Thing is math is often a few paces ahead of understanding.
Shut up, calculate, and when we get the result let's try matching key points to known facts and see if any patterns emerge so that parts we don't understand (yet) match facts yet to be uncovered.
If reality doesn't match math, it means we missed something essential so we insert another variable into our equations, recalculate and know we have uncovered something new...
I can still deny having installed any software I have legally purchased;)
One nice thing about EULA is that it comes live the moment you install (click "I Agree"), not the moment you buy it. The case gets worse if the software phones home, but it's still deniable with simple DHCP and allowing people to connect their private laptops.
This is under assumption I agreed to said EULA. If I did, I have nothing to be afraid of. If I didn't, sorry, you're trespassing, please leave. First they have to prove I agreed to the EULA, and in order to do so they need to conduct the audit. Catch 22 for my advantage.
If it's equivalent of A4 piece of paper (14" screen) it will be sufficient for most applications, and no, as for Photoshop toolboxes which would occupy half the visible area, I'm sure Apple will have some quick switch (between virtual desktops?) to show/hide them.
It may not replace studio computers where you sit in front of 22" professional screen and use an A3 tablet with 2 axis tilt sensitivity, but it will be something you can take to the park to draw from nature, something to take to school, to lessons, to a presentation and so on.
Mac is still, and long will be the favorite computer of most graphicians/artists.
Tablet+screen has some serious disadvantages. You draw in one place, image appears elsewhere. With a good touchscreen capable of providing precision comparable to decent Wacoms, this can become a dream tool for an artist.
My friend has a Windows Mobile phone. The phone can handle WPA2 ok, it can handle Skype VoIP ok, but it can't handle both. The accesspoint is WEP because that still stops strangers from just connecting, signals "private network, do not enter" and meanwhile allows to use Skype on that phone.
Anyway, you don't have to have flawless protection, just better than weakest of your neighbors.
Wired equivalent if you want to connect up and use their uplink. Not when it's about snooping on the data.
Airodump running on a laptop in your backpack as you drink cola and read a book on a bench by the road outside is much less detectable than a stray wire plugged into your switch by a stranger who sneaked into your flat. The network card doesn't even have to announce its presence.
Realistically, it depends on traffic. I assure you a WEP network with long key and running a low transmission (for example instant messenger + RSS + WWW surfing, vs video streaming, torrents or online games) can take good many hours to break. Speaking from experience, two lunches, four beers and about 8 episodes of Cowboy BeBop before that nice mexican restaurant became Internet-enabled for me.
Have they actually try to connect to the world using the "open" access points or just discovered unencrypted networks? Because the latter really are abundant, but many of them require special cookies, login to proxy, VPN, correct MAC address, or just disconnect you as soon as you connect, basing on some premise you would be hard pressed to divine.
Sure I -see- about 25% of open networks when I start up Kismet while riding through the town. But only about 5-10% of networks are genuinely open - just connect and surf. The rest just uses alternate protection methods.
Lots of the "cartoon porn" has humor intention or merely scandalizing purpose. Seriously, who faps to naked Bart Simpson?
Also, what about stories where nudity is essential to the plot, and the character displays underage characteristics despite not being one? I'm sure first episode of Spice and Wolf would qualify as child porn under UK law, despite not being pornographic in nature, the character not being underage (nor human for that matter), and blatant display of nudity being a direct result of animalistic, non-human nature of said character (with zero regard for human "decency" standards but also zero sexual interest), essential set-up for the developing story.
I guess saying "it comes from" a virus is a mistake. The right wording would be "we share 7% of our genetic code with a virus". It may well be that useful parts of host's genetic code are integrated into a virus, and that parts of the code originate from a common ancestor from prehistoric times. This would be indistinguishable from code that originates from a virus and got absorbed into human genome.
Not necessarily. A virus infects a human. It gets to infect the sperm or egg cell. Insignificant part of genetic code gets replaced. A child is born with -all- its cells containing the virus-originated code.
Of course the replaced part will be several genes at most, but if the mutation is insignificant or positive, it will remain in all the offspring. Meanwhile this may repeat any number of times and will be perpetuated through ages.
If a defect of lacking one whole chromosome is non-lethal (Down's syndrome), a minor damage to your genome has a really good chance of not affecting your offspring at all.
iTunes charges more than what? Music labels for CDs? No. iTunes was so successful because despite (still) having a high profit margin, it was so extremely competitive in its prices comparing to most alternatives.
Matter of getting you accustomed to using their "pay-back" currency which only they accept. In case you win something, earn something with them, get your purchase cashed back or whatever, you could normally demand they pay you the same currency you paid in the first place. Which then you could take and spend at their competitor's. In case of Microsoft Points, every time -they- owe -you- anything, they are sure their money will eventually return to them.
Considering you play using your hardware, your electricity, your room, and get no supervision to intervene in case of problems (only phone support), $0.50 per credit sounds rather steep.
