The scientists aren't abusing anything. The way the theme of this contest cuts both ways is that both politicians in power and hippies in the street distort or misrepresent science to further their own political agenda.
While 'circle' is a generic term, the exact strings '\circle' and \circle*' are fairly specific to LaTeX. If Google (or any search engine) supported searching for the exact string, rather than picking the part of the string that looks like a word, a search for computer language syntax would be easy. That said, in the vast majority of cases having punctuation not count is a boon (eg, entering "foo-bar" will also pick up "foo bar"), because the vast majority of searches are not for computer syntax. All's he's looking for is a switch to turn the default convenience behavior off.
I presume that there's some mechanism to install drivers that function on the login prompt. At least for the fingerprint readers on Lenovo laptops, the driver hooks the login prompt, which is something an every-day application generally can't do.
I think that the point is, Intel's going to sell millions of conroes, but only a few thousand people will have bought them because of the merits discussed in technical magazines. All the other sales will be because that's what Dell put in the box.
I suppose that in this particular case, a system to track and prosecute people who keep to the right would be a positive development./Ignorant American
The thing that scares me about the car logging isn't so much the logging (which is worrisome on its own), but the plan to automatically correlate that data with the movement of cars found to be involved in terrorist incidents after the fact. So if your car was near the terrorist car for 50 miles leading up to the attack, now you're a person of interest, all because you kept to the right and didn't pass.
Why would an oil company need to meet with the Vice President in order to raise the price on a wildly popular good that some might consider necessary to their daily life?
... if there isn't some sort of "HDCP chain could not be secured, using reduced resolution" message.
I think it would be the ultimate coup for the DRM trechery to be revealed by having the players display a giant "ZOMG you're using insecure equipment YOU PIRATE!!" message when someone hooked their blu-ray player up to their DVI-D monitor. We can only hope that industry foolishness carries us to that point...
I agree: a free market is going to do nothing to protect an individual. That is the realm of the government (through legislation preventing fraud) and the individual themselves (through considering their transactions, and evaluating risk).
Of course, this assumes the customer realizes he's been hurt.
If someone doesn't know they've been hurt, have they really been hurt? Losing something you didn't know you had is a small loss.
Or perhaps knowingly hurting a small percentage of your customers is acceptable because it's more cost effective.
If it's more cost effective to not pursue business with a particular group of customers, then it's more cost effective. There's nothing saying that a company *has* to try and sell to every last person. The marginal cost of winning some people over is just too high.
Or perhaps you've just taken over a business with a good reputation and are perfectly happy to destroy the business in a year or so, harming many customers in process, in exchange for a short term increase in profit.
I see two potential situations here. First, that management is retarded and doesn't respect even the customers who are worth pursuing. That management needs to be displaced, and they will be once the company goes under and someone better starts a new company that takes their place. A second possibility is that the market they are in is too hard to win customers in, and it's time to cut losses and sell all you can before leaving the market for better pastures. It's entirely possible that Sony's management is foolishly acting out of hubris (case 1), because the videogame market is hardly one that is hard to stay in once you've gotten over the cost of entrance.
Or you've got a monopoly through some means and can generally treat your customers like crap because they don't have other viable options.
When a harmful monopoly is in place, the market has failed. One can only hope that whatever economic mediator is in place acts properly to restore the market to viability.
The market may be slow to act, but outside of a failure as in the case of monopoly, things will eventually be righted. The manner of the righting will inevitably seem unjust to some, but it must be remembered that the market does not seek for the personal welfare of the participants, but to encourage efficient production by all.
The nice thing about OSS is that, unlike a closed source project, if you really need the fix right now you can go into the development tree and get it. With a closed shop, it doesn't matter whether the project team has fixed the bug or not, you're seeing nothing until the next release unless you're a major contract customer (like how major companies get custom Cisco IOS releases because they subscribe to such a high level of support)
When man first started banging on things with hammers, he didn't where goggles. After observing that there was a risk of eye damage, he determined that goggles might be a good plan. People got hurt, but those who came after did not. What specific risks have been observed from nanotechnology, and what precautions should be taken to mitigate these risks? No one knows, and research needs to (and will be) done to determine them.
