Most people I think smoke because they enjoy it and it is fun. If they came out with a harmless cigarette....I'd start smoking again immediately.
Biochemical dependence has a remarkable effect on the brain's perception of pleasure. I wonder if you'd find it at all fun if they made a nicotine-free cigarette. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure most nonsmokers (who do not have a baseline level of nicotine in their blood) would suddenly find nicotine patches to be "fun" if they used them for a week straight.
My point is, I'm not sure "fun" is the best word for the experience you had.
Seriously, at what point does a large, highly redundant server become a mainframe? (Yes, I've checked the Wikipedia article and somewhat out-of-date FOLDOC definition.
Or is the definition merely, "any large computer descended from one of the old-guard mainframes?"
As good as the P-51 was back in its day, it would be almost miraculous for one of these planes to shoot down a modern jet aircraft such as the F-22 or the EF-2000
Just for the sake of good engineering argument: What if the aliens weren't flying their highest-tech fighter saucer? The F-22 and Eurofighter and the like are military aircraft, built for maximum speed and maneuverability in an atmosphere, and equipped with weapons and target-tracking radar systems. Their sole purpose is to avoid being shot down by other aircraft. A modern civilian airliner could easily be downed by an P-51 (assuming it could be caught at the right altitude...probably close to takeoff or landing.)
Thus far, all the spacecraft built by humans (Soviet, American, Chinese, or Burt Rutan) have been totally defenseless, and generally limited when operating within an atmosphere. Air-to-air combat is not in their mission profile. It's perfectly reasonable that, assuming there are planet-hopping aliens, that they would be ill-equipped to defend themselves in an atmosphere. They could simply have made a simple mistake, gotten a little too curious, and wound up a little too close to the natives.
The thing that stops thieves is that whole "youll go to jail if you do this" thing.
That, right there, is why "cybercrime" is so attractive. Eavesdropping on an electronic signal can be done from anywhere, with no pesky eyewitnesses. The thieves believe that they'll never be caught, because there's practically no chance of them being observed in the act. Stupid but true.
Even if they are broadcasting data unencrypted it will still be more secure than regular credit card use because the difficulty of electronic eavesdropping is much higher than the difficulty of reading a number on a card.
If you're talking about random crimes of opportunity, you're right. But once word got out that a major provider was broadcasting data in the clear, serious criminals would organize and get busy. One reasonably tech-savvy criminal could farm out the actual data-gathering, using some automated tools, to a half-dozen lackeys who just know how to drive around, run a script and hold an antenna. There are plenty of serious credit-card-fraud syndicates out there. For such an organization, this would be just one low-risk way to get fresh numbers.
Allowing IMAP-S on an existing MS Exchange server requires about five minutes in the administration interface. It does not necessitate eliminating Outlook's MAPI, or whatever other proprietary protocols you choose to run.
Of course, it does require a security model based on something other than, "Our server is secure, because hackers could never compromise Outlook!"
I have a theory that your taste in automotive styling is set by what's around you when you're growing up.
I, like the parent poster, grew up in the '80s. Like the parent poster, I think that the styling trends of the '50s are hideous, garish, and sometimes even spooky. I can appreciate them from a perspective of nostalgia, but I think it's just hideous out of that context. I'd much rather drive a '90s jellybean or an '80s box, if it came down to that.
If I look back and draw the line, I think I'd draw it about the time my parents' cars were made. I think that's how people recognize what's acceptable to them, and what's not.
I know it's a bit much to expect everyone to watch the Apple Developer's conference webcast, so I'll summarize the it for you:
Safari for Windows exists so that web developers can test/fix their sites without actually buying a Mac/iPhone
Apple doesn't care if you use Safari as your default browser. Safari makes no money for Apple. Macs and iPhones make money for Apple. Apple wants to keep its Mac and iPhone customers happy; hence, it wants as many websites as possible to work in Safari. Safari:Windows mimics Safari:Mac, including font rendering, resizing, and keyboard shortcuts so you can see how your site behaves on a Mac.
