A parser of superset of JSON was in Ecmascript. With no direct, simple or easy way to limit it to the JSON set. This is mostly OK (if dangerous) if Ecmascript is on the receiving end.
OTOH in order to generate/send JSON, things get more complicated. The usual communication is asymmetric: client->server: HTTP GET/POST, server->client: JSON. Now it would be possible to keep a symmetric connection. And accepting JSON as a standard will protect from a lot of script insertion vulnerabilities, when "JSON" could contain code appended after the closing brace.
My experience: - Windows machines are about $15 more expensive. That's not much, and not nearly as much as boxed version of Windows. - The first thing you do with a new Netbook is reinstalling the OS to one of your choice. - XP is unusable on low-to-middle end netbooks. It is just far too slow. Ubuntu Netbook remix runs adequately. So XP is a reasonable choice only for people with high-end netbooks and for people who require it for their work (but low-to-middle end netbooks are a bad choice for them then.)
Interestingly, I have two netbooks. The one I use daily for all purposes as desktop runs Linux. The one I use as low-power server runs Windows. Stripped down from all the extra services and prettifiers it runs reasonably fast, and uTorrent is still superior to anything Linux has to offer.
The process of drafting of said pact could proceed in secret - but the resulting pact itself (along with consecutive drafts as they are created) should be public and a subject to public discussion.
You don't need to know Corporation X and Country Y motioned to have the word "and" changed to "or" in point 7 of paragraph 4, because it would reduce income of the corporation by 34%, and increase unemployment in country Y, resulting in more dirty fuel burned during the winter and adverse effect on CO2 emission. But you should be able to learn that in point 7 of paragraph 4 "and" got changed to "or".
Oh, treaties concerning the military powers should be secret, except of the most general gist ("we are cooperating", "we have a non-aggression pact" and such.)
But this is a treaty about the fucking entertainment industry. Using the "national security" excuse here is a sign of the absolute abuse of power.
The problem with women is that while many of them are quite intelligent and -able- to draw correct conclusions and make connections, they rarely act upon their intelligence, often needing people (men) to try really hard to make them use their heads. Almost as if thinking hurt.
It's not that they can't act smart, it's that they don't like to. They tend to depend on their intuition and "hunches" ignoring and disregarding the logical conclusions completely. They can come up with an optimal solution to a problem, then apply a suboptimal one because they "like it better". Or they make completely unreasonable demands, being fully aware that the demands are impossible - possibly enjoying seeing the logical man trying to twist his brain around the paradox they force upon him, and deranging him for his inability to solve the impossible (as if it was the most obvious and easy thing in the world).
If a deceitful ad campaign encourages you to buy an inferior product due to crooked magazines giving it positive reviews with falsified benchmarks compared to a superior (but falsely presented as inferior) competitor product, are you taking part in a conspiration against that inferior product or are you just being taken advantage of?
You missed the point again. The deal includes two articles: your game and your choice of customer. You are artificially reducing supply to drive the demand -of a different product- up.
It's exactly the same evil as the evil side of patents and copyrights - excluding others from fair competition by reducing access to what could easily be a shared resource. In patents and copyrights the excuse is rewarding the author for creativity. But here the console makers did nothing to earn this exclusivity. They didn't make the console better than the competitors, they didn't do anything creative, they just offered a better monetary deal - for exclusion of others.
Look up basics of economy about monopolistic practices.
The game makers are in this case consumers of the goods of the console makers: they buy license to release a game for the console. Now if the console makers played fair, they would compete by giving lower price and higher quality product. And the customer (the game developer) would choose the better product or both if the prices are attractive and the products are similar.
But here you're getting a different scenario: the price of the product (the license) differs not only basing on details of contract between the developer and the manufacturer. It differs -negatively- basing on whether the developer is willing to buy competitor's product as well.
