Thats why homework should stop being collected as part of your grade, students are so pressured to constantly be "right" that they it's impossible for them to make any mistakes. However making mistakes is probably one of the best, if not the best, way to actually learn something. One of the best profs I had in college assigned homework but never collected it(he gave you the solutions too), he could tell if you did it by how you did on the quizzes and tests. This was just absolutely brilliant, you could attempt the homework and then immediately check to see if you did it right giving you immediate feedback. Plus there was no problem with coming to him and just saying "I have no idea how to do problem x" and he could explain it without worrying about giving you "credit" for said assignment.
You are only looking at part of the equation though, consoles have a huge cost associated with them, namely the royalties you have to pay the console manufacturer for every unit sold. For the big games it's something like $10/game, not trivial. Now compare that to the PC world, you don't have to pay Microsoft/Apple/whoever a dime to release your game on their system. Lets face facts, the reason there isn't a bigger drive to release more PC content is simply because the sales aren't there. For most games the increase in development costs would be more than offset by the savings in licensing fees.
Except for the fact that they still own the physical hardware, a lot of papers have been published that pretty much state that it's actually not very difficult to get the encryption keys to a running system if you have control of the hardware. So yeah, encryption isn't nearly as useful in this situation as you would think.
Hey look, I can store all my data on Chinese government owned computing equipment where they can read it at will and the government can then threaten to cut me off from said data unless I pay them a bribe! I can get all this for slightly less than I'm paying now! I'd be a fool not to!
There's another party to share in the blame game too, OS makers. It's 2011 and we still don't have a truly resolution independent operating system(or flying cars, but thats another rant). Gamers are only a very tiny subset of the people who buy monitors, so very few manufacturers are going to cater to their needs expressly. Unlike gamers, normal users aren't really clamoring for denser monitors because their software doesn't play well with "unexpected" pixel densities, ie everything gets smaller.
We are still about as close to a truly "resolution independent" OS as we were 5 years ago when Apple started saying that their next version of OS X was going to be resolution independent, only to quietly drop the feature, tout it again for the next release, then drop it again ad nauseum. As far as I know Windows and the various *nix window managers aren't even as close as Apple, so you may have to wait a while for your higher density monitors.
You do realize that humans have in fact been able to completely eliminate a virus before, right? Smallpox no longer exists "in the wild", humans managed to eradicate it completely and it never evolved any meaningful defenses. And we are *almost* there with polio(the problem is mainly distributing the vaccine, not with any viral resistance to said vaccine).
While mutations certainly help a virus in evading the immune system there are some parts of the virus(namely how it binds to the host cell) that cannot readily change without severely inhibiting a virus's ability to attach to host cells and thus replicate.
However just knowing which proteins don't vary isn't enough, you have to be able to find a way to actually attack said protein without causing harm to health tissue. Of course whenever someone mentions HIV. Researchers have actually found proteins(namely gp120) in HIV which are pretty invariant and necessary for host cell entry, but thus far haven't been too successful in coming up with a drug that attacks this protein without hurting healthy cells or causing the bodies own immune system to turn on itself. For more info, see 'kipedia
it will cause all children under 16 years of age to mutate into cannibalistic 30-feet-tall ivory-skinned humanoids with six fingers and large feathery wings!
But look on the bright side, if you are able to survive the zombie apocalypse for a couple of years until these people come of age you will finally able to get authentic barely legal giantess porn with a bestiality twist thrown in!
While true that recent flu strains have mostly killed those with weak immune systems(which actually does include very small children who probably would have survived if they hadn't caught the flu), in the past various flu strains have killed large numbers of otherwise healthy adults. It is these deaths that this vaccine can theoretically prevent, and none too soon. Statistically we are actually overdue for one of those strains to hit, which is part of what fuels the media frenzy every time a new strain of flu is discovered.
A huge number of analysts picked the Packers to win the superbowl before the season started. You have to wonder if EA purposely tweaked the game stats to make sure that the packers would come out on top in their simulation.......
