You missed the parent post that was refering about RIAA , since it is an anonimous coward it stayed on 0 points, so I guess that it was hidden for you.
Although that's an extreme example this is a more common example: Bob got fired, probably not for a legit reason. The lack of a job then makes him have a bad credit history, the bad credit history makes him unable to get a job, now notice the cycle.
Or what if you made mistakes 3 years ago but now you've grown up, and are trying to fix up your life but your old credit history won't let you get a good job. Only in America, land of freedom (I actually guessed this was an American article, if I am wrong mod flamebait me)
It is so hard to believe that so many tech companies don't seem to figure out and they keep trying to get portable video which is cool and all but doesn't get past the 'cool' zone into the 'I would like/want/need to use it' zone.
If I download something in point A, how could I bring it to a player in point B without sending it through the web? It is not like we'll actually accomplish infinite bandwidth anytime soon, downloading high def movies will be an annoying waste of time, maybe shorter than now but it won't become 0 in the short term.
Where did the word artificial come from? After a lot of time art began to mean "the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance." Such an ambiguous definition.
First of all which aesthetic principles? Aren't aesthetic principles the thing that varies the most between different people? Then it is the word appealing. Or "of more than ordinary significance" . Then since a game can be considered "an expression of more than ordinary significance" then that video game is art according to some people, if you could deny so then we could also deny that Shakespeare is art. After all Shakespeare is just a bunch of violence and tragedy just like an anime. I intentionally made the most offensive phrase ever written, notice that everyone is going to have his own opinion of what is aesthetic, appealing or significant.
The UI seems kind of lame to me, I think the article was mostly right in the inconsistency with that back button and the next button, I personally think that's a rookie design blunder.
What I don't understand is the way that every single thing is going towards that awful, blurry kind of interface, I mean, even firefox is going there. I think that the current theme for windows XP had the perfect balance between solid colors and fading, I can't understand the reason for making everything more blurry, perhaps the software companies' final plot is to turn us all blind
Who tagged Fud? 611 defects and 71 potential vulnerabilities sounds as less than what I was expecting of firefox, and this will help fixing them, so it is a very good thing.
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Encryption does exist, now if you are afraid of somebody being able to crack your encrypted messages then you should avoid to use the web at all.
You might have a bad RAM chip, try downloading memtest and do do test. Also you don't specify too much about the video card, windows XP is not exactly the fastest OS in earth with a 32 MB video card.
I mostly agree but disagre in the very last part of the post. If you can get it run in.NET and use.NET libraries and other.NET language assemblies, then how exactly that is not.NET?
I would say the plan behind it is is mostly "python programmer please leave truly cross platform programming and use our framework"
But it is also difficult for a bot that generates random numbers to write the "right" number. So If I wanted to spam the hell out of your blog I could easily make a bot myself in minutes.
The condition would be to solve a text given puzzle, instead of reading an image meant to be as confusing as possible, some forums have very bad systems for this and sometimes I have to register multiple times before actually getting a CAPTCHA image that I can read.
I think MS does a good system integration work even without the advantage of making hardware and peripherals. System integration is not such a big deal anyways, ask a linux person.
Often when you intend to secretely listening to a user's microphone you don't announce your project to do so way before a functional system of it is actually designed.
Google research director Peter Norvig predicts that the prototype, which uses an audio identification technique invented outside Google and applied to a uniquely large database of recorded sound, will eventually evolve into a product.
Notice the missing "rather sooner than later".
"We weren't really pitching an application that we want to do here and now, but rather a concept," says Michael Fink, lead researcher on the project. Fink works at the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is spending the summer at Google. "We wanted to open people's minds to the possibility of using ambient audio as a medium for querying web content," he says.
... But I'd like to point out google has much practical ways of breaking your privacy, it is not like a super sound recognizing software that could spy you is that easy to make and google can't force you to keep you microphone turned on/plugged.
Even if it had a lock that disallowed you to disable this feature I can't think about any way that could let google's software use my microphone / webcam without permission o_O , worst case scenario I'll just unplug them. I mean even if google added a super SCI FI like virus that could stop me from unplugging the microphone I could just put stuff on it to block sound, it is not like google can force me to get a super microphone that can listen to everything even if the path is blocked. In fact this is so unlikelly to actually work that I doubt it really is google's idea. Google has much easier ways to figure out you watch porn, kids, don't worry.
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Those who would give up freedom in exchange for security WILL LOSE BOTH.
You missed the parent post that was refering about RIAA , since it is an anonimous coward it stayed on 0 points, so I guess that it was hidden for you.
