No, but all this does is cracks down on "official" astroturfing. We all know that xenu's followers will simply do their edits from home, from now on.
This sort of thing cannot be contained if the information is publically editable. I just hope this doesn't mark the beginning of the end for Wikipedia.
I can't explain that. That was my first thought. Having been subjected to a lenghty and in-depth security screening many years ago, I was under the impression that many of those things would be insta-fail, especially if you wanted them kept secret and were therefore blackmailable.
Pushing it "up" on the right part of an already elliptical orbit could make the orbit more elliptical, meaning it would come closer to earth on the way 'down', i.e. at the sides of the ellipse, where hopefully it would have drag imparted by the atmosphere which would slow it down, shrinking the size of the orbit, further advancing into the atmosphere until it burned up.
Like a spring that's vibrating up and down. you can get it to bounce higher UP by just nudging on the way DOWN.
I bought a UK gift card off e-bay to use with my UK itunes account. it sold at a discount to value, but not a massive discount.
I got the seller just to send me photos of the card, and tried to credit my account, and it said "card has not been activated". So it seems that in the UK, at least, there is a system whereby retailers "activate" individual serial numbers at the point of sale, and unless this takes place they are not accepted.
Having said that, I bought a U.S. one which worked, and was actually sold at a premium (I imagine lots of foreign buyers wanting cheap dollar-based prices). I hate to think that was fake, I never even saw the card.
Apple has gift-card by e-mail as a service, too. If you've received a number like this and used it in good faith who to sue? By the time you enter it, you cold be 5 links away from the scamming perpetrators.
!n the day you deliver your baby, you'll probably be overcome with visions of your future with your child - first smiles and steps, birthday parties and sports events, and holidays and life milestones. Your little one ever becoming seriously ill will probably be the last thing on your mind.
But some parents do consider the possibility that a serious illness might someday affect their child - and they make a choice on the day their baby is born that might impact the future health of that child or even their other children. They're deciding to bank their newborn's cord blood.
And if you don't, you won't be like them, the people who give a flying fuck about their own goddamned children. You'll be just like you. Ignorant, and stupid. I hope you kids die of a rare tropical disease. Then you'll wish you paid us $1000 per year won't you, you cheap bastard.
Like that oft-misused descriptor "Entry-level".
A euphemism for "the cheapest one".
As if someone who's getting their first *whizbangitem* by definition should get one of lower quality or reduced functionality. Regardless of intended use.
I'd buy one immediately. I use my iPhone 3g for loads of things I used to use a laptop for. I'm on the verge of buying an iPod touch to use around the house and take on trips to use for entertainment (i.e. stop my daughter from stealing my phone constantly!) and internet where WiFi is available. The main advantage of the iphone over the ipod touch for this purpose is somewhat negated by the ridiculous and exhorbitant fees charged by the carriers when data roaming.
The one downside of the iPod touch is that it has no internal speaker or microphone. The other downside of the iPod/iPhone family is that internet, whilst useable, is still a tiny bit pokey on that tiny screen. If it were 7-9 inches and very high resolution (as the iPod/iPhone are), we may get away without taking the laptop.
I see the point that it would have to be backward compatible with iPhone apps or run a proper OSX to be useful, but a proper OSX isn't geared towards using fingers so I suspect it will be the former. Newer apps may have the option to use higher resolutions when using this tablet./Is that a 7-9 inch iPod in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?
The problem with the iPhone is that the fixed focal length lens won't take a decent picture of anything close up, so any kind of bar code comes up blurry or too small.
The Google phone is an HTC phone. all HTC phones (to my knowledge) have macro focusing on their lenses. My last phone was an HTC phone and I was able to take a picture of a business card and have OCR software in the phone auto-populate a bunch of fields for scanning into my contacts database. It could do it in English or Chinese.
fuck barcodes, *that* was the killer app. Shame the iPhone doesn't do that, either. It would be even better if you could just scan and OCR any text, like foreign language magazine articles etc.. and have them sent to google for translation or copy/paste bits into your dictionary. I am gagging for an OCR Japanese or Japanese-English dictionary.
