Other attack vectors (smuggling in warheads by sea/land) may be technically easier and more likely, but (being cold about it) the end damage potential is much less. If terrorists set off a bomb or two, there's lots of damage, but the rest of the country is still intact. But if a missile launches, the end result is basically that all the missiles fly. And that ruins everyone's day.
If smuggling in a warhead by sea/land is "easy", what is stopping someone from smuggling in a warhead, building a simple missile to go 2km up and 'splode? There's no frigging way that a missile shield will have time to act on that, and AFAICT it would do the same amount of damage as a missile. Only difference is that it'd be nigh impossible to figure out which country it was.
What post did you read? Even if Apple excerts pressure on the various companies in the US, it doesn't help them a shit abroad. Let me rephrase my earlier statement: A song that is licenced by Warner in the USA isn't necessarily under Warner licence in other countries. So when iTMS has an agreement with Warner in the US to sell that music, they cannot necessarily sell it in a different country because Warner may not actually have that licence. This has absolutely zip to do with DRM, and a lot to do with licencing.
You know Spotify has done the same? A fair bit of music is unavailable in several countries due to licensing issues. This isn't Apple, Spotify or any stores fault. It's the music business. Yay for making it easy for consumers to buy music.
Duh, you don't refer to the servers by name directly, it's just a name. Use CNAME with functionality pointing to that server. Naming a server "www" is just silly when it also does other stuff. Naming the server "Hezbollah" and having a bunch of cnames point to it ensures you can easily move a service at any later time without having to rename the server.
And what right do they have to change the functionality of my 3rd-party browser without my knowledge and consent? What if this has a conflict with a plugin that I have installed previously? What if this plugin makes my browser slower? If I switched to FF to get away from the great fucking hole that is IE, why do you think I'd trust MS to make a secure plugin for my browser?
If they want the plugin available, fine. They can provide the plugin the same way all other FF plugins are provided.
Do you know what bugs me about this browser plugin? The fact that Microsofts knowledgebase article on the update didn't mention it. If they did it openly, it would have been recieved much better. But they go "stealth-mode", and install it without the user knowing.
Yes, I know that. On my QWERTY keyboard there are three extra vowels. But A-Z is still in the same place, so if I have to use an english keyboard I can still type with the same speed (except if I need one of the three vowels). With a language-optimized Dvorak layout, A-Z would change places from language to language.
So you suppose we use different keyboards when writing other languages than English, and switch when writing for international papers? QWERTY isn't optimized. Period. All (save the weird french) QWERTY keyboards have A-Z in the same place. Thus, one can expect to grab any latin-language keyboard and be able to type at your regular speed. No re-learning required.
Right now, I'm typing on a Norwegian keyboard (with æøå). So I know pretty darn well that keyboard layouts aren't perfect. But A-Z is on the same place on all (save the damn french) keyboards. If you optimize by language, you're gonna have a bunch of awesome layouts that only work for that language (or similar languages), or one "semistandard" layout which pretty much sucks in all languages. Whoever designed the Norwegian keyboard layout deserves a hard kick in the nuts though. It's got the worst possible layout for programming, EVAR!
Common sense tells me that Dvorak would be a horrible choice. The layout is based on what letters are most common in english. Yay. For other languages, this doesn't make sense. Do you propose changing the layout completely between languages, or just enforcing the english ones in languages where it doesn't make sense?
It's a nice idea, but there are several hitches. A major one being that when (not if) the company that sold you the game goes tits-up, you're buttfucked. Also, how do you plan on playing for extended periods of time offline?
No, he's right. Take my example. I'm in the market for a new(er) car, but I'm not going to go out and take out a loan for the whole sum. But, if I had a somewhat sizeable lump of money, taking out a loan is more reasonable. I can afford taking a loan for 100% of the car, but I just plain *don't want to*. A loan for 60-70% of the car OTOH, makes a lot more sense to me.
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If smuggling in a warhead by sea/land is "easy", what is stopping someone from smuggling in a warhead, building a simple missile to go 2km up and 'splode?
There's no frigging way that a missile shield will have time to act on that, and AFAICT it would do the same amount of damage as a missile. Only difference is that it'd be nigh impossible to figure out which country it was.
What post did you read? Even if Apple excerts pressure on the various companies in the US, it doesn't help them a shit abroad.
