I saw this more as a Clear and Present Danger argument, although I am not sure if that is how it was presented. Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, and so forth. Threatening to rape and murder a classmate is a pretty good way to have ones privacy justifiably suspended to ensure the safety of those threatened.
People just need to learn that just because you said it on the internet doesn't mean the statement carries no weight.
VMware Server is rather old, and lacks paravirtualization support. So, the performance isn't over close to ESX Workstation and the like. I'm running Server on my home machine and I'd never even dream of video playback. Thus, I'm very interested in VirtualBox...
Actually, the Ars findings were quite different.
The Atom seems to be paired with a very power-hungry chipset, which dwarfs the processor's power draw. So, at the board-level, the Nano won on both performance AND power consumption!
The story says nothing about whether they are making plans to improve service as well. Customer service counts as service too. All I see here is Comcast fixing the problems of people who complained to their blog before they complained to their ISP.
Doing this sort of PR work helps the word-of-mouth reputation, which is exactly what Comcast lost recently. Improving service and pricing will have no effect on reputation because it doesn't get publicized.
I bought a $40 Foxconn mobo three years ago, when I was strapped for cash and my MSI board broke down. I figured it wouldn't last, but I was wrong: it worked perfectly up to the point where I wanted to upgrade, for about 2 years! And it ran linux just fine.
I am not really sure if this is a systemic issue with their boards, but I've never had a single problem with them running linux. Could just be a bad customer service rep. YMMV, I guess.
Skype's success and popularity is a good example of how proprietary or closed programs can still exist in an open-source world. The closed app just has to bring more to the table than their open source competitors. In this case, Skype is much more functional than Ekiga, which I've only had the worst of experiences with as far as quality and reliability.
If a client-server model works, Murmur is a good FOSS VoIP client (sort of a peer to TeamSpeak), although it's very badly documented and hard to set up.
If you haven't yet (not sure but it sounds like you may have) you should read Free Culture by Larry Lessig. He makes that very point. Most of the works that get their copyright extended have no commercial value. If these extensions keep happening we may be looking at the end of public domain as we know it.
Because American elections are a winner-take-all system, granular to the district-level. Even if the Greens are on enough states' ballots, they still can't overcome every district by sheer numbers. That's just the sad truth.
I'm disillusioned on Obama as well (as much as I can be, having not really bought into the illusion in the first place). However, it'll be a cold day in Hell before I say the he and McCain are the same candidate. Do people actually think that if Al Gore had taken office in 2000, we'd be in the same mess we are now?
"Lesser of two evils" sounds very disheartening, yes. But not when there are orders of magnitude separating these two evils.
I just thought it was strange that Cape Wind wasn't even mentioned in either the summary or the article at all. Maybe if they did, it would bring attention to the stupidity taking place on the Cape based on the amount of support this wind farm is getting. Peer pressure, and such.
We real MA residents don't particularly agree with the holdup for wind energy. Don't count us out yet.
That's not a useless comment at all unless I'm missing something. UT3 hasn't been able to put out the long-promised Linux driver because AGEIA is being so unwilling to release the license grapple hold they have over the PhysX engine. This is a legitimate concern. Unless their stance changes, Linux drivers will not be possible.
Quit bullying people with rhetoric and address the issue at hand. I don't care if supply will last us 1000 years. That's the kind of thinking that got us into fossil fuels.
The "tree huggers" of the past decades were responding to the technology they saw: that was, crude and inefficient plants producing a lot of useless waste. Technology has progressed, but nuclear power still isn't the panacea to Earth's energy demands. The fact that nuclear fuel, a scarce commodity, is not equally distributed across the globe will inevitably lead to shortages in some areas and control by others.
But why are we arguing? We both, ostensibly, see nuclear fission as Okay. I just don't think it scales well. Can you cite some sources as to the abundance of Uranium and projections for the next century?
I prefer to think of nuclear power the same way I think of biofuels at their current state. They are both a promising "stop-gap" measure to ween us off of fossil fuels. Unless there is a technological breakthrough in either case, however, they both remain non-renewable forms of energy.
The GOP discussing nuclear power and an option is promising, as it is a means to getting away from our dependency on coal and oil. So I'd say it's good news that this can become a discussion, and a good sign that the "drill more oil" answer isn't going to cut it anymore.
My girlfriend spent the last two months in a clinical placement in an inner city school as part of her graduate work. What she saw there, and the stories she told me, were like tales from some parallel universe. We both did very well in high school, she went to a private school and I went to public. From what she saw, there are simply no expectations, and blatantly under performing students (which constitute the overwhelming majority) simply pass because so many can't be failed. We talked about this phenomenon for a long time, and came to the following conclusions for what would be necessary: disban the College Board, stop standardized testing, and (and this is key) end all Advanced Placement classes.
This country's affinity to giving a few kids an extra edge (which in the end isn't even that worthwhile once you hit college) has been costing the overwhelming majority of children in many many schools to, indeed, be left behind. THIS is what determines the caliber of our education system: the average, not the superstars.
Supreme Commander's first patch ripped out SecurRom like the tumor it was, which also included a CD checker that was slowing things down. Good to know the dev folks can work around the distributor's asinine policies.