Imagine this: on daily basis you visit two competing grocery stores. One has good bread, the other sells superb eggs from a family farm. And one day you visit the first grocery store and the shopkeeper tells you "Look, you can have the bread for 10% cheaper and I will throw in a cheese for half the price, under condition that you don't buy any eggs from my competitor. If I see you entering the door of that shop, the deal is off." You are tempted by the offer, because the cheese at half the price is a real bargain. But you like eggs and you'd gladly buy the half-price cheese and the full-price eggs. And you can be sure the next time you come after refusing the offer, the bread will be 30% more expensive for you (and the next grocery that carries this kind of good bread is many miles away).
One thing is a company choosing only one platform because it attracts their target audience, the hardware fits the needs, or simply the likely profits from the others aren't expected to be worthwhile.
Completely another is the platform owners coercing, bribing and otherwise discouraging the developers from developing for any other platform than theirs.
That is, the developers normally given choice between A, B and A+B are not being encouraged to "include A" but to "exclude B".
What is even worse is the hordes of fanbois touting and cheering their company getting yet another exclusive. This is not the nice kind of pride "I will have it, I'm no worse than you", this is the mean destructive "I am better because I will have it and you won't!".
EFF just says "Caveat Emptor". People have willingly signed the contract. They can now be screwed left and right to the company's desire. So beware what you do because you can be next.
I preferred the websites that present TOS in editable textarea. Textarea implies invitation to edit = negotiation.
I tend to edit these to my needs and save myself a copy. Of course by clicking "I Agree" I -am- sending these back to the originating server (if they don't get them, it's their negligence). Since they accept the edited copy, I can safely assume they agreed to changes.
These are strictly monopolistic practices: console maker getting a game maker to take part in conspiring against competition from other console makers.
Unless the cartridges use a timer or page count kill switch.
The amount of ink remaining in the cartridge has long ceased to mean how much more you can print. Sometimes you must purchase new cartridges to use the scanner part as well.
So why are the ink containers made to contain 1-2ml of ink? Why can't they serve longer?
Somehow lifetime of a printer cartridge has decreased by 90% over the last several years while the price quadrupled or more.
There are heavy-duty mods that use flexible pipes to connect the cartridges to 0.5l ink bottles of all the colors hanging over the printer (not the cheapest models obviously), that allow for millions of pages to be printed on the cheap. As for cheap printers, the new ones get horribly locked down, as far as including killswitch timer that claims your (full, unused) cartridge is empty after its expiration date. The method is to get an old printer.
I grew up on a farm and I know many of these plants very well and I can't tell any distinguishing characteristics apart from the drawings. This is what a garlic plant looks like [wikispaces.com]. Not like this [edithsherwood.com]. I mean, come on!
But maybe the manuscript author didn't. I mean, the whole mystery aside, we all know the level of accuracy of scientific texts of that time. The fact it is hard to decode doesn't mean it is true.
The game is not new, so it's unlikely to attract many new players. Old players will just abandon it or continue playing free.
Also, I wonder about aftermarket for items the hardcore players already got. "Not gonna grind another 1000 hours to get X, but I have Y which suddenly costs good $50. So let's sell it to some sucker."
If it's not indexed yet and you're using Opera: Go to any Google page, press Ctrl + U, change any one link's href to the article's URI, click "Save Changes", click the link and off you go (with a fake Google referer. This works for any fake referer, by the way).
We know blood group is strictly a genetic trait. We also know that many traits of character and predispositions have genetic origin. We know that one gene or set of genes can encode several wildly different and seemingly unconnected traits at the same time.
The hypothesis that the same gene that encodes blood group is responsible for some psychical traits increasing certain personality type, is not all that far fetched or unlikely.
OTOH whether it's actually true or not, and in case it is true, does the group-character mapping of ketsueki-gata match the real one, is a totally different matter.
Oh, considering that unlike anywhere else along trade routes there is no fine for cleaning the cargo bays and tanks from all the (often poisonous) stuff, yes, they are. So you've been transporting 5000 tons of mazut. Now you've got a contract for half a million ton of high-quality gasoline. Except mazut is sticky and there's about 80 tons of mazut residue on walls of your tanks, that will pollute the fuel. You have a choice to stop for a few days at a port, pay several thousands dollars for cleaning and disposal, or just get your crew to flush the junk to the sea with hi-pressure hoses, while traveling full ahead to where the fuel awaits. No delay, no extra cost (included in salary), no waste disposal fees - and several square miles of sea life getting killed is none of your business.
