Not every Cousin Nerd is truly knowledgeable on these things. He's just a little bit more savvy than Joe Sixpack because he's younger and follows trends better and is a l33t hax0r because he cleverly found a way to hack the firmware of the his phone by downloading an program off the Internet.
- Smoother performance (less an issue perhaps vs Jelly Bean)
- Good multitasking
- full MS Office (beyond Office 365 in a browser)
- XBox Live integration
- D3D development, Visual Basic too
- Higher likelihood of timely OS updates
- external storage
- freedom from iTunes
I can't argue for more and better software. Obviously there are some advantages to already having Windows programming experience in Direct 3D, C++, XAML, VB, etc. However, there's only a subset of
They equated the two by using Sandusky as the example. They might as well have made a Hitler reference too. The goal was a psychological effect with some political consequences, planting the notion in the minds of people who don't understand climate science and who have no informed opinion either way on global warming, that Mann is somehow preserve, a danger to children and society at large, criminal. The person making this comparison is counting on the inability of readers to see two distinct situations and be able to separate them from each other when placed adjacent to one another. There are plenty of cases of institutional white washing in academia, industry, and government that would have made for a better 1:1 comparison. He could have used the classic Cantor's Dilemma as a literary device at a stretch. No, this was an attempt at character assassination.
I'm curious though whether there is a real case because the harm would be that notable, thinking, professionals and academicians might believe Mann committed fraud or even associate him with some deeply disturbing criminal behavior, but considering the source and the target audience, isn't this like if a Orly Taitz ran around challenging people's birth certificates whilst Alex Jones accused you of personally funding the development of weather controlling satellites that are operated by FEMA and Major League Baseball whilst simultaneously conducting research with Rosie O'Donnell to learn whether it is possible to harvest gold from the bone marrow of late term aborted babies. I'm just suggesting that not all defamation is legally actionable when you're dealing with accusers that aren't playing with all their Lego bricks.
That's pretty much everything the average Joe would care about, excepting the multi-user features.
Windows is a negative brand name to Macintosh and UNIX fans and that last group of Amiga holdouts, but overall, Windows is a pretty strong brand despite Microsoft's efforts to dilute it by slapping "Windows" on every web service they offer. People do have a choice: Macintosh, iOS/Android, Linux, UNIX. It's not 1995. Here's a reason to use a Windows tablet: you can run real Windows applications and games on it. I've used a Windows tablet already. Ignoring the horrible, but unavoidable form factor (laptop components, fans, heat dissipation, weight, etc), the value was there. If you don't like Android or iOS, or you just want to remain in the Windows ecosystem with the ability to reuse software, data formats, and platform programming skills (.NET, WPF, XNA, etc), then a WinRT based tablet can be very useful. As for Windows RT, I'm skeptical about that one. I don't think I would have made an ARM-based Windows platform because I don't believe consumers will understand to disassociate Windows RT with Windows proper. It seems like versus Windows RT, an Android or IOS based device would be a better choice because of the established software base. I plan on waiting for the full "Surface Pro" version. There's still a lot of specifics we don't know because Microsoft is keeping everything under wraps, including the fucking SDKs.
You're not entirely correct, but nor is the AC above you. First off, fan fiction is clearly derivative work under copyright law. "Harry Potter and the Mixed Blood Prince" could possibly allowed on sale under Fair Use as a parody. In Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin Co., "Wind Done Gone" was ultimately considered a critical parody of "Gone With the Wind", and its fair use claims could be defended point by point. But the case doesn't create solid precedent because fan fiction seems to be very case by case. If AC is merely retelling the same story, not doing something critically different or making critical commentary on the original, his Harry Potter could not sell. "50 Shades of Grey" is a popular derivative work. It began as Twilight fan fiction. The sadder tale is that the author plagiarized the fan fiction of other authors borrowing from other stories. 50 Shades author has developed a reputation for plagiarism in the fan-fic community. Yet, her novel is doing very well, and with the support of Twilight's author.
It's actually hard to tell whether one could get away with using existing characters. There's two standard tests at work: "Distinctly Delineated" and "Story Being Told". The latter seems to be really difficult even for judges to work through. The first is also difficult to apply. It says that the more developed a character is, the more protectable it is. Harry Potter would be. There's a long-standing series of novels as well as supplemental materials that flesh out Harry Potter. Anderson v. Stallone, about the character Rocky Balboa, says that in certain cases, very developed characters can be protected, which would mean using that character would not be legal. On top of the copyright issues, there are the trademark issues. Decades ago, Disney went after daycare centers that used Disney characters. You could not make a Tarzan story because Tarzan was copyright protected and trademark. Also, look at Charlie Aplin, which was ruled an unfair competition attempt to deceive moviegoers into believing they were see Charlie Chaplin. Basically, this is a mess, not because of the usual problems with copyright and trademark we complain about here, but because there's a lot of issue separating a fictional character from its original story since characters tend to develop over the course of the work or are so general that they can't really exist absent the work.