It doesn't matter if the numbers are reasonable or not. The fact is, they going to be honest and transparent about their ToS. The throttling debacle was a controversy because no such limits were ever stipulated. By mandating such caps, they are making a measurable, quantitative mark rather than capriciously cutting service at their leisure.
If you don't think these rates are reasonable, go with whatever the competing ISP in your area is. That's capitalism at work. All that matters here is whether or not the customers are getting what they knowingly pay for.
Comfortable or not, it'll be a cold day in hell before I drop $150 on a keyboard, and another $90 for the mouse. The article really doesn't dwell on the cost factor, which for me is the major deterrent to buying "gaming gear."
I apply a more gradual filter for deciding if I will or will not play a game, depending on several variables. Most important are the quality of the game and the pervasiveness of the DRM.
I had the same problems you had with Half Life 2, but i decided that the game was good enough that the minor inconvenience I suffered wasn't enough to kill my buzz, so to speak. I got the Orange Box for the same reason. With the pervasiveness of the internet today, I don't see online activation as the worst thing in the world (yes, Steam in its early days was horrible, but the infrastructure has improved). But, from what I saw, Bioshock was just a less-good version of system shock 2. And installed a rootkit?! I decided it wasn't worth the DRM hassle. I bought Supreme Commander only after the devs issued a patch removing SecureROM.
Either way, I applaud any consumer who's making an educated choice as to what threshold of copy protection is acceptable; this is mine. The companies that do this are making a choice, and they are free to make it. But they need to bring something very good to the table if they expect to compete with products that choose otherwise. I'm not sure how I'm weighing in with these two titles, but time will tell.
In 2008... why is it really so easy to put a damned single or double quote into a SQL form and then make it possible to execute your malicious code on that server? Shouldn't disabling this be a fundamental security rule for databases?
It is fundamental. It's called secure input handling, or sanitizing input. Just because it's a rule doesn't mean it is followed.
As it turns out, Linux development community members are critical of competing operating systems. How is this news?
The point of picking and choosing your operating system is so that you can pick the best tool for the job. If that tool is Solaris, then use it. If not, so be it.
Since Sun actively develops Solaris (and thus parts of OpenSolaris), do they really need individual contributors?
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I saw this more as a Clear and Present Danger argument, although I am not sure if that is how it was presented. Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, and so forth. Threatening to rape and murder a classmate is a pretty good way to have ones privacy justifiably suspended to ensure the safety of those threatened.
People just need to learn that just because you said it on the internet doesn't mean the statement carries no weight.
VMware Server is rather old, and lacks paravirtualization support. So, the performance isn't over close to ESX Workstation and the like. I'm running Server on my home machine and I'd never even dream of video playback. Thus, I'm very interested in VirtualBox...
Actually, the Ars findings were quite different. The Atom seems to be paired with a very power-hungry chipset, which dwarfs the processor's power draw. So, at the board-level, the Nano won on both performance AND power consumption!
The story says nothing about whether they are making plans to improve service as well. Customer service counts as service too. All I see here is Comcast fixing the problems of people who complained to their blog before they complained to their ISP. Doing this sort of PR work helps the word-of-mouth reputation, which is exactly what Comcast lost recently. Improving service and pricing will have no effect on reputation because it doesn't get publicized.
I bought a $40 Foxconn mobo three years ago, when I was strapped for cash and my MSI board broke down. I figured it wouldn't last, but I was wrong: it worked perfectly up to the point where I wanted to upgrade, for about 2 years! And it ran linux just fine. I am not really sure if this is a systemic issue with their boards, but I've never had a single problem with them running linux. Could just be a bad customer service rep. YMMV, I guess.
Skype's success and popularity is a good example of how proprietary or closed programs can still exist in an open-source world. The closed app just has to bring more to the table than their open source competitors. In this case, Skype is much more functional than Ekiga, which I've only had the worst of experiences with as far as quality and reliability. If a client-server model works, Murmur is a good FOSS VoIP client (sort of a peer to TeamSpeak), although it's very badly documented and hard to set up.
If you haven't yet (not sure but it sounds like you may have) you should read Free Culture by Larry Lessig. He makes that very point. Most of the works that get their copyright extended have no commercial value. If these extensions keep happening we may be looking at the end of public domain as we know it.
Looking at some of the White House email gaffes, it appears those skills have grossly waned over time.
Last time I checked, lawsuits are not typically the way one cuts deals.
While it's "just a piece of paper", for some reason people like it.
Sounds like that's what this guy thinks of his BS in Comp Sci already.
Because American elections are a winner-take-all system, granular to the district-level. Even if the Greens are on enough states' ballots, they still can't overcome every district by sheer numbers. That's just the sad truth.
I'm disillusioned on Obama as well (as much as I can be, having not really bought into the illusion in the first place). However, it'll be a cold day in Hell before I say the he and McCain are the same candidate. Do people actually think that if Al Gore had taken office in 2000, we'd be in the same mess we are now?
"Lesser of two evils" sounds very disheartening, yes. But not when there are orders of magnitude separating these two evils.
