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Good point. Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child didn't fail on its own, however. It had help from M$ and M$' better half, Intel. They got in and messed with OLPC causing delays, barriers and overruns. Even in the most generous assessments, Intel had a serious conflict of interest because it was actively trying to sell a product of its own which competed directly with OLPC. The OLPC was suppose to be based on the AMD Geode and Intel couldn't have that.

Have you ever seen a Thunderbolt port?

I guess not, based on your post. Still, don't let the facts get in the way of a good bash.

You mean this?

Yeah, that's way different than all those other connectors. Not.

Well done, you have noticed that they very deliberately chose to use the MDP connector.

Not sure if this is sarcasm or genuine buffoonery...

If it is a troll, well played sir.

On the other hand, if you believe the MDP port is "almost indistinguishable" (direct quote) from microUSB and/or microHDMI then I think you should probably box up your computer and return it to the store. It will be better for everyone in the long run.

Have you ever seen a Thunderbolt port?

I guess not, based on your post. Still, don't let the facts get in the way of a good bash.

You mean this?

Yeah, that's way different than all those other connectors. Not.

http://gamer.blorge.com/2013/02/11/xbox-720-wont-turn-on-without-kinect-connected/

"The next gen Kinect camera is said to be far superior over the current device and can recognize up to six people in the room. There are implications that through the Kinect device, the Xbox 720 will recognize and change various aspects of the dashboard such as theme and avatar to cater to each user."

It can recognise you....

*twilight zone theme song*

At least, in the opinion of Linux Torvalds.

Torvalds pointed out that basic operating system theory was more or less set by the late 1960s.

“IBM probably owned thousands of really ‘fundamental’ patents,” he explained. ”The fundamental stuff was done about half a century ago and has long, long since lost any patent protection.”

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When you are no longer hungry, and you just work to merge in GIT stuff, all developed by others, what is the outcome? I would say you become frustrated and angry, and lose it too often.

Whats wrong with pointing out human nature.

At least, in the opinion of Linux Torvalds.

Torvalds pointed out that basic operating system theory was more or less set by the late 1960s.

“IBM probably owned thousands of really ‘fundamental’ patents,” he explained. ”The fundamental stuff was done about half a century ago and has long, long since lost any patent protection.”

How many times will tapes be stolen from a car before these people wise up? http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/108101/Update_Thief_nabs_backup_data_on_365_000_patients?taxonomyId=084 About 365,000 hospice and home health care patients in Oregon and Washington are being notified about the theft of computer backup data disks and tapes late last month that included personal information and confidential medical records. In an announcement yesterday, Providence Home Services, a division of Seattle-based Providence Health Systems, said the records and other data were on several disks and tapes stolen from the car of a Providence employee at his home. **** http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/07/26/800000-stolen-social-security-numbers-a-22-year-old-scapegoat/ A 22-year-old intern said today he’s the “scapegoat” for the loss of over 800,000 social security numbers. A backup tape was stolen from his car last month containing at least 770,000 social security numbers (with the corresponding names) for Ohio taxpayers. It also contained the social security numbers for another 64,000 state employees. Today the intern issued a statement with his side of the story. **** http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/patient-billing-records-stolen-utah-hospital Billing records for approximately 2.2 million patients and guarantors were reported stolen this week from the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics. Backup tapes of patient billing records, which were contained in a metal box, were stolen from a car belonging to an independent storage company, Perpetual Storage, Inc., which is contracted by the healthcare system. The system sends the backup tapes off-site for storage for disaster recovery purposes.

Citation please? Actually don't bother, because the statement is impossible to support with any amount of evidence.

2008: http://www.favbrowser.com/firefox-browser-with-the-most-disclosed-vulnerabilities/

2009: http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/11/09/firefox-leads-in-browser-vulnerabilities/

2009: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140582/Firefox_flaws_account_for_44_of_all_browser_bugs

You can also query Secunia for vulnerabilities. With the new version number scheme and ultra-fast previous versions retirement (where you are left vulnerable if you don't upgrade immediately), you'll have to grok the numbers somewhat. Basically count the *unique* CVEs affecting all FF versions since -say FF3.5. Do the same for IE8&9. You will not like the result.

Firefox is the only major browser that openly reports vulnerabilities so of course it is going to have the highest publicly countable number.

BS. All the major vendors are obligated to report vulnerabilities through Mitre. All browser vulnerabilities are assigned unique CVEs.