Jailbreaking will only allow you to run unsigned code at the user level, currently there is no way to run unsigned bootstrap code which is necessary to run any other operating system.
They aren't demanding a 30% cut for doing nothing. They are "demanding" that apps which have purchasable content also provide a way to buy it using your iTunes App Store account. It's more choice, you can buy the stuff through the iTunes App Store in-app purchase mechanism OR through whatever other way the developer of the app wants to provide.
So lemme get this straight, if I have an application that has content(such as pizzas! Read the fine print, it actually includes physical items) that Apple pays nothing for, doesn't host, doesn't create etc, then I'm still required to offer them a cut? Just so I can run provide a service to consumers that already paid Apple a handsome sum for? And how is that not Apple demanding it get a cut for doing absolutely nothing? Listen, if Apple wants to offer a platform for in-app purchasing then more power to them. But requiring that all apps that offer content use that mechanism is nothing but a money grab that fucks over the consumer because Apple's cut will ultimately get passed on to them. So if you want to fund Jobs and Cook et. al for their service of offering you less, then more power to you. I ultimately am tired of being fucked over by Apple. If they want to get greedy and play games they will find themselves playing alone soon enough. I used to be like you, I used to worship the ground that Steve walked on, but face reality. Apple is Microsoft. BR>
Buggy products that lack features the rest of the industry has had for years? Check
Increasingly forcing customers to go out of their way to use products they actually paid for? Check
Using their power in the market place to extract fees from others for doing absolutely nothing? Check
Canceling products without giving a realistic upgrade path? Check
Apple has become Microsoft. So long old friend, I hardly knew ye.
Wow, the Apple apologists are in full force here. If they withdraw it from the store that means there will be no new updates, so if a bug is discovered or the format changes or I need to get a new device I'm fucked. That's pretty much taking the feature away from me. Also, how is Apple demanding a 30% cut for doing absofuckinglutely nothing a "feature". It sure isn't a feature for me. Face it, Apple has lost it's magic, I used to be a fanboy like you but Apple has bent me over one too many times here. I currently own an iPhone, iPad, macbook, and iMac and each of those will be the absolute last Apple products I buy.
Apple used to be this young company that wanted to take on the world and made these amazing products. Now they are churning out half-assed, buggy efforts and taking every opportunity to screw over the customer just to squeeze a little extra change out of them. In other words, Apple has become Microsoft. Apple has become everything they said that they hated, everything I *thought* they were trying to avoid becoming. I would short AAPL stocks, it's obvious Apple is going to bleed the iOS platform to the point where people are no longer interested in it, and since it has already repeatedly fucked over it's once loyal pro-base they will have nothing to fall back on. This is just the tip of the iceberg, my bet is that AAPL will be 0 by the end of the decade, there is just nothing special about them anymore.
Not to mention that Apple advertises the app store as a feature of it's iOS devices on which it makes a pretty penny, so it's not exactly charity there. I know the reason I bought an iPad over a Kindle DX was the fact that I could use the Kindle as well as other apps. I think that Apple should refund my purchase completely since they are essentially withdrawing a feature that the device had when I bought it.
No matter how you slice(ha!) it, creating meat consumes more food than it provides. Something like a ratio of 20:1 in the case of beef, not to mention all the greenhouse gases emitted by raising animals for slaughter.
You actually can do well with closed environments iff you are willing to make sure that you can provide one stop shopping for the end user and create an ecosystem that works well. Apple had that until recently, but the cancellation of the Xserve with no real replacement destroyed the environment apple once had. If you cannot get rack mounted servers that just work with macs then there is no reason to get macs and less of a reason to get iPhones and iPads etc. Not pairing up with oracle or some other provider to give Xserve users a real choice was probably steves biggest mistake since coming back to apple IMO.....