I just thought it was strange that Cape Wind wasn't even mentioned in either the summary or the article at all. Maybe if they did, it would bring attention to the stupidity taking place on the Cape based on the amount of support this wind farm is getting. Peer pressure, and such.
We real MA residents don't particularly agree with the holdup for wind energy. Don't count us out yet.
How is this going to be the first, if Cape Wind is scheduled to be completed before it?
That's not a useless comment at all unless I'm missing something. UT3 hasn't been able to put out the long-promised Linux driver because AGEIA is being so unwilling to release the license grapple hold they have over the PhysX engine. This is a legitimate concern. Unless their stance changes, Linux drivers will not be possible.
Quit bullying people with rhetoric and address the issue at hand. I don't care if supply will last us 1000 years. That's the kind of thinking that got us into fossil fuels.
The "tree huggers" of the past decades were responding to the technology they saw: that was, crude and inefficient plants producing a lot of useless waste. Technology has progressed, but nuclear power still isn't the panacea to Earth's energy demands. The fact that nuclear fuel, a scarce commodity, is not equally distributed across the globe will inevitably lead to shortages in some areas and control by others.
But why are we arguing? We both, ostensibly, see nuclear fission as Okay. I just don't think it scales well. Can you cite some sources as to the abundance of Uranium and projections for the next century?
I prefer to think of nuclear power the same way I think of biofuels at their current state. They are both a promising "stop-gap" measure to ween us off of fossil fuels. Unless there is a technological breakthrough in either case, however, they both remain non-renewable forms of energy.
The GOP discussing nuclear power and an option is promising, as it is a means to getting away from our dependency on coal and oil. So I'd say it's good news that this can become a discussion, and a good sign that the "drill more oil" answer isn't going to cut it anymore.
You, my friend, are correct.
My girlfriend spent the last two months in a clinical placement in an inner city school as part of her graduate work. What she saw there, and the stories she told me, were like tales from some parallel universe. We both did very well in high school, she went to a private school and I went to public. From what she saw, there are simply no expectations, and blatantly under performing students (which constitute the overwhelming majority) simply pass because so many can't be failed. We talked about this phenomenon for a long time, and came to the following conclusions for what would be necessary: disban the College Board, stop standardized testing, and (and this is key) end all Advanced Placement classes.
This country's affinity to giving a few kids an extra edge (which in the end isn't even that worthwhile once you hit college) has been costing the overwhelming majority of children in many many schools to, indeed, be left behind. THIS is what determines the caliber of our education system: the average, not the superstars.
Supreme Commander's first patch ripped out SecurRom like the tumor it was, which also included a CD checker that was slowing things down. Good to know the dev folks can work around the distributor's asinine policies.
So now you've got an ugly Linux PC that draws WAY too much electricity and features 7 useless cores.
There's one thing I've been wondering lately. How is it that these cyber-security tasks seem to keep falling under the purview of the USAF?
It doesn't matter if the numbers are reasonable or not. The fact is, they going to be honest and transparent about their ToS. The throttling debacle was a controversy because no such limits were ever stipulated. By mandating such caps, they are making a measurable, quantitative mark rather than capriciously cutting service at their leisure.
If you don't think these rates are reasonable, go with whatever the competing ISP in your area is. That's capitalism at work. All that matters here is whether or not the customers are getting what they knowingly pay for.
Comfortable or not, it'll be a cold day in hell before I drop $150 on a keyboard, and another $90 for the mouse. The article really doesn't dwell on the cost factor, which for me is the major deterrent to buying "gaming gear."
I apply a more gradual filter for deciding if I will or will not play a game, depending on several variables. Most important are the quality of the game and the pervasiveness of the DRM.
I had the same problems you had with Half Life 2, but i decided that the game was good enough that the minor inconvenience I suffered wasn't enough to kill my buzz, so to speak. I got the Orange Box for the same reason. With the pervasiveness of the internet today, I don't see online activation as the worst thing in the world (yes, Steam in its early days was horrible, but the infrastructure has improved). But, from what I saw, Bioshock was just a less-good version of system shock 2. And installed a rootkit?! I decided it wasn't worth the DRM hassle. I bought Supreme Commander only after the devs issued a patch removing SecureROM.
Either way, I applaud any consumer who's making an educated choice as to what threshold of copy protection is acceptable; this is mine. The companies that do this are making a choice, and they are free to make it. But they need to bring something very good to the table if they expect to compete with products that choose otherwise. I'm not sure how I'm weighing in with these two titles, but time will tell.
In 2008... why is it really so easy to put a damned single or double quote into a SQL form and then make it possible to execute your malicious code on that server? Shouldn't disabling this be a fundamental security rule for databases?
It is fundamental. It's called secure input handling, or sanitizing input. Just because it's a rule doesn't mean it is followed.
As it turns out, Linux development community members are critical of competing operating systems. How is this news?
The point of picking and choosing your operating system is so that you can pick the best tool for the job. If that tool is Solaris, then use it. If not, so be it.
Since Sun actively develops Solaris (and thus parts of OpenSolaris), do they really need individual contributors?