Testing this on volunteers from the army would not be as telling as it would be to test it on an angry mob.
Testing on an angry mob will not tell you as much as a controlled test -- you might find out whether the mob reacts the way you want (what do you do if it doesn't?), but without lawsuits, how will you find out how it affects the individuals? Angry mobs are not known for orderly feedback on immediate or lingering effects. Will they discover that the device causes irreperable hearing loss at a distance closer than 200 feet? Most likely, some rioters will complain of irreperable hearing loss no matter whether it happened or not, and nobody will be able to give accurate distance measurements.
It's actually much simpler than this; you just have a separate stream (along with the video and audio -- think subtitles) that defines clickable areas with links, relative to a frame range. You can even do morphing links, where the link changes shape and tracks a moving object. I can't see the application being much different than what QuickTime already does, or from Closed Captioning/subtitles for that matter. You could even have the links link to subtitle streams, where pointing at a laptop will bring up text about what laptop it is, and who is currently selling it for what price. Pointing at someone's head might bring up text and a link about their hairdresser. Or, it might bring up something else.
So what you're saying is that everything hangs on the interpretation of "suffer detriment" in a possibly protracted court case... in the case of GPL software, MS would argue that because the software itself is freely available, the author did not profit from it in any major way, and so is not suffering detriment to have it removed from the market. Meanwhile, the developer would run out of money, and settle out of court.
Personally, I'd prefer to have something a little more solid (like any suits brought that renege on these promises being thrown out of court as a matter of course). Still, if enough people violate these patents, then MS has no grounds on which to sue an individual, unless they show that they are defending their patent against all comers, right?
So, if I go to Thailand and buy Microsoft * and Adobe *, I own it all? I can't believe that.
Too bad you can't believe it. As long as you're in Thailand, it's true. However, if you try to import that software into the US (or the EU, or Canada, or anywhere else that upholds the Berne convention), it would be illegal.
4. GM foods tend to be designed to outperform other strains in specific environments. The end result is a crop monoculture based on only one natural strain of crop. If there are any other downfalls of that specific crop, there is no genetic diversity available, resulting in a complete collapse of that specific stock type. This could, I guess, be avoided by GMing a number of varieties, so that their differences are still available. I have never heard of this happening, however.
I'm curious though... what do these pledges actually mean? Are they legally binding? Can they be rescinded at some point in the future? If these pledges really mean that the patents are unenforcable until they expire, I'm all for it... but given MS's history, I want to be absolutely certain on this before doing anything that messes with these now well-known patents (can't claim ignorance).
So as an iPod-carrying Mac user, what player do you use? Audion? I'm sincerely curious, as iTunes is the best thing I've found on the MacOS (I like the party shuffle mode, among other things). iTMS on the other hand... xP
On a more hopeful note, if Google and Apple ever made any sort of actual loose partnership, it's be the coolest company ever.:)
...except that Google would have to sell out on their "Do No Evil" slogan completely to do this. I like Apple, and have been using Apple hardware since 1982, but that long relationship has taught me that they WILL do evil if they feel it will be to the greater good in the long run.
This all sounds well and good... but the costs of all these upgrades would get passed on to the consumer. The end result would be that nobody would be stealing your identity/datamining your soul, but it wouldn't really matter because 1/3 of the things you use your identity for would no longer be available, and 1/3 of them would no longer be acessible to YOU. Convenience and security are at opposite ends of a sliding scale.
That would be fine if AT&T were the only company having these problems.
Has ANYONE set up a clearinghouse for these security breaches so I can keep an eye on where (not if) my private information is leaking?
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I have to agree. Personally, I like to have my documentary biases out in the open where I can see them. "Objective" documentaries are generally biased to the currently common view in the field. Thus, the bias takes more work to find, but the kind of bias should be easy enough to identify. I find it much more entertaining and enlightening to watch documenteraies made by two people passionately trying to make points (as long as they remember to hang on to some shred of objectivity while doing it).
Let's say it again: it's not what you have, but how you use it. Creative has shown that features are not what sells PMPs, it's ease of use. Even if Microsoft pulls this off at a comparable price point, they also have to have good integration with their online music store, and allow people to burn to/rip from CDs.
Along another train of thought... I guess this is what the MS patent posted earlier today is all about... controlling who uses up the bandwidth on your device when social networking.
Thinking along these lines... what MS REALLY needs to do is to create a way for the devices to share music with each other; first 30 secs are free... if someone wants to copy the entire song over, MS bills their credit card, and the person gets a DRMed copy of the song locked to their device.
