Not only is this not news now, this isn't even original. This happened long ago as others have pointed out, but furthermore it was done with the iPhone 2G when it was broken by a similar exploit.
Serious prior use on this one. Would have to read this closer to make sure prior use exists, but I am pretty sure it does.
In 2001, the owner of a company I contracted to requested that I track the location of a user's mouse every time it came to rest in order to improve the user experience on the website. It revealed some really interesting data that drove the design of the site. Furthermore, we started to use it to modify the search results based on user behavior. If someone hovered over a like sounding artist, but didn't click, we would compare that against what they ultimately selected and decide whether to display more of both or to eliminate the one they hovered over.
Furthermore, that type of experience existed prior to then, as it wasn't even an original idea to the company's owner. He had picked it up from user experience testing when he worked at Microsoft in the 90s.
Total prior use here, this should be denied.
Remind me, where is the wire?
The point of the law was to prevent recording someone without their consent during a private communication where the other party would not be aware of the recording.
These police officers are in public, where free speech is at its strongest, and where they can tell if someone is recording them.
Furthermore, what harm did he do to the officers by recording them? It neither interferes with their job or hurts them. The only possible interference or harm is if the police are acting incorrectly, which will be seen on the tape.
Meh.
You mean "activist judges" right? Because those would be the judges attributed with throwing out frivolous lawsuits and keeping major actions like environmental disasters which others throw out./snark
People wanting to get a slice of the action as soon as it arrives with retailers can expect to pay around $300USD - a bargain considering the R&D that has gone into the device.
Perhaps I missed something, but that is $300 USD, not $600 USD?
My only residual issue is hat my eyes get drier than they used to when it is hot and dry out or I've been staring at a computer screen to long.
I can't stress enaugh being sure to look away from the computer once in a while. Otherwise you will increase the rate at which your efes regerss.
They will regress a little bit. But not horribly so.
I went from 20/5 20/10 to 20/15 20/25. Prior to surgery my glasses had corrected me to 20/15 20/15, so the world is blurrier now... which is strange at times. But I see as well or better than mast other people.
Making sure you use the right laser tech is good. The systems that use variable sizes really make a difference. They help smooth the outer edes which reduce haloing. One of the mejor causes of that isn't so much the corneal scar -- although if you have big irises it can be a part of the cause -- but rather the pit effect on the side of the gap. If not smoothed it can create problems.
The final thing to consider is your health and your age. You will have better results if you are over 23 but under 35 or so. In such a scenario it is likely it will last 20 or so years before regressing some. Your eyes typically regress through puberty to early 20's, and every 20 years or so... 40's 60's and 80's..
The older you are the longer it takes to recover, the faster it will regress and the more it will regress.
In fact Sony knows the problem exists and you talk to the techs and they'll recall it for repair. But they charge for repair if you're out of warranty for this known problem (Mac is set up so if it's a known problem, they'll repair for free).
AND the *****'s won't recall the stupid laptop either. Real ****** if you ask me, I'll never purchase Sony anything again so long as I live. Nor anything from whatever company buys Sony out and their sh** products. Not to mention my Sony DVD Dream System Home Entertainment System (redundant names suck) has proceeded to decide not to spit the DVD's or CD's out anymore. Called Sony, they told me it was my fault and was going to cost me $183 to fix it -- All of $120 less than buying a new Sony Unit -- Not to mention it doesn't play 3/4th of the new DVD's out there.
Long story short, never buying Sony again and I got the DVD's and CD's out with a screwdriver and when I found out it was sealed inside -- a hammer.
I was pissed, what can I say.
Don't buy Sony.
If it's a laptop, buy Toshiba or IBM. All others suck... Ok, I take that back, I like Apple also.
Have a weel defined room for work. Predefine set hours to work in. Only work in those hours. Stop working outside of those hours. If you are going to extend those hours or reduce them, discuss with spouse first.
Do not work excessive hours, unless it is pre-ok'd or only temporary.
NEVER let an appointment conflict with an event of your childs. Cancel the appointment first. Always.
The Right to Advertise should not be confused with Freedom of Speech. Two vastly different worlds. You have the right to advertise, but it should be by our rules, not yours. Stifling advertisement is very unlikely to stifle freedom of speech. Unless it is written in a way so you can't tell your best buddy about new products, then it's rediculous.
