It'd be guff as a data partition, but you could stick a Linux environment on there for basic tasks. Like those instant-on OSes, but user-accessable. Heck, they could market it as a built-in Readyboost drive.
I don't think that the SATA spec mandates a BGA interface be provided on motherboards. You couldn't really solder this directly on there any more than you could directly solder a USB device on a mobo that had no headers. You'd have to precision-solder onto the tracks on the board. I think what's meant is that this component can be integrated onto existing motherboard designs without adding a new interface. It can use the existing SATA controller.
This opens the door to a mobo that not only has onboard graphics and sound, but onboard mass storage. That'd be pretty amazing in an "all my hard drives just ate themselves" scenario.
I love technology. You made people's computers burst into noise thousands of miles away, and were repremanded by a sorceror. What a great time to be alive.
Exactly. It's a small term that hides an unknown amount of actual risk. The really interesting stuff comes when you begin to break it down and evaluate what kind of risks are present and how they can be mitigated.
Correct. I'm saying that the survey (probably quite deliberately) places all instances in which an employee purposefully retained proprietary information upon leaving employment under the umbrella term of "stole data". It's a term which implies the worst-case-scenario of corporate espionage to most readers, and is likely staggeringly inaccurate. It'd be interesting to see what proportion of the "yes" responses sold the data, exploited it personally, subsequently destroyed it, or have no idea where it is. Of course taking data with you is not harmless, and it's illegal in many ways.
I think the confusion lies in the definitions of persistence. One meaning refers to the world's continued operation when the player is absent, as in WoW, which is the sense you use. However it can also refer to the persistence of player actions, such as the way Halo keeps track of the positions of dead enemies and weapon drops indefinitely. WoW is quite clearly not a very persistent game in that sense, otherwise it'd be a ghost town knee-deep in corpses, which explains the AC's confusion.
When I load up the page on a 1280x1024 monitor, I have to scroll to the right to see that. Maybe that was snuck in as a joke during testing because it was "off screen" during QA.
My understanding, based on an editorial in Edge earlier this year, is that GfW just plain flat-out doesn't work. Not in the sense that its limited user base makes for poor multiplayer or that it has insufficient publisher for its downloadable games service, but in the sense that it does not reliably allow you to download games or play online.
Depends on the contract. Some contracts require that the employee be given, and give, X months notice before the end of employment. the only permissible exceptions are certain kinds of gross misconduct, which would have to be proven in a tribunal if you disputed it. (FWIW, this is in the UK, where such contract terms are mandatory.)
Political science is a legitimate field, the study of politics as a social phenomenon. In this instance it's completely irrelevant to the topic, suggesting they mentioned it primarily because it includes the word "science" and makes it sound like he might have more of a clue about HAARP's abilities than your average internet conspiracy theorist.
The obvious, interesting follow-up question is, how many of them would sell, share, or otherwise exploit that data? Would they take measures to protect it, or simply misplace it? I figure at least some of that's got to be people who don't see the point in deleting that sly backup they made so they could work on their reports at home, or whatever, and those are people who don't represent a threat to company security. "Stealing" data itself causes the company no harm. Using the customer list to set up one's own business, losing that data on the bus, or selling on some trade secrets, is where the concern lies.
Being able to do it on silicon should mean they can make them cheaply and quickly with existing fab gear. I could see these being a lot of fun for tinkerers.
Funnily enough they're using the form of English that they speak, namely British English. It wouldn't be fair for me to demand you speak in Scots just because your stupid words make my ears want to cry, would it?
The guy who founded Foursquare's predecessor, Dodgeball, actually sold the business to Google, where it became Latitude. He was dissatisfied at that product's narrow scope, and set up Foursquare to revisit that niche the way he preferred. I imagine that Facebook put in a bid for Dodgeball and began work on Facebook Places after they were rejected.