A lot of people come to me for peripheral purchasing advice. In cameras, off the bat I generally tell them to avoid these brands:
Canon (proprietary drivers)
Fuji and Olympus (proprietary/expensive memory)
I also sometimes recommend against Sony (proprietary issues again). However, if you're willing to have memory that doesn't work in non-Sony devices, their products still play fair as peripherals.
Right now, the best brand going IMO is Panasonic. Both their cameras and camcorders are great (as long as you buy what you need from their lineup) and seem to play nicely with everyone else.
This is consumer-level advice only -- if you're going Pro, you probably need Photoshop, which doesn't run on Linux. Hopefully this situation will change one day soon, and professional photographers can join professional videographers in using Linux for production.
From what I can gather, they're offloading the CPU crunching done in the network stack to their card, freeing up the CPU to deal with other game-related processes. As far as the network stack goes, quick handling of TCP means that UDP packets (also handled by the stack) are also processed in a more timely fashion.
Basicly, you won't really see a difference in theoretical simulations; the only time this should make any sort of a noticeable difference is when your computer is already being brought to its knees by running UltimateShakyGround II Online at 240fps, 3200x2400dpi. Believe me... I've been in situations where computers exchanging UDP packets ran into real trouble because some unrelated process kicked in on one of them.
All that being said, it'd be just as easy to lower your screen resolution and turn off the eye candy to reduce CPU load. I have a feeling that's what all the really skilled gamers do.
I would think that it would be VERY VERY difficult for the US government to do much to Australia economically. The government doesn't do importing / exporting - that's private business. One possibility would be to slap unreasonable tarrifs on things, but the WTO would step in in that case.
I hope you don't really believe this... the US virtually controls the WTO. If what you said was true, then the US would have stopped messing around with Canadian softwood lumber years ago. Governments don't import/export... PEOPLE import/export. Governments represent the people (or corporations). If the US slapped unreasonable tarrifs on Australian things, Australian businesses would die off, cutting off Australian government revenue. As a result, the Australian government would complain to the WTO... and the WTO would tell the US it was being naughty and to do something about it. The US would then argue that it was Australia that was causing the problem by not protecting US goods, leaving the US to defend these goods itself. The WTO would then tut-tut both sides, and tell them to resolve their differences.
Meanwhile, the Australian businesses would die out, the government would lose funding, and the US would still make a profit off of their trading practices.
I presume you're talking about running an XP-based machine. OS X (and soon Vista) depend on volume of RAM just as much as bus speed/RAM speed -- because of the way their memory management works. If you don't have enough RAM, you'll end up paging data to the HD, which is definitely not fast enough to compete with RAM. Maybe when MRAM is being used instead of hard drives, this won't be an issue. But until then....
You, sir, need to go watch the MythBusters "Explosive Decompression" episode. It takes a fair bit of pressure to breach a modern jetliner hull, and even then, all you have is a hole that's bleeding air out of the airplane (until someone plugs it with something). A passenger would likely do as much (physical) damage by opening one of the emergency exits. The emotional trauma of being splattered with pieces of the person across the aisle from you would be a bit much though. But not enough to crash the jet.
Exactly. Just a piece of advice to any of you out there who are still in school and are currently being bullied/picked on: the bullies don't do it because they're stronger than you; that just makes it easier for them to use physical bullying as opposed to other methods: they do it because they see you as a social weakling lacking a social security net.
My suggestion for the upcoming fall: try to make friends with *individuals* from various social groups in your school. Find something you have in common with someone, and humbly find a way to work on that with them. Offer to teach the captain of the basketball team your Chess moves (yes, captains of B-Ball teams are usually strategic thinkers and love a good chess match). Join the yearbook club (lots of "popular" student leaders do that). Take an acting class. Join some extracurricular club that crosses groupie boundaries -- above all, have some confidence (not arrogance) in yourself. If you do, you'll find others will too.
Of course, this doesn't solve every problem magically, but if people don't view you as a social misfit, they're less likely to torment you. Also, this is not to imply that everyone who is bullied is a social misfit. Just that at least the bullies probably view you that way.
It's funny... when I was in school, by the time I got to highschool I had figured out that violence wasn't the answer (usually) to bullies. I put my 150 IQ to work and thought about their motivations: "Why am I being bullied?" I decided that people like to feel superior, like they have power over others. They also like entertainment. Following this, I started on a campaign to make a minor public spectacle out of anyone who tried to bully me... pointing out that they were picking on the most defenceless guy in the room to try and look strong, that kind of thing -- and making sure I always did it in front of the girls. I never pushed it too far (I realized that if I made them look TOO bad [not just bad for treating me badly], they'd take it out on me after school), but I always hinted to them that I was being restrained and could completely ruin their school reputation if they tried anything more. This method, along with physically pushing a bully who happened to be about my size back into his seat one time, to show that I couldn't just be pushed around, turned out to be the magic formula to living a (mostly) bully-free life through hischool.