And even if you had an accurate count of known vulnerabilities from the other vendors, known vulnerabilities hardly equates to total vulnerabilities, even less so when every vulnerability is counted as equal to every other one.

If you consider a set of browsers which must be assumes to receive an equal amount of scrutiny (IE,FF,Chrome), if one browser year after year comes out with most vulnerabilities, surely that does say something about code quality.

The exception is the Wii, which actually was in the black for each unit. Not surprisingly, it seems that Nintendo is going to be the first to release a next-generation console. Hopefully this will force MS/Sony to release new consoles as well to keep up.

Reviews have generally been quite positive, and if they can use their market share from Windows and XBox and create some kind of easy porting method it might become at least a moderate success. It will probably take a couple of years before the platform can actually compete though, if that ever happens.

People will say anything for enough money.

And that is exactly what's happening. Windows Mobile marketshare is decreasing. While that may largely be due to people defecting from WM6.5 and earlier, they sure as heck arent picking up WP7 - and WP7 sales cant make up for that slip in marketshare (assuming it is actually the case, that WM6.5 defections are the issue). It explains why Microsoft REFUSES to release end user/activation numbers and started with citing oem sales to stores... and when that number turned abysmal, they started citing number of licenses sold to OEMs for phones they may or may not ever actually make.

Add to that, Microsoft has been caught, over the last 2.5 DECADES, buying/paying for favorable reviews (hello to some of you Ziff Davis greedy bastards who went as far as printing Microsoft's marketing materials for Win95 as actual reviews - and still do such things to this day).

No, I am not a troll... all of this stuff has been covered on /. numerous times. And those of you familiar with such things as the Windows vs Linux TCO's Microsoft bought have a tiny inkling of some of the stuff I'm talking about.

I'll make things a little easier for the idiots bought and paid for at Gartner and IDC by Microsoft (ever dig to find out how many such "studies" Microsoft has "commissioned" from them - or read the requirements of them that are in place to skew the results a certain way? If not, go do some digging if you are bored)... ah... I digress... I'll make it easy for them (ie: reality): there are tons of reports online just like this one: http://vista.blorge.com/2011/03/08/microsofts-windows-phone-7-market-share-takes-a-dive/

That recent one cites even WP7 declining. In the end, it's another market Microsoft will fail in, after nice losses in their other such attempts in that same market. Guess they are worth even less than the CW people think.

here.

All that is is missing is the Microsoft PR logo, like the one Gartner forgot to remove from one of their "reports" that MS paid for.

From their "estimates" it appears that the Win Phone 7 will have to rise in marketshare as fast as the Symbian will drop. Not much chance of that happening since the WinP7 market share is reported on March 8th as "taking a dive": http://vista.blorge.com/2011/03/08/microsofts-windows-phone-7-market-share-takes-a-dive/

According to a few different places, Sony started making a profit on PS3s in April this year. Only took them about four years to get there...

I notice you didn't ask what was wrong with Facebook ;)

Eh, everyone around here bitches about Facebook, I assumed you were just another griefer drone. *shrug*

There's this
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/02/24/skype-steals-bandwidth-%E2%80%94-even-when-you-are-not-using-it/

Dude, that's explained right there in the FAQ. Skype uses a peer-to-peer model for routing call traffic. It's no different than a torrent client in that respect.

But the main thing I didn't like about either is that they are closed.

Well, good thing you don't use any instant messaging platforms, right? Or make a call on a POTS line or a cell phone? Or send a text message?

I notice you didn't ask what was wrong with Facebook ;)

On Skype...

There's this
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/02/24/skype-steals-bandwidth-%E2%80%94-even-when-you-are-not-using-it/

But the main thing I didn't like about either is that they are closed. There are fine open VoIP standards but Skype doesn't use them.

Wait, what? You expect an Apple hater to provide sources for his made-up statistics? Blasphemy! Don't you know we all buy iStuff because we are insecure and only care about what people think about us based on our consumer electronic devices!?

And Apple hardware historically is rated very high (usually tops) in reliability. I personally don't care about user opinions, because users are people and people, in general, are stupid. Just take a look at cnet or amazon user reviews someday.

He's a sample of laptop reliability from 2009: http://mac.blorge.com/2009/05/05/macbooks-sweep-consumer-reports-quality-survey/

Because, believe it or not, Google and Apple are "close" to one another. As close as two companies can be while still sorta competing. The two companies share alot of the same board members to my understanding. And Brin, Page, and Jobs are not enemies.