Human eye and brain can tell 30, 60 and 70Hz apart.
But they don't make a difference. The cat will be processed at the natural ~15FPS, and the "feel" associated with 60Hz will be completely detached from information about incoming feline. You don't see 60 blinks per second. You just realize the display is somehow different than unchanging solid light, and your knowledge may make you recognize this kind of visual anomaly as 60Hz display. But there is no way you could tell it's 60hz blinking without being taught it. Just like you couldn't tell it's 500nm wave while seeing blue light and not knowing it corresponds to 500nm.
This isn't like gold-plated. It's like UV filter on the windscreen. You see the difference but you won't know what it means if you're not told.
Who cares if its not the political approach? You aren't going to be working for them 30 years from now. You should, because then you won't be working for them 1 year from now.
I found out a -great- way to get the boss off your head and have peace of mind and freedom to do anything within rules and no need to do anything outside of them, is to have the boss owe you something he isn't quite willing to deliver.
Whenever your boss asks you some favor for the company, pester them about that thing. Be it upgrade to your equipment, a raise, a bonus, some overtime, whatever they rightfully should give you but for some reason don't want to. Don't push (because they may yield and finally deliver, you don't want this), just gently remind, and they will stay away from you whenever they can and never demand anything outside the standard.
I remember a delightful half a year thanks to need of an extra box of carbide bits for a CNC machine. Too bad they became really essential when the old supply was about to run off and I had to push harder to get them.
I wish antivirus software could alert and block malware that comes with originals. Unfortunately while it stops CIH from damaging your BIOS, but it doesn't stop StarForce from damaging your DVD drive. So I feel way safer with enemy I can defend against.
You're wrong about company phone. Company phone is what you switch off the moment your work hours end. You use it on business travels, you use it during rush and in case you promise to be catchable. Private phone number is the one which you keep secret.
As for laptop, YMMV. If you're a field technician, your company laptop will be invaluable for you because it has what your work requires, not what you would buy for yourself.
Free coffee... only as long as I know the money they save on my coffee land in -my- pocket, not CEO's. Otherwise, I prefer to get the free coffee if I can. I worked where I had to buy my own and it really adds up if you count it over a year.
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Thing is math is often a few paces ahead of understanding.
Shut up, calculate, and when we get the result let's try matching key points to known facts and see if any patterns emerge so that parts we don't understand (yet) match facts yet to be uncovered.
If reality doesn't match math, it means we missed something essential so we insert another variable into our equations, recalculate and know we have uncovered something new...
It means there is sense to develop and prepare experiments to prove or disprove it.
If the math doesn't work, your efforts are better spent elsewhere.
I can still deny having installed any software I have legally purchased ;)
One nice thing about EULA is that it comes live the moment you install (click "I Agree"), not the moment you buy it.
The case gets worse if the software phones home, but it's still deniable with simple DHCP and allowing people to connect their private laptops.
This is under assumption I agreed to said EULA. If I did, I have nothing to be afraid of. If I didn't, sorry, you're trespassing, please leave. First they have to prove I agreed to the EULA, and in order to do so they need to conduct the audit. Catch 22 for my advantage.
How big will it be?
If it's equivalent of A4 piece of paper (14" screen) it will be sufficient for most applications, and no, as for Photoshop toolboxes which would occupy half the visible area, I'm sure Apple will have some quick switch (between virtual desktops?) to show/hide them.
It may not replace studio computers where you sit in front of 22" professional screen and use an A3 tablet with 2 axis tilt sensitivity, but it will be something you can take to the park to draw from nature, something to take to school, to lessons, to a presentation and so on.
Photoshop.
Mac is still, and long will be the favorite computer of most graphicians/artists.
Tablet+screen has some serious disadvantages. You draw in one place, image appears elsewhere.
With a good touchscreen capable of providing precision comparable to decent Wacoms, this can become a dream tool for an artist.
My friend has a Windows Mobile phone.
The phone can handle WPA2 ok, it can handle Skype VoIP ok, but it can't handle both.
The accesspoint is WEP because that still stops strangers from just connecting, signals "private network, do not enter" and meanwhile allows to use Skype on that phone.
Anyway, you don't have to have flawless protection, just better than weakest of your neighbors.
Wired equivalent if you want to connect up and use their uplink. Not when it's about snooping on the data.
Airodump running on a laptop in your backpack as you drink cola and read a book on a bench by the road outside is much less detectable than a stray wire plugged into your switch by a stranger who sneaked into your flat. The network card doesn't even have to announce its presence.
Realistically, it depends on traffic. I assure you a WEP network with long key and running a low transmission (for example instant messenger + RSS + WWW surfing, vs video streaming, torrents or online games) can take good many hours to break. Speaking from experience, two lunches, four beers and about 8 episodes of Cowboy BeBop before that nice mexican restaurant became Internet-enabled for me.
Have they actually try to connect to the world using the "open" access points or just discovered unencrypted networks?
