The notes on blood transfusion (year 1666) are basically a set of "tryals proposed", questions about whether traits will be inherited when transfusing blood between dogs of different temper, size and colour.
As such they do make a very interesting and non-gruesome read. We have come a long way.
I also found
the article itself
to be remarkably readable in every aspect (language, spelling and fonts). I did not expect that at all, but then again I am not in the habit of reading 17th century English.
Before leaving the computer I just press WinKey+L.
Now, having to log in -again- when I return is slow and error-prone, especially while sipping coffee. The solution is obviously to use the same software to auto-login a soon as it detects the presence of a user.
Seems I misunderstood the purpose of the software, it's just a boring screen-turner-offer. Should not slashdot when tired.
Before leaving the computer I just press WinKey+L.
Now, having to log in -again- when I return is slow and error-prone, especially while sipping coffee. The solution is obviously to use the same software to auto-login a soon as it detects the presence of a user.
I could see how they could be concerned that some of the software features of a higher-end calculator might be created in the new OS that runs on the cheap calculators, but can we all agree that's a ridiculous justification?
I think it's just fine to flash such a device with new software from the ground up. You did buy the hw after all.
OTOH potentially enabling features (just speculating again) that the the producer did not mean for you to use, however clumsily such a lock may be implemented, is a grayish area. But since there is no EULA to accept (yet!) there is probably nothing the producer can do.
Let me rephrase: I am suggesting that TI's real concern might be that their -existing- software will be modified. That is cracked in order to give you features you did not buy.
Because in the case of direct tv, you're paying for the service, not the hardware.....
Basically, with the calculator, the hardware itself is the FINAL PURCHASE, whereas with DirectTV, you're basically renting the hardware as a means to access a service, which is what you're actually paying for in the end. Cheating on what you're paying for as far as channels go is clearly wrong. Modifying a piece of hardware that once bought never needs to have any interaction with the mother company again is completely different.
If I manage to unlock features in my TI calculator that exist in software, but I did not pay for those features when I bought the hardware (I'm just speculating that this might their concern), then this would be exactly analogous to direct TV channel cheating.
If they prevent your initial login to the site from happening, they can use your username + password + rolling code themselves if their software auto logs in.
This of course requires a user to go to a phishing site (miscellaneous.scammersite.com or something more complex), or requires the phisher to own the user's computer enough that they can intercept their connections & deal with the SSL certificate issues) while the phisher's automated software automatically goes to the real miscellaneousbank.com site.
Which is why some banks (in Sweden at the very least) require that the hardware token be used again for the actual transaction.
IANATP, but assuming a many-worlds interpretation, and assuming that the given particle accelerator will never cause the annihilation of the universe, then it seems to me that all worlds would continue to contain observers, irrespective of accelerator failure or not. Being observers, I don't see how we could tell the difference.
Then again, I did not RTFA so this may have no relation to what the two gentlemen are theorizing.
That right there could easily cover 90% of people's media interests. Especially now that I'm not really into movies as much as I used to be (they suck more, and TV shows are, in some ways, getting better).
I think we're going down a slippery slope when we start screening DNA. It works against the process of evolution.
The traditional process of evolution stopped working when we got really good at saving youngsters that would previously have died.
Of course we do not want that again, but screening for general health will be increasingly important for the well being of human kind.
Lastly people, after you buy one, don't forget to format them with truecrypt, before you dump any files on them. I don't want to see my medical records or SIN number find its way to the unattended StarBucks coffee table.
So you think we have your medical records on our flash drives? Interesting.
Except that you didn't read the article, did you? The article describes this in considerably more detail than the slashdot summary, discussing several scenarios in which user involvement in power management makes sense.
Exactly.
These Go To Eleven.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d54UU-fPIsY] (1:20)
I agree absolutely that you should not call it unlimited bandwidth if you don't plan to honor it.
And as you point out the current trend is larger quality services.
But if this requires more expensive networks, someone somewhere must pay for this.
Capping and some kind of pay-by-volume could both be a part of the equation.
