The Federal Communications Commission has also taken interest in HP, asking AT&T Inc. last week how the company's private investigators managed to obtain the private phone records of board members and journalists.
Well, a likely candidate is something like Jigsaw. Capitalism at its finest.
Are Massive games just another kind of game title, or are they something special?
What I think is ironic is that people play these games to escape the mundanity of everyday life; the boring, daily grind. And yet, a huge part of a lot of these games is just that, repetitive mundanity that's no different than the world already around us, save for the exotic window dressing and some fancy costumes.
Anyone who's been on second life for five minutes can see that... in a game with limitless possibilities and potential, what do you get? a distilled, amplified re-creation of our own superficial consumer culture.
what's to correct? that point was the entire purpose of the post! Of course Apple doesn't want a joint venture on the "itunes-phone" idea, which is why they sabotaged the idea.
you should be writing "I agree", not a "correction".
Yeah, anyone who's ever gotten even remotely involved in wikipedia could have seen this one coming a mile away. This is why, at work, you have "project managers", that have final say (and yet, also take the burden and responsibility of making decisions).
After all, if it's not impacting the economy, directly or indirectly, how is it impacting people's lives?
Well, that's exactly the crux of the capitalist worldview. So my question to you is, does something necessarily have to impact the economy in order to impact people's lives? (aside from after-the-fact merchandising, of course)
In the words of one user, "Stalking is supposed to be hard."
So it's gotten to the point now where even stalking is automated. Kids today have it so easy. When I was their age, I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid for breakfast, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill, and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work. When we got home, our Dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
She has since demonstrated a successful penetration of the seals without breaking them... all in under 4 minutes with no training or technical skills required.
I don't see why there's not more outrage about this. Do people not understand that every liberty that we have (and used to have) stems from the ability to vote, and have your vote counted?
A new Toronto Star article from Michael Geist not only describes why Canadian Ministers of Education are pushing a copyright proposal that will harm Internet access, but also reveals how a copyright group is seeking to create a new license for Internet content. Access Copyright, a copyright collective, wants to use a new international text standard to license everything from books to blogs.
...Proving yet again, that this battle over "copyright" is nothing of the sort. It's a battle over control, and a losing battle at that.
Originally developed at the HP Labs from 1985-1995, it has been touted as one of the most accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs available.
Yeah, but how is it on lip-reading? That's when we really need to worry.
It seems that Microsoft got tired of relying on FrontPage and is actually going after professionals.... This is obviously a drawback for those designers who work with PHP, JSP, and other non-ASP.NET platforms
Yeah, it really sounds like they're going after professionals. (rolleyes)
That is $60/year. SO if you expect to have a phone stolen once every 3 years, it is equivalent to $180/per phone stolen.
Spending $60 on a "no questions asked" replacement policy for a $600 phone is kind of a no brainer. And I do mean "no questions asked". Theft, destruction, malfunction, airline shenanigans with your luggage, basically *whatever*. Believe me, it's worth it.
I'm talking to you because I want it to be known that it's not a hoax. I'm just too ordinary. I'm just too unclever for that.
.. and taking my above post one step further, this has to be a hoax, because when you report your cell phone stolen, the phone company will void the ESN so it can't be activated for service.
A man from Berkeley, Calif. had his cell phone swiped. Soon after, the ShoZu starting uploading pictures to his Flickr account taken by the thieves
Well, for $5 a month, Sprint offers a full replacement plan. If someone steals your phone, they void the ESN of the stolen receiver, and they send you a new one. problem solved.
Samsung shifted wireless networking into a higher gear yesterday, demonstrating for the first time in public the power of it WiBro (Wireless Broadband) 4G technology
Why not just use roman numerals, and make it a regular sequel? Then they could just call it WiII.
How do you create a market for a product, and make money of a product that has a huge initial creative investment, but then no manufacturing cost, and is in infinite supply?
Simple: in addition to selling the music, you give people something else that requires no manufacturing cost, but is in finite supply, such as special "pre-sale" access to concert tickets. Fans are a lot more willing to give you their money when you offer a carrot, rather than threaten the stick.
anyone can edit the wiki.
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Issues covered so far include interoperability, privacy, region coding, and reverse engineering. The project is also supporting a wiki version for broader participation.
The wiki version seems fairly insistent that the number of elephants has tripled in the last six months. Interesting.
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The Federal Communications Commission has also taken interest in HP, asking AT&T Inc. last week how the company's private investigators managed to obtain the private phone records of board members and journalists.
Well, a likely candidate is something like Jigsaw. Capitalism at its finest.
Are Massive games just another kind of game title, or are they something special?
What I think is ironic is that people play these games to escape the mundanity of everyday life; the boring, daily grind. And yet, a huge part of a lot of these games is just that, repetitive mundanity that's no different than the world already around us, save for the exotic window dressing and some fancy costumes.