China's space technology is pretty much a verbatim copy of the Russian stuff(and ever since Russia realized what China was doing with technology it lent China to go to space, China hasn't been back there. Not a coincidence in my opinion). So if Russia has a space plane then maybe China has one, otherwise I doubt it.
This has nothing to do with "religion" per se and everything to do with political power. They aren't cutting off the internet to prevent "Draw Muhammed Day", they are cutting it off to try to prevent a Tunisia style rebellion.
Though you sort of get into conditional probabilities there. If an attacker does a sweep looking for targets, anything with telnet is going to stand out as a something potentially juicy. If telnet is configured more than likely there are other services that aren't up to snuff and it's probably easier to find a way in.
Yes, because with a few notable exceptions, cell phone game suck, esp. for "serious" games. You ever try to play an action/arcade game on a smartphone? It isn't fun, and unless someone develops a haptic display, it will never be fun. The reason is simple, it's impossible to make an interface that gives you the physical feedback you need for gaming(ie making sure your hand is on the right buttons and whatnot) with an interface that works well as a phone.
So until we have true tactile feedback from a touchscreen smartphone games will be limited to puzzle/casual games and gimicky things that use motion sensors. Not really my cup of tea.
Um, the reason they are using telnet is because it's trivial to hack, in other words the headline should read "hackers hacking easiest to hack service on poorly configured machines, also water is wet, details at 11"
Great, that works just peachy for them, but for a lot of us there is no way we can use the mac minis to replace XServes, they aren't powerful enough and the mac pros are too god damned big. IE there is still no real replacement. Plus had Apple kept the XServe up to date it's quite possible they could have virtualized a lot of what those minis do and still ended up with the same power footprint they get from minis. If Apple wanted to get rid of having to support server hardware thats fine as long as they let us run the server os on some other platform. Again, teaming up with Oracle would have been a win for everybody but Steve hates anything that might even have the slightest resemblance to the mac clone market.
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Thats why homework should stop being collected as part of your grade, students are so pressured to constantly be "right" that they it's impossible for them to make any mistakes. However making mistakes is probably one of the best, if not the best, way to actually learn something. One of the best profs I had in college assigned homework but never collected it(he gave you the solutions too), he could tell if you did it by how you did on the quizzes and tests. This was just absolutely brilliant, you could attempt the homework and then immediately check to see if you did it right giving you immediate feedback. Plus there was no problem with coming to him and just saying "I have no idea how to do problem x" and he could explain it without worrying about giving you "credit" for said assignment.
You are only looking at part of the equation though, consoles have a huge cost associated with them, namely the royalties you have to pay the console manufacturer for every unit sold. For the big games it's something like $10/game, not trivial. Now compare that to the PC world, you don't have to pay Microsoft/Apple/whoever a dime to release your game on their system. Lets face facts, the reason there isn't a bigger drive to release more PC content is simply because the sales aren't there. For most games the increase in development costs would be more than offset by the savings in licensing fees.
Except for the fact that they still own the physical hardware, a lot of papers have been published that pretty much state that it's actually not very difficult to get the encryption keys to a running system if you have control of the hardware. So yeah, encryption isn't nearly as useful in this situation as you would think.
To be fair, I did say operating system, Windows doesn't really count as one of those. Plus, you have to use windows.
Hey look, I can store all my data on Chinese government owned computing equipment where they can read it at will and the government can then threaten to cut me off from said data unless I pay them a bribe! I can get all this for slightly less than I'm paying now! I'd be a fool not to!
There's another party to share in the blame game too, OS makers. It's 2011 and we still don't have a truly resolution independent operating system(or flying cars, but thats another rant). Gamers are only a very tiny subset of the people who buy monitors, so very few manufacturers are going to cater to their needs expressly. Unlike gamers, normal users aren't really clamoring for denser monitors because their software doesn't play well with "unexpected" pixel densities, ie everything gets smaller.
