This was also a selling point of the ADP1 (basically the developer version of the G1). Some of us did shell out early for an unsubsidized Android phone with the expectation that it would be directly supported by Google.
How are mass-texts counted? If the study is counting texts sent to multiple people as multiple texts (as most US carriers charge for them on non-unlimited plans), the numbers seem a whole lot smaller.
i.e.: Something like "Do you want to come with me to lunch?" sent to 10 friends now becomes 10 messages sent and 5 messages received.
Depending on the size of kids' social circles, 10-15 group texts could easily get them up to the 100-200 message mark.
System that is never intended to be secure: plastic apple with a warning label stating "THIS IS NOT FOOD"
System that should be secure, but isn't: apple full of worms
You're not going to have a good experience biting into either apple, but there's definitely a difference in the expectations that someone would have when looking at them.
At the heart of things, isn't this just a logical extension of the same debates that are seen surrounding sites like Wikipedia?
i.e.: while it's great that anyone can produce content, having larger amounts of people producing content makes it harder to separate out what's actually relevant, important, or even true?
From reading the article, it looks like IA Labs is actually Powergrid Fitness -- a company that has been releasing gaming-based exercise devices since as early as 2004:
http://www.futurelooks.com/forums/showthread.php?p=81382
So definitely not what I would consider to be a "patent troll" given that they've had devices on the market since before any of the control mechanisms for the Wii were even announced.
If you look around, they've been at CES with new or updated devices pretty much every year from 2004 onward.
Of course, the presumption here is that the HR departments would actually be reading the word documents themselves -- in many cases, it'll be someone from HR screening a version of the document that their recruiting management software had processed into its own database.
Wake me up when I can hook my Linux box into my HDTV using a dvi to hdmi converter and be able to get the screen dimensions right without doing nasty things to my X config files. That's consumer grade.
Sounds painfully similar to my experiences with Nvidia hardware on Windows 7 x64... (hours of attempts at hacking away at.inf files, attempting to override EDID values from the display, and searching out different drivers versions to try).
As soon as I tossed an ATI card with a real HDMI-out port on it, everything just magically worked.
When we decide that certain items must include certain safety features, we pass a law specifying that. Did anyone ever sue an auto manufacturer who did not include airbags? I don't think so.
Taken from the original article:
Carpinello likens flesh-detection technology to airbags, which fueled a similar slew of litigation when they were first installed in cars. Automakers without airbags got sued for not adopting the better safety design. Now, all cars have airbags.
Given the study a while back on cell phone radiation being possibly beneficial for Alzheimers patients, it seems like this information could be useful for anyone looking to try to it out for themselves:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/01/07/1812250
From my perspective, hacking and censorship are one and the same issue here.
Those who want to express opinions that the ruling party doesn't want people to hear are the targets of hacking. In this case, hacking is just the means of censorship.
Get rid of the mindset that censorship is OK and you get rid of the motivation behind the hacking.
You're right -- turning off your auto reply because it included a link to your home based-business doesn't make sense.
On the other hand, turning off your auto reply because several thousand users' auto replies included a link to your home based business might make sense.
Going to more fundamental principles, could you have a display centered around boolean logic with mechanical gates? I recall having seen Lego-based logic gates in the past that could probably be scaled up in size and built out of more durable materials.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith rushed to the grocery to buy ingredients for making a cake (eggs for $1.20, milk for $2.50, etc.) but were not able to leave the store for 4.5 hours... long lines prevented their departure.
I'm seeing a potential other side to this that doesn't seem be being explored (unless I've missed something) -- if the optimizations are specific to.exes listed in the driver's.inf file, has anyone tried adding other games to the list (or alternately, just renaming another executable to match one in the list)?
It would seem like an interesting turn if the optimizations are generic, but only enabled for games/applications that Intel has spent time testing them on.
For the launch of a game, why do there need to be starting areas at all? Why not just let the entire world be the "starting" area?
Rather than sticking with fixed stats for enemies, most areas could start out at a base level and have the stats for enemies ramp up based on players' average levels for the server.
To make it work long-term, different areas could scale faster (or slower) than others so that there would still be challenges for newer players.
