Do you have some reading comprehension deficiency? If not, re-read my post and your reply. You are quoting resolution, replying CPU, mixing up the e805 with the X50v and the X50v with the X50 standard. Let me make it simpler for you: In 2004 (3 years before the iPhone) I had Dell Axim X50v (note the v in the end) with a 640x480 screen and a 624MHz XScale CPU. In 2003 (4 years before the iPhone) I had a Toshiba e805 with a 640x480 screen. It had a more modest (closer to the iPhone) CPU.
Actually, at around the time of iPhone 4, Apple started putting in some good specs. By the time the iPhone 5 came out it, was among the fastest phones. This is in direct contrast to the early iPhones which had tragically bad specs. I mean it seemed to me the were targeted at complete retards - people would show me their (gen 1) iPhone and say "look at how well you can browse the web". I could see how the UI of the browser was an improvement over my 3-year old PDAs (Axim X50v) browser, however trying to read on that half-VGA screen would give me instant headaches. Yes, my 3-year old PDA has twice the resolution and a faster CPU. In fact, even before that, my ancient (2003) Toshiba e805 had a 4" screen with full VGA resolution. Consider also the fact that the iPhone originally did not support apps, it should become apparent that the touch-friendly UI alone would not have given momentum to the iPhone release if it was not for marketing and fanboy-ism. And yet it is surprising that people would call the original iPhone e.g. as a "high resolution display" device. There were devices at least 2 years older with 3x the resolution (but Nokia was too stupid to make a phone back then based on the N770/N800), but they were "invisible" to people. After Apple opened a new market and everybody jumped in, then they started trying to compete on merit and not just style. Another reversal that has happened is that now iOS is the least innovative OS. Android - though I am still not a great fan - evolves quickly and I have seen UIs made from scratch (e.g. Swipe UI on Maemo/Meego) look like they are coming to us from the next decade (in look and functionality). Instead of a modern OS on retarded hardware Apple now offers modern (at least relatively) hardware on an aging platform. The only thing that hasn't changed is that you always get less functionality than the competition and you can't change the battery or add memory...
In the future I guess it will be just a matter of switching on an active noise control device to make your room silent, but since so far the technology is only easily applied to headphones, how about a nice pair of those? You don't have to listen to music. You just have to find a pair that is very comfortable to wear and then play whatever low-volume sounds of nature (since silence on noise canceling headphones feels weird for some people). If you don't like the idea, I would also try different earplugs. I mean during my army training they gave us these very inexpensive earplugs (like foamy rubber you would squish into your ear) for the shooting field and the commander would then be yelling commands on the loudspeaker as loud as he could and yet his voice barely registered! The actual 7.62mm shots were audible of course, but definitely tolerable. So give it another go with earplugs - soundproofing a room is much, much harder and can be very expensive.
Interesting. I' ve also been using SuSE + KDE since 9.1 (there was no OpenSUSE back then IIRC), having switched from Debian. But with every 10.x version I would get more and more problems. A multi-monitor system that was working great with the previous version would require hours of work to run properly with the latest. Laptops where everything ran smoothly would exhibit problems with newer versions. I continued hoping a newer version would magically solve my problems and give me the stability and functionality I enjoyed with 9.x. I gave up around version 11.1 or 11.2 I think. So, are you saying the 12.x series is again solid and installs easily where 10.x or 11.x had problems, or you are one of the lucky ones that did not have problems with those versions either?
I thought it was clear from my post (it was in agreement to parent after all) that I do believe the ban is useless, so the airline policy was more sane. My ire was directed to the TSA rules that were depriving me of small (and usually expensive) tools when I would be provided with much more "dangerous" objects a few minutes later inside the plane. I know their rules are there just for a laugh (or scare), but it is even worse when they are laughing in your face. I guess with the rule change I can start carrying multi-tools again, although I had found at least one useful tool that was never taken from the side pocket of my pouch: http://dx.com/p/ultrafire-stainless-steel-bottle-opener-with-screw-driver-and-wrench-tools-4642
You are right. Apparently there are a lot of people fooled by the post 9/11 security theater and are complaining about this change http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/06/travel/tsa-carry-on-changes/. These people (air marshals, flight attendants) should know better, but I guess the US government has managed to drop the average citizen IQ by about 20 units in recent years.