Whoa, dragging up an old topic here. Missed this reply back then. But even people with ADHD can force themselves to concentrate. Sorry, but I've watched too many kids with ADHD concentrate on playing a video game without moving for ours.
You can't evesdrop on both sides of a cell phone conversation, so you are naturally annoyed at only hearing one side of a conversation. Like when you're at someones house and someone answers the phone, ever notice how annoying it is to A) not know who the person on the other end is, and B) not hear the full conversation. I know I get annoyed with "uh huh, uh huh, YAH! I wanted to have sex with him too!" WHO? WHO? WHO? Was he good?
Needless to say, the #1 annoying thing about cell phone conversations is you can't hear both sides of the conversation. The #2 item is that people talk too damn loud and need to realize they can talk normally -- but hey, people naturally raise their voices in pitch and loudness when talking on a normal phone. We've been trained to by society and technology.
I would recommend charging $1.49/song, $10.99/disc for permanent downloads. $15.00/month for temporary downloads/listening. $22.22/month for picking songs to listen to.
My research shows that's the best way to do it and would result in adequate profit.
Remember this about sales: It's not volume, quantity, or total $$ sold. It's the equilibrium value of number sold in ratio to cost. Put one item too high or another too low and you mess yourself up.
Generally when a business tries to save itself you'll see it doing lots of sells and lowering prices. It turns out that is the worst way to do things and encourages the failure of your company. In actuallity raising your prices slightly -- and sometimes drastically -- results in the best cost/performance/success ratio.
So.. after reading through about half of the drivvle posted so far, I decided most of you have absolutely no clue about the Record Industry, how it works, or what the actual profit margin with the "99c" method really is.
So, as someone who actually has not only researched it for the fun of it, but for the salvation of ones business:
1) The 99c model is inherently flawed. A large part of because how the 99c is distributed. 2) Read Billboard Magazines (www.billboard.com) latest issue, there's a great article on the price distribution of the 99c and what's actually going on. Most of my findings are reflected there. Note: The article I'm referencing appears to only be available via the Paying Member section or the actual physical article. Second Note: If you're serious about the Music Industry, you should already be reading this anyway. 3) I'd lay money down that by next February a bunch of the businesses trying to outbid Apple and get into the fray will be out of business -- and definitely so within 2 years. I'd also lay down money that Apple will have raised its price by over 10c -- the nearest price that makes any form of sense is $1.49/track. 4) In order for ANYONE to make a worthwhile profit off of the 99c model they would have to sell approximately 200 MILLION SONGS per WEEK. That means nearly 2/3rds of all Americans would have to purchase 1 song per week (current population of the US: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock) Believe me, that's a LOT. So you're saying 100,000 people are buying 5 songs/week (500,000 songs/week). If we go with that estimate, that's still 40 Million people or nearly 1/8th of the US population. That's a lot of people once you take off those w/ actual purchasing power and then those that desire music/etc... 5) The theft model of music appreciation will not entirely replace the industry -- if it did, there would be almost no new music (keep that in mind) -- except the truly dedicated. You can kiss goodbye to Ashanti/Snoop/KD Lang/Bjork/Art of Noise/Britney Spears/etc. There's a certain level where the theft model will balance out and will maintain a certain number of people fluxuating in/out at a steady rate. Sure it'll go up/down but that's the nature of it. We aren't seeing anything new here, it's just much more obvious because of the ease of the theft. 6) Good luck;)
Medication is great, in some sense. They've actually found medications that affect most people and tame them down.
As for what is ADHD? Truly, it's mostly a product of society and the environment you grew up in. If every time you got bored you found a new show or a new game, of course you're probably going to develop ADHD.
ADHD is the inability to concentrate fully on a particular subject. Society looks at this as a bad thing. A lot of us who have been diagnosed with ADHD -- whether we believe it or not -- use this "multitasking" in order to be more efficient with our work.
My recommendation? Don't get a job where you have to do one thing and can't concentrate on other stuff.
Outside of that, I found drugs to be far too aggressive and screwed me up in ways far worse than not being able to concentrate on a single subject.
In the end the choice is yours. You can force yourself to concentrate if you need to. You just have to train yourself to do that.
