Heh. I post a message that doesn't put Apple down and it gets moderated down. Typical Slashdot. If it doesn't denigrate Microsoft or Apple, it must be modded down! Well, karma was meant to be burned, not saved.
So, let me get this straight. Incurring a sudden electrical shock in the human body, a system that is a delicate balance of electric current, can harm the body. Got it.
A company (don't know which one) has made / is serving a product that has some problems. These problems should be fixed soon, if the company (companies) knows what's good for it (them).
In the meantime, nothing too terrible has happened as a result.
This is newsworthy why? If Jobs had not made so many proclamations about the ability of the iPhone to walk in water, then maybe people wouldn't be picking on the reception issues, which all new products might seem to suffer as they enter new markets.
Simple: Eventually M$ is going to force you to run it. The corporate lapdog U.S. DOJ won't do anything to stop them either, just like they folded a winning hand against them last time. The corporate world, the big companies, will ultimately determine Microsoft's course. At this point, Microsoft is kinda stuck. They own the desktop OS market, but the real money is made in licensing to the truly large companies. If those companies will not upgrade, they have the clout to look at Microsoft and say, "No. Extend support for another year. It would be ashame to switch those 100,000 desktops over to Linux." At which point, the Microsoft lackey does what they say. Microsoft only appears to be in charge, they have become pawns themselves.
If Negreponte's goal is to get cheap laptops in the hands of poor children, why would he be angry? Those poor kids deserve choice, and competition from the Classmate provides that. So fewer kids get the XO, so what? Seems like Negreponte is letting his ego cloud his vision. Those "poor" kids deserve a cheap laptop, one that was designed to help them move along. Not a laptop that designed purely as an ego response. If Intel & MS had been so serious to help the poor, why did they not design their Classmate years ago? Those "poor" kids are being used a pawns by Intel and Microsoft in a game of public perception. THAT is what is wrong. Negreponte just wants each kids to get a computer. Intel/MS just want their name to be mentioned more.
Perhaps someone can submit it to the Guiness World Records folks? There can't have been too many other standards with as many (or more) comments.
It may not end up being a standard, but with a bit of help it can be a really good joke. Well, they had to submit at least one comment per page of the Open XML standard.
If you really want to make a dent on the market and attract the most number of buyers, the price will need to be down to $10,000, the price of a Hyundai Accent. While the extra technology of making a car a hybrid may justify the increase in cost (Civic vs. Civic Hybrid), someone is going to get out a calculator and figure out how many miles of driving it will take to have saved the different in gas cost...and not find the price to be worth it.
I am the average car buyer who makes a middle class wage. I have a family and bills. I cannot afford a $30,000 car that ultimately wouldn't not fit my entire family and the accompanying resources for 2 kids.
In the US the Rockies alone contain enough potential wind power to provide the lower 48 states with all of the energy needed. Other states good for wind gennies are North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas, and California. In the Mid Atlantic and North East there are more states with good wind potential. Off the coast both Cape Cod and Cape Hatteras are good sites for offshore wind farms, unfortunately NIMBYs are fighting for wind farms in the capes. Then both CA and TX are also good for solar power as are Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida.
And none of those areas want wind gennies mucking up their scenery. A lot of lawsuits have been filed over the last decade based on "loss of appearance" in a community.
This is a nice sentiment but not everyone needs *another* linux server hanging around sucking up power. If you need more than one linux machine for personal use (aside from your desktop of choice), you are doing it wrong. I dunno. SETI@Home and Folding@Home run better if they are the only app running.
If we saved more electricity, we wouldn't need more power plants - of any kind.
But why regress? I like my electric toys. They are what separate us from the animals. And what about all those electric cars the tree-huggers want us to drive? We need the nuclear power plants to provide that energy. I fail to see why as a society we should revert to a colder, darker time when we have the technology to simply produce more electricity. If the part of the population that wishes to use less wants, then do so, but don't make me feel guilty for having a 20-system cluster in the garage crunching away on SETI@Home data.
Indeed, it reminds of a Mexican beer that tastes like soapy piss.
I do not want to know how you would even know this.
Regarding the use of Sol for the Sun, yeah, it comes off a little pretentious, but it is the name given to it, even if it translates back to 'sun'. Latin names make everything sound cooler, anywho. Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
The method of encryption appears to be unimportant to the actual article.
