NBC's tech expert finally confesses in his blog three days after the TV broadcast: "Compromises can occur in Russia just as quickly as in any other country... All the attacks required some kind of user interaction." This contrasts to Tuesday's news broadcast: "Visitors to Russia can expect to be hacked... it's not a matter of if but when." NBC fabricated the story to mislead their viewers.
A classical symphony of 4 movements is naturally packaged as an integral work. And the consumers, without any coercing from the sellers, naturally buy it as an album. Likewise for opera.
But the pop songs of today? They don't naturally group together as an integral work (generally speaking). If the record companies want people to purchase pop songs in albums, the logical way is to have the artists write a group of songs that form an integral work. And that the consumers, without any explanation required, also feel that the group of songs form an integral work and feel that the proper way to experience them is to play all of them in one sitting and in the order published. That's how classical music fans listen to symphonies, from the first movement to the last. When they occasionally listen to just one movement of a symphony, they are well aware that they are listening to an excerpt of a work. Contrast this to listening to a pop song from an album, no one feels they are listening to an excerpt.
I suspect the zeitgeist of today favours short form music, i.e. a 4 minute song. Song writers convey what they need in 4 minutes. Listeners enjoy taking the bite size emotional journey in 4 minutes. Neither song writers nor listeners look for an emotional journey that takes 60 minutes to walk through (generally speaking). A 4 minute song is a natural unit of consumption and the music business should think of it as a basic SKU and structure their business model accordingly.
or read from a transcript: "... I did delete them... Yes, all of them. All of them. 6 months later after I had deleted these photos off my computer, my computer broke down. I had insisted, I mean, I had asked my assistant to go and bring the computer to go and get it fixed. Now, what I actually found out after returning to Hong Kong and assisting the police was that they had copied my whole hard drive and then they had recovered my memory. I had no idea that there was such a thing before. I thought that if I had put it in the trash bin and said empty trash bin and it goes [makes noise] and it's gone... forever, but no, it wasn't."
the famous singer actually put all the private photos in the trash, and emptied trash BEFORE he took his laptop in for service. he was not silly or reckless, but he wasn't geeky enough to know what a dirty technician could do.
the dirty tech used special software to successfully recover those deleted photos. then spreaded them on the net. what a low life!
Put another way, I don't think the Chinese government's goal was to build a bullet proof censorship wall. Their goal was to be able to keep a record of who is breaking it and how often they do that.
From a user's point, you know you have the means to do it, but do you dare to do it?
Let's say you have been breaking it to read NYT for a week now and you get no special phone calls or letters from the government and you don't notice anyone following you on the street, do you think it's fine then? Is your name already on their watch list? Do you dare to continue doing this? How often do you do this, how often is too often for the Chinese government? You don't really know, no one knows. The first time you find out might be too late already.
The big question is will you be caught circumventing the censorship.
From what I understand, it's not that hard to break through the censorship. But will you leave any tracks behind--however small--for the government to see? That's the big question.
If you just want to read one NYT article, go ahead and chances are nothing would happen to you. But if you plan on doing this day in day out, from your home connection, then a few months down the road you may get a knock on your door in the middle of the night.
Please solve this problem by coming up with a unique name that identifies this group of united states in North America. Call it 'blah blah' or whatever.
For an example, look how a group of provinces in North America did it. They chose the name 'Canada', not some stupid non-name like the United Provinces of America or UPA.
For those who say MS can't be a cult because it's dominant, how about iPod? It's dominant and it's a cult, or at least it has a large emotional following.
big difference... i suggested that when a user presses the button that is *labelled* 'delete', the user should expect a response. and you contrasted that with a user types out "O-P-E-N- -T-H-I-S" and expect a response?
in case it's not obvious, in your example, the user wasn't pressing a button labelled 'open this'. that's a big difference.
TFA was comparing Mac OS platform vs. Windows platform. They weren't comparing OS X vs. Vista, but were too dense to realize, I guess.
In Performance:
"PCs are definitely the place to go if you want the latest technology. PCs were privileged to the first Intel Core and Core 2 Duo CPUs, they've had access to high-speed wireless 802.11n wireless for some time, not to mention high-capacity Blu-ray and HD DVD drives... " Vista didn't get C2D quicker than Mac OS X. Some of the Windows platform system manufacturers released C2D systems quicker than Apple did. Of course, there were also some that were slower. But if you are living on the Windows platform, you could get C2D systems quicker.
In Finale:
"PCs are greener than their Mac brethren. A Mac "scores badly on almost all criteria", and Apple "fails to embrace the precautionary principle, withholds its full list of regulated substances and provides no timelines for eliminating toxics polyvinyl chloride (PVC)"." Again, this is a platform issue (at best!). Pretty sure this has to do with hardware manufacturing. MS didn't harm the environment by producing Vista. But neither did Apple in producing Mac OS X.
