First they say that drivers are obsolete; next it'll be the passengers. Then, before you know it, there's a gathering of them in car-parks and garages around the country.....
Not such a great proposition when you consider that your chance of being killed in a car accident on the way to the store exceeds your chance of winning the big one.
I note that with BitLit the 'price' of an eBook from O'Reilly is $4,99.
However, if you sign up with O'Reilly (free), determine the ISBN of any of their physical books (which is on the physical copy that you bought, and O'Reilly keep a 'backup' copy of the ISBN on their website), you can receive an eBook copy of that book for - wait for it - also for $4.99.
"The actual emails added up to about 2MB of actual disk usage,"
So the 1,2, or 3 million emails occupied just 2MB of storage?
Wow, Apple should be widely lauded for being able to store each email, including its header, in just one byte!
"never underestimate the bandwidth of a semi full of mag tapes".
Agreed! My recollection is that it was from Andrew Tanenbaum, and it was "never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway".
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
I'm not sure what point you're trying to argue, but it sounds like you're a perfect candidate for a charger that distributes malware. How would you know if your current charger is not sending your data back to China?
Mine certainly isn't, as I always wear my tin-foil hat while charging.
Free for students to use means that the students' page-by-page use of the textbook will be tracked by Coursera, with the analytics flowing back to course instructor and the book's author.
"If something is free, you're not the customer, you're the product."
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First they say that drivers are obsolete; next it'll be the passengers. Then, before you know it, there's a gathering of them in car-parks and garages around the country.....
Given the millions of other blogged words on this topic in the past 48hours, Slashdot now needs clickbait too?
Firstly, don't confuse the students by telling them it's Computer Science, if it's only simple programming.
With which programming language and version is this compatible?
And while the rest of us don't actually *write* the material, we do collate mix-tapes.
....the Legacy Contact has to be an existing Facebook user? How much inbreeding can the human race withstand?
Not such a great proposition when you consider that your chance of being killed in a car accident on the way to the store exceeds your chance of winning the big one.
Paper hospital gowns may get a little cold, so how about orange jump suits?
"""quickly factor a prime number"""
I think that you can skip this step.
Imagine how we must look from their perspective. Like gods peering down on them from the heavens with magical devices that grant us powers.
Erich von Däniken would be extremely happy to read your comments.
If it's sanguine to place bets, my money's on an Internet accessible, or controlled, car killing its driver or targeting a pedestrian.
I can't seem to find its technical relevance anywhere.
If dragons are mythical creatures, who's to say that they have 4 legs and not just 2, anyway?
However, if you sign up with O'Reilly (free), determine the ISBN of any of their physical books (which is on the physical copy that you bought, and O'Reilly keep a 'backup' copy of the ISBN on their website), you can receive an eBook copy of that book for - wait for it - also for $4.99.
I wonder if enough requests could influence Lego's decision?
Well, not this time buddy!
Sure, but only 15 years? Wake me at 40.
"big iron" That's funny!
"The actual emails added up to about 2MB of actual disk usage," So the 1,2, or 3 million emails occupied just 2MB of storage? Wow, Apple should be widely lauded for being able to store each email, including its header, in just one byte!
I'm sceptical; I think you could do it on LSD, but helium would just give you that floating feeling.
"never underestimate the bandwidth of a semi full of mag tapes".
Agreed! My recollection is that it was from Andrew Tanenbaum, and it was "never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway". http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
So the real issues is that these guys found a way to inject software onto it - less a charger security hole and more a regular iOS USB security hole.
So wonder if this could be a new jailbreaking vector?
I'm not sure what point you're trying to argue, but it sounds like you're a perfect candidate for a charger that distributes malware. How would you know if your current charger is not sending your data back to China?
Mine certainly isn't, as I always wear my tin-foil hat while charging.
You're about 13 years too late on that one: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v986375yh46uvvc/dilbert-patent.gif
Free for students to use means that the students' page-by-page use of the textbook will be tracked by Coursera, with the analytics flowing back to course instructor and the book's author. "If something is free, you're not the customer, you're the product."