We are still about as close to a truly "resolution independent" OS as we were 5 years ago when Apple started saying that their next version of OS X was going to be resolution independent, only to quietly drop the feature, tout it again for the next release, then drop it again ad nauseum. As far as I know Windows and the various *nix window managers aren't even as close as Apple, so you may have to wait a while for your higher density monitors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gp120 I obviously fucked up the link :P
You do realize that humans have in fact been able to completely eliminate a virus before, right? Smallpox no longer exists "in the wild", humans managed to eradicate it completely and it never evolved any meaningful defenses. And we are *almost* there with polio(the problem is mainly distributing the vaccine, not with any viral resistance to said vaccine).
While mutations certainly help a virus in evading the immune system there are some parts of the virus(namely how it binds to the host cell) that cannot readily change without severely inhibiting a virus's ability to attach to host cells and thus replicate.
However just knowing which proteins don't vary isn't enough, you have to be able to find a way to actually attack said protein without causing harm to health tissue. Of course whenever someone mentions HIV. Researchers have actually found proteins(namely gp120) in HIV which are pretty invariant and necessary for host cell entry, but thus far haven't been too successful in coming up with a drug that attacks this protein without hurting healthy cells or causing the bodies own immune system to turn on itself. For more info, see 'kipedia
it will cause all children under 16 years of age to mutate into cannibalistic 30-feet-tall ivory-skinned humanoids with six fingers and large feathery wings!
But look on the bright side, if you are able to survive the zombie apocalypse for a couple of years until these people come of age you will finally able to get authentic barely legal giantess porn with a bestiality twist thrown in!
While true that recent flu strains have mostly killed those with weak immune systems(which actually does include very small children who probably would have survived if they hadn't caught the flu), in the past various flu strains have killed large numbers of otherwise healthy adults. It is these deaths that this vaccine can theoretically prevent, and none too soon. Statistically we are actually overdue for one of those strains to hit, which is part of what fuels the media frenzy every time a new strain of flu is discovered.
A huge number of analysts picked the Packers to win the superbowl before the season started. You have to wonder if EA purposely tweaked the game stats to make sure that the packers would come out on top in their simulation.......
Jailbreaking will only allow you to run unsigned code at the user level, currently there is no way to run unsigned bootstrap code which is necessary to run any other operating system.
So they've invented a less useful spam gourmet? They have only been doing this for what, 7, 8 years now?
They aren't demanding a 30% cut for doing nothing. They are "demanding" that apps which have purchasable content also provide a way to buy it using your iTunes App Store account. It's more choice, you can buy the stuff through the iTunes App Store in-app purchase mechanism OR through whatever other way the developer of the app wants to provide.
So lemme get this straight, if I have an application that has content(such as pizzas! Read the fine print, it actually includes physical items) that Apple pays nothing for, doesn't host, doesn't create etc, then I'm still required to offer them a cut? Just so I can run provide a service to consumers that already paid Apple a handsome sum for? And how is that not Apple demanding it get a cut for doing absolutely nothing? Listen, if Apple wants to offer a platform for in-app purchasing then more power to them. But requiring that all apps that offer content use that mechanism is nothing but a money grab that fucks over the consumer because Apple's cut will ultimately get passed on to them. So if you want to fund Jobs and Cook et. al for their service of offering you less, then more power to you. I ultimately am tired of being fucked over by Apple. If they want to get greedy and play games they will find themselves playing alone soon enough. I used to be like you, I used to worship the ground that Steve walked on, but face reality. Apple is Microsoft.
BR> Buggy products that lack features the rest of the industry has had for years? Check
Increasingly forcing customers to go out of their way to use products they actually paid for? Check
Using their power in the market place to extract fees from others for doing absolutely nothing? Check
Canceling products without giving a realistic upgrade path? Check
Apple has become Microsoft. So long old friend, I hardly knew ye.
