I'm a grad student in communications (information and communication technology, MS...;) and I've never, ever heard a proper development of that all too often quoted phrase "the medium is the message"
ex: if I use a telephone to call my friend to tell her I'm coming over...in the context of that quote, is "telephone" the message? no!
No, but that call that you made to your friend would never have occurred had the telephone not been invented, and so the existence of the telephone is fundamentally more important than the banal conversation that you might have with it...which is, in a nutshell, the point.
Regardless, my point wasn't that there's this Marshall McLuhan quote that people like to use, it was that the GP's overstatement that "comm theory" would proclaim that "technology doesn't fundamentally change communication" is entirely dependent on the communications theorist with which you are talking.
It is similar in the US, though many companies do tend to honor mislabeled prices, as long as the difference isn't too ridiculous. This story, however, concerns Australian law...
nobody is interested because 99% of it is BS anyway. Do you think listening to Bush's radio address will actually make you more informed about facts or about inane talking points that'll be repeated by news shows as "news" anyway? Give the public actual information and I think you'll find them more interested
In short it means that these institutions guard the campaign parties and monitor their internet.
Or it means that somebody hacked into Obama's account and tried to sell the info to the White House, and somebody else hacked into McCain's account and tried to bribe the White House...
I would return the game to wherever I purchased it and ask for a replacement since the product is defective.
I think it's just made the rounds on the news sites over the past few days because EA actually suggested guessing the last digit. It's an oddly human response from a large corporate entity. I might return it, but honestly, it'd be quicker to just guess the number rather than driving all the way back to the store, arguing with the manager over the "no software returns" policy, marveling at the fact that nobody in the store had heard of this problem, given the fact that it's been on Digg, Reddit, Ars, and Slashdot, and driving all the way back home...
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The phone isn't rooted. Rooted means someone gained root access through an exploit and/or installed a root kit. Running telnetd and then connecting as root is a normal method of logging in, no exploits required.
Well, given that it's a device that isn't designed to be root-accessible by the user, this did require somebody to do something that the manufacturer didn't intend in order to gain root access.
I don't know that many people would call an iPod Touch a PDA...I think the term PDA has more to do with its intended use rather than any actual physical capabilities.
People might waste bandwidth downloading podcasts in podcaster, the forthcoming 2.2 firmware that allows podcast downloads, and then also on the itunes system they manage the thing with.
I hadn't heard that 2.2 was going to include podcast downloads. That's fantastic. It also explains why they shut down Podcaster, because Apple doesn't allow you to compete with their apps on the iPhone.
How in the world are they detecting these? If I live on the 80th floor of a building in New York, are they going to detect my access point? Maybe London just has more lower buildings where wifi can be detected from the ground.
Or nobody will use them because they know they are being monitored. The summary says usage will be tracked...it's like some sort of sick science experiment. Here's a game system, but we're going to monitor your usage. Oh, and the Company execs may be egainst the whole idea, so next time layoffs come around, the guy who plays the most games loses his job. Brilliant. Why not just hand out the game systems as bonuses, and let them bring them home?
That's like arguing against the J2ME platform because all those phones are different and have different features.
That's an excellent argument against the J2ME platform, and I've developed applications for J2ME, Android, and iPhone. With iPod Touch and iPhone, at least you have a good idea of the baseline capabilities of the device you're developing for. With J2ME, the devices are so different--and the providers configure them so differently--that you develop and test on a handful of different phones, finally get it to work on all of them, send it to a friend with yet another phone, and...it doesn't work. So you figure out what's wrong on his phone, and then you send it to another friend...and...it doesn't work. It's horribly frustrating. At least with the iPhone, you know if it works on your 3G iPhone, and it works on your original iPhone, it'll work everywhere. Hopefully Android will turn out to be somewhat similar. We'll only really know when there are a number of different Android phones available from different companies and different providers.
If somebody takes a loan they can't afford and loses their house to forclosure, it's their own fault. When a bank gives out enough bad loans that the bank goes out of business, it's the bank's fault. But when the entire system goes haywire to the point that people who had nothing to do with it are losing money and jobs, it's the government's fault. Blaim the government. And then go vote in somebody better.