If more libraries like them come, porting between OSes wouldn't be much problematic. In fact, right now it isn't, at least in the case of SDL apps.
Simple "reasons". I can mod PC games, I can make my own PC games, I can legally download free PC games and a console can't help me make my homework.
Is wow a big financial success?
Yes, it is.
Is wow extremely addictive?
Yes, it is.
Does wow give players the illusion they are having social interaction?
Yes, it does.
Do these reasons make wow more than just a game?
No, they don't.
Although that's an extreme example this is a more common example: Bob got fired, probably not for a legit reason. The lack of a job then makes him have a bad credit history, the bad credit history makes him unable to get a job, now notice the cycle.
Or what if you made mistakes 3 years ago but now you've grown up, and are trying to fix up your life but your old credit history won't let you get a good job. Only in America, land of freedom (I actually guessed this was an American article, if I am wrong mod flamebait me)
It is so hard to believe that so many tech companies don't seem to figure out and they keep trying to get portable video which is cool and all but doesn't get past the 'cool' zone into the 'I would like/want/need to use it' zone.
If I download something in point A, how could I bring it to a player in point B without sending it through the web? It is not like we'll actually accomplish infinite bandwidth anytime soon, downloading high def movies will be an annoying waste of time, maybe shorter than now but it won't become 0 in the short term.
As long as OSX is only for macs it will not beat the second place...
Where did the word artificial come from? After a lot of time art began to mean "the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance." Such an ambiguous definition.
First of all which aesthetic principles? Aren't aesthetic principles the thing that varies the most between different people? Then it is the word appealing. Or "of more than ordinary significance" . Then since a game can be considered "an expression of more than ordinary significance" then that video game is art according to some people, if you could deny so then we could also deny that Shakespeare is art. After all Shakespeare is just a bunch of violence and tragedy just like an anime. I intentionally made the most offensive phrase ever written, notice that everyone is going to have his own opinion of what is aesthetic, appealing or significant.
The UI seems kind of lame to me, I think the article was mostly right in the inconsistency with that back button and the next button, I personally think that's a rookie design blunder.
What I don't understand is the way that every single thing is going towards that awful, blurry kind of interface, I mean, even firefox is going there. I think that the current theme for windows XP had the perfect balance between solid colors and fading, I can't understand the reason for making everything more blurry, perhaps the software companies' final plot is to turn us all blind
Who tagged Fud? 611 defects and 71 potential vulnerabilities sounds as less than what I was expecting of firefox, and this will help fixing them, so it is a very good thing.
Encryption does exist, now if you are afraid of somebody being able to crack your encrypted messages then you should avoid to use the web at all.
You might have a bad RAM chip, try downloading memtest and do do test. Also you don't specify too much about the video card, windows XP is not exactly the fastest OS in earth with a 32 MB video card.
I'd like links to the benchmarks that show that C's io is as slow python's and also you to point out the processes that are only 5% faster in C.
I mostly agree but disagre in the very last part of the post. If you can get it run in .NET and use .NET libraries and other .NET language assemblies, then how exactly that is not .NET?
I would say the plan behind it is is mostly "python programmer please leave truly cross platform programming and use our framework"
wasn't that a "Law and Order - Criminal intent" episode?
He is the guy behind SP 2, which was the first windows version to actually include a firewall...
But it is also difficult for a bot that generates random numbers to write the "right" number. So If I wanted to spam the hell out of your blog I could easily make a bot myself in minutes.
1.- The one here is very readable, it is in fact one of the most readable ones.
2.- If you register you don't have to do that every time you post.
The condition would be to solve a text given puzzle, instead of reading an image meant to be as confusing as possible, some forums have very bad systems for this and sometimes I have to register multiple times before actually getting a CAPTCHA image that I can read.
I think MS does a good system integration work even without the advantage of making hardware and peripherals. System integration is not such a big deal anyways, ask a linux person.
Often when you intend to secretely listening to a user's microphone you don't announce your project to do so way before a functional system of it is actually designed.
Tried reading the real article?
Notice the missing "rather sooner than later".
Even if it had a lock that disallowed you to disable this feature I can't think about any way that could let google's software use my microphone / webcam without permission o_O , worst case scenario I'll just unplug them. I mean even if google added a super SCI FI like virus that could stop me from unplugging the microphone I could just put stuff on it to block sound, it is not like google can force me to get a super microphone that can listen to everything even if the path is blocked. In fact this is so unlikelly to actually work that I doubt it really is google's idea. Google has much easier ways to figure out you watch porn, kids, don't worry.