I've always heard that automatic dishwasher detergent was extremely caustic. Combine that with the presumably delicate traces on the circuit board that underlies a keyboard, and what happens after a few weeks?
No really, what happens? What happens if you do this two or three times? Inquiring minds want to know.
Well, at the trade show where both the PET and the Apple II were anounced, what do you think got the most attention? A dull grey box that showed random data on the screen when turned on and then just a blinking prompt and had no functioning BASIC, or a futuristic nice-looking box with built-in monitor and tape-drive and a working BASIC that you could work with immediatly?
How on earth did this troll get modded informative?
I'm not trying to pooh-pooh the article, but it's just kind of...well...you know, my shoe is shaped kind of oblong and rounded because, well, that's how feet are shaped. Isn't that amazing?
You're obviously not a woman. Take a look at the shape of some of their footwear sometime, and tell me it's not amazing.
What the weapons look like depends largely on what the creative people want to present.
For example, compare the phasers used in Star Trek V and VI with those used in The Next Generation. Both were produced in the same time period by the same studio using most of the same creative and prop people.
The V/VI phasers look mostly like handguns (except with the barrel mounted over the hand grip, instead of forward of it.) They're beefy, black, and serious-looking. The director of Star Trek V (William Shatner, actually) wanted to show Starfleet marines checking their weapons, fitting magazines, and generally preparing for serious combat.
The Next Generation phasers look like a cross between a remote control and a Dustbuster. They're straight, beige, and domesticated. The actors had a terrible time aiming the things on-screen, and the SFX people had to do all sorts of odd-looking corrections to make sure they actually "hit" what they were aiming at. Virtually all the time, whatever aliens the main characters were up against had more serious-looking weapons.
The reason for the difference was that, in Kirk's universe, Starfleet was a bunch of rough-and-ready cowboys. In Picard's time, it was a much more disciplined peacekeeping-and-exploration organization. The weapons portray the creative philosophy at the time.
And before you say this is an unrealistic approach to combat, ask one of the early F-4 Phantom II pilot who was sent into combat with missiles but no gun.
Natural selection has little to do with sex. Sexual reproduction speeds up the process among complex organisms, but bacteria evolve very quickly without it.
This is being put in New York because NYC has a history of huge, debilitating power outages. Three times in the past half-century, the entire city (and the surrounding region) has been blacked out, causing massive economic losses. New York needs it, Seattle doesn't.
"Terrorism" is just a keyword included on all public works funding requests nowadays. This has nothing to do with terrorist threats, real or implied.
The Judge should know about the law. Other matters such as the changes in confirmation of the co-enzymes in the Krebs cycle, or indeed the technical aspects of communications technology, are best brought into evidence via expert witnesses.
Would you trust a judge who's never ridden in a car to rule on traffic law? (Popular legend holds that the first legislators to set traffic law had never driven, and often came up with some hilarious laws...for example, that cars must be preceded by a flag man.)
Huh?! Can you cite some legal authority stating that judges are required to recuse themselves on the basis that they have no personal knowledge of some technical aspect of deliberations?
Not required, no. There are very few hard-and-fast rules that require a judge to recuse himself. But in this case, he is not only ignorant of the details, he has admitted that he cannot grasp the explanations thereof. He, as the judge, has to consider whether his lack of understanding is hindering the process of justice.
Well, according to the story from yesterday, I believe, the MPG of hybrids was actually incorrect, and was over-estimating the average MPG by more than 10mpg. Meaning the Prius not only looks pretty ugly, but it gets slightly better mileage than my Honda Civic which isn't hybrid.
It wasn't just hybrids; the mileage figures for all cars will be recalculated under the new test program. Your Civic will now have a lower MPG figure, too.
The inaccuracy had nothing to do with hybrids in particular; the EPA's test was off by about 15-20% for typical driving patterns. 20% is nothing on a "15MPG" Suburban, but it's huge on on a "60MPG" hybrid.