Multi-touch on maps, or anything else, works really well on the iPhone because it's incredibly specific. It's not like using the mousewheel with a pointer. You touch two points on the image, and they stick to your fingers, so if you pinch on a particular part of a map, it's that part which expands. A lot of companies implimenting multi-touch don't seem to get that this is why Apple's implimentation is so popular. Be interested to see if Ubuntu figured this out.
I'm not convinced that translates to non-touchscreens though. You'd need a second mouse pointer.
I've got a choice between occasionally being redirected to a porn site when I'm trying to get to a modestly distasteful geek comedy site, or paying an extra £120 over the duration of my contract. Right now I'm trying to convince them to waive the service charge and/or redirect me to a brick wall that's not covered in porno.
I'm on Three, and anyone who wasn't previously on their "Xseries" service*, and isn't willing to pay £5/month for that service, is subjected to a content block. The content block redirects objectionable sites like B3ta to Three's PPV porn portal. It's like a protection racket: "pay us £5 per month, or you might find yourself looking at porn instead of the site you wanted to go to".
*Long story involving their move from a walled garden internet service
To put it another way, he's saying that the students are treating mathematical expressions as a list of instructions to be obeyed, and not as expressions. This works fine for 1+2=? or 4/3=?, but leads to a cognative train wreck when trying to deal with even the simplest algebra. A student who works that way could never figure out what length of crossbeam they'd need to brace a 3x4 wooden frame.
"'Students who have learned to memorize symbols and who have a limited understanding of the equal sign will tend to solve problems such as 4+3+2=()+2 by adding the numbers on the left, and placing it in the parentheses, then add those terms and create another equal sign with the new answer,' he explains. 'So the work would look like 4+3+2=(9)+2=11. This response has been called a running equal sign—similar to how a calculator might work when the numbers and equal sign are entered as they appear in the sentence,' he explains. 'However, this understanding is incorrect. The correct solution makes both sides equal. So the understanding should be 4+3+2=(7)+2. Now both sides of the equal sign equal 9.'"
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It'd be guff as a data partition, but you could stick a Linux environment on there for basic tasks. Like those instant-on OSes, but user-accessable. Heck, they could market it as a built-in Readyboost drive.
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I don't think that the SATA spec mandates a BGA interface be provided on motherboards. You couldn't really solder this directly on there any more than you could directly solder a USB device on a mobo that had no headers. You'd have to precision-solder onto the tracks on the board. I think what's meant is that this component can be integrated onto existing motherboard designs without adding a new interface. It can use the existing SATA controller.
This opens the door to a mobo that not only has onboard graphics and sound, but onboard mass storage. That'd be pretty amazing in an "all my hard drives just ate themselves" scenario.
Insert your own joke here.
I love technology. You made people's computers burst into noise thousands of miles away, and were repremanded by a sorceror. What a great time to be alive.
Exactly. It's a small term that hides an unknown amount of actual risk. The really interesting stuff comes when you begin to break it down and evaluate what kind of risks are present and how they can be mitigated.
Correct. I'm saying that the survey (probably quite deliberately) places all instances in which an employee purposefully retained proprietary information upon leaving employment under the umbrella term of "stole data". It's a term which implies the worst-case-scenario of corporate espionage to most readers, and is likely staggeringly inaccurate. It'd be interesting to see what proportion of the "yes" responses sold the data, exploited it personally, subsequently destroyed it, or have no idea where it is. Of course taking data with you is not harmless, and it's illegal in many ways.
The Chunnel does this. It's running pretty smoothly by all accounts.
I think the confusion lies in the definitions of persistence. One meaning refers to the world's continued operation when the player is absent, as in WoW, which is the sense you use. However it can also refer to the persistence of player actions, such as the way Halo keeps track of the positions of dead enemies and weapon drops indefinitely. WoW is quite clearly not a very persistent game in that sense, otherwise it'd be a ghost town knee-deep in corpses, which explains the AC's confusion.
When I load up the page on a 1280x1024 monitor, I have to scroll to the right to see that. Maybe that was snuck in as a joke during testing because it was "off screen" during QA.
