Yes, sorry, that was the US estimate of strictly US military casualties. Obviously North Korean military casualties and civilian casualties on both sides would make that number vastly higher.
I also think Iraq has been invaded and North Korea hasn't been yet is due to North Korea having claimed to posses nuclear weapons and Iraq denying the same.
It's much more that the North Korea/South Korea border is the most heavily militarized location in the world. The US estimated that if we were to invade North Korea, there would be more than 50,000 casualties in the first three months of fighting.
At least for me. Whenever I tried to use it the results I got weren't that great at all. By searching a few other sites I was often able to find cheaper prices than those found on Froogle. I'm not sure what the reason for that was, but it just didn't seem to find me the best prices.
Plus, on top of that it's search wasn't accurate enough. For instance, if I searched for "television" and "LCD" then it would throw in a bunch of peripheral items that I would then have to search through. Doing a search for that now seems to be a bit more accurate than last I checked though, perhaps they are making it more accurate.
Personally, I think the problem was that, at least originally, they just let their normal text search algorithm loose on their Froogle stuff. Searching items for the purpose of selecting one is a fundamentally different task than searching text to find the best match. Nowadays, I see that they have options for searching for things like size on a television (but still no way to pick a particular technology, like only showing LCD or plasma TVs) but in general they're very good at doing general searches, whereas when you're searching for a product to buy you want to be able to search across a wide variety of very specific properties of the items, and they don't let you do that.
And at least one giant, Universal Music, are threatening to sue the company if their artists' songs keep appearing there.
Collective nouns are treated as plurals, even if their construction suggests singular or uncountable.
The collective noun isn't the subject of the verb, the word "giant" is. The main clause, which should be grammatically correct without the appositive, is "And at least one giant is threatening...".
Patents on software are formally disallowed under the European patent system, but are routinely granted by the European patent office, according to critics. They are currently difficult to enforce in many EU member states,...
You mean member states aren't willing to enforce patents that aren't allowed to be granted in the first place? What is this world coming to?
However, should ATMs even come with a default password so that they can be hacked? Shouldn't reprogramming them require using some sort of physical/electronic key thats more difficult for people to get ahold of?
Like all security, it's a risk-versus-reward question. That would certainly offer better security in a perfect situation, but it could result in you being locked out of your own ATM if that key happens to get lost (or is with the president of the branch who's on vacation, or whatever), and it also means if the key is stolen it's a lot more expensive to lock the ATM back down (reissuing keys rather than just changing the password).
Flexibility. Not everyone wants to work like that, and if you did, the drag & drop method from the filesystem works there. Simply write a script to sync your music collection on the computer to the media player.
Flexibility != ease of use. When "write a script" is a serious suggestion for how you should get a feature you want from your MP3 player, you've just moved yourself way outside the mainstream market.
What happens if overall foreign-policy strategy, and even discrete military tactics begin revolving around a similar notion: that you use the correct means and you know the ends will be Good Things even if you can't list those Things in advance.
I'd expect you might find that you'd get the same thing that happens in software: most of the time, it's not the best product that "wins", it's the one that's fastest to market and fastest with new features, even crappy, bug-ridden features. If you have a really good army that can't manage to do anything on a timetable, you may find yourself constantly surprised that someone else has gotten there first, which is an especially compelling problem when it's lives that are at stake rather than market share.
"Really, it should read: the most commonly used passwords, by MySpace users who were targeted by and fell for a phisher" - or by people pretending to be MySpace users when targeted by a phisher - or by people giving a bogus password when targeted by a phisher.
I'd imagine that's why fuckyou is up there so high. I sort of assume that's a message to the phisher rather than a real password.
And this device only had double the capacity of an an alkaline battery.
It wasn't even that. The device had double the capacity of a traditional capacitor, which traditionally suck for capacity (hence why we use batteries). It's really what it claims, a hybrid. It's between a battery and a capacitor in terms of both storage capacity and power delivery.
Well, unless I'm missing something here, if it delivers 100 times more power than an ordinary battery then it also increases it's life:
You're confusing power with energy (which is easy to do, considering your "power bill" is actually a bill for energy used, not power). What it's saying is that its peak power delivery is 100 times that of a normal battery, so at a given voltage, it can deliver 100 times the current of a standard battery. It could well be able to store the same amount of energy, though, which means that if you're running it at its improved full power it dies in 1/100 the time of a normal battery.