My notion of Computer Science is, that if it's published by ACM it is more or less impossible to find it using Google (apart from the ACM abstract of course). They seem to be very good at whatever they do.
Technically it's an interesting idea. It might even work.
It should suffice to store photographs of the audience taken during screening. The cameras seem to already be in place, from what I understand.
Add audio or visual watermarking for detecting the cinema and time.
Add automatic facial recognition to the setup, and the guy will be caught next time he goes to such a cinema (or the poor sod who happened to sit beside him at the time of the recording).
To act as a deterrent, movie goers would have to be aware of the system. But all in all, it would be invisible to the paying customer (apart from the fact that it would go into the ticket price).
If the proxy at work is optional then Chrome can be started with the flag --proxy-server to bypass it, otherwise it will just use the proxy settings from Windows/IE.
That said, the flag does not seem to work in incognito mode.
I would like to be able to use drag & drop to select a file that is to be uploaded.
That is, drag the file into the browse dialog somewhere, or faster yet, directly onto the browse button or file name entry field.
Now, TFA did mention drag & drop, but I got the impression they were not thinking about this useful obviousity.
They have upped my account to 1 gb now. I use 1% of that. But the thing is, of course, that this is a free service. Shit happens occasionally and you shouldn't rely on Hotmail only to reliably store your valuable mail. So I found out that it is perfectly possible to take backups of all Hotmail correspondance using Outlook Express and some dragging and dropping. It produces a bunch of user friendly EML files, which you then backup yourself.
Apart from that, what/really/ bothers me about Hotmail at the moment is that I don't get enough junkmail. Nearly everything is just thrown away whithout ever raching my junkmail folder, contrary to what is supposed to happen according to the documentation and settings in Options. Assuming some occasional false positives, it's a quite shitty situation.
So it is a free service after all, but it may not be worth it in the end.
I'll be dead in 40,000 years, you insensitive clod!
But aside from that, I was really thinking single up or down fluctuations, of the kind mentioned in TFA, if practically recognizable. Not being an astronomer, I was just aware of more frequent fluctuations, e.g. solar winds.
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As such they do make a very interesting and non-gruesome read. We have come a long way.
I also found the article itself to be remarkably readable in every aspect (language, spelling and fonts). I did not expect that at all, but then again I am not in the habit of reading 17th century English.
Here's one applying the other brake pedal.
Who cares what happened to v5. One higher is obviously better, isn't it?
Anyways, I'll wait for v6.0.1 to have most of the bugs ironed out.
Before leaving the computer I just press WinKey+L.
Now, having to log in -again- when I return is slow and error-prone, especially while sipping coffee. The solution is obviously to use the same software to auto-login a soon as it detects the presence of a user.
Seems I misunderstood the purpose of the software, it's just a boring screen-turner-offer. Should not slashdot when tired.
Now, having to log in -again- when I return is slow and error-prone, especially while sipping coffee. The solution is obviously to use the same software to auto-login a soon as it detects the presence of a user.
I could see how they could be concerned that some of the software features of a higher-end calculator might be created in the new OS that runs on the cheap calculators, but can we all agree that's a ridiculous justification?
I think it's just fine to flash such a device with new software from the ground up. You did buy the hw after all.
OTOH potentially enabling features (just speculating again) that the the producer did not mean for you to use, however clumsily such a lock may be implemented, is a grayish area. But since there is no EULA to accept (yet!) there is probably nothing the producer can do.
Let me rephrase: I am suggesting that TI's real concern might be that their -existing- software will be modified. That is cracked in order to give you features you did not buy.
Because in the case of direct tv, you're paying for the service, not the hardware. ....
Basically, with the calculator, the hardware itself is the FINAL PURCHASE, whereas with DirectTV, you're basically renting the hardware as a means to access a service, which is what you're actually paying for in the end. Cheating on what you're paying for as far as channels go is clearly wrong. Modifying a piece of hardware that once bought never needs to have any interaction with the mother company again is completely different.
If I manage to unlock features in my TI calculator that exist in software, but I did not pay for those features when I bought the hardware (I'm just speculating that this might their concern), then this would be exactly analogous to direct TV channel cheating.