Sure I can buy a little lens and stick it on the back.. but it's clunky, and the point is that because the *standard* iPhone doesn't focus properly, nobody is going to bother developing the software.
Oh yeah.. copy/paste.. another 'killer app' apple didn't bother to give us.
I have the 100Mb FTTH from KDDI right now. I pulled down a 5GB binary last night in around 10 minutes, and it only took that long because of the time between connections resetting and requesting the next chunk of data, so my average bandwidth usage was probably around 80% of peak.
If I had a 30GB cap and a 1Gb connection I would indeed have burned that up in a few minutes. I only recently 'invested' in a 1TB drive and an account with a good usenet server. It took a matter of hours before it was filled to current levels... ~700GB.
I, for one, don't need a 1GB fiber connection. What I'd much rather have is the rest of the world upgrading. Downloading from English language websites, transferring family photos over skype etc, is a chore, just because anyone *outside* japan is so bandwidth throttled.
I have a Sony TR-1MP which I bought back in 2003. I have used it for watching movies on trains/planes, e-mail, web, light Excel work, light Mathematica work, and DJing using Virtual DJ and a dual-output soundcard. It runs Windows XP Professional just fine, and is just as useful today as it was when I bought it.
Or rather, it would be, had it not died mysteriously last night.
It cost me over $2000 back then, and at the time I thought it was worth it.
This little thing has the same resolution screen, more powerful processor, better WiFi, and a hard drive 3x as big. I could load up the exact same software, but thanks to improved processing power at home, instead of carting DVDs around I could push over movies from my movie library. It would be just as useful and less than 1/4 the price.
What I don't understand is the consistent assumption that 4 hours (more like 2 real-world) battery life is enough. With the expanded battery pack on the Sony, I was getting real-world 5 hours plus, i.e. 3 movies + e-mail.
>Because as everyone knows, no two people could ever possibly have the same idea independently....
Tough shit. He who can show prior art gets to claim ownership.
That's the exact same reason I refuse to wear glasses.
With my 20/25 vision I can see just fine at reading distances.. I sit only 5ft from the TV, and I can see roadsigns just fine to just within the legal mandated viewing distance.
Sure, they tell me I'd see 50% better with correction, but in my view it'd just be a waste.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but it interests me greatly, nobody seems to have answered it, and you seem to be uniquely (around here) equipped to answer.
How can the plaintiff and judge be held accountable in the Thomas case? Shouldn't this be clear grounds for appeal/repeal of the decision?
I have a brushed aluminium Macbook Pro at home. Here in Japan power plugs are generally the 2-pronged unearthed type same as the U.S.
At home, we have wooden floors or linoleum-type tyles which insulate, but on a recent trip I discovered that using the macbook with bare feet on a stone floor can be a shocking experience.
The whole outer shell has a buzzy feel when touched, and due to the space between the front of the case and the keyboard, my forearms were constantly getting zapped as I tried to type.
I have 100Mb/s optical FTTH, and believe me, even with Bit Torrent I never get anywhere NEAR that speed with real world usage except for 'test runs' from local sites. Everyone else throttles their servers so much the server is almost always the bottleneck.
Further to that, most of the time I spend waiting for a page to load is the many new requests rather than blocks of data. When is the protocol itself going to speed up?
Still.. if the market is heading that way it would be nice to see servers loosening up a little.
>The reason is because there is no way to know when these rocks, or which rocks, will move.
Then set up a motion sensing apparatus. Duh!;)
Seriously.. you could set up some solar powered motion-sensing equipment *on* a few of the rocks with panoramic cameras and have them record little movies of what was happening whilst the rocks were moving.
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No, but all this does is cracks down on "official" astroturfing. We all know that xenu's followers will simply do their edits from home, from now on.
This sort of thing cannot be contained if the information is publically editable. I just hope this doesn't mark the beginning of the end for Wikipedia.
I can't explain that. That was my first thought. Having been subjected to a lenghty and in-depth security screening many years ago, I was under the impression that many of those things would be insta-fail, especially if you wanted them kept secret and were therefore blackmailable.
