Yeah, that would've worked better. I had the notion that I could lure in some of the antivaccine mob, by writing a title that could be interpreted as saying that Wakefield's being persecuted by big pharma, or some other such nonsense. I figured the surprise might help some of them absorb the idea that Wakefield, and not mainstream medicine, is the party peddling dangerous treatments to make money on the pharmaceutical business. I think simple clarity would've sufficed.
No, it is in the software. AT&T's carrier settings file disables it, but plenty of people in, ah, more liberal phone markets are already using it in the beta. It's probably tied to the tethering permission right now, based on the networks I've heard it being used on.
No, the Engadget mockup at least managed to get the typeface right. This mockup not only uses the wrong typeface all over the shop, it manages to use about five different ones.
Deer's other report indicates that Wakefield and/or his co-authors changed the medical histories of the patients when writing the study (no patient on the study went without having part of their diagnosis altered between original medical notes and the published results).
Wakefield was working at a public hospital doing publicly-funded research. It's a shame he missed his true calling to do utterly abysmal science for a dodgy pharmaceutical firm, but I don't think that his setting made much of a difference to his ethics.
You're thinking of Sony the hardware company, as it was back then. Sony today is a Frankenstien's monster of media interests (the guys who fought against fair use), an old hardware company, and a name tag that reads "Sony".
The non-infringing uses that you mention are enumerated in the Act and court decisions since, and are very specific, and many of them were not continued after last year. None of the current ones apply, and the only expired one that applied was in relation to obsolete video game systems.
The DMCA makes it illegal, in the USA, to circumvent copy-prevention mechanisms on a device, or to remove copy-prevention from a piece of media, or to distribute equipment to do the same. There are a few enumerated exceptions. Initially, this meant encryption researchers could perform this work with the explicit consent of the manufacturer on the condition that they immediately inform the manufacturer if they are successful. There are now a few fair-use and accessibility provisions too. None of those apply in this case.
In simple terms, it's illegal because they passed a new law to make it illegal.
I would've thought that referring to Apple's "App Store" as a proper noun implies that the uncapitalised "app stores" refers to something else entirely, i.e. that "app store" is a generic term. Think of the difference between writing "I bought a thermos" and "I bought a Thermos".
It's also what console gamers have been saying since the first 3D cards appeared and PCs became the more technically capable platform. Yet the home games market still doesn't seem to be in any danger of a massive swing towards the desktop, nearly two decades later. Suffice to say that specifications are not a reliable predictor for or against a game platform's dominance in isolation. What'll matter is how developer support is courted and maintained, and by all accounts that's what Apple and Google are betting the farm on.
Why is that a conditional? If the higgs doesn't exist, then the LHC is also our best hope of disproving, or at least thoroughly circumscribing, its existence.
Ah, I'll leave the particle physics to those who know a bit better from now on.:) You're right, there's all sorts of violations that would've stood out if I'd thought about what I was writing some more.
The antiparticles are being formed, without a matter counterpart, by high-energy reactions and not by the separation of virtual particle pairs as at the edge of an event horizon.
Contract schmontract, you have a statutory right to break the agreement if they make a change which is to your detriment. That's true even if the contract explicitly gives them the right to make such a change. Statutory rights trump contracts, warranties, fine print, and everything else.
I think it's unlikely that an OS that runs on OtherOS will ever run on a system that doesn't support OtherOS. You could crack the PS3 and put a patched firmware that supports OtherOS on there, but at that point you might as well cut the shit and just have it boot FreeBSD directly.
If they were even considering using a cluster of PS3s, it's unlikely they were doing fungible "computing tasks" where getting a quick desktop would be a suitable replacement. They're odd systems, but often such systems are odd in a way that's really useful.
I was picturing something more like a large, flat bath of culture solution, containing gently tensing and relaxing meat lumps about the size of a surfboard. You're right that in any case it would be much better than your regular slaughterhouse, with its tumbling viscera, but it's still creepy to me, precisely because of its alien-ness.
Yeah, that's the sort of thing they're thinking of doing. Exercise routines. I imagine that the whole thing would look rather horrific, we'll probably replace the whole "watching sausage get made" metaphor with something more general.
Growing meat is like nuclear fusion. The principles are extremely well-understood, but the implimentation is surprisingly tricky. (I've heard that one of the current issues is texture. Unexercised meat* supposedly isn't any more satisfying to the teeth than Quorn.) PETA's $1m prize for commercial vat chicken is probably perfectly safe, given the 2012 deadline.
*Admittedly most food animals don't get a lot of exercise anyway, but it's still above zero.
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Yeah, that would've worked better. I had the notion that I could lure in some of the antivaccine mob, by writing a title that could be interpreted as saying that Wakefield's being persecuted by big pharma, or some other such nonsense. I figured the surprise might help some of them absorb the idea that Wakefield, and not mainstream medicine, is the party peddling dangerous treatments to make money on the pharmaceutical business. I think simple clarity would've sufficed.