I got about a quarter of the way down, and realized it wasn't worth continuing...
but the ISP or hosting company generally won't tell you the identity of their customer who has leased it from them...So the court's statement that a database search "can eventually lead" to contact information is correct only if you clarify that it "can" lead there, but it usually won't.
Unless, of course, you have a subpoena, in which case the ISP or hosting company will most certainly tell you. And they will likely do a database search on their own system prior to telling you. If you're trying to be anonymous, you generally want to be anonymous from the government, too...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. There are too many deletion-happy admins at Wikipedia speedy deleting way too many pages that people have put a lot of effort into. And the deletion review process is a crock. The people who regularly check in on deletion review pages are the same people who delete as many pages as they can, so they will almost always vote for a page to stay deleted. Anybody else who speaks up in support of a page will get ignored because they're not one of the group, and if they're not an active Wikipedia member, they'll get labeled a sock-puppet, whether or not there's any evidence whatsoever that they are not a real person. And in my experience, the admins consider online-sources to be non-notable, and print sources to be too difficult to track down, so it's a catch-22. It makes creating pages on Wikipedia far more effort than it's worth.
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I'm a grad student in communications (information and communication technology, MS...;) and I've never, ever heard a proper development of that all too often quoted phrase "the medium is the message"
Seriously? You know he wrote several books on the topic, right? Understanding Media for one, and for the lighter-hearted reader, The Medium is the Massage
ex: if I use a telephone to call my friend to tell her I'm coming over...in the context of that quote, is "telephone" the message? no!
No, but that call that you made to your friend would never have occurred had the telephone not been invented, and so the existence of the telephone is fundamentally more important than the banal conversation that you might have with it...which is, in a nutshell, the point.
Regardless, my point wasn't that there's this Marshall McLuhan quote that people like to use, it was that the GP's overstatement that "comm theory" would proclaim that "technology doesn't fundamentally change communication" is entirely dependent on the communications theorist with which you are talking.
It is similar in the US, though many companies do tend to honor mislabeled prices, as long as the difference isn't too ridiculous. This story, however, concerns Australian law...
nobody is interested because 99% of it is BS anyway. Do you think listening to Bush's radio address will actually make you more informed about facts or about inane talking points that'll be repeated by news shows as "news" anyway? Give the public actual information and I think you'll find them more interested
unless your theory happens to be that of Marshall McLuhan, in which case the technology (medium) defines (is) the communication (the message)
well, aywwts4 is clearly a hard drive manufacturer.
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Sorry, I couldn't resist...
In short it means that these institutions guard the campaign parties and monitor their internet.
Or it means that somebody hacked into Obama's account and tried to sell the info to the White House, and somebody else hacked into McCain's account and tried to bribe the White House...
I would return the game to wherever I purchased it and ask for a replacement since the product is defective.
I think it's just made the rounds on the news sites over the past few days because EA actually suggested guessing the last digit. It's an oddly human response from a large corporate entity. I might return it, but honestly, it'd be quicker to just guess the number rather than driving all the way back to the store, arguing with the manager over the "no software returns" policy, marveling at the fact that nobody in the store had heard of this problem, given the fact that it's been on Digg, Reddit, Ars, and Slashdot, and driving all the way back home...
The phone isn't rooted. Rooted means someone gained root access through an exploit and/or installed a root kit. Running telnetd and then connecting as root is a normal method of logging in, no exploits required.
Well, given that it's a device that isn't designed to be root-accessible by the user, this did require somebody to do something that the manufacturer didn't intend in order to gain root access.
A smartphone without the phone is called a PDA
I don't know that many people would call an iPod Touch a PDA...I think the term PDA has more to do with its intended use rather than any actual physical capabilities.
either, I suppose...
When microsoft do this, the EC and USA antimonopoly courts sue them to a fare-thee-well. I'm waiting for them to do it to apple.