Have you lived in a cave for the past year?

There were two shared directors as of May 2009 when the DOJ mentioned they would investigate. Then Eric Schmidt quit Apple's board and Arthur Levinson quit Google's board...

Then Jobs proclaimed that Google was trying to kill the iPhone... sure, this could all be fluff, and the two companies are really being controlled by "them" or Dr. Evil, but if so, they have quite a few people fooled... especially since Apple is now increasing the fronts on which they compete with Google, and vice versa.

Clearly, this is all orchestrated.

If you are really as confused as you say about the summary, then that's what links are for.

I'm glad you brought that up. One of the links in the slashdot summary points to this article. Go read that article. No, really, read it, don't just assume you know what it says. Done? Now tell me where in the article does it state that the UVa study is limited to incoming freshmen. Go ahead, I'll wait. You can't. Because the entire article doesn't mention the qualification anywhere at all.

A study like the UVa study, which unavoidably and inevitably leads to misleading secondary media coverage, is a flawed study. This is true regardless of how clearly the study authors state their conclusions. Note that it is the study itself that is flawed, not the authors' reporting of the results; that is, the choice of what to measure in the study was wrong. I do not fault the authors' for not being clear in their reporting of the results. I fault the actual study itself, and I have clearly explained why. Indeed, if the media gets it so wrong even despite the study's extraordinary clarity, then that's doubly damning to the study.

Again, it's amazing how much OS fanatics are prepared to twist news that they don't want to hear.

I have a long history of slashdot postings. I am not by any means a fanatic. You, on the other hand, are coming across as exactly such, remaining willfully blind to a study's obvious flaws.

First, I'm very impressed with what Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical have done with Ubuntu and Kubuntu. It is my impression that the effect of Ubuntu has been to encourage everyone to fix a lot of configuration and other problems that were, in the aggregate, creating a barrier to beginning to use Linux.

There was a period of of years in which I would load new versions of Linux from several sources and be amazed at how much a new user was expected to know about configuration.

It doesn't matter if Ubuntu and Canonical did the work; Canonical's leadership caused the job to be done.

You said, "Isn't that what Shuttleworth is trying to assess?"

Assessing, being analytical, is what I think Mark Shuttleworth should do. Instead, he is doing very little assessing or analyzing. He is using a common word, tribalism, apparently to avoid taking an interest in all the steps of a complex social phenomenon.

He apparently hopes someone else will do the analyzing and theorizing about how to handle his problem.

In his article, he has made some useful comments. But calling anger a "playground squabble" shows the lack of depth in his thinking. When he says "playground squabble" he is implying that the people to whom he is talking are acting like children. That's an attempt to shame or intimidate; it's not analysis.

What is happening in actuality? My guess is that the anger comes from trying to work on a complicated project with too little coordination. People are blaming each other rather than the cause of the problem. They do that because they don't feel socially empowered to criticize the lack of true leadership.

Notice that Linux Torvalds gets different results. Although Mr. Torvalds sometimes lacks social elegance, he has provided true leadership, and that leadership has provided an atmosphere in which people work together. I am not saying Mr. Torvalds' leadership has been perfect. It has been amazingly good, however. Who would have thought the world would come together and create the kernel of a good computer operating system for everyone to use?

When we talked at OSCON 2008, Mr. Shuttleworth asked me what I thought about how to handle anger. I've done extensive analysis of anger, and I told him what I think. However, as I said in the former paragraph, I don't think anger is the correct fundamental diagnosis of his present problem. The "tribalism" he describes is in this case just a symptom of the lack of sufficient coordination, I'm guessing.

I gave Mr. Shuttleworth printed copies of a 27-page manual that can be downloaded from my web site that shows part of my ability to understand how sociology and technology interact. I have no evidence that he read it.

My understanding is that Mark Shuttleworth's Canonical has never made a profit. For example, see the November 2, 2008 article Canonical founder will wait for profits. Canonical's biggest shortcoming, in my opinion, is the poor marketing and public relations. The article referenced in this Slashdot story is a good example of poor public relations. It says to the business community, "I don't know how to handle this situation well."

I think that, if Canonical had professional marketing and public relations, it would have no trouble making a profit. Numerous articles say, "You can't make a profit selling a desktop operating system", but I think that is not the problem.