Because the latter really are abundant, but many of them require special cookies, login to proxy, VPN, correct MAC address, or just disconnect you as soon as you connect, basing on some premise you would be hard pressed to divine.
Sure I -see- about 25% of open networks when I start up Kismet while riding through the town. But only about 5-10% of networks are genuinely open - just connect and surf. The rest just uses alternate protection methods.
You're getting old.
Young people want novelty, change, freedom.
Old people want consistentcy, stability, control.
If I want something to look better, I can shell out more money for better hardware and have it look better.
No such option with consoles.
...will be a crime of tax evasion.
Lots of the "cartoon porn" has humor intention or merely scandalizing purpose. Seriously, who faps to naked Bart Simpson?
Also, what about stories where nudity is essential to the plot, and the character displays underage characteristics despite not being one? I'm sure first episode of Spice and Wolf would qualify as child porn under UK law, despite not being pornographic in nature, the character not being underage (nor human for that matter), and blatant display of nudity being a direct result of animalistic, non-human nature of said character (with zero regard for human "decency" standards but also zero sexual interest), essential set-up for the developing story.
I guess saying "it comes from" a virus is a mistake. The right wording would be "we share 7% of our genetic code with a virus". It may well be that useful parts of host's genetic code are integrated into a virus, and that parts of the code originate from a common ancestor from prehistoric times. This would be indistinguishable from code that originates from a virus and got absorbed into human genome.
BornAVirus - EndOVirus.
Not necessarily.
A virus infects a human. It gets to infect the sperm or egg cell. Insignificant part of genetic code gets replaced.
A child is born with -all- its cells containing the virus-originated code.
Of course the replaced part will be several genes at most, but if the mutation is insignificant or positive, it will remain in all the offspring. Meanwhile this may repeat any number of times and will be perpetuated through ages.
If a defect of lacking one whole chromosome is non-lethal (Down's syndrome), a minor damage to your genome has a really good chance of not affecting your offspring at all.
Humans are a virus!
iTunes charges more than what? Music labels for CDs? No. iTunes was so successful because despite (still) having a high profit margin, it was so extremely competitive in its prices comparing to most alternatives.
Matter of getting you accustomed to using their "pay-back" currency which only they accept. In case you win something, earn something with them, get your purchase cashed back or whatever, you could normally demand they pay you the same currency you paid in the first place. Which then you could take and spend at their competitor's. In case of Microsoft Points, every time -they- owe -you- anything, they are sure their money will eventually return to them.
Considering you play using your hardware, your electricity, your room, and get no supervision to intervene in case of problems (only phone support), $0.50 per credit sounds rather steep.
Human eye and brain can tell 30, 60 and 70Hz apart.
But they don't make a difference. The cat will be processed at the natural ~15FPS, and the "feel" associated with 60Hz will be completely detached from information about incoming feline. You don't see 60 blinks per second. You just realize the display is somehow different than unchanging solid light, and your knowledge may make you recognize this kind of visual anomaly as 60Hz display. But there is no way you could tell it's 60hz blinking without being taught it. Just like you couldn't tell it's 500nm wave while seeing blue light and not knowing it corresponds to 500nm.
This isn't like gold-plated. It's like UV filter on the windscreen. You see the difference but you won't know what it means if you're not told.
Who cares if its not the political approach? You aren't going to be working for them 30 years from now.
You should, because then you won't be working for them 1 year from now.
I found out a -great- way to get the boss off your head and have peace of mind and freedom to do anything within rules and no need to do anything outside of them, is to have the boss owe you something he isn't quite willing to deliver.
Whenever your boss asks you some favor for the company, pester them about that thing. Be it upgrade to your equipment, a raise, a bonus, some overtime, whatever they rightfully should give you but for some reason don't want to. Don't push (because they may yield and finally deliver, you don't want this), just gently remind, and they will stay away from you whenever they can and never demand anything outside the standard.
I remember a delightful half a year thanks to need of an extra box of carbide bits for a CNC machine. Too bad they became really essential when the old supply was about to run off and I had to push harder to get them.
Combined with a good antivirus, no, it isn't.
I wish antivirus software could alert and block malware that comes with originals. Unfortunately while it stops CIH from damaging your BIOS, but it doesn't stop StarForce from damaging your DVD drive. So I feel way safer with enemy I can defend against.
You're wrong about company phone.
Company phone is what you switch off the moment your work hours end. You use it on business travels, you use it during rush and in case you promise to be catchable.
Private phone number is the one which you keep secret.
As for laptop, YMMV. If you're a field technician, your company laptop will be invaluable for you because it has what your work requires, not what you would buy for yourself.
Free coffee... only as long as I know the money they save on my coffee land in -my- pocket, not CEO's. Otherwise, I prefer to get the free coffee if I can. I worked where I had to buy my own and it really adds up if you count it over a year.
A cow is a machine that converts grass to milk.
A programmer is a machine that converts coffee to code.