FYI, the fence isn't there to protect your fingers, it's there to help you cut straight and set the position of the cut relative to the edge of the piece. The blade guard and pusher are there for your fingers, and the splitter is there for your eyes.
What strategy, apart from addressing issues as they arise, can identify what aspects of a new (and rather broad) technology need to be regulated? An arbitrary set of preemptive regulations would prevent lots of otherwise safe developments, and generate loopholes that allow truely dangerous things to be grandfathered along.
Force feedback on a joystick is useful, for example in a flight simulator it can simulate cable-linked control surfaces. The random jiggling that the 'force feedback' controllers use is not quite as additive to the imersion of the game. If they could actually jerk the controller in a set director, like for the recoil of a gun, that would be useful, but vibrating limits it to the usefulness of a buzzer or blinking light.
However, GTA doesn't say the goal of the game is to fly 757s in the the WTC. The game is to be a criminal. To me there is a subtle, but important, difference.
The subtle difference between killing 1000 people at once, and walking up to each individually and shooting them in the face/stabbing them/beating them to death?
Actually, it does have a fan. And not one, not two, but three blue LEDs to light it up. Runs off the PCI bus power, though, so we don't need PSUs with yet another specialized connector.
The CIA may do some damn distasteful things, but I have yet to hear *any* credible report that they round up people by the millions and work them slowly to death at labor camps. To compare the CIA to the tradgedy that was Stalin's reign is disrespectful to the millions who died because they inconvenienced him.
I don't think they will ever acheieve the West Wing level of steady cam usage. Don't they hold a record for duration spinning around two people talking?
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The scientists aren't abusing anything. The way the theme of this contest cuts both ways is that both politicians in power and hippies in the street distort or misrepresent science to further their own political agenda.
That's like saying it was the staph that killed him, not the ban on penicilin. Stupid.
Perhaps just a government that didn't collect my taxes to jail people who spend money on drugs and prostitutes.
While 'circle' is a generic term, the exact strings '\circle' and \circle*' are fairly specific to LaTeX. If Google (or any search engine) supported searching for the exact string, rather than picking the part of the string that looks like a word, a search for computer language syntax would be easy. That said, in the vast majority of cases having punctuation not count is a boon (eg, entering "foo-bar" will also pick up "foo bar"), because the vast majority of searches are not for computer syntax. All's he's looking for is a switch to turn the default convenience behavior off.
I presume that there's some mechanism to install drivers that function on the login prompt. At least for the fingerprint readers on Lenovo laptops, the driver hooks the login prompt, which is something an every-day application generally can't do.
If you truely can't do something harmless in your basement, then the people have lost.
I think that the point is, Intel's going to sell millions of conroes, but only a few thousand people will have bought them because of the merits discussed in technical magazines. All the other sales will be because that's what Dell put in the box.
If you can afford one of these 750GB drives, you can probably afford two 250GB drives with dosh left for RAID hardware.
I suppose that in this particular case, a system to track and prosecute people who keep to the right would be a positive development. /Ignorant American
The thing that scares me about the car logging isn't so much the logging (which is worrisome on its own), but the plan to automatically correlate that data with the movement of cars found to be involved in terrorist incidents after the fact. So if your car was near the terrorist car for 50 miles leading up to the attack, now you're a person of interest, all because you kept to the right and didn't pass.
Why would an oil company need to meet with the Vice President in order to raise the price on a wildly popular good that some might consider necessary to their daily life?
Wind over IP is one of the great technological triumphs of our time
... if there isn't some sort of "HDCP chain could not be secured, using reduced resolution" message.
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I think it would be the ultimate coup for the DRM trechery to be revealed by having the players display a giant "ZOMG you're using insecure equipment YOU PIRATE!!" message when someone hooked their blu-ray player up to their DVI-D monitor. We can only hope that industry foolishness carries us to that point
I agree: a free market is going to do nothing to protect an individual. That is the realm of the government (through legislation preventing fraud) and the individual themselves (through considering their transactions, and evaluating risk).