In my opinion, Mr. Shuttleworth is facing a problem that, if solved, could be life-changing for him. If he is willing to encounter the difficulties of personal growth, Canonical will be a success, and his life will be enriched. If he is not willing, Canonical may never make a profit.

Just because hardware doubles in speed / capacity for a given price point every few years, sadly does not mean that the price halves for a given speed / capacity. It would probably cost the same today to build a 500 MB hard drive as it would to make a 5 GB one. There are just baseline manufacturing costs that don't really care about technological sophistication or a lack thereof.

The XO-3 looks like a proper jump in that direction: no keyboard, no folding screens, no rabbit-eared Wifi... all of the baseline manufacturing costs reduced. Really, the only thing you're compromising on in a tablet versus a laptop is the keyboard, and the XO's keyboard is legendarily terrible.

There are several tools you can use to get the SSID from a "Non broadcasting" device.

Linux:
http://www.kismetwireless.net/,
Airjack,
Many others...

Windows:
AirMagnet
AirSnort

I just listed the most common for the particular OS. I do know they can be compiled onto other systems.

If you take a minute to step away from your knee jerk reaction to correcting people and think about it, you would realize* that at some point it has to broadcast the SSID or know one could ever maintain connection.

http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/04/21/wi-fi-mythbuster-do-not-hide-your-ssid/

So it is trivial to get an SSID from one that is hidden.

* Against all evidence. I'm assuming your not actually an idiot

Apple hasn't sold DRMd music for a couple of years now.

No, but they still want me to pay [a total of] $100 to get non-DRM versions of the music that I already bought and own...

I can't tell if you're speaking of 1) music you already bought from Lala, or 2) music you bought from iTunes while it was still DRM'ed and would have to pay extra to get non-DRMed versions.

For 1), this post says that if you already bought it for $.99 to $1.29, you already have it in DRM-free mp3 and don't need to buy new ones. If you paid $0.10 for each of them, you do not in fact own it, but could stream that song whenever you wanted, for as long as the service remained (which again illustrates why low-cost music streaming services aren't good for building collections--the service can disappear at any time).

For 2), yeah it sucks you have to pay to upgrade to DRM-free iTunes versions, but a) they're higher quality, and b) you're only paying the difference , i.e. you're paying $0.30 to replace the song, not $1.29. Assuming this wasn't a limited-time upgrade offer, that's a much better deal than studios usually allow, where you had (and still have) to pay full price when changing media (e.g. vinyl/tape/CD/download, VHS/DVD/Blu-Ray/download).

http://gamer.blorge.com/2010/01/03/nintendo-forces-fan-made-zelda-movie-to-be-taken-down/ - Fan film being held restricted.

The entire 8 bit Nintendo catalog, now 30 years old.

Prescription drugs.

Forceps, which a private family kept secret for nearly a century when it could have been used to save 1000's of lives.

Information is meant to be free. We use information gotten from others everyday. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants and without them we wouldn't be here today.

I'm sorry, Molyneux is the LAST person I'd trust to give a balanced review of anything.

Especially Natal.

You could also see for yourself

I guess you haven't compared games like Dragon Age, where the PS3 is noticeably superior and is even receiving higher review scores. Judging by the unwarranted hostility in your reaction to an innocent comment, it seems that you're the one suffering from fanboyism.

Oh of course, how could I not have seen it before?. I have at least one console or handheld from each of the major manufacturers to release one in the past thirty years. Atari, Magnavox, Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Microsoft...yup, you are absolutely right, I am a fanboy.

I'm a video game fanboy. I don't care about the brand name on the front of the machine, I care that it plays games.

I guess you haven't compared games like Dragon Age, where the PS3 is noticeably superior and is even receiving higher review scores. Judging by the unwarranted hostility in your reaction to an innocent comment, it seems that you're the one suffering from fanboyism.

Microsoft and the Xbox 360 have some sort of exclusive deal to have Netflix. It seems that may be why it's on a Blu-ray disc. Soon as they are able to it'll be pushed out on some PS3 update. Randomly searched for a found source (other people have commented on this as well) http://gamer.blorge.com/2009/10/28/ps3-netflix-circumvents-xbox-360-exclusivity-deal/

[Citation Needed]

Here's a few links to the contrary:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-hard-drives,4347.html
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/02/20/googles-hard-disk-study-shows-temperature-is-not-as-important-as-once-thought/

At least it wasn't an xbox. If it had been an Xbox, it could have been considered attempted arson. An xbox old or new model, tends to catch fire.