No, it is in the software. AT&T's carrier settings file disables it, but plenty of people in, ah, more liberal phone markets are already using it in the beta. It's probably tied to the tethering permission right now, based on the networks I've heard it being used on.
No, the Engadget mockup at least managed to get the typeface right. This mockup not only uses the wrong typeface all over the shop, it manages to use about five different ones.
This is the British Medical Journal we're talking about here, not a part of the mass media.
Yeah, I really needed to have a footnote reading "THIS IS WHAT THE DMCA ACTUALLY SAYS"
Deer's other report indicates that Wakefield and/or his co-authors changed the medical histories of the patients when writing the study (no patient on the study went without having part of their diagnosis altered between original medical notes and the published results).
Wakefield was working at a public hospital doing publicly-funded research. It's a shame he missed his true calling to do utterly abysmal science for a dodgy pharmaceutical firm, but I don't think that his setting made much of a difference to his ethics.
You're thinking of Sony the hardware company, as it was back then. Sony today is a Frankenstien's monster of media interests (the guys who fought against fair use), an old hardware company, and a name tag that reads "Sony".
The non-infringing uses that you mention are enumerated in the Act and court decisions since, and are very specific, and many of them were not continued after last year. None of the current ones apply, and the only expired one that applied was in relation to obsolete video game systems.
You're circumventing my restrictions on entry (door) by doing that. I should've mentioned, the DMCA protects restrictions on user action.
The DMCA makes it illegal, in the USA, to circumvent copy-prevention mechanisms on a device, or to remove copy-prevention from a piece of media, or to distribute equipment to do the same. There are a few enumerated exceptions. Initially, this meant encryption researchers could perform this work with the explicit consent of the manufacturer on the condition that they immediately inform the manufacturer if they are successful. There are now a few fair-use and accessibility provisions too. None of those apply in this case.
In simple terms, it's illegal because they passed a new law to make it illegal.
I would've thought that referring to Apple's "App Store" as a proper noun implies that the uncapitalised "app stores" refers to something else entirely, i.e. that "app store" is a generic term. Think of the difference between writing "I bought a thermos" and "I bought a Thermos".
Carrier support for Visual Voicemail, tethering etc. is summarised on this Apple support document.
It's also what console gamers have been saying since the first 3D cards appeared and PCs became the more technically capable platform. Yet the home games market still doesn't seem to be in any danger of a massive swing towards the desktop, nearly two decades later. Suffice to say that specifications are not a reliable predictor for or against a game platform's dominance in isolation. What'll matter is how developer support is courted and maintained, and by all accounts that's what Apple and Google are betting the farm on.
Why is that a conditional? If the higgs doesn't exist, then the LHC is also our best hope of disproving, or at least thoroughly circumscribing, its existence.
What's "ZDR" stand for then, "Zero Desirable Results"?
Ah, I'll leave the particle physics to those who know a bit better from now on. :) You're right, there's all sorts of violations that would've stood out if I'd thought about what I was writing some more.
The antiparticles are being formed, without a matter counterpart, by high-energy reactions and not by the separation of virtual particle pairs as at the edge of an event horizon.
Contract schmontract, you have a statutory right to break the agreement if they make a change which is to your detriment. That's true even if the contract explicitly gives them the right to make such a change. Statutory rights trump contracts, warranties, fine print, and everything else.
It's not just media they're targetting. As the press release says:
"Browsing means looking at websites and checking email, but not watching videos, downloading files or playing games."
Those apps you downloaded over 3G? No dice. You should've gone and found a wifi hotspot.
I think it's unlikely that an OS that runs on OtherOS will ever run on a system that doesn't support OtherOS. You could crack the PS3 and put a patched firmware that supports OtherOS on there, but at that point you might as well cut the shit and just have it boot FreeBSD directly.
If they were even considering using a cluster of PS3s, it's unlikely they were doing fungible "computing tasks" where getting a quick desktop would be a suitable replacement. They're odd systems, but often such systems are odd in a way that's really useful.
I was picturing something more like a large, flat bath of culture solution, containing gently tensing and relaxing meat lumps about the size of a surfboard. You're right that in any case it would be much better than your regular slaughterhouse, with its tumbling viscera, but it's still creepy to me, precisely because of its alien-ness.
Yeah, that's the sort of thing they're thinking of doing. Exercise routines. I imagine that the whole thing would look rather horrific, we'll probably replace the whole "watching sausage get made" metaphor with something more general.
Growing meat is like nuclear fusion. The principles are extremely well-understood, but the implimentation is surprisingly tricky. (I've heard that one of the current issues is texture. Unexercised meat* supposedly isn't any more satisfying to the teeth than Quorn.) PETA's $1m prize for commercial vat chicken is probably perfectly safe, given the 2012 deadline.
*Admittedly most food animals don't get a lot of exercise anyway, but it's still above zero.