If operating under that assumption, you could learn just as much from those systems since you could extrapolate that the things found on those people's machines were things that probably weren't malware.
So you'd essentially have 2 classes of users:
- Those who opt in (easier to gather data on what's likely to not be malware)
- Those who don't opt in (software not used by the opt-in users may be more likely to be malware)
Why? If the video and audio are compressed already, are you really gaining much by trying to compress them again? As for subtitles, aren't you better off with a container that supports them (i.e.: mkv)?
I think you're right -- most students majoring in hard sciences would be hard-pressed to get the same level of education outside of a traditional lab setting.
I'm thinking more about the large portion of students taking a first year science course (be it Chemistry, Biology, or Physics) simply because they have a degree requirement of "1 year of science". If we think about the reasons why a university would require a student to take a science course without regard to which course they take, I would assert that the point lies in helping students to gain an understanding of general scientific methodology and learn to apply and connect theory to real-world practice.
Given that, I'd question the entire idea of requiring those students to pick a particular branch of science to focus on. A solid "science overview" lab curriculum online might be better suited to teaching basic principles to non-science majors with relatively inexpensive materials and equipment than a traditional lab designed more for teaching chemists or physicists the building blocks for more advanced work in their field.
You mean it's impossible to ship out chemistry sets to every student in an online class, give them a video of lab instructions for a starting point and (heaven forbid) actually allow them to experiment with the equipment for more than a 1 hour period of time each week?
Signed up right away, got my Dev Phone 1 and then came the news that pretty much knocked most of the wind out of my sales when it came to development: Google announced that they were requiring developers to deal with collecting sales tax. I'd imagine that I'm not the only person wanting to write a few small apps in hopes of making a little extra income that was completely put off by the decision.
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This was also a selling point of the ADP1 (basically the developer version of the G1). Some of us did shell out early for an unsubsidized Android phone with the expectation that it would be directly supported by Google.
How are mass-texts counted? If the study is counting texts sent to multiple people as multiple texts (as most US carriers charge for them on non-unlimited plans), the numbers seem a whole lot smaller.
i.e.: Something like "Do you want to come with me to lunch?" sent to 10 friends now becomes 10 messages sent and 5 messages received.
Depending on the size of kids' social circles, 10-15 group texts could easily get them up to the 100-200 message mark.
Wait, there were six Star Wars films!?
Of course! (Assuming you could the trilogy plus the "special edition" versions of the trilogy as separate films).
The article seems a little unclear as to whether or not destruction of files really took place.
On the one hand, it says that the files in question could not be recovered from the users' systems since they were overwritten.
On the other hand, it says that they were uploaded to a central server.
So were they "destroyed" or not?
Think of it like this:
System that is never intended to be secure: plastic apple with a warning label stating "THIS IS NOT FOOD"
System that should be secure, but isn't: apple full of worms
You're not going to have a good experience biting into either apple, but there's definitely a difference in the expectations that someone would have when looking at them.
At the heart of things, isn't this just a logical extension of the same debates that are seen surrounding sites like Wikipedia?
i.e.: while it's great that anyone can produce content, having larger amounts of people producing content makes it harder to separate out what's actually relevant, important, or even true?
From reading the article, it looks like IA Labs is actually Powergrid Fitness -- a company that has been releasing gaming-based exercise devices since as early as 2004: http://www.futurelooks.com/forums/showthread.php?p=81382
So definitely not what I would consider to be a "patent troll" given that they've had devices on the market since before any of the control mechanisms for the Wii were even announced.
If you look around, they've been at CES with new or updated devices pretty much every year from 2004 onward.
Of course, the presumption here is that the HR departments would actually be reading the word documents themselves -- in many cases, it'll be someone from HR screening a version of the document that their recruiting management software had processed into its own database.
Wake me up when I can hook my Linux box into my HDTV using a dvi to hdmi converter and be able to get the screen dimensions right without doing nasty things to my X config files. That's consumer grade.
Sounds painfully similar to my experiences with Nvidia hardware on Windows 7 x64... (hours of attempts at hacking away at .inf files, attempting to override EDID values from the display, and searching out different drivers versions to try).
