I searched for 'zi4you2' and 'min2zhu3' ('freedom' and 'democracy', respectively; romanizations used in lieu of the actual characters) on msn.com.cn, and I saw no warning. I think the article is suggesting that the words may be blocked on some areas on its MySpace blog service.
The links to the 1080p trailers were showing up for me shortly after I installed the preview. Apple probably discovered that the PCs weren't handling the 1080p files very well and removed them for Windows users with QT7 installed.
Most providers will charge to use such IM clients and each message is often treated like one SMS message as well. So, using MSN/AIM (the two most widely supported among US providers) could be just as expensive, if not more so.
But what's interesting about the way the wiki process works, and the openness of it, is that if you write something and you want it to survive the process, you have to write it in such a way that is broadly satisfactory to people of many points of view.
But what about issues and facts that may indeed offend a lot of people? One of the problems with mainstream media is that they must retain an audience and so they often frame the information such that it is in a view that is pleases as much of its audience as possible. A single issue has many viewpoints, and each of those viewpoints may be presented with a bias. Take nuclear energy for example--one can explore the dangers of it or talk about its advantages. Both can be reported in a netural way, but by highlighting one and not the other, there is another form of bias. They may circumvent some types of political and opionated biased in this way, but they do not eliminate the bias as to what does and does not receive attention.
A copy of the bill is available here.
It defines spyware in this way:
22947.1. For purposes of this chapter, "spyware" means an
executable program that automatically and without the control of a
computer user gathers and transmits to the provider of the program or
to a third party either of the following types of information: [...]
The bill also outlines many cases in which damages may be recovered. The $1000 damages that may be recovered refer to violations of section 22947.2 which defines how spyware should be distirbuted. Spyware distributed in violation of the provisions of that section would allow for a collection of damages of up to $1000 for each copy distributed in violation of those provisions.
Overall, the results are pretty clear: Mac users might not actually be smarter than PC users, but they certainly use better English and a larger vocabulary to express more complex thinking.
That's a loaded conclusion for his rather cursory analysis. The primary problem with that conclusion is that it assumes that those who use 'better' English and a larger vocabulary must express complex thinking; he does not suggest that better English and a larger vocabulary may just be that and not a reflection of complexity of thought.
What he has shown--not proven--is that from his sample of texts that the Mac users simply wrote longer sentences and used words with more syllables (two measures by which Flesch-Kinkaid uses to determine 'grade level' of writing). Nothing about the intelligence of the users (and this is ignoring how that word is vague and undefined) is shown in any form. We have numbers that are the result of simple analyses of texts. Those measures, as far as I know, can't process semantic meaning, and they thus show next to nothing about the 'intelligence' of the authors.
There are typographical considerations--having columns and tables fit to whatever size window a user is using would create problems if the window were very narrow or very wide, as very long or very short lines of text are difficult to read. The text size could be scaled along with width and resolution, but I know of no method that will accomplish this efficiently and will work in a majority of browsers.
And then there are graphics, which are not scalable without quality loss. PNG might work, but few use the format for larger graphics like photographs would simply be too large in file size. [It would also be expensive bandwidth-wise for those paying the hosting bill.] It may work well for logos and vector images, but beyond that, there's not much to be done.
Not to mention, on most plans, one pays for text messages received [either deducted from a package of a number messages that one buys for a certain amount of money each month or charged a fee for using more messages than the number bought].
The inbox sizes are also quite small; even a small bit of spam would be even more annoying as it could quickly fill a relatively small quota.
Depending on how exactly the ad system works, it's probably in Google's interest to have Gmail's users amass collections of e-mails as large as possible. The larger the database of e-mails, the larger pool of text Google can analyze (presuming people don't keep a large amounts of junk mail and what not) and learn to better target ads.
hymm started out as "Playfair" which was on Sourceforge, where you could grab the source / program. Then, Apple had requested for it to be removed, so PlayFair outsourced itself to India, where it was later removed, again. Now the application is called "hymn", or "hear your music anywhere". [...]
The biggest corporations will still be quite capable of monopolizing because they have far more resources to expend in litigation.
Individual and small corporate developers stand little chance against larger corporations as they cannot afford to spend the same amount of cash on legal services and resources.
The laws offer protection if you can afford the cost of defense.
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I searched for 'zi4you2' and 'min2zhu3' ('freedom' and 'democracy', respectively; romanizations used in lieu of the actual characters) on msn.com.cn, and I saw no warning. I think the article is suggesting that the words may be blocked on some areas on its MySpace blog service.
The links to the 1080p trailers were showing up for me shortly after I installed the preview. Apple probably discovered that the PCs weren't handling the 1080p files very well and removed them for Windows users with QT7 installed.
Most providers will charge to use such IM clients and each message is often treated like one SMS message as well. So, using MSN/AIM (the two most widely supported among US providers) could be just as expensive, if not more so.
But what's interesting about the way the wiki process works, and the openness of it, is that if you write something and you want it to survive the process, you have to write it in such a way that is broadly satisfactory to people of many points of view.
But what about issues and facts that may indeed offend a lot of people? One of the problems with mainstream media is that they must retain an audience and so they often frame the information such that it is in a view that is pleases as much of its audience as possible. A single issue has many viewpoints, and each of those viewpoints may be presented with a bias. Take nuclear energy for example--one can explore the dangers of it or talk about its advantages. Both can be reported in a netural way, but by highlighting one and not the other, there is another form of bias. They may circumvent some types of political and opionated biased in this way, but they do not eliminate the bias as to what does and does not receive attention.
What he has shown--not proven--is that from his sample of texts that the Mac users simply wrote longer sentences and used words with more syllables (two measures by which Flesch-Kinkaid uses to determine 'grade level' of writing). Nothing about the intelligence of the users (and this is ignoring how that word is vague and undefined) is shown in any form. We have numbers that are the result of simple analyses of texts. Those measures, as far as I know, can't process semantic meaning, and they thus show next to nothing about the 'intelligence' of the authors.
There are typographical considerations--having columns and tables fit to whatever size window a user is using would create problems if the window were very narrow or very wide, as very long or very short lines of text are difficult to read. The text size could be scaled along with width and resolution, but I know of no method that will accomplish this efficiently and will work in a majority of browsers. And then there are graphics, which are not scalable without quality loss. PNG might work, but few use the format for larger graphics like photographs would simply be too large in file size. [It would also be expensive bandwidth-wise for those paying the hosting bill.] It may work well for logos and vector images, but beyond that, there's not much to be done.
Not to mention, on most plans, one pays for text messages received [either deducted from a package of a number messages that one buys for a certain amount of money each month or charged a fee for using more messages than the number bought]. The inbox sizes are also quite small; even a small bit of spam would be even more annoying as it could quickly fill a relatively small quota.
Depending on how exactly the ad system works, it's probably in Google's interest to have Gmail's users amass collections of e-mails as large as possible. The larger the database of e-mails, the larger pool of text Google can analyze (presuming people don't keep a large amounts of junk mail and what not) and learn to better target ads.
The biggest corporations will still be quite capable of monopolizing because they have far more resources to expend in litigation. Individual and small corporate developers stand little chance against larger corporations as they cannot afford to spend the same amount of cash on legal services and resources. The laws offer protection if you can afford the cost of defense.