But YOU have the privilege to eat all of your system resources. The point of the article is that an unprivileged user can while-lock your system and your OS will have no idea.
...Is that was a statement made 9 years, 11 months and 28 days ago!
The blogger quoted actually had a very keen insight that not only would sony introduce a new standard... but that it would be called BluRay and that the DRM scheme on it is set to be cracked in 3 days!
I think the best comparison would be informative versus insightful posts as a generality to the best of the article and blog world respectfully. While this of course isn't completely true in the Slashdot world, the informative posts are generally from someone who has done the research and knows some good links to read through while the insightful posts hint at a general truth that was said in fewer words but still gets a powerful point across. I know I don't have time to read through all of the informative posts as some can go on forever, however they tend to make very good and solid points. The insightful posts on the other hand make a powerful point to people who already know the standpoint you are taking but hold very little water to those who disagree. To demonstrate, think about debating evolution to a creationist. The only way you would ever even have a chance is with very carefully constructed and researched arguments such as the article example. If I were to make a comment about evolution to the majority of the/. community though I could make a very quick quip about some detail and make a powerful point. Both have their place and are generally mutually exclusive.
Because Sun systems will always be different from the x86 based cores that run MySQL and Oracle, I think the best way to compare such software would be by constructing servers of equal price and seeing how PostgreSQL fares. The true question on any business person's mind is "how much to implement?"
A "Linux user" could be anything from a hardcore Gentoo-compiling mad man of a Linux user to somebody who uses a phone or other device which has embedded Linux. I for one dual boot so for purposes of this attempt at a survey am I half of a linux user? I use several devices with embedded Linux distros so am I 80% Linux user? Does the device need to be capable of browsing to a webpage or (as is cliche on/.) does it just have to run Linux?
FTA:
Federal agents do not need a search warrant to monitor a suspect's computer use and determine the e-mail addresses and Web pages the suspect is contacting, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Because obviously we don't have a right to, nor would we want to keep any of that information private. Just because the decision was based upon an analogous situation doesn't mean the initial decision was necessarily correct in the first place.
Now "I'm in the coffee shop. Where RU?" will take 10000 times the bandwidth it took on ICQ.
So much for Wi-Fi hotspots being useful for telecommuting... That statement would take approximately 2 seconds to say. cellphones transmit at ~8k/s. Flash adds are bigger in implementation than the resulting 12k phone packet. Additionally, every hot spot I've seen has a high-speed connection of some kind. 15 phones going at the same time would barely make an impact on the overall speed.
Additionally, it's not like we aren't gaining bandwidth every year at a breakneck pace. Sure this may be slightly noticeable at first, but even the slower connections in the very near future will be able to handle a large number of phones.
The thing I'm worried about is the Wi-fi transmitter being a huge battery hog as is the case with most laptops.
The major bottleneck that exists in the process of examining patents is the search. There are thousands of potential databases with billions of potential references. The typical examiner only has time to search a fraction of these before they need to move on to the next case. Additionally, Lawyers make the battle to search much harder by using obscure terms which turn into a double edged sword for the patent world because initially it makes it harder to obtain the true meaning of the invention under review. Additionally, when that invention spawns a published public document, (either a Patent or PG-pub) it doesn't pop up in searches because of the obscure terms it uses.
Additionally, there are references for some items (such as the Amazon one-click) just because it is so obvious that nobody wrote it down. A better solution is when a patent goes in condition for allowance, the document is published as a pre-patent for the public. If there is prior art that has been overlooked, the public should be allowed to submit it for a final examination process. This would assure that if there was an oversight, that a stupid patent wouldn't be issued in error.
You're right, without seeing the claim language it is impossible to make that assumption. It is also true that they have a lot to overcome with Toughbook having their fluid-filled hdd bag holder in every device already. I guess we'll see in 18 months when this becomes PG-pub.
Camera's have HDD's? most of the time no, but almost every patent application attempts to patent the broadest possible terms so in this case if anyone ever (in the next 20 years) decides to incorporate a hdd and wants to add a shock absorber, they have to go through Sony. That is ignoring the fact that this is not patentable, but it's the intent.
