Jhannet was stupid and deserves this punishment. It is no mystery, it is not secret knowledge that taking a video camera into a movie theater...and then filming the movie is illegal. The story now is "only 20 seconds", but if the police had not come, it could have been the entire movie.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
I doubt the judge with give the prison sentence if he believes the sob story that is going to be given.
As an Ohio resident, I can verify for you that the Telcos are doing a good job of crippling broadband on their own. I applaud any attempt by the gub'nah get some quality fast internet to areas OUTSIDE of the cities. Please. There are public and private businesses out there, as well.
I my laptop at home, I have eschewed the mouse/trackpad option complete for the pen. I have suffered far less repetitive strain and the use of a pen is intuitive even to a child. I just wish my boss would let me replace my work PC monitor with a pen-input screen.
"Umm...care to enlighten us on these Japanese makers that are owned/merged/partnered with one of the big three US makers?"
Ford owns 33.4% of Mazda. GM owns 20% of Suzuki.
Regarding other car makers...
Renault owns 44.3% of Nissan. Daimler owns Mitsubishi.
Honda and Toyota are still on their own, but two of them have invested heavily in several Chinese car makers. The Chinese could very well benefit from this standardized CarOS fairly quickly, then.
Well the Japanese pretty much dominate the world automotive market so it's likely that their standard will win eventually. Besides, if the OS they are developing is for Japanese systems, why would they even care if BMW and Daimler come up with one for their own cars, unless there's some competitive advantage to marketing the OS to other cars, like Windows on PC's. I don't see any advantage here; it's just a way to share development resources.
And since nearly all of the Japanese makers are owned/merged/partnered with one of the big American automakers, that means Ford et al will immediately benefit from this research.
I would be all for banning Microsoft from slashdot for an entire month. Certainly there are other topics of geek interest (Transformers) that we could be discussing (GNOME vs. KDE) that could fill the void (Linux vs. BSD) left by Microsoft nay-sayers.
``voting-machine reform that would take effect before the 2008 elections may die in the Senate.''
Because, for some reason, politicians (not only in the USA) seem to be opposed to verifiable, reliable voting methods.
Well, yeah, because if they allow the technology to mature, then no longer will one candidate be able to waste tax payer money by suing for another vote count. One click of the mouse and voila, there is your recount. Want another? *click*
If the kid actually knew to the extend the wrongness that is keeping tapes in your car, then he would have covered his own butt and locked them the trunk out of sight. Or maybe taken them into his house. Or hid them under the front seat.
And, the kid may have been a CS major, but don't mean jack-squat that he actually learned anything. I know folks with an MCSE who couldn't administrate their way out of a wet paper bag.
Really....wouldn't an intern who is 22 years old and possibly an CS major know well enough to not leave data tapes in his car overnight? No. Because people in their natural state are stupid. These are the same people who open e-mails from people they don't know and open attachments because it is promised to be a 'kewl screensaver' or something else inane.
Google's proposed free ad-supported wi-fi for SF is like 300 kilobits. Better than nothing, I'll grant, but the phone companies are pitching a screaming hissy fit over even that. Why on earth do you think Google can implement or is even interested in universal high-speed access? Because it will make them more money?
"If more people were thinking like you, we would still be living in the stoneage and thinking that god created everything because you say that there is no reason for advancement..."
Incorrect. I am a big fan advancement. But I cannot stand by idly while some nit-wit berates a population for not all being alike in the writer's opinion on the features of our phones. Should everyone drive a BMW? They are nice cars. They contain a lot of features. But not everyone an afford them. Maybe a Hyundai Accent offers exactly what you need. Should the Hyundai buyer be shamed for not wanting car with wiper blades on the view mirrors? "It's a feature, you luddite, buy it! You know you want it!"
And so it is with phones. Personally, I just want a phone to be a phone. I want it to be very good at sending and receiving my phone calls. Some other features make for logical company, like, storing the numbers of your friends, showing the current time and date. Other features are just fluff that waste battery life and add needless complexity.
Let the consumers of the market determine what they want. Let the market be filled with products that fill every niche.