Pushing it "up" on the right part of an already elliptical orbit could make the orbit more elliptical, meaning it would come closer to earth on the way 'down', i.e. at the sides of the ellipse, where hopefully it would have drag imparted by the atmosphere which would slow it down, shrinking the size of the orbit, further advancing into the atmosphere until it burned up.
Like a spring that's vibrating up and down. you can get it to bounce higher UP by just nudging on the way DOWN.
Saturns rings would like a word with you. ;)
I bought a UK gift card off e-bay to use with my UK itunes account. it sold at a discount to value, but not a massive discount.
I got the seller just to send me photos of the card, and tried to credit my account, and it said "card has not been activated". So it seems that in the UK, at least, there is a system whereby retailers "activate" individual serial numbers at the point of sale, and unless this takes place they are not accepted.
Having said that, I bought a U.S. one which worked, and was actually sold at a premium (I imagine lots of foreign buyers wanting cheap dollar-based prices). I hate to think that was fake, I never even saw the card.
Apple has gift-card by e-mail as a service, too. If you've received a number like this and used it in good faith who to sue? By the time you enter it, you cold be 5 links away from the scamming perpetrators.
!n the day you deliver your baby, you'll probably be overcome with visions of your future with your child - first smiles and steps, birthday parties and sports events, and holidays and life milestones. Your little one ever becoming seriously ill will probably be the last thing on your mind. But some parents do consider the possibility that a serious illness might someday affect their child - and they make a choice on the day their baby is born that might impact the future health of that child or even their other children. They're deciding to bank their newborn's cord blood. And if you don't, you won't be like them, the people who give a flying fuck about their own goddamned children. You'll be just like you. Ignorant, and stupid. I hope you kids die of a rare tropical disease. Then you'll wish you paid us $1000 per year won't you, you cheap bastard.
Like that oft-misused descriptor "Entry-level". A euphemism for "the cheapest one". As if someone who's getting their first *whizbangitem* by definition should get one of lower quality or reduced functionality. Regardless of intended use.
I work 5/60, and for the last 6 months it's been mostly 5/80.
I don't work weekends, but I sure as hell need them.
--/Banking, why thanks for asking.
I'd buy one immediately. I use my iPhone 3g for loads of things I used to use a laptop for. I'm on the verge of buying an iPod touch to use around the house and take on trips to use for entertainment (i.e. stop my daughter from stealing my phone constantly!) and internet where WiFi is available. The main advantage of the iphone over the ipod touch for this purpose is somewhat negated by the ridiculous and exhorbitant fees charged by the carriers when data roaming. The one downside of the iPod touch is that it has no internal speaker or microphone. The other downside of the iPod/iPhone family is that internet, whilst useable, is still a tiny bit pokey on that tiny screen. If it were 7-9 inches and very high resolution (as the iPod/iPhone are), we may get away without taking the laptop. I see the point that it would have to be backward compatible with iPhone apps or run a proper OSX to be useful, but a proper OSX isn't geared towards using fingers so I suspect it will be the former. Newer apps may have the option to use higher resolutions when using this tablet. /Is that a 7-9 inch iPod in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?
because he was programmed to want to be human, in order to make him self-correcting in acting more human.
The problem with the iPhone is that the fixed focal length lens won't take a decent picture of anything close up, so any kind of bar code comes up blurry or too small.
The Google phone is an HTC phone. all HTC phones (to my knowledge) have macro focusing on their lenses. My last phone was an HTC phone and I was able to take a picture of a business card and have OCR software in the phone auto-populate a bunch of fields for scanning into my contacts database. It could do it in English or Chinese.
fuck barcodes, *that* was the killer app. Shame the iPhone doesn't do that, either. It would be even better if you could just scan and OCR any text, like foreign language magazine articles etc.. and have them sent to google for translation or copy/paste bits into your dictionary. I am gagging for an OCR Japanese or Japanese-English dictionary.