Every once in a while, some new kid would decide to move up the pecking order by picking on me -- when people laughed at him for it, he'd stop, and that was that.
Plus, I tended to help out the really big guys in the school when they had some thinking related issue (advice, math problems, computer games, etc). Being seen in their company frequently probably didn't hurt either.
When asked who your "neighbour" is, he basicly said anyone... he did not distinguish between rich and poor. Jesus also spent a lot of time with the Pharisees (there were a number who were both rich and his disciples... although some, like Nicodemus, were disciples in secret until after he was killed). Another prominent rich Christian was a Turkish merchantwoman named Lydia. She gave some of her money to help the early missionaries and to feed the poor, but she didn't stop being a rich merchant with land and offshore investments. "Fond of" probably isn't the right phrase to use when talking about how Jesus felt about people, however. Jesus hated sin (which includes ALL types of hypocrisy, from both rich and poor people), but loved and cared for the people. When people refused to give up the sinful parts of their lives when challenged, he denounced them for it; especially if they were in positions of power.
Of course, part of the reason he said it is hard for the rich to enter the kingdom of Heaven, is that it's hard to become and stay rich without leading a life of hypocrisy and sin. But remember... living your life by the laws of Moses (10 commandments, etc.) makes you Jewish, not a Christian.
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It's actually much simpler than this; you just have a separate stream (along with the video and audio -- think subtitles) that defines clickable areas with links, relative to a frame range. You can even do morphing links, where the link changes shape and tracks a moving object. I can't see the application being much different than what QuickTime already does, or from Closed Captioning/subtitles for that matter. You could even have the links link to subtitle streams, where pointing at a laptop will bring up text about what laptop it is, and who is currently selling it for what price. Pointing at someone's head might bring up text and a link about their hairdresser. Or, it might bring up something else.
Personally, I'd prefer to have something a little more solid (like any suits brought that renege on these promises being thrown out of court as a matter of course). Still, if enough people violate these patents, then MS has no grounds on which to sue an individual, unless they show that they are defending their patent against all comers, right?
4. GM foods tend to be designed to outperform other strains in specific environments. The end result is a crop monoculture based on only one natural strain of crop. If there are any other downfalls of that specific crop, there is no genetic diversity available, resulting in a complete collapse of that specific stock type. This could, I guess, be avoided by GMing a number of varieties, so that their differences are still available. I have never heard of this happening, however.
I'm curious though... what do these pledges actually mean? Are they legally binding? Can they be rescinded at some point in the future? If these pledges really mean that the patents are unenforcable until they expire, I'm all for it... but given MS's history, I want to be absolutely certain on this before doing anything that messes with these now well-known patents (can't claim ignorance).
So as an iPod-carrying Mac user, what player do you use? Audion? I'm sincerely curious, as iTunes is the best thing I've found on the MacOS (I like the party shuffle mode, among other things). iTMS on the other hand... xP
And just in case you're thinking of switching, you don't get it from Allstream or Telus either.
This all sounds well and good... but the costs of all these upgrades would get passed on to the consumer. The end result would be that nobody would be stealing your identity/datamining your soul, but it wouldn't really matter because 1/3 of the things you use your identity for would no longer be available, and 1/3 of them would no longer be acessible to YOU. Convenience and security are at opposite ends of a sliding scale.
That would be fine if AT&T were the only company having these problems.
Has ANYONE set up a clearinghouse for these security breaches so I can keep an eye on where (not if) my private information is leaking?
I have to agree. Personally, I like to have my documentary biases out in the open where I can see them. "Objective" documentaries are generally biased to the currently common view in the field. Thus, the bias takes more work to find, but the kind of bias should be easy enough to identify. I find it much more entertaining and enlightening to watch documenteraies made by two people passionately trying to make points (as long as they remember to hang on to some shred of objectivity while doing it).
Along another train of thought... I guess this is what the MS patent posted earlier today is all about... controlling who uses up the bandwidth on your device when social networking.
Thinking along these lines... what MS REALLY needs to do is to create a way for the devices to share music with each other; first 30 secs are free... if someone wants to copy the entire song over, MS bills their credit card, and the person gets a DRMed copy of the song locked to their device.
Canon (proprietary drivers)
Fuji and Olympus (proprietary/expensive memory)
I also sometimes recommend against Sony (proprietary issues again). However, if you're willing to have memory that doesn't work in non-Sony devices, their products still play fair as peripherals.
