"When the bomb came down, it said, `Whee!'" "Whee!" "`Here I am to put you out of your pain and suffering.'" "Whee!" "`Your mental anguish.'" "Whee!" "`You won't have to worry about me anymore.'" "Whee!" "`Here I am to solve all your problems.'" "Whee!" "And then the bomb said, `Boom.'" "Boooooom!" "And then..." "And then?" "And then they dropped another." "Whee!" "And another." "Whee!" "Boom, boom." "It did not make me happy." "Not happy." "I tried to run." "To run?" "I tried to hide." "To hide?" "But you know." "Nowhere to hide. Nowhere to run to." "I had to do something." "What did you do?" "I did a little dance." "Whee!" "It was a simple dance." "Boom!" "It made my feet hot." "Whee!" "It kept me moving." "Boom, boom!" "I found..." "Yes?" "I had nothing new to say..." "Oh!" "On the subject." "Whee!" "Except:" "Yes?" "Keep moving." "Boom, boom." "One step forward." "Whee!" "One step back." "Boom." "A silly dance..." "Whee!" "Is better than..." "Whee!" "A cynical dance." "Boom, boom."
My first thought was Johnny Mnemonic (information couriers that don't know what they're transporting). Then sleeper agents (took awhile to associate to the series "My Own Worst Enemy"). Then Men In Black and the neuralizer.
PROTIP: turn on the camera on your phone, then point the emitter of an IR remote (such as TV remote) at the lens. Press a button and see the magic!
That is in fact useful for determining whether it is your remote or the IR sensor in the device that has gone bad before investing in a replacement remote (particularly if it is a Sony device).
And that's why when you patent an interdiction technology, you should also patent the method for defeating that technology. That way you can sue everyone for infringement.
BTW, TiVo stumbled upon something similar accidentally. A Series2 or earlier TiVo that needs to control an external tuner via IR cannot not do so if it is being exposed to infrared light. It delays sending the signal until the common IR signaling bus is clear. So if you had IR remote repeaters that were prone to RF interference, you might not record what you had intended. Since it was the TiVo being affected, not the cable box, no amount of tenting the cable box would help. (One recording of mine didn't change the channel for 55 minutes, so I only caught the last 5 minutes of the program.) This however wouldn't qualify as prior art.
"Out-of-band" isn't even the correct term. If it was out-of-band, it would be pushed through an alternate channel or medium parallel to the usual release, like mailing the keys you need to decrypt the downloaded patches through postal mail, or like how CSS can be served independently from the HTML document as opposed to inline presentation HTML tags.
What it is is "out-of-schedule" or simply "unscheduled". Some PHB heard of the existing term "out-of-band" and decided that that's what this would be called without understanding, knowing, or even caring about the established meaning.
The data could be associated to a non-reversible hash of identity information disclosed only to you. You tell them to delete all data associated with the hash. Technically it isn't anonymous, it's pseudonymous: the hash is your pseudonym.
It can be worse. What if Apple matches your copy with the Greatest Hits version, which may have verses omitted? What if your copy has profanities intact and you get "I want to ____ you like an animal" back? Even perusing the copies of "Brimful of Asha" on iTunes, only one of Cornershop's releases available on iTunes was at the correct pitch and duration; all the others are slightly accelerated. (It is apparently quite common for songs be time-compressed to fit the media.) I doubt many would want to risk losing their rare studio tracks by having them replaced with the common mass-media release. Your vinyl rip of Buckner & Garcia's Pac-Man Fever album could be replaced with the CD remastering since Apple doesn't carry ripped vinyl.
Judging by how often iTunes gets downloaded album art completely wrong, I'm not sure I'd want them replacing my content with what they think they have matched by audio fingerprint.
Maybe they'll license the song for their ads and have him re-record it with the altered lyrics. He could use the money.
I had a dream, I had an awesome dream People in the park Playing games in the dark And what they played Was a masquerade From behind the walls of doubt A voice was crying out...
"Wii would like to play."
Wii U, Wii Mii Play it for always That's the way it should be Wii U, Wii Mii Play it together Naturally
So, where in the XBOX 360 do I plug in the CableCARD, or will it be via another add-on USB device? And will I still be at the whims of a cable company's Switched Digital Video tuning adapter over what channels I will be able to tune when I want or will support for that be included (and will it function reliably)?