Actually, it's some oddity between Slashdot and Mozilla is all I can figure. None of my posts have break lines unless I intentionally place in the "br" tag.
As noted. I forgot to change my default formatting to plain text, heh. So \n is there, you just can't see it!
While someone else is asking about keyboards. I may as well throw out what I've been searching for also (almost the complete opposite):
Optional items are marked with an *.
1) 100% silent SOFT TOUCH -- almost a breeze could set it off, but NOT touchless or gesture (they drive me insane).
2) NO EXTRA KEYS. I want the normal keyset without any of those crappy windows add-on keys.
*3) Wireless (preferably with a beeper on its stand so I can hit the button and the keyboard BEEPS at me to tell me where it's at. I have a bad habbit of losing wireless keyboards)
4) NO always-on LIGHTS! And definitely no lights that are ever always on except when capslock/numlock/scroll lock is actually on.
5) Split Key/Ergonomic
6) Full Sized
7) DURABLE!!! It had better last me more than 1 year, or have a really good warranty with a reliable company. (I type way too much)
*8) Dvorak/Qwerty Swappable (hardware, not software, so yes, one extra button or key combo on the keyboard for swapping between dvorak and qwerty layouts)
I had my dream keyboard once, but it died after 4 years. It was basically the filaments inside a normal keyboard, rollable, and had a slight bubble for all the keys and the home row was in braille. It was also swappable between Dvorak and QWERTY. It was extremely light touch, if I blew on it it'd type (once in a while a problem, but rarely). I loved it, but the company had gone out of business since the time I'd purchased it (I believe they went out of business in 98 or so). The really nice thing about the keyboard was that it was really thin, but came with a gel-pad that you could mold to any shape you want and put underneath it, it slowly conformed to a shape that matched your typing patterns over time and essentially became ergonomic just for you.
Ok, I'll go back to dreaming for a keyboard I love now. I'm tired of loud clicky keyboards and have no idea why anyone would ever want one with a "nice solid keystroke" -- sorry, but that's not for me (I love silent laptop keyboards, but they tend to be too cramped). Anyway, soft touch makes a huge difference w/ my carpal tunnel *groan*.
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Not only is this not news now, this isn't even original. This happened long ago as others have pointed out, but furthermore it was done with the iPhone 2G when it was broken by a similar exploit.
Serious prior use on this one. Would have to read this closer to make sure prior use exists, but I am pretty sure it does. In 2001, the owner of a company I contracted to requested that I track the location of a user's mouse every time it came to rest in order to improve the user experience on the website. It revealed some really interesting data that drove the design of the site. Furthermore, we started to use it to modify the search results based on user behavior. If someone hovered over a like sounding artist, but didn't click, we would compare that against what they ultimately selected and decide whether to display more of both or to eliminate the one they hovered over. Furthermore, that type of experience existed prior to then, as it wasn't even an original idea to the company's owner. He had picked it up from user experience testing when he worked at Microsoft in the 90s. Total prior use here, this should be denied.
Remind me, where is the wire? The point of the law was to prevent recording someone without their consent during a private communication where the other party would not be aware of the recording. These police officers are in public, where free speech is at its strongest, and where they can tell if someone is recording them. Furthermore, what harm did he do to the officers by recording them? It neither interferes with their job or hurts them. The only possible interference or harm is if the police are acting incorrectly, which will be seen on the tape. Meh.
You mean "activist judges" right? Because those would be the judges attributed with throwing out frivolous lawsuits and keeping major actions like environmental disasters which others throw out. /snark
I had mine done last December.
My only residual issue is hat my eyes get drier than they used to when it is hot and dry out or I've been staring at a computer screen to long.
I can't stress enaugh being sure to look away from the computer once in a while. Otherwise you will increase the rate at which your efes regerss.
They will regress a little bit. But not horribly so.
I went from 20/5 20/10 to 20/15 20/25. Prior to surgery my glasses had corrected me to 20/15 20/15, so the world is blurrier now... which is strange at times. But I see as well or better than mast other people.
Making sure you use the right laser tech is good. The systems that use variable sizes really make a difference. They help smooth the outer edes which reduce haloing. One of the mejor causes of that isn't so much the corneal scar -- although if you have big irises it can be a part of the cause -- but rather the pit effect on the side of the gap. If not smoothed it can create problems.