In exactly what ways is Facebook a technology platform leader that can be placed adjacent to Apple, Google, or Amazon. I'll buy Amazon. They have Kindle, but even without Kindle there's Amazon's web and cloud services, plus their supply chain management with all the technology that supports it, but Facebook? Facebook is still nothing more than a virtual platform that depends completely on existing platforms. Apple, Google, and Amazon can coexist independently in their own spaces. Facebook is a download, whether it's via browser to your personal computer or to your mobile device, it's still a download. Facebook does have its tech too. Something has made Zynga games successful and a seamless experience on Facebook, but Facebook has nothing that its competitors or its contemporaries lack except clicks. MySpace's luck with clicks and Facebook's constant stock devaluation illustrates just how easy it can be for Facebook to slip away. Microsoft has numerous platforms that interact with each other and is showing signs of realizing that today's market wants enterprise connectivity with consumer style, something Google and Apple have known. I would say that this "gang of four technology platform leaders" would best be described as a "gang of four attention leaders".
Nope. It'll still be there. No one can see it, but it's there and will come back the moment you log back in. The only way to win is not to play!
There isn't a reason for custom iOS ROMs as there is for custom Android ROMs. iOS doesn't come loaded with bloatware. I'd need that custom Android ROM just so I can cut the bloat that Motorola and Verizon added to stock Android, maybe even remove anything else the carrier added to handicap the phone. This is where Apple is superior as a company. It was the only company that could strong-arm the carriers to keep their grimy hands off the phone. I jailbroke my iPhone once. I don't recall being able to totally change the UI. I think the Android users still edge out when it comes to customization.
So using say, Visual Studio 2010+, I will be able to target a WP8 device (Surface, Novia 920), produce an executable for it, and install it to any device without first getting a license, or do you mean only the devices I have present to work on? I
I'm not sure. I disabled chat as soon as I got that feature, so I don't know where the messages go. And that's one of the frustrating aspects of Facebook. Someone in another thread referred to the old Facebook as a walled garden, I suppose versus MySpace and the other social nets of that time. New features don't just appear for everyone at the same time. I had friends who had the "new" timeline before I did, and I had feature they didn't have. I have friends that have bugs that I don't have as well, including sudden deletions of contacts. So considering this, who knows what sort of privacy problems exist. There may be users that are exposing a lot of information but not realizing it because none of their contacts have that particular problem.
This isn't the same story. Can't possibly be; or if so, it's happened again, making it a new story. My private messages (not chat, not wall posts) were available on my historial timeline for anyone with permission to view me to access. This wasn't true before, and this has happened to everyone I know so far.
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Do you have any citations for any of this, especially for Brin's emotions in this? Everything I've ever found has been more tempered, or did you add emphasis?
There's a few problems. Often, the deformations including desensitization of sexual pleasure caused by circumcision don't reveal themselves until years have passed as the body is reaching sexual maturity, so you're talking about a span of at least 14-16 years, plus a number of years before the victim realizes the full impact of that circumcision. So, providing there was malpractice in the first place, there would surely be a statute of limitations issue. Also, that's dependent on whether you could argue the deformity was the result of malpractice in the first place. It's a procedure that by intent mutilates a person by cutting off part of the person's genitals without permission. When done properly, the result is still a proper mutilation of a person without their permission. Malpractice would mean something improper was done. Next, you have the issue of blame. Does the doctor deserve the blame, or should we go after the parent(s) who made that choice on behalf of the child? Assuming the doctor was properly licensed to perform the procedure and did so correctly, you are left with the parent(s) who made the actual decision as guardian of the child. Finally, there's the religious aspect of circumcision. Germany is coming down hard on the practice, and it's catching flak from religious groups that say that Germany is being insensitive to religious freedom and mocking religion as being weird, behind the times, and anti-science.
Really, male circumcision isn't newsworthy in the U.S.. Women love it cause uncircumcised penises are "weird", religious people feel it's an important rite of passage, and so on. Basically, no one cares except for the victim. The closest circumcision has come to getting national attention was the recent deaths of babies in NYC resulting from neonatal herpes infection which happened during the Jewish practice of metzitzah b'peh (direct oral suction of blood by the mohel on the freshly circumcised penis). CNN reported an estimate of 20,493 babies receiving the ritual in June 2012 with an infection risk of 3.4 times the normal risk without the added practice. The mohel in the death has herpes and transmitted it to the child. So, yes, circumcision made news, but the story was really a story about an extreme religious practice that led to STD related deaths. The end result, if I remember right, was that NYC now requires a consent form.
Many people are unenthusiastic about their work.