The system is most likely to be harnessed in developing nations such as India, where mobile internet is far more prevalent than fixed-line access.
So, the system is aimed at applications where GPRS/EDGE/3G speeds are not sufficient but there is no access to power lines, and there are several phones to mitigate the speed problem? Like, I don't know, team of computer pirates torrenting while on the move to be hard to locate? Or live TV broadcasting?
I mean, usually if you have several smartphones at hand, and a computer with a job that requires network speed exceeding 3G, you often have some sockets to plug the chargers in...
"If you geotag a picture with your new 50" plasma TV in the background and upload it to the Web, congratulations you have just told everyone where you live and what you have of value. The web has a long memory -- geotag something today and in six months" nobody will care about your antiquated plasma TV.
Nope, not what I meant. Most of -artificial- neural networks are fixed. The mathematical/software constructs usually display a fixed, organized architecture with little or no ability to create new connections from scratch. The self-constructing neural networks are a small margin of the science.
In most cases you set a number of neurons, connect them in a specific pattern, then save the construction and run the network: feed the input, analyze the output and adjust weights so that some connections are more active and some are less.
Meanwhile biological brain grows new synapses - which is different from creating new neural paths through existing synapses.
Most neural networks have fixed layout of "synapses" and operate only on changing neuron thresholds.
Thing is the thresholds are a temporary, easily forgettable kind of memory. The synapses once grown stay there for the rest of your life (unless you kill them, say, with alcohol).
This explains why if you learn riding a bicycle once, you need up to 15 minutes to recall it even if you haven't been riding it for some decades. Same goes for swimming.
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A parser of superset of JSON was in Ecmascript. With no direct, simple or easy way to limit it to the JSON set. This is mostly OK (if dangerous) if Ecmascript is on the receiving end.
OTOH in order to generate/send JSON, things get more complicated. The usual communication is asymmetric: client->server: HTTP GET/POST, server->client: JSON. Now it would be possible to keep a symmetric connection. And accepting JSON as a standard will protect from a lot of script insertion vulnerabilities, when "JSON" could contain code appended after the closing brace.
One takes the liquids, the other takes the bottles.
My experience:
- Windows machines are about $15 more expensive. That's not much, and not nearly as much as boxed version of Windows.
- The first thing you do with a new Netbook is reinstalling the OS to one of your choice.
- XP is unusable on low-to-middle end netbooks. It is just far too slow. Ubuntu Netbook remix runs adequately. So XP is a reasonable choice only for people with high-end netbooks and for people who require it for their work (but low-to-middle end netbooks are a bad choice for them then.)
Interestingly, I have two netbooks. The one I use daily for all purposes as desktop runs Linux. The one I use as low-power server runs Windows. Stripped down from all the extra services and prettifiers it runs reasonably fast, and uTorrent is still superior to anything Linux has to offer.
Of course it should.
The process of drafting of said pact could proceed in secret - but the resulting pact itself (along with consecutive drafts as they are created) should be public and a subject to public discussion.
You don't need to know Corporation X and Country Y motioned to have the word "and" changed to "or" in point 7 of paragraph 4, because it would reduce income of the corporation by 34%, and increase unemployment in country Y, resulting in more dirty fuel burned during the winter and adverse effect on CO2 emission. But you should be able to learn that in point 7 of paragraph 4 "and" got changed to "or".
Oh, treaties concerning the military powers should be secret, except of the most general gist ("we are cooperating", "we have a non-aggression pact" and such.)
But this is a treaty about the fucking entertainment industry. Using the "national security" excuse here is a sign of the absolute abuse of power.
If I was a woman, I would feel offended right now.
I don't -need- to back up my claims with anything!