What is interesting is that while I have lost numerous swiss army knives and pocket screwdrivers (I always have a multi-tool with me and I often forget to leave it home or check it in when flying), I have had the added insult of being given metal cutlery (fork & knife) in the flight! The TSA yelled at me "THIS IS A KNIFE!" for a tiny 1-inch blade and then they give me a 4+ inch knife to eat my lunch... I don't remember the airlines with the metal knives, but I think it was Lufthansa once that had these flags nailed on the head-rests. The flag-poles where about 20inches long with an extremely sharp point (that could actually nail the head-rest) and were, sadly, a much better weapon than my foldable screwdriver the TSA had confiscated a few minutes earlier...
The main problem I see is that H1Bs are very restrictive, so the really talented people will prefer to not go to the trouble and find another developed country that will appreciate them more. Think about it, it is an expensive (ok, the company eats the cost - but you are tied to them) and lengthy process (you apply on April for an October VISA), you can't easily change companies and, most importantly, your spouse is not allowed to work. So, while H1Bs can be relatively well-paid, due to the difficulty of the process they are far from being the best-paid, plus if they have a family the other family members will have to go through the same process with another company if they want to work (and they will, since H1Bs are usually not in the highest salaries), plus there is always the danger of the company your VISA is tied to to go down suddenly. Why would the best want to go through such an ordeal, get such a treatment from the country they migrate to? It's not like the US is the best place in the world to live in (although if you can choose where you go in the US there are nice places).
Why older people? It would be best for humankind to send young, experienced professionals, like telephone sanitizers, hairdressers, management consultants etc. It would be good for morale of future missions if they know that upon arriving they can get a good haircut and have clean telephones.
According to Wikipedia, one of the passengers on the Olympic when it crashed later was later on the Titanic when she sank (and survived that ordeal), and later was on the Britannic when it sank (surviving that one too).
Well, only the first time is really hard. Each subsequent shipwreck you are into, your accumulated experience makes it even easier to emerge unharmed while people drown left and right... Perhaps after a dozen or so shipwrecks you could even be fit enough to have a chance getting out of sinking u-boats...
He already said a developer can throw it together in a couple of weekends. The idea was the money-maker. So, why attract the attention of developers who would then cash-in without coming up with anything themselves?
I had that problem in my CS grad school as well. Half the students were Indians, and they seemed to be helping each-other a lot. So, half the TAs where Indian as well and that led to Indian students passing whatever they submitted (to be graded by TAs). For example I know for a fact that while I got a 90% for a project to do with queries of a given db database, an Indian girl got 100% for submitting a java program that instead of querying the db had simply hard-coded answers to the sample test queries... There were some great Indian students of course, but they were the minority (at least in that environment). Anyway, the great fun was a year or two after I finished. There was an Indian guy who was copying during a midterm. The professor caught him and gave him an F for the midterm. At the final, the guy needed a good grade I guess, so he tried to copy again. The professor catches him once more and tells him that he will get an F for the course (which is a big bummer if you were counting on financial aid), so this brilliant character turns and says "Why F just for me when all the others submitted the same course project". The professor retrieved the projects from the TAs and indeed there were some dozens of identical submissions... There was talk about expulsions, but in the end the students got an F in the class, and I guess some US professors realized not all cultures have the same academic customs (and possibly that you have to do some stuff yourself, not just drop everything to the TAs)...
And, that is the most relevant quote. MSSE is as competent in known threads, while giving less false positives and being significantly lighter. You don't have to be an anti-virus developer to realize that of the three desirable characteristics: "good at zero day", "few false positives", "light/fast" you can only get up to 2. And Microsoft does get 2 here and, according to that same test, they get those 2 pretty well. And of those 3 characteristics, I have to say Microsoft bet on the right 2, since apart from the fact that they make for a MUCH less annoying product for the 99% of users (the only AV I recommend nowadays), Microsoft is at a disadvantage trying to be good at zero day: every malware maker has MSSE and can test it against his creation, making sure it can "pass".
