Well, Panera doesn't make you pay Deutsche Telekom (a third party) so you can use the wireless.
People usually want to do business with as few companies as possible on an individual encounter. That's why people will pay the markup to have the RAM preinstalled on their computers.
The other alternative is for Napster to go out of business.
This subverts their business model entirely -- people only need to pay once, or take a free trial, and get everything they want.
They can't be successful with the Apple-style a la carte model because they don't sell hardware for most of their money; music sales is now Napster's only revenue stream (with the sale of the old Roxio software to Sonic) and the thin margins off 99c (standard price) were set by Apple for convenience to customers in order to increase interest in Macs and iPods, not to be the cash crop of a whole corporation.
as any college student can tell you. Ever wonder why physicists leave out friction and air resistance when making up the formulae? Because those are especially tricky.
Any simulation represents a subset of reality - - the quality of the simulation depends on how large this subset is.
When a car-crash simulator that accounts not only for the vectors, but also the exact conditions of the road, the exact nature of the cars, and friction (maybe air resistance!), I'll see it acceptable as the crux of an argument in court, or even peripheral evidence.
You want to have it dial in by telephone during guided setup, and then you force another connect and reboot, and after that you can use any TiVo-compatible 802.11b adapter -- I'd suggest the Linksys WUSB11, which works well for me.
Funny how I can still run as much old software (or more) on OS X through Classic than on XP.
So I'd beg to differ about no other modern OS being able to run 10-year-old software. Though technically it's sort of virtualizing Mac OS 9.2, it's heavily integrated in, kind of like the support for old software in XP.
Well, when most business or academic administration types talk about open source, what they mean is "OpenOffice and/or Apache running on GNU/Linux systems." So in some publications, if you see "open source," read "Linux."
I never had any trouble doing the Deitel samples (and programming assignments in a class using that boiok) using g++ on OS X, and I'm 99% sure they all should work on Linux.
Perhaps the problem is that the relatively lax Microsoft compiler has let you get started with bad habits that GCC doesn't accept. use "g++ -Wall blah.cpp" and keep editing and recompiling until all the warnings go away.
Be sure to use a text editor where you can turn on line numbers (and syntax coloring, if you like that), such as vim.
Which is why you don't use English, if you feel like you can memorize a passphrase in any other language; any anti-passphrase dictionary attack would probably be for English; would it be worthwhile to make them also for Dutch, Italian, Latin, and Romanized Japanese?
is that it takes longer to type. But for a highly secure system, I doubt you could beat a phrase or sentence -- particularly in an obscure language or containing obscure words, to make dictionary cracking even more difficult.
Does the fact that iTMS is iPod-only make it a nonviable service?
Is Windows-only software nonviable? When you are marketing towards a very large section of a market, it's okay if your product isn't for everyone.
As has been said, get a junky PC.
IA32 PC does not mean Windows; get an old one and run Unix on it, or some flavor of DOS. If you're using Linux and it's a recent computer at all, use VNC and some sort of filesharing to make it feel like part of your Mac.
That may be the kind of talking that gets you modded up on/,
But on the other hand, Enron made a lot of money too, as did Worldcom. I think AT&T may have had a decent quarterly recently.
If you don't innovate your luck will eventually run out.
What card do you have to copy a number from to do almost anything in the USA?
Social Security, which has been around since the thirties.
The only problem is that social security cards are not machine readable, and due to the sensitivity of the number most people just commit it to memory -- but will gladly put it at the top of their homework if asked, with only a slight groan about a possible leak.
Having some machine-readable data (that the states already have and that parts of the federal government either have or could request and receive) on driver's licenses to give them some more of the functions of national ID in other countries seems like a good idea; we need to do something about counterfeiting hazards.
I just hope that the mechanism for reading the data is not protected under some sort of patent; that would discourage the use of the card as machine-readable ID by third parties.
...especially with math. I know the quadratic formula by heart but am as likely to screw up dividing (or take all day) as anything. I seem to recall Einstein screwed up on the easy math too.
But hey, that's why they invented calculators.
The best Unix for games is still Mac OS X, which can run a lot more games natively than Linux/X86 can, and Virtual PC, while far from perfect, can as I recall run 2D DOS and Windows games reasonably well. And then there's the fact that most of the vintage Mac OS {n|6>=n=9} games.
