i realize it won't change the principle of things at all (none whatsoever), but he was compensated to a 20,000 yen bonus. that's less than $200. but it wasn't "nothing."
gee, calm down, buddy. i'm not "crying." i use gmail daily too and no, this hasn't been a problem. (and you are quite right i wouldn't have figured this out without/.)
i just wanted to post that i personally feel "being beta" should not be a blanket immunity for all the bugs, big or small. that's all.
email isn't secure, sure. but accounts should be, at least to a reasonable level. afterall, we have many examples of web-based services that depend on the security of account id/paassword, like banking and credit card sites.
it's one thing for the email being sent to be intercepted. it's quite another to leave a hole such that your account name and password can be obtained by strangers.
yes, it's a beta... but shouldn't beta be a functional version being tested for bugs?
if my email and/or account can be compromised, in a way that cripples its basic functionality as an email service, i am not sure if you can call it a "beta" to begin with. how do you work out bugs in the program if it can't be trusted to function as intended at the very basic level?
if a beta version of a photoshop, as an example, couldn't even reliably open a JPEG file, that's a serious problem i'd be unwilling to dismiss simply as a "bug" just because "it's a beta."
please. giving credit for a training video on how to use a mouse is a bit off the mark. learning to use a mouse is beyond using windows or linux. it's basic computing.
for the price/time involved with making/watching such a video, why not provide a fool-proof "play/experiment area" mode of the OS where you can do any mouse movement/clicking and it won't permanently affect the computer system at all? of course, it will still let you drag, click, open, etc. but it won't permanently alter the files, system, etc.
afterall, the best way to learn to use the mouse is to actually use it, not watch a video. this way, a novice user can play with the mouse to heart's content without fearing "oops, the system is no good because i moved something" kind of a situation.
do food processor companies deserve the credit for providing a video on how to plug in the power plug?
>i think yahoo is just covering up that they already dleted the account, honestly.
well, i don't think they need to "cover up." if they had deleted his email account, it's not like they went and intentionally deleted it. it would be done automatically - inactive for N days, so delete. it's not like yahoo got malicious and decided "oh, this dude dies in a war, let's just erase his account since he's dead."
is yahoo a private company? who signed the contract of terms of the usage when the account was created?
unless there are credible, legal (i.e. non-sentimental) reasons that the email account needs to be accessed, i don't see the fuss.
if the one who was killed meant emails to be a journal, he should have sent them out, not keep them in his account. sorry and sad to say, but he knew that there's a real danger of his life ending suddenly.
if this is let out, what's to prevent, say a widow, from snooping into the dead husband's email account to find evidence for suspected affairs and leverage those findings to increase the claim to the inheritance?
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steve's glitch during the keynote..? (i mean, gates got a lot of crap for his glitch at CES...)
introduction of iWork? or the lack of a spreadsheet app in it?
time dilation effect is completely negligible unless you get to appreciable fraction of the speed of light. earth's rotation is nowhere near that.
"the strong force is much stronger than the gravitational force" - but you cannot take such a statement without understand their relevant domain. without understanding the relevance, "then why aren't we feeling this strong force instead of the gravity?" sounds silly. same thing here - you cannot take "faster the object moves, the slower the time" without understanding when such a statement is relevant.
> So, using that fancy scientific notation to represent all the zeroes between my numbers and the decimal point, I can compute the change in rotation and pole location caused by my commute this morning. Call the newspapers!!!
there's nothing "fancy" about the scientific notation... you will not be able to compute the changes in the rotation and pole locations due to your daily commute no matter how many zeros you tack on unless you idealize (i.e. assume everything else to be constant) the problem. there's too much noise in the data/measurements to reliably attribute such changes to your daily commute.
this is news because it had measureable changes that can reasonably be attributed to the earthquake.
this will really test the threat of jail time as a deterrant... (personally, i don't believe it.)
i don't see the point though, unless it's easier to convict a criminal case than a civil case and this would enable more criminals to be convicted... people pirate stuff to make money. they aren't out to physically harm people... they also know it's illegal... it's not like they decide that they will pirate since it's not criminal but a civil offense and stop pirating if it became criminal.
what good does it do to put them behind bars? why not change the system so that once convicted, they are fined so heavily to lose what they made and more instead?