Surely a cushion of water wouldn't protect something like a cell phone hitting the concrete You may be surprised at the amount of cushioning something like this could provide. If the normal deceleration of the hard drive without an insert occurs in 5ms (let's say metal to concrete.) With something like the insert, I would expect the full deceleration to occur over times like a quarter to even a half a second. Just in doing so you have reduced the amount of force induced on the drive by a factor of 50-100. To demonstrate this in the real world, My last cellphone survived a fall of 70 feet onto a rock bed just because it hit on part of the plastic case that wasn't connected to the motherboard. If it would have hit on the bottom metal connector, it would have had very little or no chance. If instead there were a thin.5 inch layer of gel or liquid in a bag on the ground, I doubt it would have even received the chip that it did.
Not entirely true. While credit card debt will get you into some serious trouble if you have too much of it, and smaller stores like furniture or electronic stores tend to have horrible interest rates and loan policies, there are many cases I've seen where the time-value of money of something like a car loan has been below that of a reasonable earning potential. If the car loan is at 6% and you're earning an average of 8% (as an example) there is no way you should pay up front even if you have the cash. I agree that there are a lot of scam agencies, and if you spend all of your liquid assets it sucks horribly, but the general concept and system is by no means horrible. You just need to read the fine print.
Capacitors are rarely meant to be a battery replacement. They are meant to be used for fast storage and release of energy on the order of milli- or microseconds. The chemical reaction that occurs in batteries is far too slow to produce a resonating RLC circuit, or even power a bright camera flash where a capacitor is used in parallel with the battery. Likewise, the Capacitor has a much smaller operating output than a battery in general and they tend to leak thus requiring a load just to keep them at full charge.
The excitement isn't in the fact that they may be a battery replacement, it's that they can store a ton of energy for many other electrical uses.
Universal (unlike many other vendors) probably recognizes the market for non-DRM music is huge while at the same time DRM sales are widely being rebelled against. While there is still room for the debate to be resolved, hopefully it's a further push away from DRM.
Isn't it ironic that the very company charging insane amounts for a "safe and secure" OS is essentially using spyware embedded in the system itself when the average user shells out a decent amount of money to prevent spyware programs?
If there wasn't enough of them already, add this to the stack of reasons not to use Vista.
Even the more moderate Republican candidates such as Ron Paul and Rudy Guliani are running Linux whereas most of the true right wingers are running windows and most of the true left wingers are running linux or BSD.
Perhaps this can be construed as a statement of American corporatism seeing as the fundamentals of a Republican viewpoint involve making sure there are plenty of jobs by making sure the corporations do well. This would mean that "buying American" is the way to go. The Democratic viewpoint however, encourages the little man to do well so saving money and being a savvy consumer on an individual level are preferred along with "giving the little guy a chance" so various flavors of linux and BSD come into play there.
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or did it shoot down the competition!?
I wonder if it detects itself? No, you have to download a package before it can do that!
But YOU have the privilege to eat all of your system resources. The point of the article is that an unprivileged user can while-lock your system and your OS will have no idea.
No, it just spews a black cloud of overrated whenever the marketing hype wire in the iphone is severed.
...Is that was a statement made 9 years, 11 months and 28 days ago!
The blogger quoted actually had a very keen insight that not only would sony introduce a new standard... but that it would be called BluRay and that the DRM scheme on it is set to be cracked in 3 days!
Too long, didn't read
I think the best comparison would be informative versus insightful posts as a generality to the best of the article and blog world respectfully. While this of course isn't completely true in the Slashdot world, the informative posts are generally from someone who has done the research and knows some good links to read through while the insightful posts hint at a general truth that was said in fewer words but still gets a powerful point across. I know I don't have time to read through all of the informative posts as some can go on forever, however they tend to make very good and solid points. The insightful posts on the other hand make a powerful point to people who already know the standpoint you are taking but hold very little water to those who disagree. /. community though I could make a very quick quip about some detail and make a powerful point. Both have their place and are generally mutually exclusive.
To demonstrate, think about debating evolution to a creationist. The only way you would ever even have a chance is with very carefully constructed and researched arguments such as the article example. If I were to make a comment about evolution to the majority of the
Because Sun systems will always be different from the x86 based cores that run MySQL and Oracle, I think the best way to compare such software would be by constructing servers of equal price and seeing how PostgreSQL fares. The true question on any business person's mind is "how much to implement?"
A "Linux user" could be anything from a hardcore Gentoo-compiling mad man of a Linux user to somebody who uses a phone or other device which has embedded Linux. I for one dual boot so for purposes of this attempt at a survey am I half of a linux user? I use several devices with embedded Linux distros so am I 80% Linux user? Does the device need to be capable of browsing to a webpage or (as is cliche on /.) does it just have to run Linux?