It does afford me the option of wondering "aloud" why Brin didn't just download, say, an Apple ][ or C64 emulator. I mean, I always thought the guy was kind of smart, but now I know it's not true. (And don't tell me that non-computer nerds wouldn't know about emulators; if you don't know, ask someone.
I think the idea was that he was lamenting that there aren't the tools for people to grow into being computer nerds. Your average Counterstrike player doesn't really want to expend some effort to learn how to program, but if the tools were sitting there, he might end up playing with them.
Personally, I think the much bigger reason is that our computers do so much more these days. Back when I got my first computer, it didn't really do a lot. Once I beat Crystal Caves and Secret Agent Man, GWBASIC was about the only interesting thing that was left. Nowadays, you'd be hard pressed to get to the point where you're poking around the random stuff that's included on your computer for lack of anything better to do.
However, I think that as everything continues more "Average" users will gravitate towards power users position. Not so much asbe completely entralled by every last detail of a computer, but enough so that perhaps updating hardware without purchasing a whole new system will be a bit more common place.
So yeah, that design does work well for quite a few people right now. Later on in the future though when nearly everybody has grown up in a generation of computing being the de facto standard... then it might be a different story. Thats not so far away either.
I actually think it'll be exactly the opposite. When my dad was in high school, he and his friends would go home after school and work on their cars or build transistor radios. When I was in high school, not only did I not know anyone who did that (instead, we went home after school and messed with our computers), but my dad and all of his friends have stopped working on their cars or electronics as well. As technology matures and becomes more commoditized, I think it just ceases to be fun to mess with, and people go towards more ready-made systems.
Assuming the Zune allows violation of the Creative Commons license in this way, who is liable? Is it Microsoft, for making the device, or the user, for distributing Creative Commons-licensed material in a way that's incompatible with its license?
So, my question is this - can we use Mr. Linhardt's tactics against him, and file suits against spammers in, say, China, Nigeria, and countries outside the US because their spam must pass through US mail servers to reach US users?
I'd imagine the answer is (a) yes, it's technically possible, but (b) nobody would ever do it because neither government cares enough to bother with extradition for someone like a spammer.
So, no, HDMI chaining isn't silly, it's a damn good idea.
I wasn't saying that HDMI chaining is silly, I think it's quite a good idea. I was just observing that that's how USB was originally described, yet none of the manufacturers actually went ahead and put those ports on their USB devices, so it ended up useless. I'd be interested to see if anyone making HDMI devices actually puts the port on there.
Well my TV has two. However, many devices, the higher quality ones anyway, have in and out HDMI. For example, some receivers have HDMI switches built into them. Also my DVD player allows you to have HDMI in, and OUT. When the player is on, it shows DVD content, otherwise it goes into pass-through mode.
That sounds suspiciously like how USB was originally sold. "Yeah, the computer only has two ports, but practically every USB device will allow another device to daisy-chain onto it, so that won't be a problem at all." I'll be interested to see if that pans out at any better.
That, and the iPod is grossly overpriced. MS doesn't have a history of overpricing their consumer products, although Apple does. As long as it's reasonably priced, I'm getting one.
The rumored price is $300 for the 30 GB version. The 30 GB iPod is $250. So, pretty much, same pricing strategy.
Still, regardless of definitions, it would be interesting to find such a prime, or to postulate about their existence. Is there a postulate that such a prime must exist?
There are infinite primes, we know that. Whether every single prime can fit into some kind of classification, though, we don't know. It's conceivable that there might be, but it seems incredibly unlikely, especially given things like the classification of all finite simple groups (most of which fall into a few neat categories and then there are a set of them that don't fit any known categorization).
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So instead of $200 for the console, and $50 for the game, you spend $250 for the console plus the game, which is pretty much the same thing except you're stuck with Wii sports, when the game you really want is Zelda.
On the other hand, Wii Sports is likely to show off the new features of the console (motion sensing-based gameplay, Miis, etc) better than Zelda, so forcing everyone to purchase Wii Sports may be a smart move on their part.
So what? This was an off-hand remark made in private.
Yeah, but an offhand remark made in private by the chief executive of one of the most powerful states in the union. I think it's reasonable to think that people might be interested in his views on various matters, as those are pretty likely to affect how he governs.
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Or are you only counting US casualties?
Yes, sorry, that was the US estimate of strictly US military casualties. Obviously North Korean military casualties and civilian casualties on both sides would make that number vastly higher.
Referring to the USSR as Russia is like saying Texas when you are talking about the USA.