The problem with women is that while many of them are quite intelligent and -able- to draw correct conclusions and make connections, they rarely act upon their intelligence, often needing people (men) to try really hard to make them use their heads. Almost as if thinking hurt.
It's not that they can't act smart, it's that they don't like to. They tend to depend on their intuition and "hunches" ignoring and disregarding the logical conclusions completely. They can come up with an optimal solution to a problem, then apply a suboptimal one because they "like it better". Or they make completely unreasonable demands, being fully aware that the demands are impossible - possibly enjoying seeing the logical man trying to twist his brain around the paradox they force upon him, and deranging him for his inability to solve the impossible (as if it was the most obvious and easy thing in the world).
Truly evil and twisted creatures they are...
If a deceitful ad campaign encourages you to buy an inferior product due to crooked magazines giving it positive reviews with falsified benchmarks compared to a superior (but falsely presented as inferior) competitor product, are you taking part in a conspiration against that inferior product or are you just being taken advantage of?
You missed the point again. The deal includes two articles: your game and your choice of customer. You are artificially reducing supply to drive the demand -of a different product- up.
It's exactly the same evil as the evil side of patents and copyrights - excluding others from fair competition by reducing access to what could easily be a shared resource. In patents and copyrights the excuse is rewarding the author for creativity. But here the console makers did nothing to earn this exclusivity. They didn't make the console better than the competitors, they didn't do anything creative, they just offered a better monetary deal - for exclusion of others.
Look up basics of economy about monopolistic practices.
The game makers are in this case consumers of the goods of the console makers: they buy license to release a game for the console. Now if the console makers played fair, they would compete by giving lower price and higher quality product. And the customer (the game developer) would choose the better product or both if the prices are attractive and the products are similar.
But here you're getting a different scenario: the price of the product (the license) differs not only basing on details of contract between the developer and the manufacturer. It differs -negatively- basing on whether the developer is willing to buy competitor's product as well.
Imagine this: on daily basis you visit two competing grocery stores. One has good bread, the other sells superb eggs from a family farm. And one day you visit the first grocery store and the shopkeeper tells you "Look, you can have the bread for 10% cheaper and I will throw in a cheese for half the price, under condition that you don't buy any eggs from my competitor. If I see you entering the door of that shop, the deal is off." You are tempted by the offer, because the cheese at half the price is a real bargain. But you like eggs and you'd gladly buy the half-price cheese and the full-price eggs. And you can be sure the next time you come after refusing the offer, the bread will be 30% more expensive for you (and the next grocery that carries this kind of good bread is many miles away).
One thing is a company choosing only one platform because it attracts their target audience, the hardware fits the needs, or simply the likely profits from the others aren't expected to be worthwhile.
Completely another is the platform owners coercing, bribing and otherwise discouraging the developers from developing for any other platform than theirs.
That is, the developers normally given choice between A, B and A+B are not being encouraged to "include A" but to "exclude B".
What is even worse is the hordes of fanbois touting and cheering their company getting yet another exclusive. This is not the nice kind of pride "I will have it, I'm no worse than you", this is the mean destructive "I am better because I will have it and you won't!".
EFF just says "Caveat Emptor".
People have willingly signed the contract. They can now be screwed left and right to the company's desire. So beware what you do because you can be next.
I preferred the websites that present TOS in editable textarea. Textarea implies invitation to edit = negotiation.
I tend to edit these to my needs and save myself a copy. Of course by clicking "I Agree" I -am- sending these back to the originating server (if they don't get them, it's their negligence).
Since they accept the edited copy, I can safely assume they agreed to changes.
These are strictly monopolistic practices: console maker getting a game maker to take part in conspiring against competition from other console makers.
Unless the cartridges use a timer or page count kill switch.
The amount of ink remaining in the cartridge has long ceased to mean how much more you can print. Sometimes you must purchase new cartridges to use the scanner part as well.
So why are the ink containers made to contain 1-2ml of ink?
Why can't they serve longer?
Somehow lifetime of a printer cartridge has decreased by 90% over the last several years while the price quadrupled or more.