Seeing as how Adobe Photoshop is among the most pirated programs, I'm curious to know how hard not having formal support is really hitting many of the users. Of course, most professionals wouldn't pirate software (of course), and probably have it legally paid for and supported, but a lot of people don't use Adobe support and seem to get along just fine.

I stand by what I said. Now if you can provide a link saying Apple was also slapped with a lawsuit, I'll evaluate it in which case I may change my mind, unlike some I do change when I am convinced I was wrong. Do you?

First I need to be convinced. Saying that OS X doesn't perform badly on slow machines because no-one has filed a lawsuit, is not a convincing argument.

Okay, I'm willing to say Leopard doesn't run so well on older Macs. Are you willing to say Vista was bad? An article dated 2 June 2009, so it's not dated, says " Windows 7 already biting into Vista but XP still king". Not even out of the gate but Windows 7 looks to do doing better than Vista, Windows 7 has slowed Vista sales. I still stand by what I said, that "Vista sucks".

Falcon

http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/10/03/digital-royalty-rates-frozen-after-itunes-threatens-shutdown/
The Copyright Royalty Board has frozen the rate digital retailers must pay to artists for the next five years after a showdown with Apple. The largest digital music retailer threatened to shutter its iTunes service if it was forced to pay a higher rate.

The key word here is "digital retailers". The Copyright Royalty Board wanted to charge higher rates for digital media retailers than to physical media (CDs) retailers. Apple did the right thing here.

[citation needed]

http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/10/03/digital-royalty-rates-frozen-after-itunes-threatens-shutdown/
The Copyright Royalty Board has frozen the rate digital retailers must pay to artists for the next five years after a showdown with Apple. The largest digital music retailer threatened to shutter its iTunes service if it was forced to pay a higher rate.

None? At least in the U.S.

Head on over to Google Maps and start looking up things like Bangor, WA, which is a major Trident Nuclear Sub base. Feel free to explore both the street map and the satellite view to compare.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bangor,+wa&sll=44.662793,-68.720169&sspn=0.363355,0.892639&ie=UTF8&ll=47.715537,-122.739601&spn=0.085929,0.22316&t=h&z=13

Notice what Microsoft's mapping gathered from there? Oopsie!
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/09/04/microsofts-mapping-service-uncovers-top-secret-us-submarine/

Maybe browse a website dedicated to secret U.S. military bases?
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Bases.html

The U.S. and the rest of the world, especially the major powers, have dealt with satellite overviews since the 1960s. Anything real interesting is underground and out of view.

Moving websites is a good time for purging embarrassing stuff, especially the comments section. One wonders what else is missing especially from the archive. Ah, I just read this bit; the archives were erased in the move. It takes willful action to lose your own archive. At least they didn't go back into the archive and replace the negative bits with adverts, like some other online newspapers do. Job well done I guess :)

I wouldn't bother correcting him. If you want to run Linux, you have a clear warning not to buy Lenovo. From my family's personal experience, I'm not sure I'd buy Lenovo either if I wanted to run Windows, with the amount of non-functioning vendor-specific software supplied.

Also Matt believes that main Linux distros are: * Eudora * SUSE, and * Turbo Max In Matt's world Linux distro is called preloader though... ps.: It is a classic case of room temperature IQ person talking about something he has no clue about. link

First of all, this guy looks like a goof. Alright, that's a cheap thing to say, but he's unfairly insulting my OS!

All the reviews of the Linux netbooks I've read so far say that the distro they use is garbage. Let someone put a good distro, say Ubuntu, on a netbook and see how people like it. Linux IS as usable as Windows (not because it doesn't have problems, but because Windows has just as many problems).

Looking into the future, PCs are getting cheaper and cheaper. Right now the cheapest is around $250. Already, being able to save $50-$100 off that price by not using Windows is going to make a huge difference. As they get cheaper, that discount is going to be bigger and bigger. Either Linux will become more popular, or Microsoft is going to start taking revenue cuts.

Not in any way that's useful for managing music. On the iPod Touch, Apple has succeeded in making the music inaccessible.

It took me less than three seconds to type "getting music off of iPod Touch" in Google and to find this link.....

http://iphonetouch.blorge.com/2008/05/09/how-to-get-music-off-an-ipod-touch-iphone-in-windows/

...all claiming that String theory is not testable.