That's what they used to call their advertising-review policy.
I can't say that they always followed it, but they seemed to take it seriously enough in the past. They wrote articles on it, and they were not afraid to give a half-star rating when warranted. And I remember they often gave one or two-star ratings to prime advertisers like Apple. (They used to use stars, not mice.)
The Apple LaserWriter was the first combination of PostScript with a laser printing engine. Revolutionary at the time, because it allowed people to print any combination of fonts and graphics at the full resolution the printer was capable of. (The first HP LaserJet, by comparison, could print in Courier. Just Courier. The only advantage it had over a daisywheel printer was that it was much faster.)
Not surprisingly, it cost several thousand dollars--more than even a new Mac, at the time, but it had a faster CPU, too.
Apple wisely got out of the printer market after it became commoditized, but its laser printers (Canon-based, like HP's) were rock solid and still crank out pages in a number of universities. The drivers were/are even included with Windows up until XP
I'm not at a PC right now, but I seem to remember that QuickTime installs an icon in Control Panels. One of the options in the QuickTime control panel is a toggle for DirectX accelerated drawing vs. GDI drawing. Try turning that off.
I'm guessing that there's something screwy going on with the DirectX drivers for the video cards in question.
It uses the webcam build into new Macs, or a third-party firewire camera, to scan barcodes and index books and DVDs and such. It pulls the data from Amazon or another web source.
No laser scanner needed, no special barcodes required.
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Most people I think smoke because they enjoy it and it is fun. If they came out with a harmless cigarette....I'd start smoking again immediately.
Biochemical dependence has a remarkable effect on the brain's perception of pleasure. I wonder if you'd find it at all fun if they made a nicotine-free cigarette. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure most nonsmokers (who do not have a baseline level of nicotine in their blood) would suddenly find nicotine patches to be "fun" if they used them for a week straight.
My point is, I'm not sure "fun" is the best word for the experience you had.
Seriously, at what point does a large, highly redundant server become a mainframe? (Yes, I've checked the Wikipedia article and somewhat out-of-date FOLDOC definition.
Or is the definition merely, "any large computer descended from one of the old-guard mainframes?"
As good as the P-51 was back in its day, it would be almost miraculous for one of these planes to shoot down a modern jet aircraft such as the F-22 or the EF-2000
Just for the sake of good engineering argument: What if the aliens weren't flying their highest-tech fighter saucer? The F-22 and Eurofighter and the like are military aircraft, built for maximum speed and maneuverability in an atmosphere, and equipped with weapons and target-tracking radar systems. Their sole purpose is to avoid being shot down by other aircraft. A modern civilian airliner could easily be downed by an P-51 (assuming it could be caught at the right altitude...probably close to takeoff or landing.)
Thus far, all the spacecraft built by humans (Soviet, American, Chinese, or Burt Rutan) have been totally defenseless, and generally limited when operating within an atmosphere. Air-to-air combat is not in their mission profile. It's perfectly reasonable that, assuming there are planet-hopping aliens, that they would be ill-equipped to defend themselves in an atmosphere. They could simply have made a simple mistake, gotten a little too curious, and wound up a little too close to the natives.
The number of people who bought Windows 3.1when it finally came out in 1991 dwarfed the number who ever bought a Macin the preceeding seven years.
Fixed that for you.
The thing that stops thieves is that whole "youll go to jail if you do this" thing.
That, right there, is why "cybercrime" is so attractive. Eavesdropping on an electronic signal can be done from anywhere, with no pesky eyewitnesses. The thieves believe that they'll never be caught, because there's practically no chance of them being observed in the act. Stupid but true.
Even if they are broadcasting data unencrypted it will still be more secure than regular credit card use because the difficulty of electronic eavesdropping is much higher than the difficulty of reading a number on a card.
