Get a 50g. The only downside compared to the 48 series is the lack of a large enter key. Otherwise, they have everything you have dreamed of: 75Mhz ARM9 processor, 2.5MB flash, SD slot, IR, USB, and serial comm, a CAS that is almost as good as a desktop app, and they can draw power from your computer via the USB cable. C compiler provided separately.
Seriously, the 15c's features were a superset of the 11c's features, with the exception of the register allocation scheme. But they can do that however they want these days.
When all the upper level courses are taught in Java, it really becomes a moot point. At my university, all the non-java classes are at the 100 and 200 level.
Let's see... All but the last thing you listed are relevant only to developers. I said user-visible additions, meaning additions to the GUI. I'm well aware that Vista has some pretty advanced APIs. But the features for casual users amount to eye candy, searching, and moving buttons around. The Windows Flip3d effect, Sidebar, scalable icons, InkCanvas, and search are obvious "mee too" features. The Shadow Folders are an embrace,extend,extinguish against GoBack. Those things were added to make Vista seem newer and more advanced to the average user, particularly in comparison to OS X. All the acceleration and virtualization in the world can't make a GUI more usable, though.
Next time, before you get all worked up and call someone an ignorant fanboy, make sure that they aren't right.
This product is about optimizing a web site for the user experience. This is not search engine optimization. This is a tool to test multiple home page layouts.
If Apple hadn't released OS X, where would the OS market be now? There's no contesting that most of Vista's user-visible additions (Aero, etc.) are Microsoft's direct response to competition from OS X. Just like IE7 is a direct result of Firefox's success. Apple is also almost single-handedly responsible for the fact that computers are no longer beige. Competition is good, and Apple makes a profit on their Macs. Trolls like you seem to forget that profit, not world domination, is the goal of capitalism. There is no economic reason for Apple to abandon the Mac market.
Also, if Apple sold off the "good bits" of OS X, they would be re-incarnated into a less polished product[s] without the backwards compatibility, and then they would wither and die.
I thought that the slashdot community was supportive of people migrating away from windoze to the linux world. We are supportive of people migrating away from windows. The slashdot community has done a lot to spread ubuntu. But none of that makes TFA news. This is 'stuff that matters', but I think if you've gotten to the point where TFA's content is helpful, you will already know how to find that information. When I want to have a lively discussion about a "dead-horse" historical issue, even one related to the design of my computer's OS, I will seek it out. Elsewhere.
If this topic had been brought up as an "ask slashdot" question, it would probably have yielded a far more interesting discussion.
I don't think it is a chicken/egg problem. Apple's computers can all handle HD streams, and they all have DVI and audio out ports. The mac mini can be used in pretty much the same way the AppleTV is intended. You just have to buy some expensive adaptors.
Good point. However, I don't see how TW/Roadrunner could possibly benefit from enforcing that clause against telecommuters. Rather than defend the usage or pay up for a business class service, many companies would simply cease offering their employees the option of working from home.
Also, it is very much in the interest of the cable companies to keep the fraction of their subscribers on a business connection very low. The last thing the ISPs want is to have a neighborhood full of connections where they are obligated to provide a minimum bandwith or meet specific uptime levels. Cable companies do NOT want to be obligated to repair outages within 24 hours.
What you see as apathy could very well be making the choice to just not give a fuck, as GP noted. That is pretty much what I mean. Also, lest you think I'm being discriminatory, most of the people I had in mind when writing that comment have been diagnosed with Asperger's or Autism. Some of those people, though, demand that they be treated with a double standard. When those people ask me to tolerate anti-social behavior that is not a result of their disorders, I typically refuse, just as I refuse to accept most any sociopathic behavior.
In other words, that AC was not a troll, just an AC preaching to the choir. Your description of your experience with WINE is not the norm these days. But we don't know the extent of your problems because you don't name any apps that don't work. WINE is an appropriate substitute for many people.
What I see more often is the employer paying half the cost of the residential broadband, with the family paying the rest. That means the company doesn't have to pay anywhere near the price of a business class connection, the rest of the family gets to use the connection, and the ISP treats the connection like any other, complete with whatever throttling or shaping they normally do on customer's traffic.
Regardless of the above, TFA presents a scary scenario. Even if the employer pays the full price of the connection, and the employee refrains from abusing the connection, both can still be screwed when the ISP interferes with the VPN's speed. The only way to be sure to avoid this is for the company to negotiate terms of service that prohibit such shaping - a step that most companies don't want to bother with, and particularly don't want to fund.
It is not limited to severely retarded people. I know somebody with Asperger's who, as far as I can tell, is completely unable to understand the concept of 'tact'. He resists all attempts to make him understand. However, he gets along well enough without it. He does get into the occasional spot of trouble, though.
Sometimes, it is a pure inability to participate in normal social interaction. When that is the case, treating the person like they are willfully anti-social is just about the least humane thing you can do. However, more often, the person has a mild autism-spectrum disorder or the like, and decides to make up for the rest with apathy. Those are the people I refuse to pity.