>"...prosecutions, prosecutions, prosecutions."
can you say "red tape, red tape, red tape."? (is there an appaeals process in china? if so, then it can be "appeal, appeal, appeal." too.)
i am not sure if you want to eventually go back to India or not, but if you intend on staying in the U.S. after you schooling, i strongly suggest taking advantage of the "U.S. college experience."
don't go back to school simply to get another degree and cram books. enjoy the college life - go to sporting events, cultural events, join student groups... etc. if you are indian, find a way to acclimate without losing your indian roots. be part of the college community. of course, you should always work hard in classes, but don't let it become an obsession. don't become another stereotypical "foreign graduate student." that's a waste...
>After about 3 hours of seeding, a Mod for the site disabled the torrent. I assumed that there must have been something wrong with the file I uploaded, so I stopped my seed and deleted the file. I didn't even get a chance to install it.
so he goes through all the trouble of finding out about ADC to get the seed, but as soon as the torrent is disabled by a mod, he "assumes" that the file is messed up and deletes it? sounds more like he deleted it because he got fearful in getting an indirect confirmation that leaking it was wrong...
well, i pretty much resigned to the fact that some will be as disgusting/unethical/etc. no matter the situation. look at some awful things being done to take advantage of the indian ocean tsunami disaster - orphan trading being the worst example. and this is an immediate disaster that can be seen and felt - arctic ice melting has only long (i.e. "inconsequential") effects...
wanting to play $10 iTMS music will not be the reason someone chooses an iPod over others. iPod costs more than $250. that's a much bigger investment. chances are, people chose to buy iPod on its own merit and then used iTMS to get music.
>Guess what? Your DVD player might now be obsolete.
consumers have the money companies want. consumers decide what's worth their money. if these companies think they can just release a product that will make DVD players obsolete and consumers will accept it, they are dead wrong.
it has nothing to do with rights or DRM, it's a simple matter of average joe's seeing that things doesn't work the way they used to. and he/she will not buy any more of them because these things "don't work."
as it should be - Charter only wants itself cleared. i doubt they are wanting to either support or denounce copyright infringers using their network for p2p. they just want to stay away and have nothing to do with it.
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i realize it won't change the principle of things at all (none whatsoever), but he was compensated to a 20,000 yen bonus. that's less than $200. but it wasn't "nothing."
i just wanted to post that i personally feel "being beta" should not be a blanket immunity for all the bugs, big or small. that's all.
it's one thing for the email being sent to be intercepted. it's quite another to leave a hole such that your account name and password can be obtained by strangers.
if my email and/or account can be compromised, in a way that cripples its basic functionality as an email service, i am not sure if you can call it a "beta" to begin with. how do you work out bugs in the program if it can't be trusted to function as intended at the very basic level?
if a beta version of a photoshop, as an example, couldn't even reliably open a JPEG file, that's a serious problem i'd be unwilling to dismiss simply as a "bug" just because "it's a beta."
now Google messes up...
with all the natural disasters happening, i cannot think of a good reason why the world wouldn't end the day after tomorrow.
for the price/time involved with making/watching such a video, why not provide a fool-proof "play/experiment area" mode of the OS where you can do any mouse movement/clicking and it won't permanently affect the computer system at all? of course, it will still let you drag, click, open, etc. but it won't permanently alter the files, system, etc.
afterall, the best way to learn to use the mouse is to actually use it, not watch a video. this way, a novice user can play with the mouse to heart's content without fearing "oops, the system is no good because i moved something" kind of a situation.
do food processor companies deserve the credit for providing a video on how to plug in the power plug?
well, i don't think they need to "cover up." if they had deleted his email account, it's not like they went and intentionally deleted it. it would be done automatically - inactive for N days, so delete. it's not like yahoo got malicious and decided "oh, this dude dies in a war, let's just erase his account since he's dead."