If you're talking about random crimes of opportunity, you're right. But once word got out that a major provider was broadcasting data in the clear, serious criminals would organize and get busy. One reasonably tech-savvy criminal could farm out the actual data-gathering, using some automated tools, to a half-dozen lackeys who just know how to drive around, run a script and hold an antenna. There are plenty of serious credit-card-fraud syndicates out there. For such an organization, this would be just one low-risk way to get fresh numbers.
It is after all, a proprietary format, wholly owned and controlled by one company, which is why Creative and MS Mp3 players can't play the content.
The "Enhanced Podcast" appears to be an MPEG-4 container with an AAC "track" and a still image "track."
Allowing IMAP-S on an existing MS Exchange server requires about five minutes in the administration interface. It does not necessitate eliminating Outlook's MAPI, or whatever other proprietary protocols you choose to run.
Of course, it does require a security model based on something other than, "Our server is secure, because hackers could never compromise Outlook!"
I have a theory that your taste in automotive styling is set by what's around you when you're growing up.
I, like the parent poster, grew up in the '80s. Like the parent poster, I think that the styling trends of the '50s are hideous, garish, and sometimes even spooky. I can appreciate them from a perspective of nostalgia, but I think it's just hideous out of that context. I'd much rather drive a '90s jellybean or an '80s box, if it came down to that.
If I look back and draw the line, I think I'd draw it about the time my parents' cars were made. I think that's how people recognize what's acceptable to them, and what's not.
I know it's a bit much to expect everyone to watch the Apple Developer's conference webcast, so I'll summarize the it for you:
Safari for Windows exists so that web developers can test/fix their sites without actually buying a Mac/iPhone
Apple doesn't care if you use Safari as your default browser. Safari makes no money for Apple. Macs and iPhones make money for Apple. Apple wants to keep its Mac and iPhone customers happy; hence, it wants as many websites as possible to work in Safari. Safari:Windows mimics Safari:Mac, including font rendering, resizing, and keyboard shortcuts so you can see how your site behaves on a Mac.
I've always heard that automatic dishwasher detergent was extremely caustic. Combine that with the presumably delicate traces on the circuit board that underlies a keyboard, and what happens after a few weeks?
No really, what happens? What happens if you do this two or three times? Inquiring minds want to know.
Works in IE, Firefox, Safari...L as in Location.
Command-L on the Mac.
- eg
89% IE
10% firefox
sounds better to make a business case to a phb to support a website site that is w3c compliant and supports firefox vs
89% IE
6% Firefox
4% Safari
Which tells the phb that only IE matters as the rest are niche players that do not make significant marketshare to be worth the investment.
That's because you're spinning it the wrong way. You should be presenting it as
10% W3C standards-compliant
89% IE
Well, at the trade show where both the PET and the Apple II were anounced, what do you think got the most attention? A dull grey box that showed random data on the screen when turned on and then just a blinking prompt and had no functioning BASIC, or a futuristic nice-looking box with built-in monitor and tape-drive and a working BASIC that you could work with immediatly?
How on earth did this troll get modded informative?
I'm not trying to pooh-pooh the article, but it's just kind of...well...you know, my shoe is shaped kind of oblong and rounded because, well, that's how feet are shaped. Isn't that amazing?
You're obviously not a woman. Take a look at the shape of some of their footwear sometime, and tell me it's not amazing.
What the weapons look like depends largely on what the creative people want to present.
For example, compare the phasers used in Star Trek V and VI with those used in The Next Generation. Both were produced in the same time period by the same studio using most of the same creative and prop people.
The V/VI phasers look mostly like handguns (except with the barrel mounted over the hand grip, instead of forward of it.) They're beefy, black, and serious-looking. The director of Star Trek V (William Shatner, actually) wanted to show Starfleet marines checking their weapons, fitting magazines, and generally preparing for serious combat.
The Next Generation phasers look like a cross between a remote control and a Dustbuster. They're straight, beige, and domesticated. The actors had a terrible time aiming the things on-screen, and the SFX people had to do all sorts of odd-looking corrections to make sure they actually "hit" what they were aiming at. Virtually all the time, whatever aliens the main characters were up against had more serious-looking weapons.