Exactly. People who read a lot will stick with e-readers and most heavy readers probably already have their Kindles. We have 2 Kindles at home (for me and the wife) and I can honestly say for readers it is a revolutionary device. For me, it cannot be compared to a tablet at all. It is lighter, the battery duration is greater by several orders of magnitude, and, above all, it is as relaxing to read as a regular book! No eyestrain! I have an Ipad 4th gen (for development), which, as I understand it, has about the best LCD they could put on a tablet. Well, it is still pretty much a regular LCD. As much as the text is sharp, you are looking at a light source and also if you read on a white background it is only nice and white as long as you are not more than a few degrees of the axis (and lets not start with the reflections!). I saw my wife printing huge papers in PDF to read, which is the only thing the Kindle is not good at, and offered here to try out my Ipad, and she could only read for about 20 minutes or so before giving it back to me saying it is not less tiring than her LCD monitor. So, the, minority as the parent poster says, will always have their e-readers, regardless of whether they get a tablet or not, because they perform a different function. And as you don't upgrade your e-reader every 6 months like some people do their tablets ( although I am thinking to go Paperwhite;) ) the sales of e-reader devices is bound to go down as less and less people who would want an e-reader are left without one.
I RTFA and while the whole system is quite sophisticated with keylogging trojans etc, in the end it works on the few dumb users who will press an SMS link that says "To install the free cryptographic software on your phone, use this link". Clicking a link on an unsolicited message and especially one that contains the words "Install" and "Free" means you should not own a smartphone, and probably neither a PC with a browser or email client. In the end all that hard work from fraudsters gave them access to the money of people who are just a bit smarter than those who respond to the "You won the Spanish Lottery" or "I am the son of the late King of Zembla and have eleventy billion USD to deposit to your account". I would be interested to find out if this scheme was more or less successful than the more common and much simpler "Click here to log on to your bank website and confirm your details" fake bank login scam. But I doubt the people who have the statistics on click-through rates etc of those methods would be interested in writing a paper...
No, you are missing the point. A CVD machine is nowhere near a money printing machine. Just because the product is more expensive than fish, it does not mean that it is money. You need trained people to operate the machine, then cut the stones, then a good sales network and an advertizing network (why should people spend money for something that is abundant in nature yet marked up excessively due to a monopoly/oligopoly). The plan is to get money, so you stop the chain wherever you feel you can achieve the best profit margin given the amount of investment and risk you want to take on. You can sell the machine, sell the raw product of the machine, sell the cut gemstones, sell jewelry etc. Each step can add to the profit margin, but adds risk and requires investment. If there are guys that sell CVD machines it means they calculated that for their situation that was the point they should cash in - on the other hand the guys who made moissanite went all the way to gemstones and jewelry (it is probably easier to sell a gemstone that is more brilliant than a diamond, yet costs a fraction of the price and is extremely rare in nature - found only in some meteorites). One thing is for sure, if the next step is flipping a switch that converts your product to money, then you always take the extra step and don't go into the whole effort to sell. So, in this particular case, the chips will probably make more bitcoins than they burn in electricity and I am sure the manufacturers will run several for themselves, but once they hit the market and everybody can get them, it is game over (mining difficulty is proportional to the total mining processing power). The manufacturers will probably make some money by mining themselves but they are betting that they will make more money selling since the initial "party" will not last long. Now, if only one person/entity could make a fast chip, be certain the would keep it for themselves.
That is not a correct analogy. If you could eat all the fish you could fish, you would not sell them, as then you would have to buy fish to eat (paying someone else for the effort). We are talking about a money printing machine. You would obviously operate it yourself if it made more money than it cost, or you would sell it to suckers if you could sell it for more than it would make. As simple as that.
I'm not sure you could make the game safer without so radically changing its nature that it would essentially become something completely different from football as we know it.