Right now, the best brand going IMO is Panasonic. Both their cameras and camcorders are great (as long as you buy what you need from their lineup) and seem to play nicely with everyone else.
This is consumer-level advice only -- if you're going Pro, you probably need Photoshop, which doesn't run on Linux. Hopefully this situation will change one day soon, and professional photographers can join professional videographers in using Linux for production.
Basicly, you won't really see a difference in theoretical simulations; the only time this should make any sort of a noticeable difference is when your computer is already being brought to its knees by running UltimateShakyGround II Online at 240fps, 3200x2400dpi. Believe me... I've been in situations where computers exchanging UDP packets ran into real trouble because some unrelated process kicked in on one of them.
All that being said, it'd be just as easy to lower your screen resolution and turn off the eye candy to reduce CPU load. I have a feeling that's what all the really skilled gamers do.
Try turning off your flashblocker -- it's played as a flash file, with the actual mp3 being available at http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/tracks/DDTS.mp 3
I hope you don't really believe this... the US virtually controls the WTO. If what you said was true, then the US would have stopped messing around with Canadian softwood lumber years ago. Governments don't import/export... PEOPLE import/export. Governments represent the people (or corporations). If the US slapped unreasonable tarrifs on Australian things, Australian businesses would die off, cutting off Australian government revenue. As a result, the Australian government would complain to the WTO... and the WTO would tell the US it was being naughty and to do something about it. The US would then argue that it was Australia that was causing the problem by not protecting US goods, leaving the US to defend these goods itself. The WTO would then tut-tut both sides, and tell them to resolve their differences.
Meanwhile, the Australian businesses would die out, the government would lose funding, and the US would still make a profit off of their trading practices.
I presume you're talking about running an XP-based machine. OS X (and soon Vista) depend on volume of RAM just as much as bus speed/RAM speed -- because of the way their memory management works. If you don't have enough RAM, you'll end up paging data to the HD, which is definitely not fast enough to compete with RAM. Maybe when MRAM is being used instead of hard drives, this won't be an issue. But until then....
You, sir, need to go watch the MythBusters "Explosive Decompression" episode. It takes a fair bit of pressure to breach a modern jetliner hull, and even then, all you have is a hole that's bleeding air out of the airplane (until someone plugs it with something). A passenger would likely do as much (physical) damage by opening one of the emergency exits. The emotional trauma of being splattered with pieces of the person across the aisle from you would be a bit much though. But not enough to crash the jet.
My suggestion for the upcoming fall: try to make friends with *individuals* from various social groups in your school. Find something you have in common with someone, and humbly find a way to work on that with them. Offer to teach the captain of the basketball team your Chess moves (yes, captains of B-Ball teams are usually strategic thinkers and love a good chess match). Join the yearbook club (lots of "popular" student leaders do that). Take an acting class. Join some extracurricular club that crosses groupie boundaries -- above all, have some confidence (not arrogance) in yourself. If you do, you'll find others will too.
Of course, this doesn't solve every problem magically, but if people don't view you as a social misfit, they're less likely to torment you. Also, this is not to imply that everyone who is bullied is a social misfit. Just that at least the bullies probably view you that way.
In that case, Fly BAA.
Every once in a while, some new kid would decide to move up the pecking order by picking on me -- when people laughed at him for it, he'd stop, and that was that.
Plus, I tended to help out the really big guys in the school when they had some thinking related issue (advice, math problems, computer games, etc). Being seen in their company frequently probably didn't hurt either.
Because Apple has a history of unveiling innovative, drool-inducing products at their annual WWDC. This year, they didn't.
Because until we expect any different, we won't get any different.
When asked who your "neighbour" is, he basicly said anyone... he did not distinguish between rich and poor. Jesus also spent a lot of time with the Pharisees (there were a number who were both rich and his disciples... although some, like Nicodemus, were disciples in secret until after he was killed). Another prominent rich Christian was a Turkish merchantwoman named Lydia. She gave some of her money to help the early missionaries and to feed the poor, but she didn't stop being a rich merchant with land and offshore investments. "Fond of" probably isn't the right phrase to use when talking about how Jesus felt about people, however. Jesus hated sin (which includes ALL types of hypocrisy, from both rich and poor people), but loved and cared for the people. When people refused to give up the sinful parts of their lives when challenged, he denounced them for it; especially if they were in positions of power.
Of course, part of the reason he said it is hard for the rich to enter the kingdom of Heaven, is that it's hard to become and stay rich without leading a life of hypocrisy and sin. But remember... living your life by the laws of Moses (10 commandments, etc.) makes you Jewish, not a Christian.