The final thing to consider is your health and your age. You will have better results if you are over 23 but under 35 or so. In such a scenario it is likely it will last 20 or so years before regressing some. Your eyes typically regress through puberty to early 20's, and every 20 years or so... 40's 60's and 80's..
The older you are the longer it takes to recover, the faster it will regress and the more it will regress.
In fact Sony knows the problem exists and you talk to the techs and they'll recall it for repair. But they charge for repair if you're out of warranty for this known problem (Mac is set up so if it's a known problem, they'll repair for free).
AND the *****'s won't recall the stupid laptop either. Real ****** if you ask me, I'll never purchase Sony anything again so long as I live. Nor anything from whatever company buys Sony out and their sh** products. Not to mention my Sony DVD Dream System Home Entertainment System (redundant names suck) has proceeded to decide not to spit the DVD's or CD's out anymore. Called Sony, they told me it was my fault and was going to cost me $183 to fix it -- All of $120 less than buying a new Sony Unit -- Not to mention it doesn't play 3/4th of the new DVD's out there.
Long story short, never buying Sony again and I got the DVD's and CD's out with a screwdriver and when I found out it was sealed inside -- a hammer.
I was pissed, what can I say.
Don't buy Sony.
If it's a laptop, buy Toshiba or IBM. All others suck... Ok, I take that back, I like Apple also.
ARGH!
The Rules of Parenting -- for ANY Job.
Have a weel defined room for work. Predefine set hours to work in. Only work in those hours. Stop working outside of those hours. If you are going to extend those hours or reduce them, discuss with spouse first.
Do not work excessive hours, unless it is pre-ok'd or only temporary.
NEVER let an appointment conflict with an event of your childs. Cancel the appointment first. Always.
The Right to Advertise should not be confused with Freedom of Speech. Two vastly different worlds. You have the right to advertise, but it should be by our rules, not yours. Stifling advertisement is very unlikely to stifle freedom of speech. Unless it is written in a way so you can't tell your best buddy about new products, then it's rediculous.
I prefer my spam on toast.
Whoa, dragging up an old topic here. Missed this reply back then. But even people with ADHD can force themselves to concentrate. Sorry, but I've watched too many kids with ADHD concentrate on playing a video game without moving for ours.
You can't evesdrop on both sides of a cell phone conversation, so you are naturally annoyed at only hearing one side of a conversation. Like when you're at someones house and someone answers the phone, ever notice how annoying it is to A) not know who the person on the other end is, and B) not hear the full conversation. I know I get annoyed with "uh huh, uh huh, YAH! I wanted to have sex with him too!" WHO? WHO? WHO? Was he good?
Needless to say, the #1 annoying thing about cell phone conversations is you can't hear both sides of the conversation. The #2 item is that people talk too damn loud and need to realize they can talk normally -- but hey, people naturally raise their voices in pitch and loudness when talking on a normal phone. We've been trained to by society and technology.
I would recommend charging $1.49/song, $10.99/disc for permanent downloads. $15.00/month for temporary downloads/listening. $22.22/month for picking songs to listen to.
My research shows that's the best way to do it and would result in adequate profit.
Remember this about sales: It's not volume, quantity, or total $$ sold. It's the equilibrium value of number sold in ratio to cost. Put one item too high or another too low and you mess yourself up.
Generally when a business tries to save itself you'll see it doing lots of sells and lowering prices. It turns out that is the worst way to do things and encourages the failure of your company. In actuallity raising your prices slightly -- and sometimes drastically -- results in the best cost/performance/success ratio.
Good luck.
So.. after reading through about half of the drivvle posted so far, I decided most of you have absolutely no clue about the Record Industry, how it works, or what the actual profit margin with the "99c" method really is.
;)
So, as someone who actually has not only researched it for the fun of it, but for the salvation of ones business:
1) The 99c model is inherently flawed. A large part of because how the 99c is distributed.
2) Read Billboard Magazines (www.billboard.com) latest issue, there's a great article on the price distribution of the 99c and what's actually going on. Most of my findings are reflected there. Note: The article I'm referencing appears to only be available via the Paying Member section or the actual physical article. Second Note: If you're serious about the Music Industry, you should already be reading this anyway.
