Take the books home, and scan them with a flat bed scanner.
Who has time to scan the couple thousand pages in all of the books for all of the classes in which the typical college student is enrolled? Even with a relatively quick scanner, that would take forever...
If somebody was posting ads on Craigslist that said, "I will have sex with you at your home in exchange for $150", and the Craigslist admins knew about it and ignored it - There would be a problem.
Isn't there some sort of legal exclusion for user-generated content? I thought, while the user can be held liable, as long as Craigslist employees aren't doing the posting, they're not legally responsible for content posted by their users? Just like Slashdot wouldn't be liable if I post DeCSS or something along those lines.
For 150 dollars an hour, a lawyer will never tell you any idea of yours is bad, even if it's suing McDonalds because your hot coffee is (gasp!) HOT, and should not have been poured all over your crotch.
To be fair, that lady initially just wanted McDonalds to pay her medical bills. Had McDonalds just done the nice thing and quietly paid her the few hundred or few thousand dollars rather than forcing her to file a lawsuit, they would have saved themselves millions of dollars.
Contrary to popular belief, the main purpose of most government spending is simply to create new money. This allows subsequent credit expansion and "growth".
That theory starts to break down when the money your government is spending actually belongs to China...
I'm not sure who are more dangerous, those that don't update because they don't know what updates are, or those that don't update because they're too paranoid about corporations whose software they already use to allow that software to be patched against demonstrated security issues.
What about those of us who don't update because we're too lazy?
Right, if only we had some sort of inexpensive way of signing a document, and then producing some sort of copy of that document at a different location, in a relatively short period of time. You know, some sort of facsimile device that could use some sort of transmission medium...I don't know, we could call it a "telephone line"...to transmit data that could tell a second facsimile device on the other end of the line how to reproduce a document. Too bad... We'll just have to go with the robotic arm. I wonder if it comes with a secondary robotic arm to hold the paper still...
With book tours, people don't just want their book signed, they want to have their 15 seconds to talk to the author.
Realistically, I suppose I'd be more likely to head down to the book store to see the weird robotic arm signing books than to talk with some random author I've never heard of.
Actually, virtual memory and swappable memory are not the same thing. Virtual memory just means that non-contiguous sections of physical memory are presented to applications by the OS as if they were contiguous. Disk swapping is made possible by virtual memory, but virtual memory does not have to include swap space.
Having read the iPhone Memory Management guide a number of times, I can assure you that that the iPhone's virtual memory model does not include disk swapping. The Apple documentation says exactly this.
iPhones can run multiple apps, but the public SDK does not allow developers to write apps that run in the background. Apple can certainly write apps that run in the background, though. The music service, for one. The phone service, etc. Additionally, developers for jailbroken phones can run applications in the background because they're not constrained by the official SDK.
then i guess i am unlucky. every windows XP, and vista install I have seen has been horrendously buggy, with processes like explorer.exe and iexplore.exe crashing at least once a day.
Then you must have bad hardware or have been infected with malware of some sort, because in my experience, Windows is every bit as stable as OSX, and I use both frequently. But I do think many PC manufacturers tend to use second-rate hardware. I haven't bought a pre-assembled Windows machine in probably 12 years or so primarily for that reason. If you build a PC with hardware as good as what you find in a Mac, you'll have a stable machine. That said, when notebooks are concerned, I wouldn't trade my Macbook Pro for any Windows notebook I've ever seen.
I've always found it interesting that Adbusters does actually contain advertisements. Not many, but they do have ads for, like, shoes made from recycled tires or something... It is an interesting magazine, if you can find it, though.
The old 'viruses only target popular platforms' meme relies on the assumption that every platform is exactly secure as every other platform, and that is provably false.
Actually, I didn't say anything about viruses only targeting popular platforms. I said "for the most part, nobody is really writing viruses for OSX", which is true. There are far more viruses being written for Windows. I didn't attempt to explain the reason for that, though. It could be that Windows s more popular, or it could be, as you suggest, that OSX is more secure, and thus virus writers gravitate to the less secure platform. I don't know (or care). I would have to think that it's a mixture of the two, to be honest. There's more software in general for more popular platforms, so it's no huge surprise that there would also be more viruses.
Why do you think Apple users don't use virus scanners or real firewalls?
Because, for the most part, nobody is really writing viruses for OSX, so protecting against them is largely a waste of time? Then again, if you don't download shady software on Windows, you're not going to have a problem with viruses, either...
How can you say that? In Chicago, we now get an entire channel dedicated to skiing. Just skiing. Not "winter sports". Not snowboarding. Skiing. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week of skiing. Who wouldn't want that colossal waste of bandwidth? Thanks, NBC!
One reason I don't understand TFA is that the punctuation is all over the place... What the hell is up with this sentence:
"The most powerful console of the next generation is a console that you can install Linux on but for most Linux is too complicated, for a short time there was quite a few BD-J Homebrew releases which used a exploit in the java on the PS3 to release games and some emulators on the PS3, this was killed off by Sony when they released a new firmware.
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Take the books home, and scan them with a flat bed scanner.
Who has time to scan the couple thousand pages in all of the books for all of the classes in which the typical college student is enrolled? Even with a relatively quick scanner, that would take forever...
If somebody was posting ads on Craigslist that said, "I will have sex with you at your home in exchange for $150", and the Craigslist admins knew about it and ignored it - There would be a problem.
