And... in a century we'll have new generations of these "water knives" that are more like "water scalpels". We don't seem to have too many problems above ground, maybe some analog of the "don't dig here" signs implemented through ultrasonic beacons or something. If the cable emitted a faint signal then it'd be fairly easy for future machines to stop when it "senses" the presence and either route around it or wait for an operator.
I think this idea that having something removed makes it well-known is fallicious at best. There are select few stories covering content being removed that are publicized and the content spread over the entire internet. Meanwhile, there are an uncountable number of things removed from websites every day for legal reasons or for censorship that are simply ignored. The question isn't "ignore it and hope..." or "try to get it removed", it's more of a question "how likely is this to be covered by a major news outlet, and how pissy will they be about it". If there's only a 1% chance that it makes the front page of slashdot, it's not altogether unwise to go for it. Mass publicity does not always follow censorship. And sadly as censorship becomes more prevalent, publicity will die off with the uproar about it.
I think Microsoft's primary divisions (Office and Windows) while profitable, are not "future proof." Microsoft is a very forward thinking company and is looking for a profitable escape route that they jump onto with their almost unfair lump of cash. They can afford to poke around a bit in other markets until they find a place worth settling, and since Office and Windows development are largely at critical mass, there's really no better way to use the money... Nobody is going to buy an extra copy of Windows because 100 new devs are working on the hotfixes for minor bugs in file copying for Vista.
Having buttons that can change their caption is just the tip of the iceberg. The entire GUI revolution is based on this idea that a screen becomes something of a foundation for a bunch of virtual buttons sans the tactile feedback. This 'idea' is so central to how we live and work in this century that it seems to easily fall under the category of obvious.
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Otherwise, who are we really expecting to take Microsoft to court? Novell? The Free Software Foundation? Please... Microsoft has been stalling the sum total of *Europe* for almost half a decade, if you think Novell or the FSF is going to force Microsoft to comply witht eh GPL you're delusional.
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Lol. Are you for real?
Most people seem to be under the impression that because a new site shows up every time an old one goes down, the action is futile. I don't think this is true, simply because if I want MP3s I don't want to have to go out and find the new site every time the old one gets shut down, nor do I want to spill a bunch of cash into a site that I can't guarantee to be up for more than a day. They're winning.
I think a better target would be the vibrating coasters that signal "your table is ready". If you could somehow set up all of those to go off at the same time on a Friday night you might...have them all going off at the same time on a Friday night! Drive-by mayhem!
Personally, I feel the extended warranties are frauds. The companies offering them will fight you tooth and nail in order to only give in to X repair/replace requests so they pull a profit. While that doesn't justify fraudulant use of the system, yeah.
It's a back door, only he knows about it. Haven't you seen War Games, Joshua?
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Once people start using the service, it becomes fairly easy for Google to charge for placement within the results page, or even listings in general. If 1800GOOG411 becomes some sort of phenomenon, it'd be a cash cow to charge businesses something a month like the yellow pages...
"But learning requires work and effort. There's no shortcut."
Bingo. We can make learning as engaging and attractive as possible, but what we are really doing is creating lazy students. Eventually you hit the edge of your video-game "teach yourself advanced physics" and you have to pick up a book, or by golly actually study some material. Maybe this will work for educating the masses, but it comes at the expense of creating minds that are able to learn independent of their super learning videos.
The solution is pretty simple, use the recovery disks to reload windows along with all those crappy applications that are distributed with your computer and send it in. It's a hassle, but hey...
I don't know if that necessarily is true. I'd much rather leave the back alley poaching "behind the scenes" so to speak. It's kind of like prostitution. You know it's happening, but a lot of times, you just don't want to have to look at it.
Brilliant, encourage people to use the older versions with security holes? And why doesn't this cache just get dumped to the HDD, sure you don't get nanosecond response time, but you do get a whole lot less whining?
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I'm throwing this to the wolves, but isn't flash MORE open than the app store given the POSSIBILITY of reverse engineering?
Fuck you, nobody pays for our software over there anyways.
And... in a century we'll have new generations of these "water knives" that are more like "water scalpels". We don't seem to have too many problems above ground, maybe some analog of the "don't dig here" signs implemented through ultrasonic beacons or something. If the cable emitted a faint signal then it'd be fairly easy for future machines to stop when it "senses" the presence and either route around it or wait for an operator.
