Maybe because Adobe refused to port Flash 8, 9, or 10 to any platform other than Windows and Mac OS? My Wii only runs Flash 7, my phone can't handle Flash, and I expect the browser in my DSi won't handle Flash either. What was needed was an open platform that would provide the functionality of Flash but be ported to every browser out there. I was hoping Silverlight would be that platform, but I guess it is not yet ready for prime time. And if "Flash is already on 99% of computers out there", then why did I just have to upgrade both my Mac and PC to Flash 10? (Disney's Pixie Hollow requires Flash 10, and I have an eight-year old daughter.)
Yes, the machine copy and original would quickly diverge. Also, the machine copy would not be affected by changes in hormones, blood sugar, disease, etc. But then, the you that you are today is different from the you that you were yesterday too. And if the machine me gets an unlimited internet connection and no requirement to work for a living, I'm sure he would be quite happy to download porn all day... unlike the real me. Knowing me, we'd probably quickly grow to hate each other.
On the other hand, if that is the only way that I or at least a simulacrum of me can be there to observe my grandchildren's weddings, will then that is pretty cool, isn't it? Sort of depends on how much control the machine me is allowed to have over it's own environment. But yes, it is more like hiring a watchdog that thinks a lot like you do to watch over your family than it is like being there yourself.
I would expect the fine detail of the neural pathways to be created more by environment than by genetics. Also, it is time-variant, and not just run on electrical impulses of neurons -- there are lots of chemicals that also affect brain function. You need more than just a map to simulate a brain. Although this is a good step in that direction. Like functional MRI, this is mostly just a tool to facilitate further understanding.
And Jobs has never thrown a chair, threatened to "fucking kill google", or stated that his companies stock was overvalued. Or at least not while anybody was watching.
Does Fonera indemnify me against getting sued by the RIAA for somebody else's use of my wireless connection? 'Cause if they don't, then I see a serious downside here.
Oregonian targeted publications are free, and apparently they throw them in your driveway whether or not you want them. The normal daily paper is not free.
You're selling an item for $1,000. Someone wanting to buy it sends you $2,000. They say "Oops!" could you send me the balance back to me via Western Union and I'll pick up the item later. You do so. Their original $2,000 check bounces and they have your $1,000. You're out $3,000 and YOU OWE IT, baby! I hate to question your math, but it seems to me like you're out $1000 if you haven't shipped the item yet, or $2000 if you have shipped it.
A portal is just an opening or a doorway. A portal as a connection between to two points that are not contiguous in normal space is a concept exclusive to science fiction.
Zecco made the error. Zecco made the error of extending credit to people who did not warrant it. Those users then made the mistake of gambling with other people's money, therefore the customers should eat any losses. But then they should also get to keep any gains. What I don't understand is how Zecco can legally make panic sales on a customer's account without the customer's knowledge or consent. Seems to me they would have been better off contacting the customers and working with them to back out the trades in a prudent and responsible manner, rather than forcing sales and virtually guaranteeing a loss. Good luck collecting from the customers that you screwed over that way!
C&C -- an RTS My mistake. You were referring to Castles & Crusades, a real-time strategy game popular with Bush administration officials. So what does C&C really mean in a business context? Command and Control?
ROI - A French king. Actually Return On Investment. Although "Roi" is french for "King". C&C -- an RTS Thank you very much. Now would you please define "RTS"? The only RTS I know of was an operating system that ran on the PDP-11. (Although I would guess "Real-time Trading System".) S&M -- Sales and Marketing. Unfortunately. Seems strangely appropriate to me. You need to really be into S&M to deal with them!
You'd be surprised how grateful most companies are when you implement a system that saves them a significant amount of money! Why, in some cases, they will even give you an extra week of severance pay!