My understanding, based on an editorial in Edge earlier this year, is that GfW just plain flat-out doesn't work. Not in the sense that its limited user base makes for poor multiplayer or that it has insufficient publisher for its downloadable games service, but in the sense that it does not reliably allow you to download games or play online.
Depends on the contract. Some contracts require that the employee be given, and give, X months notice before the end of employment. the only permissible exceptions are certain kinds of gross misconduct, which would have to be proven in a tribunal if you disputed it. (FWIW, this is in the UK, where such contract terms are mandatory.)
Political science is a legitimate field, the study of politics as a social phenomenon. In this instance it's completely irrelevant to the topic, suggesting they mentioned it primarily because it includes the word "science" and makes it sound like he might have more of a clue about HAARP's abilities than your average internet conspiracy theorist.
The obvious, interesting follow-up question is, how many of them would sell, share, or otherwise exploit that data? Would they take measures to protect it, or simply misplace it? I figure at least some of that's got to be people who don't see the point in deleting that sly backup they made so they could work on their reports at home, or whatever, and those are people who don't represent a threat to company security. "Stealing" data itself causes the company no harm. Using the customer list to set up one's own business, losing that data on the bus, or selling on some trade secrets, is where the concern lies.
Being able to do it on silicon should mean they can make them cheaply and quickly with existing fab gear. I could see these being a lot of fun for tinkerers.
No.
Funnily enough they're using the form of English that they speak, namely British English. It wouldn't be fair for me to demand you speak in Scots just because your stupid words make my ears want to cry, would it?
There is a technical term for machines which communicate with eachother without human intervention. Robot conspiracy.
Actually now that I do some background reading, the Google sale took place back in 2005, so it's much too old for Facebook to have had a look in.
The guy who founded Foursquare's predecessor, Dodgeball, actually sold the business to Google, where it became Latitude. He was dissatisfied at that product's narrow scope, and set up Foursquare to revisit that niche the way he preferred. I imagine that Facebook put in a bid for Dodgeball and began work on Facebook Places after they were rejected.
Multi-touch on maps, or anything else, works really well on the iPhone because it's incredibly specific. It's not like using the mousewheel with a pointer. You touch two points on the image, and they stick to your fingers, so if you pinch on a particular part of a map, it's that part which expands. A lot of companies implimenting multi-touch don't seem to get that this is why Apple's implimentation is so popular. Be interested to see if Ubuntu figured this out.
I'm not convinced that translates to non-touchscreens though. You'd need a second mouse pointer.
I've got a choice between occasionally being redirected to a porn site when I'm trying to get to a modestly distasteful geek comedy site, or paying an extra £120 over the duration of my contract. Right now I'm trying to convince them to waive the service charge and/or redirect me to a brick wall that's not covered in porno.
I'm on Three, and anyone who wasn't previously on their "Xseries" service*, and isn't willing to pay £5/month for that service, is subjected to a content block. The content block redirects objectionable sites like B3ta to Three's PPV porn portal. It's like a protection racket: "pay us £5 per month, or you might find yourself looking at porn instead of the site you wanted to go to".
*Long story involving their move from a walled garden internet service
To put it another way, he's saying that the students are treating mathematical expressions as a list of instructions to be obeyed, and not as expressions. This works fine for 1+2=? or 4/3=?, but leads to a cognative train wreck when trying to deal with even the simplest algebra. A student who works that way could never figure out what length of crossbeam they'd need to brace a 3x4 wooden frame.
"'Students who have learned to memorize symbols and who have a limited understanding of the equal sign will tend to solve problems such as 4+3+2=()+2 by adding the numbers on the left, and placing it in the parentheses, then add those terms and create another equal sign with the new answer,' he explains. 'So the work would look like 4+3+2=(9)+2=11. This response has been called a running equal sign—similar to how a calculator might work when the numbers and equal sign are entered as they appear in the sentence,' he explains. 'However, this understanding is incorrect. The correct solution makes both sides equal. So the understanding should be 4+3+2=(7)+2. Now both sides of the equal sign equal 9.'"
4+3+2 is not equal to 9+2.