I ask because Time Warner Cable seems to want to sabotage any DVR that isn't their own, designing unreliability into their cable boxes and tuning adapters to that end. (And they don't support HBO GO either.)
The application is called the ElcomSoft Phone Password Breaker and costs around $320 for the Professional edition.
So this is not going to be another way to get your own apps onto the iPhone without jailbreaking, but rather reducing to a $320 barrier and sufficient period of time of your not having possession of your iPhone modulo the weakness of your passcode to your plausible deniability that someone has planted something on or used your iPhone for nefarious purposes without your knowledge.
Remember, the answer to the question "Has this item ever left your sight?" is always "Of course it has." The question is to establish your liability for the contents therein.
Interesting. So the low price for a high demand item exceeded Amazon's capacity to deliver. So Amazon should have... charged more, reducing the demand, so that they'd have the capacity to deliver?
Charge more for less service to throttle the demand to your capacity, or pay more to upgrade service so you can charge less and hope the volume of sales maximizing demand covers the cost of the upgrade in service.
Is balancing this equation why broadband speeds in the US aren't increasing as fast as other countries'?
You're not considering uniqueness for abbreviation purposes.
Anyway, next will likely be something starting with X, such as Xerta- (and xekto- (10^-27) and Xerbi- (2^90)), and continuing to work backwards through the alphabet, skipping T as it is already taken.
I expect there to be a fight over who gets naming rights for 10^±30 and 2^100 with resistance to using W for various reasons.
Also we're not beyond using characters not in our 26 letter set. See micro-.
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AppleGeeks 170: Do Not Eat
So does this mean PPC Mac users are now cut off?
Because they invented the concept and had already rejected it?
"When the bomb came down, it said, `Whee!'" "Whee!"
"`Here I am to put you out of your pain and suffering.'" "Whee!"
"`Your mental anguish.'" "Whee!"
"`You won't have to worry about me anymore.'" "Whee!"
"`Here I am to solve all your problems.'" "Whee!"
"And then the bomb said, `Boom.'"
"Boooooom!"
"And then..." "And then?"
"And then they dropped another." "Whee!"
"And another." "Whee!"
"Boom, boom."
"It did not make me happy." "Not happy."
"I tried to run." "To run?"
"I tried to hide." "To hide?"
"But you know."
"Nowhere to hide. Nowhere to run to."
"I had to do something." "What did you do?"
"I did a little dance." "Whee!"
"It was a simple dance." "Boom!"
"It made my feet hot." "Whee!"
"It kept me moving." "Boom, boom!"
"I found..." "Yes?"
"I had nothing new to say..." "Oh!"
"On the subject." "Whee!"
"Except:" "Yes?"
"Keep moving."
"Boom, boom."
"One step forward." "Whee!"
"One step back."
"Boom."
"A silly dance..." "Whee!"
"Is better than..." "Whee!"
"A cynical dance."
"Boom, boom."
This is equivalent to hoping that you could fix with software the failure of a CPU.... Not likely to work.
That would depend on the nature of the failure. Have you heard of the Pentium F00F bug?
My first thought was Johnny Mnemonic (information couriers that don't know what they're transporting). Then sleeper agents (took awhile to associate to the series "My Own Worst Enemy"). Then Men In Black and the neuralizer.
I think I need to rewatch Eternal Sunshine....
PROTIP: turn on the camera on your phone, then point the emitter of an IR remote (such as TV remote) at the lens. Press a button and see the magic!
That is in fact useful for determining whether it is your remote or the IR sensor in the device that has gone bad before investing in a replacement remote (particularly if it is a Sony device).
And that's why when you patent an interdiction technology, you should also patent the method for defeating that technology. That way you can sue everyone for infringement.
BTW, TiVo stumbled upon something similar accidentally. A Series2 or earlier TiVo that needs to control an external tuner via IR cannot not do so if it is being exposed to infrared light. It delays sending the signal until the common IR signaling bus is clear. So if you had IR remote repeaters that were prone to RF interference, you might not record what you had intended. Since it was the TiVo being affected, not the cable box, no amount of tenting the cable box would help. (One recording of mine didn't change the channel for 55 minutes, so I only caught the last 5 minutes of the program.) This however wouldn't qualify as prior art.