So what, it already *is* completely different from football as *we* know it.;)
Do you realize that you are proving my post? If that was your intention, thanks. So, I am saying that Apple removes functionality (Spaces/Expose was crippled for multi-monitor users - yes, I know, Apple expects us to have a single multitouch monitor instead) and the fanboi comes in and mocks me for making a big deal out of it, since it can be "handled by the App Store" (by paying an extra 75% over the price of Mountain Lion). At the same time, few people buy Windows 8, and the missing start menu seems to be a reason, and yet there are Apps for that. And unlike the Mac App mentioned above, there are FREE Apps for that, yet it is still an issue!
Exactly what I tried to explain. Microsoft is not Apple to pull crap like that.
Only Microsoft calls removing features an upgrade... no, wait, Sony has done that, too.
Yeah, right. Apple does that more often. Going from Lion to Mountain Lion made my 3-monitor system almost unusable (due to the particular needs of my setup, which worked fine with Snow Leopard and Lion). I had to buy an app (TotalSpaces) that restores functionality removed by the Mountain Lion "update". In fact, when I heard what MS was doing with Windows 8, my first response was "Those idiots think they are Apple?". Apple can pull crap like that off because people will just buy the "latest Apple". For Microsoft the best case is for people to buy something new if it can do more (otherwise they will sit with their trusted Win XP, Office 2k3 etc).
Ok, I have an extra iPhone just for development which I put on a pre-paid plan that charges 1 euro for every day you use the 3G network. I have used that kind of plan on Maemo/MeeGo and Symbian phones for years and I never had a charge while at home since I have a good WiFi network. You are starting to see where I am going eh? So, a couple of weeks after I added such a card on the iPhone, which was a bit more than a year ago (so we are talking about iOS 5), I disable the WiFi to do some testing with 3G. In comes a message that I have no credit to use 3G. I look in the message folder and for the first time I notice that I had received a message every day about using 3G, and after 10 such messages my 10 euro credit was gone. So I researched what the heck is going on and found other people were having the same problem, and it was really a problem for pre-paid plans like mine, the usual post-paid plan users just shrugged-off a few MB's of extra 3G usage per day. Anyway it seems (as far as people can tell) that when you are not using the phone and goes to some low power mode, it disconnects WiFi and connects via 3G, without any option for the user other than disabling 3G data beforehand! What other phones have as default behavior - ONLY use 3G if you don't have a WiFi connection - is not even an option! If another company did idiotic stuff like that people would be after them (at least for the extra 3G data charges), but I guess if Apple gives you a mouse with a single button, that's how mice are supposed to be...
This only makes sense if the scoring thresholds are set per school, not per race. The kids that go to the same school and live in the same neighborhood receive about the same education, so you should aim at improving that by increasing their school's scoring goal by a set % each year (with emphasis on low performing districts). If the school is not getting better, there is a problem. If it is getting better but it is far behind other schools, well at least it is on a good track. Obviously it might turn out that some poor-performing schools are predominantly of one race etc (simple fact that some poor neighborhoods are not mixed race), but pre-setting goals simply based on race is the very definition of racism.
Duh, I was replying to the joke with another joke as an introduction and then went on to say something a little more serious (as much as American football can let me). It's not my fault my humor is not your humor...
It might surprise you, but there are these Americans who insist on calling "football" a game where you actually use just your hands to throw/catch/carry and only very rarely you get to kick the ball (up to a handful of times per game). People outside the US in the end gave into the madness and are also referring to this game as "American football" instead of using a more fitting name such as "Pansy Rugby" or "Handegg" (http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=3849). They just try to not refer to it much. Anyway, the aforementioned game indeed lasts a bit over 3 hours on average (at least the NFL version). Curiously (for people who are only familiar with the more appropriately named football), the "dead time"/"actual play" ratio of American football is not at all better than Basketball, as those 3 hours involve just 60 minutes of actual play. So it is about 50% more actual play than a college Basketball 40-minute game and about the same 50% extra of actual time (3 hours vs 20hours) but it gets more than 2x the tweets allowance even though the plays and the scoring are several times less... In conclusion, we can't start doing logical analyses for random caps taken out of someones' posterior;)
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Dammit slashdot, I can tell it's an annoying April fool's when I reminisce about the good old days with the ponies...