Too bad other sites listed there (namely test.com, invalid.com) are actually in use...
Who averaged all these LED failures? You think someone had a system set up decades ago and a photo sensor to watch them? Doubt it. Try again.
I think this idea that having something removed makes it well-known is fallicious at best. There are select few stories covering content being removed that are publicized and the content spread over the entire internet. Meanwhile, there are an uncountable number of things removed from websites every day for legal reasons or for censorship that are simply ignored. The question isn't "ignore it and hope..." or "try to get it removed", it's more of a question "how likely is this to be covered by a major news outlet, and how pissy will they be about it". If there's only a 1% chance that it makes the front page of slashdot, it's not altogether unwise to go for it. Mass publicity does not always follow censorship. And sadly as censorship becomes more prevalent, publicity will die off with the uproar about it.
I think Microsoft's primary divisions (Office and Windows) while profitable, are not "future proof." Microsoft is a very forward thinking company and is looking for a profitable escape route that they jump onto with their almost unfair lump of cash. They can afford to poke around a bit in other markets until they find a place worth settling, and since Office and Windows development are largely at critical mass, there's really no better way to use the money... Nobody is going to buy an extra copy of Windows because 100 new devs are working on the hotfixes for minor bugs in file copying for Vista.
Having buttons that can change their caption is just the tip of the iceberg. The entire GUI revolution is based on this idea that a screen becomes something of a foundation for a bunch of virtual buttons sans the tactile feedback. This 'idea' is so central to how we live and work in this century that it seems to easily fall under the category of obvious.
No money.
" Otherwise, who are we really expecting to take Microsoft to court? Novell? The Free Software Foundation? Please... Microsoft has been stalling the sum total of *Europe* for almost half a decade, if you think Novell or the FSF is going to force Microsoft to comply witht eh GPL you're delusional. " Lol. Are you for real?
Most people seem to be under the impression that because a new site shows up every time an old one goes down, the action is futile. I don't think this is true, simply because if I want MP3s I don't want to have to go out and find the new site every time the old one gets shut down, nor do I want to spill a bunch of cash into a site that I can't guarantee to be up for more than a day. They're winning.
I think a better target would be the vibrating coasters that signal "your table is ready". If you could somehow set up all of those to go off at the same time on a Friday night you might...have them all going off at the same time on a Friday night! Drive-by mayhem!
Personally, I feel the extended warranties are frauds. The companies offering them will fight you tooth and nail in order to only give in to X repair/replace requests so they pull a profit. While that doesn't justify fraudulant use of the system, yeah.
Kiddie porn? Bestiality? For the majority of people, there are lines...
Presumably "online marketplaces" could easily be extended to Amazon.com, Buy.com, etc... not just auction sites.
It's a back door, only he knows about it. Haven't you seen War Games, Joshua?
Once people start using the service, it becomes fairly easy for Google to charge for placement within the results page, or even listings in general. If 1800GOOG411 becomes some sort of phenomenon, it'd be a cash cow to charge businesses something a month like the yellow pages...
"But learning requires work and effort. There's no shortcut." Bingo. We can make learning as engaging and attractive as possible, but what we are really doing is creating lazy students. Eventually you hit the edge of your video-game "teach yourself advanced physics" and you have to pick up a book, or by golly actually study some material. Maybe this will work for educating the masses, but it comes at the expense of creating minds that are able to learn independent of their super learning videos.
The solution is pretty simple, use the recovery disks to reload windows along with all those crappy applications that are distributed with your computer and send it in. It's a hassle, but hey...
# Accidentally swallowing cat feces from a Toxoplasma-infected cat that is shedding the organism in its feces. From TFA.
What the hell does this mean?
If not, their timing was impeccable. Keeping those developers on for another month sure wouldn't have hurt the PR...
I don't know if that necessarily is true. I'd much rather leave the back alley poaching "behind the scenes" so to speak. It's kind of like prostitution. You know it's happening, but a lot of times, you just don't want to have to look at it.
"An elderly Japanese bar manager and performer" I'm assuming he qualifies as both.
Brilliant, encourage people to use the older versions with security holes? And why doesn't this cache just get dumped to the HDD, sure you don't get nanosecond response time, but you do get a whole lot less whining?