To these people, I'd like to point out that:
1] Not being testable with current technology is not the same as not making any testable predictions. Technology advances, after all, and there are predictions that were made by Einstein that are still being tested today.

2] It's flat out wrong to say there is no work being done to test String theory. The LHC will begin to unlock a number of answers in this regard.

I'm pretty confident nobody on the Internet really cares what you, personally, have bought and why.

You must be new here.

First off, nothing bounces... jumping doesn't send things down.

Ah, I knew it - you haven't actually played the game. One of the most frustrating points for me was those dang spring-mounted platforms that you have to bounce on to get launched higher. For some reason I have a hard time getting the rythm right, but my kids go flying around with abandon. Oh yes, I assure you, jumping does send things down.

In Rock Band's case, you lose out on basically all the online stuff that you get through Live on the Xbox 360 since the PS3 doesn't have an online service.

I'll grant that apparently some of the songs take as long as a week or so to become available on the PS3 compared to the 360 version... I guess that's the 'content... after the main version' bit. That's rough, I know. But as to 'online stuff'? Um... nope. Not true. Basically, with the PS3 version you get a wireless guitar, but with the 360 version, you get achievements. That's the only online difference I'm aware of - got anything else?

(Of course, all this ignores that the original troll was about someone noting that the PS3 had games other than "generic, rehashed FPS games played with shitty controls", and the list was examples of other games. Me, I actually like flOw and High Velocity Bowling and Echochrome and Monsters and Eden... not an FPS in the bunch. Motorstorm isn't a perfect game, but it's still a lot of fun, and impressed my 360-owning friend.)

Dude, if you want to attack the PS3, note things like the 360 getting more exclusive content (though much of that is because Microsoft can afford to essentially bribe developers for that) or the higher up-front price (though once you add in wifi and a hard drive, let alone a Live subscription, the price difference vanishes). Attack Home for being useless (it certainly is, for now at the very least, possibly forever). Attack the questionable decision to remove PS2 backward compatibility. Don't just make stuff up.

I have. My company lives (or dies) by the !@# SLA.

Our agreements require no less than 99.9% uptime, about 8 hours of downtime per year. We never gotten close to that - our worst year was about 2.5 hours of downtime because of a power failure at our "fully redundant" hosting facility.

In this world, where I have up to 8 hours per year, 10 minute response would be a god-send. We've just spent *alot* of money revamping our primary cluster so that we now operate with 100% full redundancy on everything. Redundant network feeds. Redundant logic servers. Redundant load balancers. Redundant database servers. All with auto failure, dynamic routing with DNS. (which is, itself, very failure tolerant)

But an application has to be constructed in a very particular way in order to scale, particularly if data integrity is important. (EG: ACID compliance SQL) This is often counter-intuitive and non-obvious, and porting an existing application to such an environment is not a quick investment. It's very typical to give up raw performance for performance scalability. We've devoted approximately 6 man-months over the past year to take full advantage of clustered, redundant computing in order to try for 1 hour over the next year along with near-linear scalability.

It's not just about capacity - it's about keeping all those !@# servers organized and coordinated!

Bottom line? Take a look at your SLA.

In our case, if we suffered a few hours of downtime every year or so, it would be an inconvenience to our users and clients. In any event, our uptime is best-of-breed in our niche-ish industry, but I'd put our uptime as mid range for hosted products overall, when you include companies that are much bigger than our still-somewhat-small rapidly-maturing startup.

Spend money where it counts. This requires an understanding of your economic base. If somebody slashdots your site, is that your golden opportunity, or is that an annoyance. In our case, a few hours of downtime if we got slashdotted wouldn't cause any particular long-term problem if it brought us down. If you have a few hundred customers paying $10/month for some cheap-o websites, a few hours of downtime every year or two won't cause much problem.

you can hide the micro sd card in your cell phone behind the battery

They search cellphone as well as laptops: Kamran Habib, a software engineer with Cisco Systems, has had his laptop and cellphone searched three times in the past year.

or inside the laptop, where even Mr. Xray wont notice it. There are a lot of un exciting places to hide that most tiny of cards without raising even the slightest suspicion

They're willing to confiscate not just laptops but cellphones, mpg3 players, and other electronic gadgets as well. If they're willing to take one thing they can take other things also.