Do you have some reading comprehension deficiency? If not, re-read my post and your reply. You are quoting resolution, replying CPU, mixing up the e805 with the X50v and the X50v with the X50 standard.
Let me make it simpler for you:
In 2004 (3 years before the iPhone) I had Dell Axim X50v (note the v in the end) with a 640x480 screen and a 624MHz XScale CPU.
In 2003 (4 years before the iPhone) I had a Toshiba e805 with a 640x480 screen. It had a more modest (closer to the iPhone) CPU.
Actually, at around the time of iPhone 4, Apple started putting in some good specs. By the time the iPhone 5 came out it, was among the fastest phones. This is in direct contrast to the early iPhones which had tragically bad specs.
I mean it seemed to me the were targeted at complete retards - people would show me their (gen 1) iPhone and say "look at how well you can browse the web". I could see how the UI of the browser was an improvement over my 3-year old PDAs (Axim X50v) browser, however trying to read on that half-VGA screen would give me instant headaches. Yes, my 3-year old PDA has twice the resolution and a faster CPU. In fact, even before that, my ancient (2003) Toshiba e805 had a 4" screen with full VGA resolution. Consider also the fact that the iPhone originally did not support apps, it should become apparent that the touch-friendly UI alone would not have given momentum to the iPhone release if it was not for marketing and fanboy-ism.
And yet it is surprising that people would call the original iPhone e.g. as a "high resolution display" device. There were devices at least 2 years older with 3x the resolution (but Nokia was too stupid to make a phone back then based on the N770/N800), but they were "invisible" to people.
After Apple opened a new market and everybody jumped in, then they started trying to compete on merit and not just style.
Another reversal that has happened is that now iOS is the least innovative OS. Android - though I am still not a great fan - evolves quickly and I have seen UIs made from scratch (e.g. Swipe UI on Maemo/Meego) look like they are coming to us from the next decade (in look and functionality). Instead of a modern OS on retarded hardware Apple now offers modern (at least relatively) hardware on an aging platform. The only thing that hasn't changed is that you always get less functionality than the competition and you can't change the battery or add memory...
In the future I guess it will be just a matter of switching on an active noise control device to make your room silent, but since so far the technology is only easily applied to headphones, how about a nice pair of those? You don't have to listen to music. You just have to find a pair that is very comfortable to wear and then play whatever low-volume sounds of nature (since silence on noise canceling headphones feels weird for some people).
If you don't like the idea, I would also try different earplugs. I mean during my army training they gave us these very inexpensive earplugs (like foamy rubber you would squish into your ear) for the shooting field and the commander would then be yelling commands on the loudspeaker as loud as he could and yet his voice barely registered! The actual 7.62mm shots were audible of course, but definitely tolerable. So give it another go with earplugs - soundproofing a room is much, much harder and can be very expensive.
Interesting. I' ve also been using SuSE + KDE since 9.1 (there was no OpenSUSE back then IIRC), having switched from Debian. But with every 10.x version I would get more and more problems. A multi-monitor system that was working great with the previous version would require hours of work to run properly with the latest. Laptops where everything ran smoothly would exhibit problems with newer versions. I continued hoping a newer version would magically solve my problems and give me the stability and functionality I enjoyed with 9.x. I gave up around version 11.1 or 11.2 I think.
So, are you saying the 12.x series is again solid and installs easily where 10.x or 11.x had problems, or you are one of the lucky ones that did not have problems with those versions either?
I thought it was clear from my post (it was in agreement to parent after all) that I do believe the ban is useless, so the airline policy was more sane. My ire was directed to the TSA rules that were depriving me of small (and usually expensive) tools when I would be provided with much more "dangerous" objects a few minutes later inside the plane. I know their rules are there just for a laugh (or scare), but it is even worse when they are laughing in your face.
I guess with the rule change I can start carrying multi-tools again, although I had found at least one useful tool that was never taken from the side pocket of my pouch: http://dx.com/p/ultrafire-stainless-steel-bottle-opener-with-screw-driver-and-wrench-tools-4642
You are right. Apparently there are a lot of people fooled by the post 9/11 security theater and are complaining about this change http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/06/travel/tsa-carry-on-changes/. These people (air marshals, flight attendants) should know better, but I guess the US government has managed to drop the average citizen IQ by about 20 units in recent years.