1. She claims to not use any encryption, admitting that PGP was too complex to use. 2. It was not the police, but the Crown Prosecution Service. The CPS "asked" her to hand over the keys.
The poster of this news item was trying to ensnare people who don't read the links, I think.
THAT is traiterous and should be punished as such.
Just as revealing the identity of an undercover CIA agent is traiterous and should be punished as such, right? Right?
Yes. The Bush Administration made a mistake in protecting him or hindering the investigation. The American people would have had more faith in W if had allowed that traitor to be punished. Agree or not, the secret work of the CIA is invaluable to the security of this nation. For good and bad.
It is nice to see the legal system acting sensibly regarding RIAA. I have been watching from sidelines I have hated how RIAA has mis-used (IMO) the legal system. I do wonder, though, what process a human soul must go through to file lawsuits against single mom's and 80-yr old grandmothers (and the occasional dead person) and not even blink. RIAA lawyers must be getting paid a lot of money.
Reality based community, my ass. Oh, this is reality. It is the reality of large group of people who have built their lives on the very sacrifices that got them to where they are sitting now, so they can write their witty posts that mock the very system that continues to support their way of life, and for their children. That they even have a chance to write such comments is a testament to the freedoms of this country. I may disagree with what is written, but I support their freedom of speech to write it. I draw the line, though, at the release of documents that could in some way harm our troops and national security. THAT is traiterous and should be punished as such.
Sadly, it happened long before text on cell phones was common.
It seemed to start growing quickly out of AOL customers starting circa '94-'95, and sadly hasn't slowed down. I dunno. I remember back in 1989 with IRC and NEWS groups having this level of "concise" communication. We typo'd all the time then, too. Though, we did not go so far as the shortened words like 'l8r', but we did have LOL and LMAO and others already.
I had the same thought. And to what extent is the accuracy of a suggestion system important? Sometimes, throwing in a completely different suggestion might garner you a rental and possibly more rentals because you might like other movies of that type.
Let us broaden this question. How effective is any advertisement method? Ad methods are being paid for on some perception that folks will respond. That is simple psychology. Many people tune them out, but enough people apparently follow through with buying the product to make it worth it. For online ads, the prices are crazy cheap and there really is no burden on the ad-provider to provide the ad. Enough people click-through the ads to justify it. Just like enough people respond to spam ads to make it worth it. If no one ever responded, the method would have disappeared.
The world at large is uninterested and/or unaware of security when it comes to computers.
I would lean towards the 'unaware' part of your statement. I have no numbers to back up my opinion, but I am thinking that the vast majority of computer users don't have a clue about what they are using. Most know just enough to be dangerous to themselves and their PC. I see this at work where a user has been using a PC for the last 10 years, but still effectively knows nothing about it. To them, it is just a tool.
I believe that wide spread knowledge of security and privacy practices won't come into play until another generation has been born and our oldest generation dies off. A kid born in 2000 has been exposed to computers since they were born and will be more aware. We have too many Baby Boomers and Generation X'ers who have to make an effort to adapt to the new knowledge, but are just too lazy.
...the EU thinks the deal is anti-competitive, but the FTC does not, would this stop a deal between two companies who are HQ'd in America? I understand that Google and DoubleClick operate globally, but I fail to see where the FTC would care about the EU's opinion.
Someone with some business/legal acumen, please explain this to me. I am but a humble geek unaware of the politics of billion dollar companies.
Just a few years ago, I remember reading about all sorts of unused fiber and such that the telecoms regretted laying down. I guess they found use for all of it.
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...until it is slower than Vista SP1!
Heh. I post a message that doesn't put Apple down and it gets moderated down. Typical Slashdot. If it doesn't denigrate Microsoft or Apple, it must be modded down! Well, karma was meant to be burned, not saved.
Feh!
So, let me get this straight. Incurring a sudden electrical shock in the human body, a system that is a delicate balance of electric current, can harm the body. Got it.
If you really want to make a dent on the market and attract the most number of buyers, the price will need to be down to $10,000, the price of a Hyundai Accent. While the extra technology of making a car a hybrid may justify the increase in cost (Civic vs. Civic Hybrid), someone is going to get out a calculator and figure out how many miles of driving it will take to have saved the different in gas cost...and not find the price to be worth it.