Don't forget the UNIX games either.
Windows 98 is fairly good for older games too, but for new games that aren't OS X or Linux friendly you often just have to bite the bullet and boot into XP -- firewall it heavily and run Windows Update every time you turn it on and you should be okay. And don't use MSIE, that reduces the risks vastly.
I think a serious Linux fork would be no problem at all, thanks to the GPL. If it had features the official kernel lacked -- an almost certain proposition -- we can assume that these features would get eventually merged in.
Of course, worst case scenario most Linux software can also run on BSD.
That'why you make backups, and transfer the data to new hard drives from time to time -- a process much easier with hard disks than with DVDs, if you can afford all the hard disks.
Kind of like how bin Laden (the dirty bum) started using a backdrop for his videos after a geography/geology professor to whom the feds wouldn't listen took the precise location in Afghanistan at which one video was shot to CNN instead?
For reference:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Asimov's three laws aren't perfect but an implementation couldn't hurt for a high-level robot. The tricky part is the second clause of the first law -- any implementation of which would by necessity be very limited, the inaction clause. The first one is no problem at all, just program the robot to do nothing to harm what may reasonably and to the extent determinable from sensor outputs be a human -- for something like a Roomba, this simply entails safe hardware design.
Second law is basically just an override of user input under programmer-set conditions, i.e. a safety override to keep anyone from getting hurt. This would be an automatic lawn mower turning off if it gets knocked over, even if the user pushed the button for mowing the entire yard.
Third law can be seen as an extention of the second, extending the protection systems to self-protection. I don't know if a Roomba has this, bur imagine that it had a system to keep it from falling down the stairs.
I seem to recall that as Asimov saw these laws in I, Robot, the priorities could be adjusted -- so that the third law might override the second. In most real-world applications, you'd want a robot's programming to protect it from suicide commands so you don't have users destroying their robots by accident.
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Well, Panera doesn't make you pay Deutsche Telekom (a third party) so you can use the wireless. People usually want to do business with as few companies as possible on an individual encounter. That's why people will pay the markup to have the RAM preinstalled on their computers.
The other alternative is for Napster to go out of business. This subverts their business model entirely -- people only need to pay once, or take a free trial, and get everything they want. They can't be successful with the Apple-style a la carte model because they don't sell hardware for most of their money; music sales is now Napster's only revenue stream (with the sale of the old Roxio software to Sonic) and the thin margins off 99c (standard price) were set by Apple for convenience to customers in order to increase interest in Macs and iPods, not to be the cash crop of a whole corporation.
as any college student can tell you. Ever wonder why physicists leave out friction and air resistance when making up the formulae? Because those are especially tricky.
Any simulation represents a subset of reality - - the quality of the simulation depends on how large this subset is.
When a car-crash simulator that accounts not only for the vectors, but also the exact conditions of the road, the exact nature of the cars, and friction (maybe air resistance!), I'll see it acceptable as the crux of an argument in court, or even peripheral evidence.
The devil is in the details.
You want to have it dial in by telephone during guided setup, and then you force another connect and reboot, and after that you can use any TiVo-compatible 802.11b adapter -- I'd suggest the Linksys WUSB11, which works well for me.
Funny how I can still run as much old software (or more) on OS X through Classic than on XP. So I'd beg to differ about no other modern OS being able to run 10-year-old software. Though technically it's sort of virtualizing Mac OS 9.2, it's heavily integrated in, kind of like the support for old software in XP.
Well, when most business or academic administration types talk about open source, what they mean is "OpenOffice and/or Apache running on GNU/Linux systems." So in some publications, if you see "open source," read "Linux."
They may actually qualify as a sort of post-totalitarian authoritarian state, sort of like Cuba but with more capitalism.
I never had any trouble doing the Deitel samples (and programming assignments in a class using that boiok) using g++ on OS X, and I'm 99% sure they all should work on Linux.
Perhaps the problem is that the relatively lax Microsoft compiler has let you get started with bad habits that GCC doesn't accept. use "g++ -Wall blah.cpp" and keep editing and recompiling until all the warnings go away.
Be sure to use a text editor where you can turn on line numbers (and syntax coloring, if you like that), such as vim.