What is interesting is that while I have lost numerous swiss army knives and pocket screwdrivers (I always have a multi-tool with me and I often forget to leave it home or check it in when flying), I have had the added insult of being given metal cutlery (fork & knife) in the flight! The TSA yelled at me "THIS IS A KNIFE!" for a tiny 1-inch blade and then they give me a 4+ inch knife to eat my lunch... I don't remember the airlines with the metal knives, but I think it was Lufthansa once that had these flags nailed on the head-rests. The flag-poles where about 20inches long with an extremely sharp point (that could actually nail the head-rest) and were, sadly, a much better weapon than my foldable screwdriver the TSA had confiscated a few minutes earlier...
The main problem I see is that H1Bs are very restrictive, so the really talented people will prefer to not go to the trouble and find another developed country that will appreciate them more. Think about it, it is an expensive (ok, the company eats the cost - but you are tied to them) and lengthy process (you apply on April for an October VISA), you can't easily change companies and, most importantly, your spouse is not allowed to work. So, while H1Bs can be relatively well-paid, due to the difficulty of the process they are far from being the best-paid, plus if they have a family the other family members will have to go through the same process with another company if they want to work (and they will, since H1Bs are usually not in the highest salaries), plus there is always the danger of the company your VISA is tied to to go down suddenly. Why would the best want to go through such an ordeal, get such a treatment from the country they migrate to? It's not like the US is the best place in the world to live in (although if you can choose where you go in the US there are nice places).
Why older people? It would be best for humankind to send young, experienced professionals, like telephone sanitizers, hairdressers, management consultants etc. It would be good for morale of future missions if they know that upon arriving they can get a good haircut and have clean telephones.
According to Wikipedia, one of the passengers on the Olympic when it crashed later was later on the Titanic when she sank (and survived that ordeal), and later was on the Britannic when it sank (surviving that one too).
Well, only the first time is really hard. Each subsequent shipwreck you are into, your accumulated experience makes it even easier to emerge unharmed while people drown left and right...
Perhaps after a dozen or so shipwrecks you could even be fit enough to have a chance getting out of sinking u-boats...
He already said a developer can throw it together in a couple of weekends. The idea was the money-maker. So, why attract the attention of developers who would then cash-in without coming up with anything themselves?
I had that problem in my CS grad school as well. Half the students were Indians, and they seemed to be helping each-other a lot. So, half the TAs where Indian as well and that led to Indian students passing whatever they submitted (to be graded by TAs). For example I know for a fact that while I got a 90% for a project to do with queries of a given db database, an Indian girl got 100% for submitting a java program that instead of querying the db had simply hard-coded answers to the sample test queries...
There were some great Indian students of course, but they were the minority (at least in that environment).
Anyway, the great fun was a year or two after I finished. There was an Indian guy who was copying during a midterm. The professor caught him and gave him an F for the midterm. At the final, the guy needed a good grade I guess, so he tried to copy again. The professor catches him once more and tells him that he will get an F for the course (which is a big bummer if you were counting on financial aid), so this brilliant character turns and says "Why F just for me when all the others submitted the same course project". The professor retrieved the projects from the TAs and indeed there were some dozens of identical submissions... There was talk about expulsions, but in the end the students got an F in the class, and I guess some US professors realized not all cultures have the same academic customs (and possibly that you have to do some stuff yourself, not just drop everything to the TAs)...
And, that is the most relevant quote.
MSSE is as competent in known threads, while giving less false positives and being significantly lighter.
You don't have to be an anti-virus developer to realize that of the three desirable characteristics: "good at zero day", "few false positives", "light/fast" you can only get up to 2. And Microsoft does get 2 here and, according to that same test, they get those 2 pretty well.
And of those 3 characteristics, I have to say Microsoft bet on the right 2, since apart from the fact that they make for a MUCH less annoying product for the 99% of users (the only AV I recommend nowadays), Microsoft is at a disadvantage trying to be good at zero day: every malware maker has MSSE and can test it against his creation, making sure it can "pass".