Let me rephrase my earlier statement: A song that is licenced by Warner in the USA isn't necessarily under Warner licence in other countries. So when iTMS has an agreement with Warner in the US to sell that music, they cannot necessarily sell it in a different country because Warner may not actually have that licence.
This has absolutely zip to do with DRM, and a lot to do with licencing.
I'm not arguing that engineering is a subset of math. I'm arguing that the engineering for this task is math-heavy. So IMHO it's redundant.
Canada is a responsible member of the international community that hasn't made threats to wipe neighbors off the map
Yes, Canada threatening to wipe the US off the map would make people actually die of laughter.
And this is modded Interesting? Are every slashdot moderator an Iranian missile tech?
Semantics. What parts of an ICBM can you engineer without math?
You know Spotify has done the same? A fair bit of music is unavailable in several countries due to licensing issues.
This isn't Apple, Spotify or any stores fault. It's the music business.
Yay for making it easy for consumers to buy music.
Duh, you don't refer to the servers by name directly, it's just a name.
Use CNAME with functionality pointing to that server. Naming a server "www" is just silly when it also does other stuff.
Naming the server "Hezbollah" and having a bunch of cnames point to it ensures you can easily move a service at any later time without having to rename the server.
It also changes the Firefox useragent, so Microsoft can claim that .NET marketshare is huge.
And what right do they have to change the functionality of my 3rd-party browser without my knowledge and consent?
What if this has a conflict with a plugin that I have installed previously? What if this plugin makes my browser slower?
If I switched to FF to get away from the great fucking hole that is IE, why do you think I'd trust MS to make a secure plugin for my browser?
If they want the plugin available, fine. They can provide the plugin the same way all other FF plugins are provided.
Do you know what bugs me about this browser plugin? The fact that Microsofts knowledgebase article on the update didn't mention it.
If they did it openly, it would have been recieved much better. But they go "stealth-mode", and install it without the user knowing.
Doesn't necessarily help. I've had windows lock up a file where I had to erase it on boot (using unlocker), since it would be relocked upon boot.
Google "unlocker". Very useful tool.
This has nothing to do with CP...
yes, like A/C has modpoints...
Yes, I know that. On my QWERTY keyboard there are three extra vowels. But A-Z is still in the same place, so if I have to use an english keyboard I can still type with the same speed (except if I need one of the three vowels). With a language-optimized Dvorak layout, A-Z would change places from language to language.
Optimizing layout for specific use would be cool. But having to re-learn the layout every time I encounter a new keyboard isn't.
So you suppose we use different keyboards when writing other languages than English, and switch when writing for international papers?
QWERTY isn't optimized. Period. All (save the weird french) QWERTY keyboards have A-Z in the same place. Thus, one can expect to grab any latin-language keyboard and be able to type at your regular speed. No re-learning required.
Right now, I'm typing on a Norwegian keyboard (with æøå). So I know pretty darn well that keyboard layouts aren't perfect. But A-Z is on the same place on all (save the damn french) keyboards.
If you optimize by language, you're gonna have a bunch of awesome layouts that only work for that language (or similar languages), or one "semistandard" layout which pretty much sucks in all languages.
Whoever designed the Norwegian keyboard layout deserves a hard kick in the nuts though. It's got the worst possible layout for programming, EVAR!
Dvorak ain't language agnostic, so for non-english languages it's worse.
Common sense tells me that Dvorak would be a horrible choice. The layout is based on what letters are most common in english. Yay. For other languages, this doesn't make sense. Do you propose changing the layout completely between languages, or just enforcing the english ones in languages where it doesn't make sense?
It's a nice idea, but there are several hitches. A major one being that when (not if) the company that sold you the game goes tits-up, you're buttfucked.
Also, how do you plan on playing for extended periods of time offline?
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No, seriously. I'd like to see an independent study backing your claim...
It'd make more sense if it said "Companies need to stop treating potential customers like pirates, and treat pirates like potential customers".
No, he's right. Take my example. I'm in the market for a new(er) car, but I'm not going to go out and take out a loan for the whole sum. But, if I had a somewhat sizeable lump of money, taking out a loan is more reasonable.
I can afford taking a loan for 100% of the car, but I just plain *don't want to*. A loan for 60-70% of the car OTOH, makes a lot more sense to me.