I'd say it is fair for a new user to expect something to happen when he highlight a file or folder and hit 'delete'. Right now, *nothing* happens and the user is left on his own to figure it out. Not nice.
I think either put the file in the Trash (still a reversible action) or put up a dialogue box saying to delete a file, press command + delete.
It's not so hard.
Internetnews.com is not the only one with headlines like "Surprise, Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS ". I did a search on Google News with "Symantec operating systems", here are the headlines from other publications.
Windows has fewest security holes
Silicon.com, UK - 48 minutes ago
Windows MORE secure than Mac, says Symantec
Mobile Digest, UK - 3 hours ago
Symantec says Windows most secure OS
Pocket-lint.co.uk, UK - 4 hours ago
Symantec tells world that Windows is most secure OS
Inquirer, UK - 7 hours ago
Microsoft has Most Secure Operating System
ShortNews.com, Germany - 6 hours ago
Now, a number of the above articles include quotes from Internetnew.com, which suggests these publications allow themselves to be influenced by Internetnews's bias, instead of, or inspite of, going to the source Symantec report and arrive at their own take. Only MacDailyNews goes against the rest...
We read the report: Microsoft WIndows is not listed as most secure OS
MacDailyNews - 2 hours ago
from what i've heard, it's not all that difficult to get around the censorship to access whatever websites you want. BUT it is also not that difficult for the authorities to find out that you have bypassed their system and accessed those websites. so if you do that on a regular basis, it would seem you are just asking for trouble.
When I see reports like this suggesting people may switch away from MS, I have seriously reservation. MS to this day still enjoy their toll bridge locked in monopoly. That means the quality of their product and the price they charge have minimal effect on their sales.
The recent delay of Vista drew a number of reports suggesting Mac OS X may benefit. I don't buy that either. Windows' technology has been lagging Mac OS's for at least several years now and the gap is widening. Also the news on MS in the general media has been overwhelmingly negative whereas Mac has been largely positive. Now, how did the general public react? What effect did these have on Windows and Mac market share? Negligible. That's a monopoly and it's a dead market!
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NBC's tech expert finally confesses in his blog three days after the TV broadcast: "Compromises can occur in Russia just as quickly as in any other country ... All the attacks required some kind of user interaction." This contrasts to Tuesday's news broadcast: "Visitors to Russia can expect to be hacked ... it's not a matter of if but when." NBC fabricated the story to mislead their viewers.
A classical symphony of 4 movements is naturally packaged as an integral work. And the consumers, without any coercing from the sellers, naturally buy it as an album. Likewise for opera.
But the pop songs of today? They don't naturally group together as an integral work (generally speaking). If the record companies want people to purchase pop songs in albums, the logical way is to have the artists write a group of songs that form an integral work. And that the consumers, without any explanation required, also feel that the group of songs form an integral work and feel that the proper way to experience them is to play all of them in one sitting and in the order published. That's how classical music fans listen to symphonies, from the first movement to the last. When they occasionally listen to just one movement of a symphony, they are well aware that they are listening to an excerpt of a work. Contrast this to listening to a pop song from an album, no one feels they are listening to an excerpt.
I suspect the zeitgeist of today favours short form music, i.e. a 4 minute song. Song writers convey what they need in 4 minutes. Listeners enjoy taking the bite size emotional journey in 4 minutes. Neither song writers nor listeners look for an emotional journey that takes 60 minutes to walk through (generally speaking). A 4 minute song is a natural unit of consumption and the music business should think of it as a basic SKU and structure their business model accordingly.
here is the source that says the singer actually deleted all the personal photos and emptied trash before bringing in his computer for repair.
watch this CNN interview video with the singer, from 2 min on: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/06/01/ta.edison/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
or read from a transcript: " ... I did delete them ... Yes, all of them. All of them. 6 months later after I had deleted these photos off my computer, my computer broke down. I had insisted, I mean, I had asked my assistant to go and bring the computer to go and get it fixed. Now, what I actually found out after returning to Hong Kong and assisting the police was that they had copied my whole hard drive and then they had recovered my memory. I had no idea that there was such a thing before. I thought that if I had put it in the trash bin and said empty trash bin and it goes [makes noise] and it's gone... forever, but no, it wasn't."
the famous singer actually put all the private photos in the trash, and emptied trash BEFORE he took his laptop in for service. he was not silly or reckless, but he wasn't geeky enough to know what a dirty technician could do.
the dirty tech used special software to successfully recover those deleted photos. then spreaded them on the net. what a low life!