Exactly. People who read a lot will stick with e-readers and most heavy readers probably already have their Kindles. ;) ) the sales of e-reader devices is bound to go down as less and less people who would want an e-reader are left without one.
We have 2 Kindles at home (for me and the wife) and I can honestly say for readers it is a revolutionary device. For me, it cannot be compared to a tablet at all. It is lighter, the battery duration is greater by several orders of magnitude, and, above all, it is as relaxing to read as a regular book! No eyestrain!
I have an Ipad 4th gen (for development), which, as I understand it, has about the best LCD they could put on a tablet. Well, it is still pretty much a regular LCD. As much as the text is sharp, you are looking at a light source and also if you read on a white background it is only nice and white as long as you are not more than a few degrees of the axis (and lets not start with the reflections!). I saw my wife printing huge papers in PDF to read, which is the only thing the Kindle is not good at, and offered here to try out my Ipad, and she could only read for about 20 minutes or so before giving it back to me saying it is not less tiring than her LCD monitor.
So, the, minority as the parent poster says, will always have their e-readers, regardless of whether they get a tablet or not, because they perform a different function. And as you don't upgrade your e-reader every 6 months like some people do their tablets ( although I am thinking to go Paperwhite
I RTFA and while the whole system is quite sophisticated with keylogging trojans etc, in the end it works on the few dumb users who will press an SMS link that says "To install the free cryptographic software on your phone, use this link".
Clicking a link on an unsolicited message and especially one that contains the words "Install" and "Free" means you should not own a smartphone, and probably neither a PC with a browser or email client.
In the end all that hard work from fraudsters gave them access to the money of people who are just a bit smarter than those who respond to the "You won the Spanish Lottery" or "I am the son of the late King of Zembla and have eleventy billion USD to deposit to your account".
I would be interested to find out if this scheme was more or less successful than the more common and much simpler "Click here to log on to your bank website and confirm your details" fake bank login scam. But I doubt the people who have the statistics on click-through rates etc of those methods would be interested in writing a paper...
No, you are missing the point.
A CVD machine is nowhere near a money printing machine. Just because the product is more expensive than fish, it does not mean that it is money.
You need trained people to operate the machine, then cut the stones, then a good sales network and an advertizing network (why should people spend money for something that is abundant in nature yet marked up excessively due to a monopoly/oligopoly). The plan is to get money, so you stop the chain wherever you feel you can achieve the best profit margin given the amount of investment and risk you want to take on. You can sell the machine, sell the raw product of the machine, sell the cut gemstones, sell jewelry etc. Each step can add to the profit margin, but adds risk and requires investment. If there are guys that sell CVD machines it means they calculated that for their situation that was the point they should cash in - on the other hand the guys who made moissanite went all the way to gemstones and jewelry (it is probably easier to sell a gemstone that is more brilliant than a diamond, yet costs a fraction of the price and is extremely rare in nature - found only in some meteorites).
One thing is for sure, if the next step is flipping a switch that converts your product to money, then you always take the extra step and don't go into the whole effort to sell.
So, in this particular case, the chips will probably make more bitcoins than they burn in electricity and I am sure the manufacturers will run several for themselves, but once they hit the market and everybody can get them, it is game over (mining difficulty is proportional to the total mining processing power). The manufacturers
will probably make some money by mining themselves but they are betting that they will make more money selling since the initial "party" will not last long. Now, if only one person/entity could make a fast chip, be certain the would keep it for themselves.
That is not a correct analogy.
If you could eat all the fish you could fish, you would not sell them, as then you would have to buy fish to eat (paying someone else for the effort).
We are talking about a money printing machine. You would obviously operate it yourself if it made more money than it cost, or you would sell it to suckers if you could sell it for more than it would make.
As simple as that.
I'm not sure you could make the game safer without so radically changing its nature that it would essentially become something completely different from football as we know it.
So what, it already *is* completely different from football as *we* know it. ;)
Do you realize that you are proving my post? If that was your intention, thanks.