Isn't there some sort of legal exclusion for user-generated content? I thought, while the user can be held liable, as long as Craigslist employees aren't doing the posting, they're not legally responsible for content posted by their users? Just like Slashdot wouldn't be liable if I post DeCSS or something along those lines.
And Mumbai just proved itself a less desirable place to live than the East Village. No big surprise there...
For 150 dollars an hour, a lawyer will never tell you any idea of yours is bad, even if it's suing McDonalds because your hot coffee is (gasp!) HOT, and should not have been poured all over your crotch.
To be fair, that lady initially just wanted McDonalds to pay her medical bills. Had McDonalds just done the nice thing and quietly paid her the few hundred or few thousand dollars rather than forcing her to file a lawsuit, they would have saved themselves millions of dollars.
Contrary to popular belief, the main purpose of most government spending is simply to create new money. This allows subsequent credit expansion and "growth".
That theory starts to break down when the money your government is spending actually belongs to China...
I'm not sure who are more dangerous, those that don't update because they don't know what updates are, or those that don't update because they're too paranoid about corporations whose software they already use to allow that software to be patched against demonstrated security issues.
What about those of us who don't update because we're too lazy?
Agreed. Small download. Quick start-up. Never had a problem. Foxit rocks.
Right, if only we had some sort of inexpensive way of signing a document, and then producing some sort of copy of that document at a different location, in a relatively short period of time. You know, some sort of facsimile device that could use some sort of transmission medium...I don't know, we could call it a "telephone line"...to transmit data that could tell a second facsimile device on the other end of the line how to reproduce a document. Too bad... We'll just have to go with the robotic arm. I wonder if it comes with a secondary robotic arm to hold the paper still...
With book tours, people don't just want their book signed, they want to have their 15 seconds to talk to the author.
Realistically, I suppose I'd be more likely to head down to the book store to see the weird robotic arm signing books than to talk with some random author I've never heard of.
Actually, virtual memory and swappable memory are not the same thing. Virtual memory just means that non-contiguous sections of physical memory are presented to applications by the OS as if they were contiguous. Disk swapping is made possible by virtual memory, but virtual memory does not have to include swap space.
Having read the iPhone Memory Management guide a number of times, I can assure you that that the iPhone's virtual memory model does not include disk swapping. The Apple documentation says exactly this.
Will you be able to receive Skype calls without the app running?
no
(the iPhone doesn't enable swapping, I believe).
That is correct. The iPhone's virtual memory model does not include swapping.
iPhones can run multiple apps, but the public SDK does not allow developers to write apps that run in the background. Apple can certainly write apps that run in the background, though. The music service, for one. The phone service, etc. Additionally, developers for jailbroken phones can run applications in the background because they're not constrained by the official SDK.
then i guess i am unlucky. every windows XP, and vista install I have seen has been horrendously buggy, with processes like explorer.exe and iexplore.exe crashing at least once a day.
Then you must have bad hardware or have been infected with malware of some sort, because in my experience, Windows is every bit as stable as OSX, and I use both frequently. But I do think many PC manufacturers tend to use second-rate hardware. I haven't bought a pre-assembled Windows machine in probably 12 years or so primarily for that reason. If you build a PC with hardware as good as what you find in a Mac, you'll have a stable machine. That said, when notebooks are concerned, I wouldn't trade my Macbook Pro for any Windows notebook I've ever seen.
Agreed. And, just in time, the Apple Developer site is down... "We are busy updating the site. Please check back soon."
Can't wait to try it out, though.
I've always found it interesting that Adbusters does actually contain advertisements. Not many, but they do have ads for, like, shoes made from recycled tires or something... It is an interesting magazine, if you can find it, though.
The old 'viruses only target popular platforms' meme relies on the assumption that every platform is exactly secure as every other platform, and that is provably false.
Actually, I didn't say anything about viruses only targeting popular platforms. I said "for the most part, nobody is really writing viruses for OSX", which is true. There are far more viruses being written for Windows. I didn't attempt to explain the reason for that, though. It could be that Windows s more popular, or it could be, as you suggest, that OSX is more secure, and thus virus writers gravitate to the less secure platform. I don't know (or care). I would have to think that it's a mixture of the two, to be honest. There's more software in general for more popular platforms, so it's no huge surprise that there would also be more viruses.
And we wonder why China is becoming so powerful? They're making physical goods, and freely recreating our virtual goods.
Yeah, it couldn't be the 1.3 billion citizens...
Why do you think Apple users don't use virus scanners or real firewalls?
Because, for the most part, nobody is really writing viruses for OSX, so protecting against them is largely a waste of time? Then again, if you don't download shady software on Windows, you're not going to have a problem with viruses, either...
However, the programs still suck,
How can you say that? In Chicago, we now get an entire channel dedicated to skiing. Just skiing. Not "winter sports". Not snowboarding. Skiing. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week of skiing. Who wouldn't want that colossal waste of bandwidth? Thanks, NBC!
One reason I don't understand TFA is that the punctuation is all over the place... What the hell is up with this sentence:
"The most powerful console of the next generation is a console that you can install Linux on but for most Linux is too complicated, for a short time there was quite a few BD-J Homebrew releases which used a exploit in the java on the PS3 to release games and some emulators on the PS3, this was killed off by Sony when they released a new firmware.
Of course they're going to pass the fees on to customers. What else are they going to do, hold a bake sale?
It won't be able to keep up technically, but the iPhone will have a significantly larger existing user base.
That is, pretty succinctly, the problem with calculating lost revenue by adding up all of the pirated copies...