A better analogy would be like saying England when you mean the United Kingdom. Which people do frequently in the US.
I also think Iraq has been invaded and North Korea hasn't been yet is due to North Korea having claimed to posses nuclear weapons and Iraq denying the same.
It's much more that the North Korea/South Korea border is the most heavily militarized location in the world. The US estimated that if we were to invade North Korea, there would be more than 50,000 casualties in the first three months of fighting.
At least for me. Whenever I tried to use it the results I got weren't that great at all. By searching a few other sites I was often able to find cheaper prices than those found on Froogle. I'm not sure what the reason for that was, but it just didn't seem to find me the best prices.
Plus, on top of that it's search wasn't accurate enough. For instance, if I searched for "television" and "LCD" then it would throw in a bunch of peripheral items that I would then have to search through. Doing a search for that now seems to be a bit more accurate than last I checked though, perhaps they are making it more accurate.
Personally, I think the problem was that, at least originally, they just let their normal text search algorithm loose on their Froogle stuff. Searching items for the purpose of selecting one is a fundamentally different task than searching text to find the best match. Nowadays, I see that they have options for searching for things like size on a television (but still no way to pick a particular technology, like only showing LCD or plasma TVs) but in general they're very good at doing general searches, whereas when you're searching for a product to buy you want to be able to search across a wide variety of very specific properties of the items, and they don't let you do that.
You'd be hard pressed to find a better retailer with a liberal return policy as theirs.
You should try Costco sometime. You can return things there they don't even sell.
And at least one giant, Universal Music, are threatening to sue the company if their artists' songs keep appearing there.
Collective nouns are treated as plurals, even if their construction suggests singular or uncountable.
The collective noun isn't the subject of the verb, the word "giant" is. The main clause, which should be grammatically correct without the appositive, is "And at least one giant is threatening...".
Patents on software are formally disallowed under the European patent system, but are routinely granted by the European patent office, according to critics. They are currently difficult to enforce in many EU member states,...
You mean member states aren't willing to enforce patents that aren't allowed to be granted in the first place? What is this world coming to?
However, should ATMs even come with a default password so that they can be hacked? Shouldn't reprogramming them require using some sort of physical/electronic key thats more difficult for people to get ahold of?
Like all security, it's a risk-versus-reward question. That would certainly offer better security in a perfect situation, but it could result in you being locked out of your own ATM if that key happens to get lost (or is with the president of the branch who's on vacation, or whatever), and it also means if the key is stolen it's a lot more expensive to lock the ATM back down (reissuing keys rather than just changing the password).
Flexibility. Not everyone wants to work like that, and if you did, the drag & drop method from the filesystem works there. Simply write a script to sync your music collection on the computer to the media player.
Flexibility != ease of use. When "write a script" is a serious suggestion for how you should get a feature you want from your MP3 player, you've just moved yourself way outside the mainstream market.
What happens if overall foreign-policy strategy, and even discrete military tactics begin revolving around a similar notion: that you use the correct means and you know the ends will be Good Things even if you can't list those Things in advance.
I'd expect you might find that you'd get the same thing that happens in software: most of the time, it's not the best product that "wins", it's the one that's fastest to market and fastest with new features, even crappy, bug-ridden features. If you have a really good army that can't manage to do anything on a timetable, you may find yourself constantly surprised that someone else has gotten there first, which is an especially compelling problem when it's lives that are at stake rather than market share.
"Really, it should read: the most commonly used passwords, by MySpace users who were targeted by and fell for a phisher" - or by people pretending to be MySpace users when targeted by a phisher - or by people giving a bogus password when targeted by a phisher.
I'd imagine that's why fuckyou is up there so high. I sort of assume that's a message to the phisher rather than a real password.
And this device only had double the capacity of an an alkaline battery.
It wasn't even that. The device had double the capacity of a traditional capacitor, which traditionally suck for capacity (hence why we use batteries). It's really what it claims, a hybrid. It's between a battery and a capacitor in terms of both storage capacity and power delivery.
Well, unless I'm missing something here, if it delivers 100 times more power than an ordinary battery then it also increases it's life:
You're confusing power with energy (which is easy to do, considering your "power bill" is actually a bill for energy used, not power). What it's saying is that its peak power delivery is 100 times that of a normal battery, so at a given voltage, it can deliver 100 times the current of a standard battery. It could well be able to store the same amount of energy, though, which means that if you're running it at its improved full power it dies in 1/100 the time of a normal battery.