So, I am saying that Apple removes functionality (Spaces/Expose was crippled for multi-monitor users - yes, I know, Apple expects us to have a single multitouch monitor instead) and the fanboi comes in and mocks me for making a big deal out of it, since it can be "handled by the App Store" (by paying an extra 75% over the price of Mountain Lion).
At the same time, few people buy Windows 8, and the missing start menu seems to be a reason, and yet there are Apps for that. And unlike the Mac App mentioned above, there are FREE Apps for that, yet it is still an issue!
Exactly what I tried to explain. Microsoft is not Apple to pull crap like that.
Only Microsoft calls removing features an upgrade... no, wait, Sony has done that, too.
Yeah, right. Apple does that more often.
Going from Lion to Mountain Lion made my 3-monitor system almost unusable (due to the particular needs of my setup, which worked fine with Snow Leopard and Lion). I had to buy an app (TotalSpaces) that restores functionality removed by the Mountain Lion "update".
In fact, when I heard what MS was doing with Windows 8, my first response was "Those idiots think they are Apple?". Apple can pull crap like that off because people will just buy the "latest Apple". For Microsoft the best case is for people to buy something new if it can do more (otherwise they will sit with their trusted Win XP, Office 2k3 etc).
Ok, I have an extra iPhone just for development which I put on a pre-paid plan that charges 1 euro for every day you use the 3G network. I have used that kind of plan on Maemo/MeeGo and Symbian phones for years and I never had a charge while at home since I have a good WiFi network.
You are starting to see where I am going eh?
So, a couple of weeks after I added such a card on the iPhone, which was a bit more than a year ago (so we are talking about iOS 5), I disable the WiFi to do some testing with 3G. In comes a message that I have no credit to use 3G. I look in the message folder and for the first time I notice that I had received a message every day about using 3G, and after 10 such messages my 10 euro credit was gone. So I researched what the heck is going on and found other people were having the same problem, and it was really a problem for pre-paid plans like mine, the usual post-paid plan users just shrugged-off a few MB's of extra 3G usage per day. Anyway it seems (as far as people can tell) that when you are not using the phone and goes to some low power mode, it disconnects WiFi and connects via 3G, without any option for the user other than disabling 3G data beforehand! What other phones have as default behavior - ONLY use 3G if you don't have a WiFi connection - is not even an option! If another company did idiotic stuff like that people would be after them (at least for the extra 3G data charges), but I guess if Apple gives you a mouse with a single button, that's how mice are supposed to be...
This only makes sense if the scoring thresholds are set per school, not per race. The kids that go to the same school and live in the same neighborhood receive about the same education, so you should aim at improving that by increasing their school's scoring goal by a set % each year (with emphasis on low performing districts). If the school is not getting better, there is a problem. If it is getting better but it is far behind other schools, well at least it is on a good track.
Obviously it might turn out that some poor-performing schools are predominantly of one race etc (simple fact that some poor neighborhoods are not mixed race), but pre-setting goals simply based on race is the very definition of racism.
Duh, I was replying to the joke with another joke as an introduction and then went on to say something a little more serious (as much as American football can let me). It's not my fault my humor is not your humor...
It might surprise you, but there are these Americans who insist on calling "football" a game where you actually use just your hands to throw/catch/carry and only very rarely you get to kick the ball (up to a handful of times per game). People outside the US in the end gave into the madness and are also referring to this game as "American football" instead of using a more fitting name such as "Pansy Rugby" or "Handegg" (http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=3849). They just try to not refer to it much. ;)
Anyway, the aforementioned game indeed lasts a bit over 3 hours on average (at least the NFL version). Curiously (for people who are only familiar with the more appropriately named football), the "dead time"/"actual play" ratio of American football is not at all better than Basketball, as those 3 hours involve just 60 minutes of actual play. So it is about 50% more actual play than a college Basketball 40-minute game and about the same 50% extra of actual time (3 hours vs 20hours) but it gets more than 2x the tweets allowance even though the plays and the scoring are several times less...
In conclusion, we can't start doing logical analyses for random caps taken out of someones' posterior
Are you sure your friends are not just happy that you can't find them anymore?