If they prevent your initial login to the site from happening, they can use your username + password + rolling code themselves if their software auto logs in.
This of course requires a user to go to a phishing site (miscellaneous.scammersite.com or something more complex), or requires the phisher to own the user's computer enough that they can intercept their connections & deal with the SSL certificate issues) while the phisher's automated software automatically goes to the real miscellaneousbank.com site.
Which is why some banks (in Sweden at the very least) require that the hardware token be used again for the actual transaction.
IANATP, but assuming a many-worlds interpretation, and assuming that the given particle accelerator will never cause the annihilation of the universe, then it seems to me that all worlds would continue to contain observers, irrespective of accelerator failure or not. Being observers, I don't see how we could tell the difference.
Then again, I did not RTFA so this may have no relation to what the two gentlemen are theorizing.
Used to be IBM blade servers, possibly still. Stackless Python for development.
That right there could easily cover 90% of people's media interests. Especially now that I'm not really into movies as much as I used to be (they suck more, and TV shows are, in some ways, getting better).
You're getting older.
I think we're going down a slippery slope when we start screening DNA. It works against the process of evolution.
The traditional process of evolution stopped working when we got really good at saving youngsters that would previously have died.
Of course we do not want that again, but screening for general health will be increasingly important for the well being of human kind.
Lastly people, after you buy one, don't forget to format them with truecrypt, before you dump any files on them. I don't want to see my medical records or SIN number find its way to the unattended StarBucks coffee table.
So you think we have your medical records on our flash drives? Interesting.
Except that you didn't read the article, did you? The article describes this in considerably more detail than the slashdot summary, discussing several scenarios in which user involvement in power management makes sense.
Exactly.
These Go To Eleven. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d54UU-fPIsY] (1:20)
I agree absolutely that you should not call it unlimited bandwidth if you don't plan to honor it. And as you point out the current trend is larger quality services. But if this requires more expensive networks, someone somewhere must pay for this. Capping and some kind of pay-by-volume could both be a part of the equation.
My notion of Computer Science is, that if it's published by ACM it is more or less impossible to find it using Google (apart from the ACM abstract of course).
They seem to be very good at whatever they do.
It should suffice to store photographs of the audience taken during screening. The cameras seem to already be in place, from what I understand. Add audio or visual watermarking for detecting the cinema and time.
Add automatic facial recognition to the setup, and the guy will be caught next time he goes to such a cinema (or the poor sod who happened to sit beside him at the time of the recording).
To act as a deterrent, movie goers would have to be aware of the system. But all in all, it would be invisible to the paying customer (apart from the fact that it would go into the ticket price).
If the proxy at work is optional then Chrome can be started with the flag --proxy-server to bypass it, otherwise it will just use the proxy settings from Windows/IE. That said, the flag does not seem to work in incognito mode.
It might be very flammable too, since it traps some air for fuel. Even under water!
I would like to be able to use drag & drop to select a file that is to be uploaded. That is, drag the file into the browse dialog somewhere, or faster yet, directly onto the browse button or file name entry field.
Now, TFA did mention drag & drop, but I got the impression they were not thinking about this useful obviousity.
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Why do you assume they don't?
They have upped my account to 1 gb now. I use 1% of that.
/really/ bothers me about Hotmail at the moment is that I don't get enough junkmail. Nearly everything is just thrown away whithout ever raching my junkmail folder, contrary to what is supposed to happen according to the documentation and settings in Options. Assuming some occasional false positives, it's a quite shitty situation.
But the thing is, of course, that this is a free service. Shit happens occasionally and you shouldn't rely on Hotmail only to reliably store your valuable mail.
So I found out that it is perfectly possible to take backups of all Hotmail correspondance using Outlook Express and some dragging and dropping. It produces a bunch of user friendly EML files, which you then backup yourself.
Apart from that, what
So it is a free service after all, but it may not be worth it in the end.
But aside from that, I was really thinking single up or down fluctuations, of the kind mentioned in TFA, if practically recognizable. Not being an astronomer, I was just aware of more frequent fluctuations, e.g. solar winds.