Telecommuting is too popular for this tactic to work in the US. There are some very powerful companies that have a vested interest in VPNs being reliable and responsive. How many of you think Cisco would let ISPs get away with this? Sure, Cisco sells lots of expensive hardware to ISPs, but they also sell a lot of hardware and software to businesses and consumers so that VPNs can be established.
Also, I know that many employees of my local and state governments use VPNs daily. If their VPN connections get any slower, they will be well-nigh unusable. This is essentially a lower-stakes version of NTP wanting to cripple every congressman's BlackBerry. Our monopolies seem to be forgetting rule #1: don't piss off your regulators!
I don't think it is appropriate to say that XP will have an effect on Vista sales, seeing as how Vista came second. It is probably better to say that Vista does not offer any compelling reasons for most users to upgrade. The slow sales come from the new product being relatively bad (compared to expectations), not from XP being good.
I'm aware that there are several complicating factors at hand in this case. However, if the copyright owner for a recording outright gives you a copy, with no strings attached, it will be very hard for that person to successfully prosecute you if you redistribute that recording. The creation of derivative works would be a bit easier, but still by no means a clear cut case.
It takes me five minutes to find or remember the solution, given that it is a problem I only run in to every several months. That is really what is frustrating about windows: turning off the annoyances is a rather complex process, and in many cases you can't be sure it is totally gone and won't rear it's head again.
Case in point: the desktop clean-up wizard. When I install windows xp, I have to turn off the automatic desktop clean-up for all users, not just myself. If somebody else runs it, odds are that it will "clean up" several shortcuts in the All Users folder, typically the shortcuts I use most. This is only one of many ways in which multiple users is poorly implemented on Windows.
For OS X, it takes about 10-15 minutes: long enough to set a homepage, turn on the middle and right buttons of the mighty mouse, and install Quicksilver.
For Windows, it takes about half an hour to get to the point that I no longer feel unclean for using the machine. This includes turning off pretty much all the eye-candy, stripping the system of the most common bloatware, and disabling as many MS apps as possible. But the process never truly ends. Months later, I will try to find a file and end up seeing that f****ing dog. He takes about five minutes to kill.
On Linux, I am always tweaking unless I have an important deadline looming, or if I'm surfing the web while waiting for a compile to finish.
If the person who gives you the USB stick controls the rights to the data contained therein, and unconditionally gives you the drive, complete with the data and no fine print, then you may do pretty much whatever you want with it, except claim that you made it. You've been implicitly given an unlimited license to do what you want, because after all, it is a gift. As long as there is no reason to suspect that you have been given stolen goods, you are not required to look a gift horse in the mouth. In the case at hand, the goods (USB sticks) will not be declared stolen, so that caveat does not apply.
I think (and PJ alluded to this) that by bringing PJ into the fray, groklaw becomes evidence the the judge must read. That would preclude using it to get a mistrial declared.
And of course, the fact that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." Which effectively says that the feds don't have the power to rescind the right to privacy. The states have that power, if the people give it to them.
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Get a 50g. The only downside compared to the 48 series is the lack of a large enter key. Otherwise, they have everything you have dreamed of: 75Mhz ARM9 processor, 2.5MB flash, SD slot, IR, USB, and serial comm, a CAS that is almost as good as a desktop app, and they can draw power from your computer via the USB cable. C compiler provided separately.
No, Bring Back the 15c!
Seriously, the 15c's features were a superset of the 11c's features, with the exception of the register allocation scheme. But they can do that however they want these days.
When all the upper level courses are taught in Java, it really becomes a moot point. At my university, all the non-java classes are at the 100 and 200 level.
Let's see... All but the last thing you listed are relevant only to developers. I said user-visible additions, meaning additions to the GUI. I'm well aware that Vista has some pretty advanced APIs. But the features for casual users amount to eye candy, searching, and moving buttons around. The Windows Flip3d effect, Sidebar, scalable icons, InkCanvas, and search are obvious "mee too" features. The Shadow Folders are an embrace,extend,extinguish against GoBack. Those things were added to make Vista seem newer and more advanced to the average user, particularly in comparison to OS X. All the acceleration and virtualization in the world can't make a GUI more usable, though.
Next time, before you get all worked up and call someone an ignorant fanboy, make sure that they aren't right.
This product is about optimizing a web site for the user experience. This is not search engine optimization. This is a tool to test multiple home page layouts.
If Apple hadn't released OS X, where would the OS market be now? There's no contesting that most of Vista's user-visible additions (Aero, etc.) are Microsoft's direct response to competition from OS X. Just like IE7 is a direct result of Firefox's success. Apple is also almost single-handedly responsible for the fact that computers are no longer beige. Competition is good, and Apple makes a profit on their Macs. Trolls like you seem to forget that profit, not world domination, is the goal of capitalism. There is no economic reason for Apple to abandon the Mac market.
Also, if Apple sold off the "good bits" of OS X, they would be re-incarnated into a less polished product[s] without the backwards compatibility, and then they would wither and die.
If this topic had been brought up as an "ask slashdot" question, it would probably have yielded a far more interesting discussion.
If you think this article is stupid and an insult to your technical prowess, go to the firehose and vote it down.