Sure I can buy a little lens and stick it on the back.. but it's clunky, and the point is that because the *standard* iPhone doesn't focus properly, nobody is going to bother developing the software.
Oh yeah.. copy/paste.. another 'killer app' apple didn't bother to give us.
I have the 100Mb FTTH from KDDI right now. I pulled down a 5GB binary last night in around 10 minutes, and it only took that long because of the time between connections resetting and requesting the next chunk of data, so my average bandwidth usage was probably around 80% of peak. If I had a 30GB cap and a 1Gb connection I would indeed have burned that up in a few minutes. I only recently 'invested' in a 1TB drive and an account with a good usenet server. It took a matter of hours before it was filled to current levels... ~700GB. I, for one, don't need a 1GB fiber connection. What I'd much rather have is the rest of the world upgrading. Downloading from English language websites, transferring family photos over skype etc, is a chore, just because anyone *outside* japan is so bandwidth throttled.
Because you have a poor grasp of the concept of probability?
I have a Sony TR-1MP which I bought back in 2003. I have used it for watching movies on trains/planes, e-mail, web, light Excel work, light Mathematica work, and DJing using Virtual DJ and a dual-output soundcard. It runs Windows XP Professional just fine, and is just as useful today as it was when I bought it.
Or rather, it would be, had it not died mysteriously last night.
It cost me over $2000 back then, and at the time I thought it was worth it.
This little thing has the same resolution screen, more powerful processor, better WiFi, and a hard drive 3x as big. I could load up the exact same software, but thanks to improved processing power at home, instead of carting DVDs around I could push over movies from my movie library. It would be just as useful and less than 1/4 the price.
What I don't understand is the consistent assumption that 4 hours (more like 2 real-world) battery life is enough. With the expanded battery pack on the Sony, I was getting real-world 5 hours plus, i.e. 3 movies + e-mail.
>Because as everyone knows, no two people could ever possibly have the same idea independently.... Tough shit. He who can show prior art gets to claim ownership.
That's the exact same reason I refuse to wear glasses. With my 20/25 vision I can see just fine at reading distances.. I sit only 5ft from the TV, and I can see roadsigns just fine to just within the legal mandated viewing distance. Sure, they tell me I'd see 50% better with correction, but in my view it'd just be a waste.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but it interests me greatly, nobody seems to have answered it, and you seem to be uniquely (around here) equipped to answer. How can the plaintiff and judge be held accountable in the Thomas case? Shouldn't this be clear grounds for appeal/repeal of the decision?
I have one of those. It's called a SIM card.
DRM = evil
Privacy = the right to encryption = good
discuss..
I have a brushed aluminium Macbook Pro at home. Here in Japan power plugs are generally the 2-pronged unearthed type same as the U.S.
At home, we have wooden floors or linoleum-type tyles which insulate, but on a recent trip I discovered that using the macbook with bare feet on a stone floor can be a shocking experience.
The whole outer shell has a buzzy feel when touched, and due to the space between the front of the case and the keyboard, my forearms were constantly getting zapped as I tried to type.
Solution? Wear slippers. That worked for me.
I have 100Mb/s optical FTTH, and believe me, even with Bit Torrent I never get anywhere NEAR that speed with real world usage except for 'test runs' from local sites. Everyone else throttles their servers so much the server is almost always the bottleneck.
Further to that, most of the time I spend waiting for a page to load is the many new requests rather than blocks of data. When is the protocol itself going to speed up?
Still.. if the market is heading that way it would be nice to see servers loosening up a little.
> ... vim is superior?
To you, maybe. But what you're missing is that emacs has a fully-featured library index and search package built right in.
>The reason is because there is no way to know when these rocks, or which rocks, will move.
;)
Then set up a motion sensing apparatus. Duh!
Seriously.. you could set up some solar powered motion-sensing equipment *on* a few of the rocks with panoramic cameras and have them record little movies of what was happening whilst the rocks were moving.
>BTW, anyone can get breast cancer. It doesn't have to do with boobs, it has to do with estrogen.
That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Oh he got you good.
Hook, line, and sinker.
With a newly created account, no less.
*golf clap*