Of course, this assumes the customer realizes he's been hurt.
If someone doesn't know they've been hurt, have they really been hurt? Losing something you didn't know you had is a small loss.
Or perhaps knowingly hurting a small percentage of your customers is acceptable because it's more cost effective.
If it's more cost effective to not pursue business with a particular group of customers, then it's more cost effective. There's nothing saying that a company *has* to try and sell to every last person. The marginal cost of winning some people over is just too high.
Or perhaps you've just taken over a business with a good reputation and are perfectly happy to destroy the business in a year or so, harming many customers in process, in exchange for a short term increase in profit.
I see two potential situations here. First, that management is retarded and doesn't respect even the customers who are worth pursuing. That management needs to be displaced, and they will be once the company goes under and someone better starts a new company that takes their place. A second possibility is that the market they are in is too hard to win customers in, and it's time to cut losses and sell all you can before leaving the market for better pastures. It's entirely possible that Sony's management is foolishly acting out of hubris (case 1), because the videogame market is hardly one that is hard to stay in once you've gotten over the cost of entrance.
Or you've got a monopoly through some means and can generally treat your customers like crap because they don't have other viable options.
When a harmful monopoly is in place, the market has failed. One can only hope that whatever economic mediator is in place acts properly to restore the market to viability.
The market may be slow to act, but outside of a failure as in the case of monopoly, things will eventually be righted. The manner of the righting will inevitably seem unjust to some, but it must be remembered that the market does not seek for the personal welfare of the participants, but to encourage efficient production by all.
The nice thing about OSS is that, unlike a closed source project, if you really need the fix right now you can go into the development tree and get it. With a closed shop, it doesn't matter whether the project team has fixed the bug or not, you're seeing nothing until the next release unless you're a major contract customer (like how major companies get custom Cisco IOS releases because they subscribe to such a high level of support)
The Sempron processors are their low end, all sub-$100 from a quick glance at Pricewatch.
When man first started banging on things with hammers, he didn't where goggles. After observing that there was a risk of eye damage, he determined that goggles might be a good plan. People got hurt, but those who came after did not. What specific risks have been observed from nanotechnology, and what precautions should be taken to mitigate these risks? No one knows, and research needs to (and will be) done to determine them.
FYI, the fence isn't there to protect your fingers, it's there to help you cut straight and set the position of the cut relative to the edge of the piece. The blade guard and pusher are there for your fingers, and the splitter is there for your eyes.
What strategy, apart from addressing issues as they arise, can identify what aspects of a new (and rather broad) technology need to be regulated? An arbitrary set of preemptive regulations would prevent lots of otherwise safe developments, and generate loopholes that allow truely dangerous things to be grandfathered along.
Force feedback on a joystick is useful, for example in a flight simulator it can simulate cable-linked control surfaces. The random jiggling that the 'force feedback' controllers use is not quite as additive to the imersion of the game. If they could actually jerk the controller in a set director, like for the recoil of a gun, that would be useful, but vibrating limits it to the usefulness of a buzzer or blinking light.
However, GTA doesn't say the goal of the game is to fly 757s in the the WTC. The game is to be a criminal. To me there is a subtle, but important, difference.
The subtle difference between killing 1000 people at once, and walking up to each individually and shooting them in the face/stabbing them/beating them to death?
Just to be safe, I think I'll be slipping a blank DVD with something mean written on it with all future packages ...
Actually, it does have a fan. And not one, not two, but three blue LEDs to light it up. Runs off the PCI bus power, though, so we don't need PSUs with yet another specialized connector.
The CIA may do some damn distasteful things, but I have yet to hear *any* credible report that they round up people by the millions and work them slowly to death at labor camps. To compare the CIA to the tradgedy that was Stalin's reign is disrespectful to the millions who died because they inconvenienced him.
I don't think they will ever acheieve the West Wing level of steady cam usage. Don't they hold a record for duration spinning around two people talking?