Well, if he's on slashdot, then he must be running Linux! (Yes, I am typing this into firefox running in WindowsXP as we speak.) Yeah, with Windows there is a task scheduler and HyperTerminal to automate calling out, and startup tasks and a primitive scripting language to automate things on the remote end. More difficult, but I think it could be done under Windows as well. I just assumed the Unix/Linux terminology would be easier for most people to understand. Almost anything can be automated, the question is whether or not it is worth the effort to automate it.
I just know that I was told they were unable to automate the process And you couldn't figure out how to prove them wrong? Change the login init on the remote machine to run a script which issues the desired commands instead of bringing up a shell. I'm not sure about logging in, but I suspect this can be done by minicom called from a cron job. Not really my area of expertise, has anyone else actually completely automated a task like this?
So this idiot reviewed an unfinished work produced by the same corporation he worked for that he was not authorized to see, being sure to include an explanation of how easy it was to download from the 'net, and he is suprised that the corporation was upset with him? He is inciting people to commit unauthorized downloading. Granted, that is nowhere near as severe as hijacking ships off the coast of Somalia, but it is still a no-no. Even if Twentieth Century Fox's attitudes are so last century!
If they have contacted your clients, you not only have a lawsuit for defamation, but also for interfering with your business relationships. But then, any good lawyer would think of several causes of action that could be made out of this -- provided you can prove the material was your creation to begin with.
This is Portland, Oregon. They put your paper in a plastic bag before throwing it from an old truck with no muffler into your driveway at 4:30 am. What pissed me off is that they distribute free newspapers on Tuesday and Thursday, and I had to demand 3 times that they stop it. If I wanted to read "The Oregonian", I'd read it online, but they insist on killing trees and forcing me to go through the work to recycle them in a vague hope their "free" paper might inspire me to subscribe. (Yeah, they get ad revenue for something I'd never read too.)
And that's better than my other house, which had a quarter mile long gravel driveway which the postal service and UPS refused to come up. UPS just threw my packages (in a big plastic bag) into the neighbor's yard and never bothered to tell me they were there.
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Maybe because Adobe refused to port Flash 8, 9, or 10 to any platform other than Windows and Mac OS? My Wii only runs Flash 7, my phone can't handle Flash, and I expect the browser in my DSi won't handle Flash either. What was needed was an open platform that would provide the functionality of Flash but be ported to every browser out there. I was hoping Silverlight would be that platform, but I guess it is not yet ready for prime time. And if "Flash is already on 99% of computers out there", then why did I just have to upgrade both my Mac and PC to Flash 10? (Disney's Pixie Hollow requires Flash 10, and I have an eight-year old daughter.)
Yes, the machine copy and original would quickly diverge. Also, the machine copy would not be affected by changes in hormones, blood sugar, disease, etc. But then, the you that you are today is different from the you that you were yesterday too. And if the machine me gets an unlimited internet connection and no requirement to work for a living, I'm sure he would be quite happy to download porn all day... unlike the real me. Knowing me, we'd probably quickly grow to hate each other.
On the other hand, if that is the only way that I or at least a simulacrum of me can be there to observe my grandchildren's weddings, will then that is pretty cool, isn't it? Sort of depends on how much control the machine me is allowed to have over it's own environment. But yes, it is more like hiring a watchdog that thinks a lot like you do to watch over your family than it is like being there yourself.
Not really that useful, since every one is different. Of course, the same could be said of brains, too.
I would expect the fine detail of the neural pathways to be created more by environment than by genetics. Also, it is time-variant, and not just run on electrical impulses of neurons -- there are lots of chemicals that also affect brain function. You need more than just a map to simulate a brain. Although this is a good step in that direction. Like functional MRI, this is mostly just a tool to facilitate further understanding.
It's "Dorothy", dammit! Aside from the obligatory Wizard of Oz reference, what the hell are you talking about?
And Jobs has never thrown a chair, threatened to "fucking kill google", or stated that his companies stock was overvalued. Or at least not while anybody was watching.
And yet you responded to a troll about trolling... how ironic is that?