It does afford me the option of wondering "aloud" why Brin didn't just download, say, an Apple ][ or C64 emulator. I mean, I always thought the guy was kind of smart, but now I know it's not true. (And don't tell me that non-computer nerds wouldn't know about emulators; if you don't know, ask someone.
I think the idea was that he was lamenting that there aren't the tools for people to grow into being computer nerds. Your average Counterstrike player doesn't really want to expend some effort to learn how to program, but if the tools were sitting there, he might end up playing with them.
Personally, I think the much bigger reason is that our computers do so much more these days. Back when I got my first computer, it didn't really do a lot. Once I beat Crystal Caves and Secret Agent Man, GWBASIC was about the only interesting thing that was left. Nowadays, you'd be hard pressed to get to the point where you're poking around the random stuff that's included on your computer for lack of anything better to do.
However, I think that as everything continues more "Average" users will gravitate towards power users position. Not so much asbe completely entralled by every last detail of a computer, but enough so that perhaps updating hardware without purchasing a whole new system will be a bit more common place.
So yeah, that design does work well for quite a few people right now. Later on in the future though when nearly everybody has grown up in a generation of computing being the de facto standard... then it might be a different story. Thats not so far away either.
I actually think it'll be exactly the opposite. When my dad was in high school, he and his friends would go home after school and work on their cars or build transistor radios. When I was in high school, not only did I not know anyone who did that (instead, we went home after school and messed with our computers), but my dad and all of his friends have stopped working on their cars or electronics as well. As technology matures and becomes more commoditized, I think it just ceases to be fun to mess with, and people go towards more ready-made systems.
Assuming the Zune allows violation of the Creative Commons license in this way, who is liable? Is it Microsoft, for making the device, or the user, for distributing Creative Commons-licensed material in a way that's incompatible with its license?
So, my question is this - can we use Mr. Linhardt's tactics against him, and file suits against spammers in, say, China, Nigeria, and countries outside the US because their spam must pass through US mail servers to reach US users?
I'd imagine the answer is (a) yes, it's technically possible, but (b) nobody would ever do it because neither government cares enough to bother with extradition for someone like a spammer.
So, no, HDMI chaining isn't silly, it's a damn good idea.
I wasn't saying that HDMI chaining is silly, I think it's quite a good idea. I was just observing that that's how USB was originally described, yet none of the manufacturers actually went ahead and put those ports on their USB devices, so it ended up useless. I'd be interested to see if anyone making HDMI devices actually puts the port on there.
No wonder you had problems, you don't just mistype characters you replace two characters with one (g=ch)!
Back in my day, all we had was garachters!
Well my TV has two. However, many devices, the higher quality ones anyway, have in and out HDMI. For example, some receivers have HDMI switches built into them. Also my DVD player allows you to have HDMI in, and OUT. When the player is on, it shows DVD content, otherwise it goes into pass-through mode.
That sounds suspiciously like how USB was originally sold. "Yeah, the computer only has two ports, but practically every USB device will allow another device to daisy-chain onto it, so that won't be a problem at all." I'll be interested to see if that pans out at any better.
That, and the iPod is grossly overpriced. MS doesn't have a history of overpricing their consumer products, although Apple does. As long as it's reasonably priced, I'm getting one.
The rumored price is $300 for the 30 GB version. The 30 GB iPod is $250. So, pretty much, same pricing strategy.
Still, regardless of definitions, it would be interesting to find such a prime, or to postulate about their existence. Is there a postulate that such a prime must exist?
There are infinite primes, we know that. Whether every single prime can fit into some kind of classification, though, we don't know. It's conceivable that there might be, but it seems incredibly unlikely, especially given things like the classification of all finite simple groups (most of which fall into a few neat categories and then there are a set of them that don't fit any known categorization).
So instead of $200 for the console, and $50 for the game, you spend $250 for the console plus the game, which is pretty much the same thing except you're stuck with Wii sports, when the game you really want is Zelda.
On the other hand, Wii Sports is likely to show off the new features of the console (motion sensing-based gameplay, Miis, etc) better than Zelda, so forcing everyone to purchase Wii Sports may be a smart move on their part.
So what? This was an off-hand remark made in private.
Yeah, but an offhand remark made in private by the chief executive of one of the most powerful states in the union. I think it's reasonable to think that people might be interested in his views on various matters, as those are pretty likely to affect how he governs.