there's no reason not to research into it, anyway.
All pharma companies are trying like mad to shorten the 8-12 year process of taking a drug to market - they'd be mad if they didn't just from a commercial point of view - the length it takes is indicative of effort required.
any UK drug company will have to get get FDA approval before they can really commercialise a drug. You don't get much regionality within Pharma.
Presumably because Apple doesn't want to bid for these contracts, and would prefer to make money from selling expensive hardawre to hipsters, and making money hand over fist from their new position of media vendor? Look at their financials - they're not exactly doing badly...
In the UK, Sky TV supply satellite service to millions of homes. You sign up on a 12 month contract, get given a set top box and the contract states it has to be connected to the phone line at all times, otherwise they'll bill you. In theory the box supplies them with user watching profiles etc. I know a LOT of people who have these boxes, connected to the phone, and get hit with a 14.99 UKP / month "fee" for it being disconnected. When you phone customer services (on a non-free number, on hold for up to an hour, bounced from desk to desk) you'll get it refunded with a promise that it won't happen again. Until next month, when it does.
Some of this is bureaucracy and incompetent helpdesks. But probably not all. Sure, you can fight it, but a lot of people won't notice, or will give up before getting it sorted.
Never done meth, but in my youth I've done speed. Tried Modafinil a year or two back. Best way i can describe it is "speed for the brain, not the body". Absolutely no physical buzz, no heightened heart rate or signs of physical arousal. The brain? Felt stimulated - alert, awake, able to concentrate (and I was very tired at the time after birth of our 2nd child, hence the Modafinil test!). Advised a dose first thing, and another at lunchtime. Without the 2nd dose I felt like crap after lunch - sleepy, tired, headaches. The stuff *does* work.
How so? Assuming the US wasn't planning a nuclear strike at that time, the impact was that for a short period of time, the balance of power shifted, In a world where game theory and Mutually Assured Destruction exist, this wasn't a good thing. OK, we're not in the cold war anymore, but unilateral loss of power like this destabilises the balance of power, and does not necessarily improve security for the world...