Does Fonera indemnify me against getting sued by the RIAA for somebody else's use of my wireless connection? 'Cause if they don't, then I see a serious downside here.
Oregonian targeted publications are free, and apparently they throw them in your driveway whether or not you want them. The normal daily paper is not free.
You're selling an item for $1,000. Someone wanting to buy it sends you $2,000. They say "Oops!" could you send me the balance back to me via Western Union and I'll pick up the item later. You do so. Their original $2,000 check bounces and they have your $1,000. You're out $3,000 and YOU OWE IT, baby! I hate to question your math, but it seems to me like you're out $1000 if you haven't shipped the item yet, or $2000 if you have shipped it.
A portal is just an opening or a doorway. A portal as a connection between to two points that are not contiguous in normal space is a concept exclusive to science fiction.
Geostationary satellite?
Sigh... and AR means "Accounts Receivable", not "Anal Retentive". Although the two are not mutually exclusive.
Zecco made the error. Zecco made the error of extending credit to people who did not warrant it. Those users then made the mistake of gambling with other people's money, therefore the customers should eat any losses. But then they should also get to keep any gains. What I don't understand is how Zecco can legally make panic sales on a customer's account without the customer's knowledge or consent. Seems to me they would have been better off contacting the customers and working with them to back out the trades in a prudent and responsible manner, rather than forcing sales and virtually guaranteeing a loss. Good luck collecting from the customers that you screwed over that way!
C&C -- an RTS My mistake. You were referring to Castles & Crusades, a real-time strategy game popular with Bush administration officials. So what does C&C really mean in a business context? Command and Control?
ROI - A French king. Actually Return On Investment. Although "Roi" is french for "King".
C&C -- an RTS Thank you very much. Now would you please define "RTS"? The only RTS I know of was an operating system that ran on the PDP-11. (Although I would guess "Real-time Trading System".)
S&M -- Sales and Marketing. Unfortunately. Seems strangely appropriate to me. You need to really be into S&M to deal with them!
why are there no trolling achievements?
You'd be surprised how grateful most companies are when you implement a system that saves them a significant amount of money! Why, in some cases, they will even give you an extra week of severance pay!
Well, if he's on slashdot, then he must be running Linux! (Yes, I am typing this into firefox running in WindowsXP as we speak.) Yeah, with Windows there is a task scheduler and HyperTerminal to automate calling out, and startup tasks and a primitive scripting language to automate things on the remote end. More difficult, but I think it could be done under Windows as well. I just assumed the Unix/Linux terminology would be easier for most people to understand. Almost anything can be automated, the question is whether or not it is worth the effort to automate it.
I just know that I was told they were unable to automate the process And you couldn't figure out how to prove them wrong? Change the login init on the remote machine to run a script which issues the desired commands instead of bringing up a shell. I'm not sure about logging in, but I suspect this can be done by minicom called from a cron job. Not really my area of expertise, has anyone else actually completely automated a task like this?
So this idiot reviewed an unfinished work produced by the same corporation he worked for that he was not authorized to see, being sure to include an explanation of how easy it was to download from the 'net, and he is suprised that the corporation was upset with him? He is inciting people to commit unauthorized downloading. Granted, that is nowhere near as severe as hijacking ships off the coast of Somalia, but it is still a no-no. Even if Twentieth Century Fox's attitudes are so last century!
You know, the credibility of your argument would be a lot greater if your username wasn't "psychodave". I'm just sayin'...
If they have contacted your clients, you not only have a lawsuit for defamation, but also for interfering with your business relationships. But then, any good lawyer would think of several causes of action that could be made out of this -- provided you can prove the material was your creation to begin with.
And that's better than my other house, which had a quarter mile long gravel driveway which the postal service and UPS refused to come up. UPS just threw my packages (in a big plastic bag) into the neighbor's yard and never bothered to tell me they were there.
If they were really smart, they'd figure out a way to not be so tasty! And by the way, the original article was posted on April 1.