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Is a small logo on a page -- say 20kb if nicely scalar'd -- worth 1/20th of a page of data (what it actually occupied), or is it worth 10pages (what its bitcode representation would occupy)? Or is it even 17pages (as typewritten pages had about 1200 character instead of 2000ish for printed ones, and judiciary is conservative so Telex is futuristic to them)?
The difference is it's not you or your mate valueing your company, it's an outsider with real money valueing FB. And paying a price lower than what others regularly trade it for.
If this sort of manipulation was done -- not that easily, as anybody vaguely involved (see Winklevoss and others) smell big bucks and will immediately (sometimes loudly) blackmail or sue.
Even without oversight by the (sleepy) SEC, any private company can be happily sued for fraudulent business practices: they are selling shares that would be falsely priced.
It worked in sri lanka.
"We've all had stuff nicked at festivals": no.
And bringing cameras & ipads? I vaguely remember a lot of parties with a lot of weirdness happening --- and none of it would have happened if there were cameras around. I think this generation will grow up with a boring past; and definitely a boring idea of fun ("sitting stoned in a muddy field for £250").
Why have the smallest (i.e., fractionally smaller than competitors) camera body, if you anyway have to carry a large bag of lenses and thingymajigs? Its smallness makes absolutely no difference in the final carrying case.
If you have all that mess, why not a 30% larger body with a larger sensor??
They install malware left, right & center, and have a detectable crime [siphoning off cash from students --- of course about half will quickly notice! They should know their balance upto the nearest pint!].
So it's a bit strange they're too stupid/lazy to at least make it look like somebody else did it. [Maybe he did that, hence the denials of the accomplice.]
Not CLAIMED but it's obviously SUGGESTED or IMPLIED indeed. There's no other link.
The solution would be to vet (a) applicants to school jobs, (b) all their known associates, (c) applicants to jobs within 750 yards of schools or 250 yards of major school-home-traffic roads. And if that fails, then (d) all known associates of people applying for jobs within 750 yards of schools or close to major school traffic. There, I've also solved the looming unemployment crisis for bureaucrats.
NOTE: I did prefer the Beeb's title for this story, "Police shares database on 15million people" --- it clairvoyantly announced that one or more of them will put it all on a usbstick or laptop, unencrypted, and then lose it on the bus/train/slotmachine on the way home.
Rubbish.
Is it obvious that a fertile or aroused woman is more able to tell from a picture whether men are gay or straight? No.
If it's that obvious to you, please answer if primed males are similarly better able to tell apart lesbians from heterosexual women; if so explain mechanism and similarly if not. No coherent story? Thought not.
Simple question: are these the same players? The original article doesn't care to find out.
If all iPad players were desktop/console players that have/will completely abandon those platforms, then the prediction is potentially true (but for a small nonzero probability).
If all iPad players have not played before, then it has no influence whatsoever on the established gaming market.
The reality lying somewhere in between those extremes... The vast number of players wanting immersive experiences, with 5.1 sound and giant screens, well these won't really be satisfied here.
So yes, it's like predicting air travel will die out since the invention of highways (in 30s germany): not completely accurate.
I predict all movies to become straight-to-DVD (or even straight-to-free-download) because these script-driven big budgetty ones aren't going to be worth it anymore.
The central idea of these predictions is that people's time has become worthless. Not sure that holds up for many... [Yes, it's what most parents have said of their children hanging out playing music/games/dvds, but that doesn't make it a correct.]
this futile chicken-or-egg fiddling discussion is the most interesting aspect of R. Santorum.
Sad for his namesakes tho, who may have to change their name even a few generations from now! [e.g., the French word for dustbin is the name of the official who outlawed dumping waste on the street...]
See, you can get a high-quality tool from renowned purveyor of quality HP* for the price of an apple toy.
I can see the logic in a board meeting: "it's the same size as an audi, and we want to be similarly admired, so let's price up this vauxhall accordingly".
*ink, mostly.
It's not like she has to repair the economy or disentagle confusing evidencei in a court of law. Heck, she doesn't even need to know lines, just remember them for 30sec or read from a cue card.
She can be my pet rock any day.
"would rather see the back of her" --- me too! But then that's how I roll.
Not sure what your logic is here.
But along the same lines, not a deposit but a punishment system: if more than 1 in 3 customers complains that it's spam, you have to refund all of them. [.. Twice? Hm hm... or probably let it be adjudicated by a human -- if not, mass buying-and-complaining would make money regardless of the underlying book].
Point-by-point:
1- as real-time as on your laptop, so that doesn't advance/disadvantage (given that you need net access, most ipads sold are wifi-only).
2- not owning a computer?! What minority are we now speaking about? There's probably almost more without a TV than without a PC (e.g., me)... The vast vast majority without a PC definitely don't have an ipad. So no, that's just nonsense.
3- not au-fait with GIMP / Photoshop Elements (free with your scanner or printer or wherever) --- if you understand the simple things this program does, you can do them with the same name in any editing package. You probably have it with iPhoto anyway, which you got free with MacOS, else equivalent on PC. I'm not convinced about this point.
4- If you don't own Photoshop, you get GIMP for free, so that's not an argument --- this limited thingy costs £3, remember. And if you can search through reviews to find the name of this thing, you find GIMP just as well so visibility is not an argument. So no, I don't accept this point.
An octopus lives 2-3 almost sedentary years, where a Great White doesn't even mature the first 30 years, and reef or hammerhead sharks patrols square miles repeatedly each day (or a Blue shark migrates thousands of miles).
Especially the hammerheads would be interesting for spotting tech, as they have electrosensitive noses.
Just like 9-level authorisation for government secrets, you can do the same with pins:
Having a non-smartphone, anyone I'd let use my bicycle I'd let use my phone --- so they have the same 4-digit keys. Same for a raft of other not-very-exploitable, physical-access devices.
All laptops and desktops share another passwords, as they all have access to a similar collection of browser-saved passwords. All "opinion" sites, ElReg/Beeb/cavia-breeding-forum/..., share another.
Just like keying your front and back doors to the same --- less keys to duplicate or get lost, and equally important access points.
All the desktop --> all-in-ones evolution helps that? It's just that monitors keep growing.
I think the best way is to get rid of CPW shops (who just resell internet from the same companies and mobes/subscriptions from the same companies --- no reason to not have a purely virtual store).
But then I'm always wondering how CPW survives; I've had to go in twice a year to just get mobile topup and each time it took 20+ minutes in a shop with 2-4 clients and 3-4 workers.