Wow, the Apple apologists are in full force here. If they withdraw it from the store that means there will be no new updates, so if a bug is discovered or the format changes or I need to get a new device I'm fucked. That's pretty much taking the feature away from me. Also, how is Apple demanding a 30% cut for doing absofuckinglutely nothing a "feature". It sure isn't a feature for me. Face it, Apple has lost it's magic, I used to be a fanboy like you but Apple has bent me over one too many times here. I currently own an iPhone, iPad, macbook, and iMac and each of those will be the absolute last Apple products I buy.
Apple used to be this young company that wanted to take on the world and made these amazing products. Now they are churning out half-assed, buggy efforts and taking every opportunity to screw over the customer just to squeeze a little extra change out of them. In other words, Apple has become Microsoft. Apple has become everything they said that they hated, everything I *thought* they were trying to avoid becoming. I would short AAPL stocks, it's obvious Apple is going to bleed the iOS platform to the point where people are no longer interested in it, and since it has already repeatedly fucked over it's once loyal pro-base they will have nothing to fall back on. This is just the tip of the iceberg, my bet is that AAPL will be 0 by the end of the decade, there is just nothing special about them anymore.
Meh, I'd rather have the yodel. Mmmm...obscure.
Not to mention that Apple advertises the app store as a feature of it's iOS devices on which it makes a pretty penny, so it's not exactly charity there. I know the reason I bought an iPad over a Kindle DX was the fact that I could use the Kindle as well as other apps. I think that Apple should refund my purchase completely since they are essentially withdrawing a feature that the device had when I bought it.
No matter how you slice(ha!) it, creating meat consumes more food than it provides. Something like a ratio of 20:1 in the case of beef, not to mention all the greenhouse gases emitted by raising animals for slaughter.
You actually can do well with closed environments iff you are willing to make sure that you can provide one stop shopping for the end user and create an ecosystem that works well. Apple had that until recently, but the cancellation of the Xserve with no real replacement destroyed the environment apple once had. If you cannot get rack mounted servers that just work with macs then there is no reason to get macs and less of a reason to get iPhones and iPads etc. Not pairing up with oracle or some other provider to give Xserve users a real choice was probably steves biggest mistake since coming back to apple IMO.....
China's space technology is pretty much a verbatim copy of the Russian stuff(and ever since Russia realized what China was doing with technology it lent China to go to space, China hasn't been back there. Not a coincidence in my opinion). So if Russia has a space plane then maybe China has one, otherwise I doubt it.
This has nothing to do with "religion" per se and everything to do with political power. They aren't cutting off the internet to prevent "Draw Muhammed Day", they are cutting it off to try to prevent a Tunisia style rebellion.
Though you sort of get into conditional probabilities there. If an attacker does a sweep looking for targets, anything with telnet is going to stand out as a something potentially juicy. If telnet is configured more than likely there are other services that aren't up to snuff and it's probably easier to find a way in.
Yes, because with a few notable exceptions, cell phone game suck, esp. for "serious" games. You ever try to play an action/arcade game on a smartphone? It isn't fun, and unless someone develops a haptic display, it will never be fun. The reason is simple, it's impossible to make an interface that gives you the physical feedback you need for gaming(ie making sure your hand is on the right buttons and whatnot) with an interface that works well as a phone.
So until we have true tactile feedback from a touchscreen smartphone games will be limited to puzzle/casual games and gimicky things that use motion sensors. Not really my cup of tea.
Um, the reason they are using telnet is because it's trivial to hack, in other words the headline should read "hackers hacking easiest to hack service on poorly configured machines, also water is wet, details at 11"
Great, that works just peachy for them, but for a lot of us there is no way we can use the mac minis to replace XServes, they aren't powerful enough and the mac pros are too god damned big. IE there is still no real replacement. Plus had Apple kept the XServe up to date it's quite possible they could have virtualized a lot of what those minis do and still ended up with the same power footprint they get from minis. If Apple wanted to get rid of having to support server hardware thats fine as long as they let us run the server os on some other platform. Again, teaming up with Oracle would have been a win for everybody but Steve hates anything that might even have the slightest resemblance to the mac clone market.