Blu-spec CD is NOT a new CD format. It is just an improved method of manufacturing CD.
CDs manufactured using this method are just like other CDs, playable on all CD players, except perhaps in higher manufacturing quality.
The phrase "Blu-spec CD Format" is misleading.
Put another way, I don't think the Chinese government's goal was to build a bullet proof censorship wall. Their goal was to be able to keep a record of who is breaking it and how often they do that.
From a user's point, you know you have the means to do it, but do you dare to do it?
Let's say you have been breaking it to read NYT for a week now and you get no special phone calls or letters from the government and you don't notice anyone following you on the street, do you think it's fine then? Is your name already on their watch list? Do you dare to continue doing this? How often do you do this, how often is too often for the Chinese government? You don't really know, no one knows. The first time you find out might be too late already.
The big question is will you be caught circumventing the censorship.
From what I understand, it's not that hard to break through the censorship. But will you leave any tracks behind--however small--for the government to see? That's the big question.
If you just want to read one NYT article, go ahead and chances are nothing would happen to you. But if you plan on doing this day in day out, from your home connection, then a few months down the road you may get a knock on your door in the middle of the night.
but to bring down air quality levels, shouldn't they increase the factory output instead? i am confused.
That's all I can tell. It's just like buying LCD and keyboard for your laptop, now you buy Foleo for your Treo.
For an example, look how a group of provinces in North America did it. They chose the name 'Canada', not some stupid non-name like the United Provinces of America or UPA.
Now go do it.
For those who say MS can't be a cult because it's dominant, how about iPod? It's dominant and it's a cult, or at least it has a large emotional following.
in case it's not obvious, in your example, the user wasn't pressing a button labelled 'open this'. that's a big difference.
In Performance: ... " Vista didn't get C2D quicker than Mac OS X. Some of the Windows platform system manufacturers released C2D systems quicker than Apple did. Of course, there were also some that were slower. But if you are living on the Windows platform, you could get C2D systems quicker.
"PCs are definitely the place to go if you want the latest technology. PCs were privileged to the first Intel Core and Core 2 Duo CPUs, they've had access to high-speed wireless 802.11n wireless for some time, not to mention high-capacity Blu-ray and HD DVD drives
In Finale:
"PCs are greener than their Mac brethren. A Mac "scores badly on almost all criteria", and Apple "fails to embrace the precautionary principle, withholds its full list of regulated substances and provides no timelines for eliminating toxics polyvinyl chloride (PVC)"." Again, this is a platform issue (at best!). Pretty sure this has to do with hardware manufacturing. MS didn't harm the environment by producing Vista. But neither did Apple in producing Mac OS X.
I'd say it is fair for a new user to expect something to happen when he highlight a file or folder and hit 'delete'. Right now, *nothing* happens and the user is left on his own to figure it out. Not nice. I think either put the file in the Trash (still a reversible action) or put up a dialogue box saying to delete a file, press command + delete. It's not so hard.
Windows has fewest security holes
Silicon.com, UK - 48 minutes ago
Windows MORE secure than Mac, says Symantec
Mobile Digest, UK - 3 hours ago
Symantec says Windows most secure OS
Pocket-lint.co.uk, UK - 4 hours ago
Symantec tells world that Windows is most secure OS
Inquirer, UK - 7 hours ago
Microsoft has Most Secure Operating System
ShortNews.com, Germany - 6 hours ago
Now, a number of the above articles include quotes from Internetnew.com, which suggests these publications allow themselves to be influenced by Internetnews's bias, instead of, or inspite of, going to the source Symantec report and arrive at their own take. Only MacDailyNews goes against the rest ...
We read the report: Microsoft WIndows is not listed as most secure OS
MacDailyNews - 2 hours ago
But who runs Microsoft Live OneCare? The article says MS's top engineers couldn't solve this guy's problems.
from what i've heard, it's not all that difficult to get around the censorship to access whatever websites you want. BUT it is also not that difficult for the authorities to find out that you have bypassed their system and accessed those websites. so if you do that on a regular basis, it would seem you are just asking for trouble.
When I see reports like this suggesting people may switch away from MS, I have seriously reservation. MS to this day still enjoy their toll bridge locked in monopoly. That means the quality of their product and the price they charge have minimal effect on their sales.
The recent delay of Vista drew a number of reports suggesting Mac OS X may benefit. I don't buy that either. Windows' technology has been lagging Mac OS's for at least several years now and the gap is widening. Also the news on MS in the general media has been overwhelmingly negative whereas Mac has been largely positive. Now, how did the general public react? What effect did these have on Windows and Mac market share? Negligible. That's a monopoly and it's a dead market!