I don't think it is a chicken/egg problem. Apple's computers can all handle HD streams, and they all have DVI and audio out ports. The mac mini can be used in pretty much the same way the AppleTV is intended. You just have to buy some expensive adaptors.
Mr. Tubes is a Republican. You can't get much worse than him.
Good point. However, I don't see how TW/Roadrunner could possibly benefit from enforcing that clause against telecommuters. Rather than defend the usage or pay up for a business class service, many companies would simply cease offering their employees the option of working from home.
Also, it is very much in the interest of the cable companies to keep the fraction of their subscribers on a business connection very low. The last thing the ISPs want is to have a neighborhood full of connections where they are obligated to provide a minimum bandwith or meet specific uptime levels. Cable companies do NOT want to be obligated to repair outages within 24 hours.
No, it's a perfect name for such a product. They obviously know how the product is used. In fact, I'm rather surprised the name wasn't already taken.
In other words, that AC was not a troll, just an AC preaching to the choir. Your description of your experience with WINE is not the norm these days. But we don't know the extent of your problems because you don't name any apps that don't work. WINE is an appropriate substitute for many people.
What I see more often is the employer paying half the cost of the residential broadband, with the family paying the rest. That means the company doesn't have to pay anywhere near the price of a business class connection, the rest of the family gets to use the connection, and the ISP treats the connection like any other, complete with whatever throttling or shaping they normally do on customer's traffic.
Regardless of the above, TFA presents a scary scenario. Even if the employer pays the full price of the connection, and the employee refrains from abusing the connection, both can still be screwed when the ISP interferes with the VPN's speed. The only way to be sure to avoid this is for the company to negotiate terms of service that prohibit such shaping - a step that most companies don't want to bother with, and particularly don't want to fund.
It is not limited to severely retarded people. I know somebody with Asperger's who, as far as I can tell, is completely unable to understand the concept of 'tact'. He resists all attempts to make him understand. However, he gets along well enough without it. He does get into the occasional spot of trouble, though.
Sometimes, it is a pure inability to participate in normal social interaction. When that is the case, treating the person like they are willfully anti-social is just about the least humane thing you can do. However, more often, the person has a mild autism-spectrum disorder or the like, and decides to make up for the rest with apathy. Those are the people I refuse to pity.
Telecommuting is too popular for this tactic to work in the US. There are some very powerful companies that have a vested interest in VPNs being reliable and responsive. How many of you think Cisco would let ISPs get away with this? Sure, Cisco sells lots of expensive hardware to ISPs, but they also sell a lot of hardware and software to businesses and consumers so that VPNs can be established.
Also, I know that many employees of my local and state governments use VPNs daily. If their VPN connections get any slower, they will be well-nigh unusable. This is essentially a lower-stakes version of NTP wanting to cripple every congressman's BlackBerry. Our monopolies seem to be forgetting rule #1: don't piss off your regulators!
I don't think it is appropriate to say that XP will have an effect on Vista sales, seeing as how Vista came second. It is probably better to say that Vista does not offer any compelling reasons for most users to upgrade. The slow sales come from the new product being relatively bad (compared to expectations), not from XP being good.
I'm aware that there are several complicating factors at hand in this case. However, if the copyright owner for a recording outright gives you a copy, with no strings attached, it will be very hard for that person to successfully prosecute you if you redistribute that recording. The creation of derivative works would be a bit easier, but still by no means a clear cut case.
It takes me five minutes to find or remember the solution, given that it is a problem I only run in to every several months. That is really what is frustrating about windows: turning off the annoyances is a rather complex process, and in many cases you can't be sure it is totally gone and won't rear it's head again.
Case in point: the desktop clean-up wizard. When I install windows xp, I have to turn off the automatic desktop clean-up for all users, not just myself. If somebody else runs it, odds are that it will "clean up" several shortcuts in the All Users folder, typically the shortcuts I use most. This is only one of many ways in which multiple users is poorly implemented on Windows.
For OS X, it takes about 10-15 minutes: long enough to set a homepage, turn on the middle and right buttons of the mighty mouse, and install Quicksilver.
For Windows, it takes about half an hour to get to the point that I no longer feel unclean for using the machine. This includes turning off pretty much all the eye-candy, stripping the system of the most common bloatware, and disabling as many MS apps as possible. But the process never truly ends. Months later, I will try to find a file and end up seeing that f****ing dog. He takes about five minutes to kill.
On Linux, I am always tweaking unless I have an important deadline looming, or if I'm surfing the web while waiting for a compile to finish.
If the person who gives you the USB stick controls the rights to the data contained therein, and unconditionally gives you the drive, complete with the data and no fine print, then you may do pretty much whatever you want with it, except claim that you made it. You've been implicitly given an unlimited license to do what you want, because after all, it is a gift. As long as there is no reason to suspect that you have been given stolen goods, you are not required to look a gift horse in the mouth. In the case at hand, the goods (USB sticks) will not be declared stolen, so that caveat does not apply.
I think (and PJ alluded to this) that by bringing PJ into the fray, groklaw becomes evidence the the judge must read. That would preclude using it to get a mistrial declared.
And of course, the fact that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." Which effectively says that the feds don't have the power to rescind the right to privacy. The states have that power, if the people give it to them.