Apple would have to have a monopoly first.
People might waste bandwidth downloading podcasts in podcaster, the forthcoming 2.2 firmware that allows podcast downloads, and then also on the itunes system they manage the thing with.
I hadn't heard that 2.2 was going to include podcast downloads. That's fantastic. It also explains why they shut down Podcaster, because Apple doesn't allow you to compete with their apps on the iPhone.
I think it's because Microsoft has, or at least had, a near monopoly on the OS market. That changes things.
How in the world are they detecting these? If I live on the 80th floor of a building in New York, are they going to detect my access point? Maybe London just has more lower buildings where wifi can be detected from the ground.
Or nobody will use them because they know they are being monitored. The summary says usage will be tracked...it's like some sort of sick science experiment. Here's a game system, but we're going to monitor your usage. Oh, and the Company execs may be egainst the whole idea, so next time layoffs come around, the guy who plays the most games loses his job. Brilliant. Why not just hand out the game systems as bonuses, and let them bring them home?
That's like arguing against the J2ME platform because all those phones are different and have different features.
That's an excellent argument against the J2ME platform, and I've developed applications for J2ME, Android, and iPhone. With iPod Touch and iPhone, at least you have a good idea of the baseline capabilities of the device you're developing for. With J2ME, the devices are so different--and the providers configure them so differently--that you develop and test on a handful of different phones, finally get it to work on all of them, send it to a friend with yet another phone, and...it doesn't work. So you figure out what's wrong on his phone, and then you send it to another friend...and...it doesn't work. It's horribly frustrating. At least with the iPhone, you know if it works on your 3G iPhone, and it works on your original iPhone, it'll work everywhere. Hopefully Android will turn out to be somewhat similar. We'll only really know when there are a number of different Android phones available from different companies and different providers.
Its interesting how so called free countries are rushing towards censorship, control and out right Big Brother, faster than so called bad countries.
Well, 9-11 9-11 9-11. 9-11 9-11 9-11, 9-11. "9-11". Fear, 9-11. Uncertainty, 9-11. Doubt, 9-11.
Not always. You can't pick IE6 AND Vista.
Thank God.
If somebody takes a loan they can't afford and loses their house to forclosure, it's their own fault. When a bank gives out enough bad loans that the bank goes out of business, it's the bank's fault. But when the entire system goes haywire to the point that people who had nothing to do with it are losing money and jobs, it's the government's fault. Blaim the government. And then go vote in somebody better.
so, government is ok when it ILLEGALLY wiretaps its citizens, but its not ok when the citizen does it ?
Pretty much, yeah. Where have you been the last 8 years?
I got about a quarter of the way down, and realized it wasn't worth continuing...
but the ISP or hosting company generally won't tell you the identity of their customer who has leased it from them...So the court's statement that a database search "can eventually lead" to contact information is correct only if you clarify that it "can" lead there, but it usually won't.
Unless, of course, you have a subpoena, in which case the ISP or hosting company will most certainly tell you. And they will likely do a database search on their own system prior to telling you. If you're trying to be anonymous, you generally want to be anonymous from the government, too...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. There are too many deletion-happy admins at Wikipedia speedy deleting way too many pages that people have put a lot of effort into. And the deletion review process is a crock. The people who regularly check in on deletion review pages are the same people who delete as many pages as they can, so they will almost always vote for a page to stay deleted. Anybody else who speaks up in support of a page will get ignored because they're not one of the group, and if they're not an active Wikipedia member, they'll get labeled a sock-puppet, whether or not there's any evidence whatsoever that they are not a real person. And in my experience, the admins consider online-sources to be non-notable, and print sources to be too difficult to track down, so it's a catch-22. It makes creating pages on Wikipedia far more effort than it's worth.
I always wondered why there were no moths in outer space. This explains everything!
I've always wondered why the elderly are so keen on mothballs. Were there more moths around 75 years ago?
Humor attempted, seems failed.
Indeed. I wasn't even sure if you were kidding...I was about to mention that Spectroscopy can be done just fine at a distance...