I am the average car buyer who makes a middle class wage. I have a family and bills. I cannot afford a $30,000 car that ultimately wouldn't not fit my entire family and the accompanying resources for 2 kids.
In the US the Rockies alone contain enough potential wind power to provide the lower 48 states with all of the energy needed. Other states good for wind gennies are North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas, and California. In the Mid Atlantic and North East there are more states with good wind potential. Off the coast both Cape Cod and Cape Hatteras are good sites for offshore wind farms, unfortunately NIMBYs are fighting for wind farms in the capes. Then both CA and TX are also good for solar power as are Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida.
And none of those areas want wind gennies mucking up their scenery. A lot of lawsuits have been filed over the last decade based on "loss of appearance" in a community.But why regress? I like my electric toys. They are what separate us from the animals. And what about all those electric cars the tree-huggers want us to drive? We need the nuclear power plants to provide that energy. I fail to see why as a society we should revert to a colder, darker time when we have the technology to simply produce more electricity. If the part of the population that wishes to use less wants, then do so, but don't make me feel guilty for having a 20-system cluster in the garage crunching away on SETI@Home data.
Or maybe Genetix (play on Magnetix)
I do not want to know how you would even know this.
Regarding the use of Sol for the Sun, yeah, it comes off a little pretentious, but it is the name given to it, even if it translates back to 'sun'. Latin names make everything sound cooler, anywho. Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
The method of encryption appears to be unimportant to the actual article.
1. She claims to not use any encryption, admitting that PGP was too complex to use.
2. It was not the police, but the Crown Prosecution Service. The CPS "asked" her to hand over the keys.
The poster of this news item was trying to ensnare people who don't read the links, I think.
If we had more nuclear power plants, we wouldn't have to worry about saving electricity. Give me more electricity!
Yes. The Bush Administration made a mistake in protecting him or hindering the investigation. The American people would have had more faith in W if had allowed that traitor to be punished. Agree or not, the secret work of the CIA is invaluable to the security of this nation. For good and bad.Just as revealing the identity of an undercover CIA agent is traiterous and should be punished as such, right? Right?
It is nice to see the legal system acting sensibly regarding RIAA. I have been watching from sidelines I have hated how RIAA has mis-used (IMO) the legal system. I do wonder, though, what process a human soul must go through to file lawsuits against single mom's and 80-yr old grandmothers (and the occasional dead person) and not even blink. RIAA lawyers must be getting paid a lot of money.
I had the same thought. And to what extent is the accuracy of a suggestion system important? Sometimes, throwing in a completely different suggestion might garner you a rental and possibly more rentals because you might like other movies of that type.
Let us broaden this question. How effective is any advertisement method? Ad methods are being paid for on some perception that folks will respond. That is simple psychology. Many people tune them out, but enough people apparently follow through with buying the product to make it worth it. For online ads, the prices are crazy cheap and there really is no burden on the ad-provider to provide the ad. Enough people click-through the ads to justify it. Just like enough people respond to spam ads to make it worth it. If no one ever responded, the method would have disappeared.
I would lean towards the 'unaware' part of your statement. I have no numbers to back up my opinion, but I am thinking that the vast majority of computer users don't have a clue about what they are using. Most know just enough to be dangerous to themselves and their PC. I see this at work where a user has been using a PC for the last 10 years, but still effectively knows nothing about it. To them, it is just a tool.
I believe that wide spread knowledge of security and privacy practices won't come into play until another generation has been born and our oldest generation dies off. A kid born in 2000 has been exposed to computers since they were born and will be more aware. We have too many Baby Boomers and Generation X'ers who have to make an effort to adapt to the new knowledge, but are just too lazy.
...the EU thinks the deal is anti-competitive, but the FTC does not, would this stop a deal between two companies who are HQ'd in America? I understand that Google and DoubleClick operate globally, but I fail to see where the FTC would care about the EU's opinion.
Someone with some business/legal acumen, please explain this to me. I am but a humble geek unaware of the politics of billion dollar companies.
I am surprised, frankly, that anyone still reads Dvorak's drunken ramblings. He is like the Jerry Springer of the computer world.
Just a few years ago, I remember reading about all sorts of unused fiber and such that the telecoms regretted laying down. I guess they found use for all of it.