"Automating the purchase of tickets so that you're able to purchase them faster than other people is now illegal hacking and will get one charged with wire fraud?"
Meanwhile, on wall street, automating the purchase of stocks and bonds so that you're able to purchase them faster than other people is totally legal.
I tried to get an absentee ballot in Michigan so I could avoid going to the polls. I read the fine print and the restrictions made it so that I would have to perjure myself to do so. I opted not to get an absentee because of that.
I always thought a big flaw in the movie War Games was that the launch code was figured out one character at a time. Now this happens and flips my world upside down.
My family and I pass books by one of our favourite authors (Dean Koontz) along to each other. Between my mom, my aunt, my uncle, some cousins, and myself, we have passed many books between us. Because we can pass the physical copies of the book back and forth, we have the advantage that only one of us needs to purchase a copy of any particular book before we pass it on. Part of the value of the book is the fact that we can pass it on. None of have bothered with ebooks because we can't pass things on to each other in the same way that we have become accustomed to. Once upon a time, I did not want to wait for my mom to pass me a particular book and I purchased the hardcover because I wanted to read that book sooner. My family and I love books.
I never understood the popularity of Rock Band, Guitar Hero, or Dance Dance Revolution. To me, they are all just rehashes of Simon. The machine gives you a sequence of buttons to push and then you push the buttons in the same sequence that the machine tells you.
The summary seems to imply that this technology could make it easier to have secret conversations. I propose that the technology makes it harder to have secret conversations as it could be used to "listen in" on conversations from a distance.
The ribbon is horrible for phone support. Before, I could say "click Edit, click Paste", and the user would know exactly what I mean. Now, I have to say "click the icon that looks like...". Not to mention the fact that emailed instructions now need to include all sorts of graphics instead of just plain text. In short, ribbons are a suppiort nightmare.
"Spotify isn't a radio. It's more like a huge music library where you can search for any song and listen to them as you please. If you like to, you can even just repeat one song all the time."
When doing an XP install and you get to the point where you give the computer a description, the following text is displayed:
"You can also give your computer a friendly description. Unlike the computer name, the computer description may contain spaces and other special characters. "David's game machine" and "The Chavez Family Computer" are examples of computer descriptions."
Hmmm... David (white sounding name) gets an expensive game machine all to himself, while the entire Chavez (Hispanic sounding name) family have to share one computer. No, nothing implied there.
I have never bothered with firmware updates and additional configuration steps with standard IDE, SATA, SCSI, and SAS drives. While looking around at various SSD, I found that you need to go though all of this additional crap to get things working right. OCZ, for example, has a whole forum dedicated to help tweak out their drives.
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=186
Any discussion over DNS control should include a discussion about Site Finder as that happened under control of the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder
(2) some kind of automated space cleaner that went around removing debris - but we had no idea how that could possibly work or be designed
That's easy. The design has been made already. You can tell from the picture how it would work: http://datacore.sciflicks.com/spaceballs/images/spaceballs_large_15.jpg
What is the difference between what they did and say leaving your wifi access point open to snoop on anybody that might connect to that? Either way, the other people chose to actively connect to YOUR equipment. If it is your equipment, you should have every right to monitor it in any way you see fit.
I bought and recommended AMD products up until a few years ago. I did that then because they had the fastest / better CPUs on the market at that time. During the last few years I have went with Intel because they have the better products now. If AMD wants my future business, they need to come out with something that beats what Intel has.
I live in Detroit, the complete opposite of the normal American city. Houses in the city are dirt cheap and the houses in the suburbs are expensive as hell.
Suffice it to say I live in the city and have a cheap commute.
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If you think your arm is going to fall off from a 5 pound laptop, then you have bigger problems to be concerned about.
"Automating the purchase of tickets so that you're able to purchase them faster than other people is now illegal hacking and will get one charged with wire fraud?"
Meanwhile, on wall street, automating the purchase of stocks and bonds so that you're able to purchase them faster than other people is totally legal.