Which is why you don't use English, if you feel like you can memorize a passphrase in any other language; any anti-passphrase dictionary attack would probably be for English; would it be worthwhile to make them also for Dutch, Italian, Latin, and Romanized Japanese?
is that it takes longer to type. But for a highly secure system, I doubt you could beat a phrase or sentence -- particularly in an obscure language or containing obscure words, to make dictionary cracking even more difficult.
Does the fact that iTMS is iPod-only make it a nonviable service? Is Windows-only software nonviable? When you are marketing towards a very large section of a market, it's okay if your product isn't for everyone.
As has been said, get a junky PC. IA32 PC does not mean Windows; get an old one and run Unix on it, or some flavor of DOS. If you're using Linux and it's a recent computer at all, use VNC and some sort of filesharing to make it feel like part of your Mac.
That may be the kind of talking that gets you modded up on /,
But on the other hand, Enron made a lot of money too, as did Worldcom. I think AT&T may have had a decent quarterly recently.
If you don't innovate your luck will eventually run out.
What card do you have to copy a number from to do almost anything in the USA? Social Security, which has been around since the thirties. The only problem is that social security cards are not machine readable, and due to the sensitivity of the number most people just commit it to memory -- but will gladly put it at the top of their homework if asked, with only a slight groan about a possible leak. Having some machine-readable data (that the states already have and that parts of the federal government either have or could request and receive) on driver's licenses to give them some more of the functions of national ID in other countries seems like a good idea; we need to do something about counterfeiting hazards. I just hope that the mechanism for reading the data is not protected under some sort of patent; that would discourage the use of the card as machine-readable ID by third parties.
When most of their products are either worthless or a complete waste of money, Google will be like Microsoft.
...especially with math. I know the quadratic formula by heart but am as likely to screw up dividing (or take all day) as anything. I seem to recall Einstein screwed up on the easy math too. But hey, that's why they invented calculators.
The best Unix for games is still Mac OS X, which can run a lot more games natively than Linux/X86 can, and Virtual PC, while far from perfect, can as I recall run 2D DOS and Windows games reasonably well. And then there's the fact that most of the vintage Mac OS {n|6>=n=9} games.
Don't forget the UNIX games either.
Windows 98 is fairly good for older games too, but for new games that aren't OS X or Linux friendly you often just have to bite the bullet and boot into XP -- firewall it heavily and run Windows Update every time you turn it on and you should be okay. And don't use MSIE, that reduces the risks vastly.
Not if she's showing off what a woman she is. Some people still think it's the eighties or nineties.
that it runs at 30 watts, about like a Pentium M. And it's 64-bit. Can we say....
Dare I say....
Oh the Hell....
PowerBook G5!
I think a serious Linux fork would be no problem at all, thanks to the GPL. If it had features the official kernel lacked -- an almost certain proposition -- we can assume that these features would get eventually merged in. Of course, worst case scenario most Linux software can also run on BSD.
I meant to hit Plain Old Text, my preferred method of making a Slashdot comment, but I forgot.
That'why you make backups, and transfer the data to new hard drives from time to time -- a process much easier with hard disks than with DVDs, if you can afford all the hard disks.
Kind of like how bin Laden (the dirty bum) started using a backdrop for his videos after a geography/geology professor to whom the feds wouldn't listen took the precise location in Afghanistan at which one video was shot to CNN instead?
For reference: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Asimov's three laws aren't perfect but an implementation couldn't hurt for a high-level robot. The tricky part is the second clause of the first law -- any implementation of which would by necessity be very limited, the inaction clause. The first one is no problem at all, just program the robot to do nothing to harm what may reasonably and to the extent determinable from sensor outputs be a human -- for something like a Roomba, this simply entails safe hardware design. Second law is basically just an override of user input under programmer-set conditions, i.e. a safety override to keep anyone from getting hurt. This would be an automatic lawn mower turning off if it gets knocked over, even if the user pushed the button for mowing the entire yard. Third law can be seen as an extention of the second, extending the protection systems to self-protection. I don't know if a Roomba has this, bur imagine that it had a system to keep it from falling down the stairs. I seem to recall that as Asimov saw these laws in I, Robot, the priorities could be adjusted -- so that the third law might override the second. In most real-world applications, you'd want a robot's programming to protect it from suicide commands so you don't have users destroying their robots by accident.
I think the rafting one would be either The Amazon Trail or Amazon Trail II. The ecosystem is probably SimEarth or SimLife, I forget.