"Out-of-band" isn't even the correct term. If it was out-of-band, it would be pushed through an alternate channel or medium parallel to the usual release, like mailing the keys you need to decrypt the downloaded patches through postal mail, or like how CSS can be served independently from the HTML document as opposed to inline presentation HTML tags.
What it is is "out-of-schedule" or simply "unscheduled". Some PHB heard of the existing term "out-of-band" and decided that that's what this would be called without understanding, knowing, or even caring about the established meaning.
The data could be associated to a non-reversible hash of identity information disclosed only to you. You tell them to delete all data associated with the hash. Technically it isn't anonymous, it's pseudonymous: the hash is your pseudonym.
Indeed, let us know when a bill prohibits the prostitution of our personal information for services.
Let us observe a moment of silence, please, for the death of the knowledge on how to use a hyphen properly.
So now they're pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow, pow-pow-pow-pow, pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-powerwheels!
And what's a "solider"?
It can be worse. What if Apple matches your copy with the Greatest Hits version, which may have verses omitted? What if your copy has profanities intact and you get "I want to ____ you like an animal" back? Even perusing the copies of "Brimful of Asha" on iTunes, only one of Cornershop's releases available on iTunes was at the correct pitch and duration; all the others are slightly accelerated. (It is apparently quite common for songs be time-compressed to fit the media.) I doubt many would want to risk losing their rare studio tracks by having them replaced with the common mass-media release. Your vinyl rip of Buckner & Garcia's Pac-Man Fever album could be replaced with the CD remastering since Apple doesn't carry ripped vinyl.
Judging by how often iTunes gets downloaded album art completely wrong, I'm not sure I'd want them replacing my content with what they think they have matched by audio fingerprint.
It's not a typo.
As in "to kill"?
Galactica 1980 re-enactments.
Maybe they'll license the song for their ads and have him re-record it with the altered lyrics. He could use the money.
I had a dream,
I had an awesome dream
People in the park
Playing games in the dark
And what they played
Was a masquerade
From behind the walls of doubt
A voice was crying out...
"Wii would like to play."
Wii U, Wii Mii
Play it for always
That's the way it should be
Wii U, Wii Mii
Play it together
Naturally
So, where in the XBOX 360 do I plug in the CableCARD, or will it be via another add-on USB device? And will I still be at the whims of a cable company's Switched Digital Video tuning adapter over what channels I will be able to tune when I want or will support for that be included (and will it function reliably)?
I ask because Time Warner Cable seems to want to sabotage any DVR that isn't their own, designing unreliability into their cable boxes and tuning adapters to that end. (And they don't support HBO GO either.)
scientists finally found the "missing mass"; it was the packing materials of their scientific instruments!
How sad that the only posted reference to Douglas Adams's solution sits alone, uncommented upon, and posted AC.
The application is called the ElcomSoft Phone Password Breaker and costs around $320 for the Professional edition.
So this is not going to be another way to get your own apps onto the iPhone without jailbreaking, but rather reducing to a $320 barrier and sufficient period of time of your not having possession of your iPhone modulo the weakness of your passcode to your plausible deniability that someone has planted something on or used your iPhone for nefarious purposes without your knowledge.
Remember, the answer to the question "Has this item ever left your sight?" is always "Of course it has." The question is to establish your liability for the contents therein.
Interesting. So the low price for a high demand item exceeded Amazon's capacity to deliver. So Amazon should have... charged more, reducing the demand, so that they'd have the capacity to deliver?
Charge more for less service to throttle the demand to your capacity, or pay more to upgrade service so you can charge less and hope the volume of sales maximizing demand covers the cost of the upgrade in service.
Is balancing this equation why broadband speeds in the US aren't increasing as fast as other countries'?
The Rapture happened: everyone was left behind.
So how do Disney and the Kipling estate feel about the Mowgli character name being used for war purposes?
The vast majority of this data isn't stored.
Contrary to legislative intent.
You're not considering uniqueness for abbreviation purposes.
Anyway, next will likely be something starting with X, such as Xerta- (and xekto- (10^-27) and Xerbi- (2^90)), and continuing to work backwards through the alphabet, skipping T as it is already taken.
I expect there to be a fight over who gets naming rights for 10^±30 and 2^100 with resistance to using W for various reasons.
Also we're not beyond using characters not in our 26 letter set. See micro-.