The reason for the difference was that, in Kirk's universe, Starfleet was a bunch of rough-and-ready cowboys. In Picard's time, it was a much more disciplined peacekeeping-and-exploration organization. The weapons portray the creative philosophy at the time.
And before you say this is an unrealistic approach to combat, ask one of the early F-4 Phantom II pilot who was sent into combat with missiles but no gun.
Natural selection has little to do with sex. Sexual reproduction speeds up the process among complex organisms, but bacteria evolve very quickly without it.
This is being put in New York because NYC has a history of huge, debilitating power outages. Three times in the past half-century, the entire city (and the surrounding region) has been blacked out, causing massive economic losses. New York needs it, Seattle doesn't.
"Terrorism" is just a keyword included on all public works funding requests nowadays. This has nothing to do with terrorist threats, real or implied.
The Judge should know about the law. Other matters such as the changes in confirmation of the co-enzymes in the Krebs cycle, or indeed the technical aspects of communications technology, are best brought into evidence via expert witnesses.
Would you trust a judge who's never ridden in a car to rule on traffic law? (Popular legend holds that the first legislators to set traffic law had never driven, and often came up with some hilarious laws...for example, that cars must be preceded by a flag man.)
Huh?! Can you cite some legal authority stating that judges are required to recuse themselves on the basis that they have no personal knowledge of some technical aspect of deliberations?
Not required, no. There are very few hard-and-fast rules that require a judge to recuse himself. But in this case, he is not only ignorant of the details, he has admitted that he cannot grasp the explanations thereof. He, as the judge, has to consider whether his lack of understanding is hindering the process of justice.
Well, according to the story from yesterday, I believe, the MPG of hybrids was actually incorrect, and was over-estimating the average MPG by more than 10mpg. Meaning the Prius not only looks pretty ugly, but it gets slightly better mileage than my Honda Civic which isn't hybrid.
It wasn't just hybrids; the mileage figures for all cars will be recalculated under the new test program. Your Civic will now have a lower MPG figure, too.
The inaccuracy had nothing to do with hybrids in particular; the EPA's test was off by about 15-20% for typical driving patterns. 20% is nothing on a "15MPG" Suburban, but it's huge on on a "60MPG" hybrid.
For all you know, those thirty-odd victims include any number of people who tried exactly that. And didn't live to tell about it.
That's what they used to call their advertising-review policy.
I can't say that they always followed it, but they seemed to take it seriously enough in the past. They wrote articles on it, and they were not afraid to give a half-star rating when warranted. And I remember they often gave one or two-star ratings to prime advertisers like Apple. (They used to use stars, not mice.)
The Apple LaserWriter was the first combination of PostScript with a laser printing engine. Revolutionary at the time, because it allowed people to print any combination of fonts and graphics at the full resolution the printer was capable of. (The first HP LaserJet, by comparison, could print in Courier. Just Courier. The only advantage it had over a daisywheel printer was that it was much faster.)
Not surprisingly, it cost several thousand dollars--more than even a new Mac, at the time, but it had a faster CPU, too.
Apple wisely got out of the printer market after it became commoditized, but its laser printers (Canon-based, like HP's) were rock solid and still crank out pages in a number of universities. The drivers were/are even included with Windows up until XP
I'm not at a PC right now, but I seem to remember that QuickTime installs an icon in Control Panels. One of the options in the QuickTime control panel is a toggle for DirectX accelerated drawing vs. GDI drawing. Try turning that off.
I'm guessing that there's something screwy going on with the DirectX drivers for the video cards in question.
http://www.delicious-monster.com/
It uses the webcam build into new Macs, or a third-party firewire camera, to scan barcodes and index books and DVDs and such. It pulls the data from Amazon or another web source.
No laser scanner needed, no special barcodes required.
OS X has been in production use for six years. Six years of real-world threats and thorough examinations by security experts.
Compare with XP, which is about the same age. (Secunia does not break down the point releases of OS X.)