I tried to get an absentee ballot in Michigan so I could avoid going to the polls. I read the fine print and the restrictions made it so that I would have to perjure myself to do so. I opted not to get an absentee because of that.
I always thought a big flaw in the movie War Games was that the launch code was figured out one character at a time. Now this happens and flips my world upside down.
My family and I pass books by one of our favourite authors (Dean Koontz) along to each other. Between my mom, my aunt, my uncle, some cousins, and myself, we have passed many books between us. Because we can pass the physical copies of the book back and forth, we have the advantage that only one of us needs to purchase a copy of any particular book before we pass it on. Part of the value of the book is the fact that we can pass it on. None of have bothered with ebooks because we can't pass things on to each other in the same way that we have become accustomed to. Once upon a time, I did not want to wait for my mom to pass me a particular book and I purchased the hardcover because I wanted to read that book sooner. My family and I love books.
You can buy a lot of tickets to go watch the games in person with the money you will save by cutting the cable for a year.
"Well everybody knows the password is 12345"
Hey, that's the password on my luggage.
I never understood the popularity of Rock Band, Guitar Hero, or Dance Dance Revolution. To me, they are all just rehashes of Simon. The machine gives you a sequence of buttons to push and then you push the buttons in the same sequence that the machine tells you.
The summary seems to imply that this technology could make it easier to have secret conversations. I propose that the technology makes it harder to have secret conversations as it could be used to "listen in" on conversations from a distance.
The ribbon is horrible for phone support. Before, I could say "click Edit, click Paste", and the user would know exactly what I mean. Now, I have to say "click the icon that looks like...". Not to mention the fact that emailed instructions now need to include all sorts of graphics instead of just plain text. In short, ribbons are a suppiort nightmare.
"Spotify isn't a radio. It's more like a huge music library where you can search for any song and listen to them as you please. If you like to, you can even just repeat one song all the time."
So it's basically youtube?
When doing an XP install and you get to the point where you give the computer a description, the following text is displayed:
"You can also give your computer a friendly description. Unlike the computer name, the computer description may contain spaces and other special characters. "David's game machine" and "The Chavez Family Computer" are examples of computer descriptions."
Hmmm... David (white sounding name) gets an expensive game machine all to himself, while the entire Chavez (Hispanic sounding name) family have to share one computer. No, nothing implied there.
I have never bothered with firmware updates and additional configuration steps with standard IDE, SATA, SCSI, and SAS drives. While looking around at various SSD, I found that you need to go though all of this additional crap to get things working right. OCZ, for example, has a whole forum dedicated to help tweak out their drives. http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=186
it could be worst.
Any discussion over DNS control should include a discussion about Site Finder as that happened under control of the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder
"I could prove a large percentage of senior management did no actual work at all" This is news?
(2) some kind of automated space cleaner that went around removing debris - but we had no idea how that could possibly work or be designed That's easy. The design has been made already. You can tell from the picture how it would work: http://datacore.sciflicks.com/spaceballs/images/spaceballs_large_15.jpg
2 + 2 does equal 5, for extremely large values of 2. It's true, I've seen it on a shirt: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/60f5/
Grand Theft Auto taught me that if you shoot the hooker, you can get your money back.
Obligatory Twilight Zone reference - "What's wet?"
I would much prefer a redundant array of inexpensive spiders.
What is the difference between what they did and say leaving your wifi access point open to snoop on anybody that might connect to that? Either way, the other people chose to actively connect to YOUR equipment. If it is your equipment, you should have every right to monitor it in any way you see fit.
I bought and recommended AMD products up until a few years ago. I did that then because they had the fastest / better CPUs on the market at that time. During the last few years I have went with Intel because they have the better products now. If AMD wants my future business, they need to come out with something that beats what Intel has.
I live in Detroit, the complete opposite of the normal American city. Houses in the city are dirt cheap and the houses in the suburbs are expensive as hell.
Suffice it to say I live in the city and have a cheap commute.
The same song has also been played more than 200,000 times on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyDLXVbE6YU