3) I'd lay money down that by next February a bunch of the businesses trying to outbid Apple and get into the fray will be out of business -- and definitely so within 2 years. I'd also lay down money that Apple will have raised its price by over 10c -- the nearest price that makes any form of sense is $1.49/track.
4) In order for ANYONE to make a worthwhile profit off of the 99c model they would have to sell approximately 200 MILLION SONGS per WEEK. That means nearly 2/3rds of all Americans would have to purchase 1 song per week (current population of the US: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock) Believe me, that's a LOT. So you're saying 100,000 people are buying 5 songs/week (500,000 songs/week). If we go with that estimate, that's still 40 Million people or nearly 1/8th of the US population. That's a lot of people once you take off those w/ actual purchasing power and then those that desire music/etc...
5) The theft model of music appreciation will not entirely replace the industry -- if it did, there would be almost no new music (keep that in mind) -- except the truly dedicated. You can kiss goodbye to Ashanti/Snoop/KD Lang/Bjork/Art of Noise/Britney Spears/etc. There's a certain level where the theft model will balance out and will maintain a certain number of people fluxuating in/out at a steady rate. Sure it'll go up/down but that's the nature of it. We aren't seeing anything new here, it's just much more obvious because of the ease of the theft.
6) Good luck
M/
Medication is great, in some sense. They've actually found medications that affect most people and tame them down.
As for what is ADHD? Truly, it's mostly a product of society and the environment you grew up in. If every time you got bored you found a new show or a new game, of course you're probably going to develop ADHD.
ADHD is the inability to concentrate fully on a particular subject. Society looks at this as a bad thing. A lot of us who have been diagnosed with ADHD -- whether we believe it or not -- use this "multitasking" in order to be more efficient with our work.
My recommendation? Don't get a job where you have to do one thing and can't concentrate on other stuff.
Outside of that, I found drugs to be far too aggressive and screwed me up in ways far worse than not being able to concentrate on a single subject.
In the end the choice is yours. You can force yourself to concentrate if you need to. You just have to train yourself to do that.
Actually, it's some oddity between Slashdot and Mozilla is all I can figure. None of my posts have break lines unless I intentionally place in the "br" tag.
As noted. I forgot to change my default formatting to plain text, heh. So \n is there, you just can't see it!
While someone else is asking about keyboards. I may as well throw out what I've been searching for also (almost the complete opposite): Optional items are marked with an *. 1) 100% silent SOFT TOUCH -- almost a breeze could set it off, but NOT touchless or gesture (they drive me insane). 2) NO EXTRA KEYS. I want the normal keyset without any of those crappy windows add-on keys. *3) Wireless (preferably with a beeper on its stand so I can hit the button and the keyboard BEEPS at me to tell me where it's at. I have a bad habbit of losing wireless keyboards) 4) NO always-on LIGHTS! And definitely no lights that are ever always on except when capslock/numlock/scroll lock is actually on. 5) Split Key/Ergonomic 6) Full Sized 7) DURABLE!!! It had better last me more than 1 year, or have a really good warranty with a reliable company. (I type way too much) *8) Dvorak/Qwerty Swappable (hardware, not software, so yes, one extra button or key combo on the keyboard for swapping between dvorak and qwerty layouts) I had my dream keyboard once, but it died after 4 years. It was basically the filaments inside a normal keyboard, rollable, and had a slight bubble for all the keys and the home row was in braille. It was also swappable between Dvorak and QWERTY. It was extremely light touch, if I blew on it it'd type (once in a while a problem, but rarely). I loved it, but the company had gone out of business since the time I'd purchased it (I believe they went out of business in 98 or so). The really nice thing about the keyboard was that it was really thin, but came with a gel-pad that you could mold to any shape you want and put underneath it, it slowly conformed to a shape that matched your typing patterns over time and essentially became ergonomic just for you. Ok, I'll go back to dreaming for a keyboard I love now. I'm tired of loud clicky keyboards and have no idea why anyone would ever want one with a "nice solid keystroke" -- sorry, but that's not for me (I love silent laptop keyboards, but they tend to be too cramped). Anyway, soft touch makes a huge difference w/ my carpal tunnel *groan*.