i believe you meant: "I swear, sometimes, I think I'm a fucking GENIUS."
was the account willed to anyone?
is yahoo a private company? who signed the contract of terms of the usage when the account was created?
unless there are credible, legal (i.e. non-sentimental) reasons that the email account needs to be accessed, i don't see the fuss.
if the one who was killed meant emails to be a journal, he should have sent them out, not keep them in his account. sorry and sad to say, but he knew that there's a real danger of his life ending suddenly.
if this is let out, what's to prevent, say a widow, from snooping into the dead husband's email account to find evidence for suspected affairs and leverage those findings to increase the claim to the inheritance?
introduction of iWork? or the lack of a spreadsheet app in it?
introduction of $500 headless Mac?
playing games will definifely affect you. things bad happening may be correlated to gaming but that does't mean gaming is the cause.
"the strong force is much stronger than the gravitational force" - but you cannot take such a statement without understand their relevant domain. without understanding the relevance, "then why aren't we feeling this strong force instead of the gravity?" sounds silly. same thing here - you cannot take "faster the object moves, the slower the time" without understanding when such a statement is relevant.
this will necessitate addition of leap second, so the "day" calculated via the defined "second" will correspond to the one rotation of the earth.
there's nothing "fancy" about the scientific notation... you will not be able to compute the changes in the rotation and pole locations due to your daily commute no matter how many zeros you tack on unless you idealize (i.e. assume everything else to be constant) the problem. there's too much noise in the data/measurements to reliably attribute such changes to your daily commute.
this is news because it had measureable changes that can reasonably be attributed to the earthquake.
i don't see the point though, unless it's easier to convict a criminal case than a civil case and this would enable more criminals to be convicted... people pirate stuff to make money. they aren't out to physically harm people... they also know it's illegal... it's not like they decide that they will pirate since it's not criminal but a civil offense and stop pirating if it became criminal.
what good does it do to put them behind bars? why not change the system so that once convicted, they are fined so heavily to lose what they made and more instead?
>"...prosecutions, prosecutions, prosecutions."
can you say "red tape, red tape, red tape."? (is there an appaeals process in china? if so, then it can be "appeal, appeal, appeal." too.)
don't go back to school simply to get another degree and cram books. enjoy the college life - go to sporting events, cultural events, join student groups... etc. if you are indian, find a way to acclimate without losing your indian roots. be part of the college community. of course, you should always work hard in classes, but don't let it become an obsession. don't become another stereotypical "foreign graduate student." that's a waste...
200 million songs bought through iTMS says otherwise...
FYI, American Red Cross is rated A+.
so he goes through all the trouble of finding out about ADC to get the seed, but as soon as the torrent is disabled by a mod, he "assumes" that the file is messed up and deletes it? sounds more like he deleted it because he got fearful in getting an indirect confirmation that leaking it was wrong...
well, i pretty much resigned to the fact that some will be as disgusting/unethical/etc. no matter the situation. look at some awful things being done to take advantage of the indian ocean tsunami disaster - orphan trading being the worst example. and this is an immediate disaster that can be seen and felt - arctic ice melting has only long (i.e. "inconsequential") effects...
yeah, NZ paper... i can't be the only one who momentarily lost track of arctic/antarctic and north/south poles. :P
unfortunately, you are probably right... forgot the marketing aspect. bummer...
wanting to play $10 iTMS music will not be the reason someone chooses an iPod over others. iPod costs more than $250. that's a much bigger investment. chances are, people chose to buy iPod on its own merit and then used iTMS to get music.
consumers have the money companies want. consumers decide what's worth their money. if these companies think they can just release a product that will make DVD players obsolete and consumers will accept it, they are dead wrong.
it has nothing to do with rights or DRM, it's a simple matter of average joe's seeing that things doesn't work the way they used to. and he/she will not buy any more of them because these things "don't work."
as it should be - Charter only wants itself cleared. i doubt they are wanting to either support or denounce copyright infringers using their network for p2p. they just want to stay away and have nothing to do with it.