Please stop and read your own posts before you write them. You're saying that american consumers "do not want more do-dads"? Are you certifiably insane? We'd attach a spork to a blender if we thought it would be beneficial.
Correction: I wrote "most American consumers". There is a segment that demands the newest, greatest, most feature replete product that Japanese scientists can create. This segment, like the video gamers for PCs, are the ones that push development and create the cutting-edge. But, this segment is small, compared to the rest of the consumers, people you might call 'average'. These people are content to pay as little money as possible for the phone as long as they have roll-over minutes, or more more shared-minutes, or the ability to track who has been calling your daughter. If you look at the cheapest of the cheap, they still offer a ship load of features.
Because USB and FireWire are still incredibly slow compared to SATA. FireWire 800 is rated at 786.432 Mbps; "Hi-Speed" USB 2.0 trails behind at 480 Mbps. On the other hand, currently available SATA devices run at 3 Gbps. You could use USB and FireWire for internal devices, but the performance would be painful, at best. It's not like SATA is stagnant, either -- a 6 Gbps standard is in the works. But at the current spin rates of hard drives (7200RPM for most users), they cannot even transfer at 3 Gbps. Transfer rates like that sound great on paper, but they aren't transferring to real-world use for most people. If you have an array, sure, you will reach the 3 Gbps max rate (or is that a burst rate being quoted?). In the typical PC being sold to home users, and even the typical business workstation (which tend to be simpler than many home PCs), FireWire would be all that is needed for the drives.
Maybe, just maybe, most American cell phone owners do not want the newer phones that have 100 more do-dads built-in than last years model. How many features can you build into a tiny space before you go beyond what the consumer actually wants?
USB and FireWire are pretty fast, and getting faster. They could be used internally for all of the drives quite easily. And as a plus, their cables are smaller.
This is a useless comparison. Vista will grow in share as there are bazillions of consumers that are running older versions of Windows and have a compulsion to "upgrade". Mac OSX doesnt. So, you are positing that OS X users never have to upgrade from their current release? Like, ever? And how long will Apple support those older versions and the many bugs that will be exposed in them over time?
I grow my right hand thumbnail long, file it down so I have a bit of an edge leaning left
Dude. Seek help. No! This is brilliant! It is adaptation in action. The individual experienced the problem, analyzed solutions and adapted his body to use his computer more efficiently. I think the poster should create "The Thumb Typer" for people to wear that don't want to grow their finger nail.
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Start a new fork. That is the free software way. Why limit ourselves to one version of GCC? We have 3,000 distros of linux to choose from, but only one distro of GCC? This just isn't fair. Bring on the variants! Fork that baby. Innovation through competition.
So, this is how Micro$oft makes up for the travesty that is Vista by getting right on the next release. Hasn't Micro$oft learned that its users aren't upgrade but once every 10 years?
I would bet money that most laptops being sold today are going to people who are not transporting them very far. And you would win that bet in my household. We switched to laptops due to space concerns. The old computer room is being turned into a baby room for Baby #2 (shipping date December 3rd). What to do? Buy a laptop, retire the old desktop. Kitchen table now becomes the computer desk.
The desktop case will always have a place as long there are applications that use plug-in controller cards. I don't know some industries, but the heavy equipment field for manufacturing is stick in the 9-pin serial world, or worse, a proprietary serial card that uses a "special" DB-25-like cable.
Don't cross a mac fanboy.... And don't stand between two people having a KDE vs. GNOME argument. It is a shame to see two geeks fight. Remember kids, "Fan Boy" is not a compliment.
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Kudos! I'm not certain, but I think you are just Godwin'd this news post...
Jhannet was stupid and deserves this punishment. It is no mystery, it is not secret knowledge that taking a video camera into a movie theater...and then filming the movie is illegal. The story now is "only 20 seconds", but if the police had not come, it could have been the entire movie.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
I doubt the judge with give the prison sentence if he believes the sob story that is going to be given.
As an Ohio resident, I can verify for you that the Telcos are doing a good job of crippling broadband on their own. I applaud any attempt by the gub'nah get some quality fast internet to areas OUTSIDE of the cities. Please. There are public and private businesses out there, as well.