As soon as I tossed an ATI card with a real HDMI-out port on it, everything just magically worked.
When we decide that certain items must include certain safety features, we pass a law specifying that. Did anyone ever sue an auto manufacturer who did not include airbags? I don't think so.
Taken from the original article:
Carpinello likens flesh-detection technology to airbags, which fueled a similar slew of litigation when they were first installed in cars. Automakers without airbags got sued for not adopting the better safety design. Now, all cars have airbags.
Given the study a while back on cell phone radiation being possibly beneficial for Alzheimers patients, it seems like this information could be useful for anyone looking to try to it out for themselves: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/01/07/1812250
From my perspective, hacking and censorship are one and the same issue here.
Those who want to express opinions that the ruling party doesn't want people to hear are the targets of hacking. In this case, hacking is just the means of censorship.
Get rid of the mindset that censorship is OK and you get rid of the motivation behind the hacking.
You're right -- turning off your auto reply because it included a link to your home based-business doesn't make sense. On the other hand, turning off your auto reply because several thousand users' auto replies included a link to your home based business might make sense.
Going to more fundamental principles, could you have a display centered around boolean logic with mechanical gates? I recall having seen Lego-based logic gates in the past that could probably be scaled up in size and built out of more durable materials.
Or to take things a step further:
Mr. and Mrs. Smith rushed to the grocery to buy ingredients for making a cake (eggs for $1.20, milk for $2.50, etc.) but were not able to leave the store for 4.5 hours... long lines prevented their departure.
Or unless you're using an "electronic cigarette" in an attempt to stop smoking.
I'm seeing a potential other side to this that doesn't seem be being explored (unless I've missed something) -- if the optimizations are specific to .exes listed in the driver's .inf file, has anyone tried adding other games to the list (or alternately, just renaming another executable to match one in the list)?
It would seem like an interesting turn if the optimizations are generic, but only enabled for games/applications that Intel has spent time testing them on.
For the launch of a game, why do there need to be starting areas at all? Why not just let the entire world be the "starting" area?
Rather than sticking with fixed stats for enemies, most areas could start out at a base level and have the stats for enemies ramp up based on players' average levels for the server.
To make it work long-term, different areas could scale faster (or slower) than others so that there would still be challenges for newer players.
Don't worry, it's just a ploy to distract the masses from realizing just how pitifully small 5GB/month mobile caps on bandwidth are.
If operating under that assumption, you could learn just as much from those systems since you could extrapolate that the things found on those people's machines were things that probably weren't malware. So you'd essentially have 2 classes of users: - Those who opt in (easier to gather data on what's likely to not be malware) - Those who don't opt in (software not used by the opt-in users may be more likely to be malware)
Why? If the video and audio are compressed already, are you really gaining much by trying to compress them again? As for subtitles, aren't you better off with a container that supports them (i.e.: mkv)?
I think you're right -- most students majoring in hard sciences would be hard-pressed to get the same level of education outside of a traditional lab setting. I'm thinking more about the large portion of students taking a first year science course (be it Chemistry, Biology, or Physics) simply because they have a degree requirement of "1 year of science". If we think about the reasons why a university would require a student to take a science course without regard to which course they take, I would assert that the point lies in helping students to gain an understanding of general scientific methodology and learn to apply and connect theory to real-world practice. Given that, I'd question the entire idea of requiring those students to pick a particular branch of science to focus on. A solid "science overview" lab curriculum online might be better suited to teaching basic principles to non-science majors with relatively inexpensive materials and equipment than a traditional lab designed more for teaching chemists or physicists the building blocks for more advanced work in their field.
You mean it's impossible to ship out chemistry sets to every student in an online class, give them a video of lab instructions for a starting point and (heaven forbid) actually allow them to experiment with the equipment for more than a 1 hour period of time each week?
Signed up right away, got my Dev Phone 1 and then came the news that pretty much knocked most of the wind out of my sales when it came to development: Google announced that they were requiring developers to deal with collecting sales tax. I'd imagine that I'm not the only person wanting to write a few small apps in hopes of making a little extra income that was completely put off by the decision.