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So much for Wi-Fi hotspots being useful for telecommuting... That statement would take approximately 2 seconds to say. cellphones transmit at ~8k/s. Flash adds are bigger in implementation than the resulting 12k phone packet. Additionally, every hot spot I've seen has a high-speed connection of some kind. 15 phones going at the same time would barely make an impact on the overall speed.
Additionally, it's not like we aren't gaining bandwidth every year at a breakneck pace. Sure this may be slightly noticeable at first, but even the slower connections in the very near future will be able to handle a large number of phones.
The thing I'm worried about is the Wi-fi transmitter being a huge battery hog as is the case with most laptops.
The major bottleneck that exists in the process of examining patents is the search. There are thousands of potential databases with billions of potential references. The typical examiner only has time to search a fraction of these before they need to move on to the next case. Additionally, Lawyers make the battle to search much harder by using obscure terms which turn into a double edged sword for the patent world because initially it makes it harder to obtain the true meaning of the invention under review. Additionally, when that invention spawns a published public document, (either a Patent or PG-pub) it doesn't pop up in searches because of the obscure terms it uses.
Additionally, there are references for some items (such as the Amazon one-click) just because it is so obvious that nobody wrote it down. A better solution is when a patent goes in condition for allowance, the document is published as a pre-patent for the public. If there is prior art that has been overlooked, the public should be allowed to submit it for a final examination process. This would assure that if there was an oversight, that a stupid patent wouldn't be issued in error.
You're right, without seeing the claim language it is impossible to make that assumption. It is also true that they have a lot to overcome with Toughbook having their fluid-filled hdd bag holder in every device already. I guess we'll see in 18 months when this becomes PG-pub.
Be rid of "soccer" and "champions" and you have an interesting article! No... that's not till 2058!
To demonstrate this in the real world, My last cellphone survived a fall of 70 feet onto a rock bed just because it hit on part of the plastic case that wasn't connected to the motherboard. If it would have hit on the bottom metal connector, it would have had very little or no chance. If instead there were a thin
Not entirely true. While credit card debt will get you into some serious trouble if you have too much of it, and smaller stores like furniture or electronic stores tend to have horrible interest rates and loan policies, there are many cases I've seen where the time-value of money of something like a car loan has been below that of a reasonable earning potential. If the car loan is at 6% and you're earning an average of 8% (as an example) there is no way you should pay up front even if you have the cash. I agree that there are a lot of scam agencies, and if you spend all of your liquid assets it sucks horribly, but the general concept and system is by no means horrible. You just need to read the fine print.
Capacitors are rarely meant to be a battery replacement. They are meant to be used for fast storage and release of energy on the order of milli- or microseconds. The chemical reaction that occurs in batteries is far too slow to produce a resonating RLC circuit, or even power a bright camera flash where a capacitor is used in parallel with the battery. Likewise, the Capacitor has a much smaller operating output than a battery in general and they tend to leak thus requiring a load just to keep them at full charge.
The excitement isn't in the fact that they may be a battery replacement, it's that they can store a ton of energy for many other electrical uses.
Universal (unlike many other vendors) probably recognizes the market for non-DRM music is huge while at the same time DRM sales are widely being rebelled against. While there is still room for the debate to be resolved, hopefully it's a further push away from DRM.
until the corporate users realize "wolf" has been cried one too many times.
Isn't it ironic that the very company charging insane amounts for a "safe and secure" OS is essentially using spyware embedded in the system itself when the average user shells out a decent amount of money to prevent spyware programs?
If there wasn't enough of them already, add this to the stack of reasons not to use Vista.
Even the more moderate Republican candidates such as Ron Paul and Rudy Guliani are running Linux whereas most of the true right wingers are running windows and most of the true left wingers are running linux or BSD.
Perhaps this can be construed as a statement of American corporatism seeing as the fundamentals of a Republican viewpoint involve making sure there are plenty of jobs by making sure the corporations do well. This would mean that "buying American" is the way to go. The Democratic viewpoint however, encourages the little man to do well so saving money and being a savvy consumer on an individual level are preferred along with "giving the little guy a chance" so various flavors of linux and BSD come into play there.
Definitely an interesting find!
The government just loves to give citizens privacy.