I my laptop at home, I have eschewed the mouse/trackpad option complete for the pen. I have suffered far less repetitive strain and the use of a pen is intuitive even to a child. I just wish my boss would let me replace my work PC monitor with a pen-input screen.
"Umm...care to enlighten us on these Japanese makers that are owned/merged/partnered with one of the big three US makers?"
Ford owns 33.4% of Mazda.
GM owns 20% of Suzuki.
Regarding other car makers...
Renault owns 44.3% of Nissan.
Daimler owns Mitsubishi.
Honda and Toyota are still on their own, but two of them have invested heavily in several Chinese car makers. The Chinese could very well benefit from this standardized CarOS fairly quickly, then.
And since nearly all of the Japanese makers are owned/merged/partnered with one of the big American automakers, that means Ford et al will immediately benefit from this research.
I would be all for banning Microsoft from slashdot for an entire month. Certainly there are other topics of geek interest (Transformers) that we could be discussing (GNOME vs. KDE) that could fill the void (Linux vs. BSD) left by Microsoft nay-sayers.
Because, for some reason, politicians (not only in the USA) seem to be opposed to verifiable, reliable voting methods.
Well, yeah, because if they allow the technology to mature, then no longer will one candidate be able to waste tax payer money by suing for another vote count. One click of the mouse and voila, there is your recount. Want another? *click*
If the kid actually knew to the extend the wrongness that is keeping tapes in your car, then he would have covered his own butt and locked them the trunk out of sight. Or maybe taken them into his house. Or hid them under the front seat.
And, the kid may have been a CS major, but don't mean jack-squat that he actually learned anything. I know folks with an MCSE who couldn't administrate their way out of a wet paper bag.
Flamebait?
Yes! Burn karma burn!
"If more people were thinking like you, we would still be living in the stoneage and thinking that god created everything because you say that there is no reason for advancement..."
Incorrect. I am a big fan advancement. But I cannot stand by idly while some nit-wit berates a population for not all being alike in the writer's opinion on the features of our phones. Should everyone drive a BMW? They are nice cars. They contain a lot of features. But not everyone an afford them. Maybe a Hyundai Accent offers exactly what you need. Should the Hyundai buyer be shamed for not wanting car with wiper blades on the view mirrors? "It's a feature, you luddite, buy it! You know you want it!"
And so it is with phones. Personally, I just want a phone to be a phone. I want it to be very good at sending and receiving my phone calls. Some other features make for logical company, like, storing the numbers of your friends, showing the current time and date. Other features are just fluff that waste battery life and add needless complexity.
Let the consumers of the market determine what they want. Let the market be filled with products that fill every niche.
Correction: I wrote "most American consumers". There is a segment that demands the newest, greatest, most feature replete product that Japanese scientists can create. This segment, like the video gamers for PCs, are the ones that push development and create the cutting-edge. But, this segment is small, compared to the rest of the consumers, people you might call 'average'. These people are content to pay as little money as possible for the phone as long as they have roll-over minutes, or more more shared-minutes, or the ability to track who has been calling your daughter. If you look at the cheapest of the cheap, they still offer a ship load of features.
Maybe, just maybe, most American cell phone owners do not want the newer phones that have 100 more do-dads built-in than last years model. How many features can you build into a tiny space before you go beyond what the consumer actually wants?
USB and FireWire are pretty fast, and getting faster. They could be used internally for all of the drives quite easily. And as a plus, their cables are smaller.
Dude. Seek help. No! This is brilliant! It is adaptation in action. The individual experienced the problem, analyzed solutions and adapted his body to use his computer more efficiently. I think the poster should create "The Thumb Typer" for people to wear that don't want to grow their finger nail.
Start a new fork. That is the free software way. Why limit ourselves to one version of GCC? We have 3,000 distros of linux to choose from, but only one distro of GCC? This just isn't fair. Bring on the variants! Fork that baby. Innovation through competition.
So, this is how Micro$oft makes up for the travesty that is Vista by getting right on the next release. Hasn't Micro$oft learned that its users aren't upgrade but once every 10 years?
If you have to resort quoting Michael Moore to support your view point, you have already lost the argument.
How to stop stream-ripping? Install Vista.