Falcon

Hard to sniff out sd cards, tho. Heroin/explosives have chemical signatures

But can those chemical signatures be detected when the heroin or explosives are in your stomach?

SD cards presumably just smell like every other bit of silicon.

Which can be searched. Kamran Habib, a software engineer with Cisco Systems, has had his laptop and cellphone searched three times in the past year. Once, in San Francisco, an officer "went through every number and text message on my cellphone and took out my SIM card in the back," said Habib, a permanent U.S. resident. "So now, every time I travel, I basically clean out my phone. It's better for me to keep my colleagues and friends safe than to get them on the list as well. " Homeland Security can seize electronics indefinitely".

Falcon

>>>No, I have not. I spent the best part of five years programming both systems professionally, have several different models of each, and am therefore very familiar indeed with their respective capabilities and limitations.Max Headroom via the Video Toaster. Why you can't get that sort of performance is due to your incompetence and lack of skill on the Amiga. You most likely don't know how to use the co-processors and write sloppy code as a result of your failures for the past five years on it.

>>>Given that that's what I've been saying all along, I'm very glad indeed that you've stopped trying to pretend that the Internet is the reason they failed.Even Slashdot posted a story of Microsoft killing the Amiga and I guess you just ignored it? Also Linux is the new Amiga which Microsoft is trying to kill, thus establishing a pattern with Microsoft.

Have a nice day in Bizzaro world I hope you figure out how to write programs properly for the Amiga. I got a friend with a computer store that still sells used Amigas and people are using them including me. They have PowerPC accelerators now and a new version of AmigaOS that tricks them out better than Vista and OSX. The Amiga is also one of the top emulated systems on the market that everyone wants to emulate. Not bad for a sh*tty machine with stupid marketing and moron managers, eh? ;)
 

You may be more right then you think

Either "Doh!","Mmm Dounuts" or "WHY YOU LITTLE." But recently he has been trying to get me to install stuff. http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/07/13/homer-simpson-is-a-hacker-botnet-pusher-chunkylover53aolcom/

the percentage of Blu-Ray that is PS3 is high. I don't know how high, but it's high, dropping a bit now though.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080118-new-nlu-ray-2-0-spec-makes-ps3-the-most-future-proof-player.html

At CES, the Blu-ray Disc Association announced that 3.5 million Blu-ray players had been sold to date. Of those, 3 million were PlayStation 3s, the most future-proof Blu-ray player on the market.

As for quality, the PS3 is one of the top blu-ray players, It may not have the highest picture quality, that award usually goes to samsung in the writeups, but with all the other features BD-Live,gaming etc.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/147209/the_best_bluray_players.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9874808-7.html

http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/03/blu-ray-sony-tech-personal-cx_mji_0403blu.html

http://buy.blorge.com/2008/07/15/buyers-guide-to-blu-ray-players-help-clear-up-the-confusion/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10005897-1.html

a quote:

If you've been following CNET's Blu-ray coverage, it shouldn't be shocking that standalones are struggling. The PS3 holds the top spot on our best Blu-ray players list, and every time we review a new Blu-ray player we use the PS3 as our reference. It's the best Blu-ray player we've tested so far, plus you get a high-def gaming console and a well-featured media streamer for $400. Yes, there are a few reasons why you may not want to use a PS3 as your Blu-ray player, but for the vast majority of people the PS3 is just a better value. And with standalone players at current price levels, it seems like consumers agree with us.

They're even saying forgo the dedicated video streamers like the AppleTV for PS3's and Xboxes, because you can rent and download HD content on them via PSN and XBoxLive

And even this article on six reasons NOT to use a PS3 as your blu-ray player still says it's the best one out there:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9941740-1.html

And a recent firmware update fixed some of the issues listed in that article.

And here's another thing. I'm responding to your post with Firefox 3.0.1 running on a PS3 with a Yellow Dog Linux install.

Like the PS2 Linux kit was the best $200 gaming related purchase I made all those years ago, because it increased the functionality of my PS2 even further beyond PS1 games, PS2 games and DVD's The PS3 trumps it.

That is a fascinating question: here are some articles on the subject - I very much suspect that its a change in interpretation, and who are us little people to argue with that? ;) http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article3965033.ece http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/07/16/super-database-proposed-in-uk-logging-every-phone-call-text-email/ http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2217073/government-plans-database-phone

You also get this, and this!
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*stupid git*