There are heavy-duty mods that use flexible pipes to connect the cartridges to 0.5l ink bottles of all the colors hanging over the printer (not the cheapest models obviously), that allow for millions of pages to be printed on the cheap. As for cheap printers, the new ones get horribly locked down, as far as including killswitch timer that claims your (full, unused) cartridge is empty after its expiration date. The method is to get an old printer.
I grew up on a farm and I know many of these plants very well and I can't tell any distinguishing characteristics apart from the drawings. This is what a garlic plant looks like [wikispaces.com]. Not like this [edithsherwood.com]. I mean, come on!
But maybe the manuscript author didn't. I mean, the whole mystery aside, we all know the level of accuracy of scientific texts of that time. The fact it is hard to decode doesn't mean it is true.
Nobody plays empty MMOs.
The game is not new, so it's unlikely to attract many new players.
Old players will just abandon it or continue playing free.
Also, I wonder about aftermarket for items the hardcore players already got. "Not gonna grind another 1000 hours to get X, but I have Y which suddenly costs good $50. So let's sell it to some sucker."
If it's not indexed yet and you're using Opera: Go to any Google page, press Ctrl + U, change any one link's href to the article's URI, click "Save Changes", click the link and off you go (with a fake Google referer. This works for any fake referer, by the way).
Is there a Firefox plugin to be able to do that?
We know blood group is strictly a genetic trait.
We also know that many traits of character and predispositions have genetic origin.
We know that one gene or set of genes can encode several wildly different and seemingly unconnected traits at the same time.
The hypothesis that the same gene that encodes blood group is responsible for some psychical traits increasing certain personality type, is not all that far fetched or unlikely.
OTOH whether it's actually true or not, and in case it is true, does the group-character mapping of ketsueki-gata match the real one, is a totally different matter.
Oh, considering that unlike anywhere else along trade routes there is no fine for cleaning the cargo bays and tanks from all the (often poisonous) stuff, yes, they are. So you've been transporting 5000 tons of mazut. Now you've got a contract for half a million ton of high-quality gasoline. Except mazut is sticky and there's about 80 tons of mazut residue on walls of your tanks, that will pollute the fuel. You have a choice to stop for a few days at a port, pay several thousands dollars for cleaning and disposal, or just get your crew to flush the junk to the sea with hi-pressure hoses, while traveling full ahead to where the fuel awaits. No delay, no extra cost (included in salary), no waste disposal fees - and several square miles of sea life getting killed is none of your business.
The system is most likely to be harnessed in developing nations such as India, where mobile internet is far more prevalent than fixed-line access.
So, the system is aimed at applications where GPRS/EDGE/3G speeds are not sufficient but there is no access to power lines, and there are several phones to mitigate the speed problem? Like, I don't know, team of computer pirates torrenting while on the move to be hard to locate? Or live TV broadcasting?
I mean, usually if you have several smartphones at hand, and a computer with a job that requires network speed exceeding 3G, you often have some sockets to plug the chargers in...
"If you geotag a picture with your new 50" plasma TV in the background and upload it to the Web, congratulations you have just told everyone where you live and what you have of value. The web has a long memory -- geotag something today and in six months" nobody will care about your antiquated plasma TV.
Nope, not what I meant. Most of -artificial- neural networks are fixed. The mathematical/software constructs usually display a fixed, organized architecture with little or no ability to create new connections from scratch. The self-constructing neural networks are a small margin of the science.
In most cases you set a number of neurons, connect them in a specific pattern, then save the construction and run the network: feed the input, analyze the output and adjust weights so that some connections are more active and some are less.
Meanwhile biological brain grows new synapses - which is different from creating new neural paths through existing synapses.
Most neural networks have fixed layout of "synapses" and operate only on changing neuron thresholds.
Thing is the thresholds are a temporary, easily forgettable kind of memory. The synapses once grown stay there for the rest of your life (unless you kill them, say, with alcohol).
This explains why if you learn riding a bicycle once, you need up to 15 minutes to recall it even if you haven't been riding it for some decades. Same goes for swimming.