Anyone who's been on second life for five minutes can see that... in a game with limitless possibilities and potential, what do you get? a distilled, amplified re-creation of our own superficial consumer culture.
what's to correct? that point was the entire purpose of the post! Of course Apple doesn't want a joint venture on the "itunes-phone" idea, which is why they sabotaged the idea.
you should be writing "I agree", not a "correction".
Conflicting Goals Create Tension in OSS Community
Yeah, anyone who's ever gotten even remotely involved in wikipedia could have seen this one coming a mile away. This is why, at work, you have "project managers", that have final say (and yet, also take the burden and responsibility of making decisions).
After all, if it's not impacting the economy, directly or indirectly, how is it impacting people's lives?
Well, that's exactly the crux of the capitalist worldview. So my question to you is, does something necessarily have to impact the economy in order to impact people's lives? (aside from after-the-fact merchandising, of course)
But the iPod needs something new to keep it fresh and ahead of the competition.
Yeah, it needs an integrated phone, but Apple already sabotaged that idea with the lackluster ROKR joint-venture with motorola.
Technology Review has also published a related article, titled 10 Ways To Think about Innovation.
Yeah, well here's a news flash: Corporate America views innovation only as that which can be converted into profit.
In the words of one user, "Stalking is supposed to be hard."
So it's gotten to the point now where even stalking is automated. Kids today have it so easy. When I was their age, I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid for breakfast, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill, and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work. When we got home, our Dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
She has since demonstrated a successful penetration of the seals without breaking them ... all in under 4 minutes with no training or technical skills required.
I don't see why there's not more outrage about this. Do people not understand that every liberty that we have (and used to have) stems from the ability to vote, and have your vote counted?
A new Toronto Star article from Michael Geist not only describes why Canadian Ministers of Education are pushing a copyright proposal that will harm Internet access, but also reveals how a copyright group is seeking to create a new license for Internet content. Access Copyright, a copyright collective, wants to use a new international text standard to license everything from books to blogs.
...Proving yet again, that this battle over "copyright" is nothing of the sort. It's a battle over control, and a losing battle at that.
Originally developed at the HP Labs from 1985-1995, it has been touted as one of the most accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs available.
Yeah, but how is it on lip-reading? That's when we really need to worry.
It seems that Microsoft got tired of relying on FrontPage and is actually going after professionals. ... This is obviously a drawback for those designers who work with PHP, JSP, and other non-ASP.NET platforms
Yeah, it really sounds like they're going after professionals. (rolleyes)
GSM phones also have an ESN. And yes, that ESN can be disabled.
Realistically, have you ever had a phone stolen? Probably what, 1 in 100,000 people lose their phone or have it stolen?
the plan also covers breakage-- no questions asked. How many of those 100,000 people have ever dropped their phone, do you think?
That is $60/year. SO if you expect to have a phone stolen once every 3 years, it is equivalent to $180/per phone stolen.
Spending $60 on a "no questions asked" replacement policy for a $600 phone is kind of a no brainer. And I do mean "no questions asked". Theft, destruction, malfunction, airline shenanigans with your luggage, basically *whatever*. Believe me, it's worth it.
I'm talking to you because I want it to be known that it's not a hoax. I'm just too ordinary. I'm just too unclever for that.
.. and taking my above post one step further, this has to be a hoax, because when you report your cell phone stolen, the phone company will void the ESN so it can't be activated for service.
A man from Berkeley, Calif. had his cell phone swiped. Soon after, the ShoZu starting uploading pictures to his Flickr account taken by the thieves
Well, for $5 a month, Sprint offers a full replacement plan. If someone steals your phone, they void the ESN of the stolen receiver, and they send you a new one. problem solved.
Apple Gives In to Absurd Patent Claims
You're talking about the company that licensed "1-click" from Amazon. Why are you surprised?
How Much Does Your Work Depend on the Internet?
Pretty much all of it. But then, look at the crowd you're asking.
Samsung shifted wireless networking into a higher gear yesterday, demonstrating for the first time in public the power of it WiBro (Wireless Broadband) 4G technology
Why not just use roman numerals, and make it a regular sequel? Then they could just call it WiII.
They've already confirmed that OpenBSD is dying... looks like NetBSD is next.
How do you create a market for a product, and make money of a product that has a huge initial creative investment, but then no manufacturing cost, and is in infinite supply?
Simple: in addition to selling the music, you give people something else that requires no manufacturing cost, but is in finite supply, such as special "pre-sale" access to concert tickets. Fans are a lot more willing to give you their money when you offer a carrot, rather than threaten the stick.
Issues covered so far include interoperability, privacy, region coding, and reverse engineering. The project is also supporting a wiki version for broader participation.
The wiki version seems fairly insistent that the number of elephants has tripled in the last six months. Interesting.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. not flushable. Lame.
Using the new method, it is possible, for example, to produce two HTML documents with a long nonsense part
To achieve this, the method uses material pulled from myspace.com.