but how much kit is REALLY esata compliant rather than just being ordinary sata devices with ESATA plug adaptors built into it's case.
You are, of course, right! However, you're merely putting an even sharper point on the stick that the original poster was using to clean their ears. USB and FW are going to be here for quite awhile, and frankly I'd prefer the one to survive that uses the least amount of CPU.
am I going to "Control the processing of information directly"? I could, but in fact: Fuck No.
FTA: "...once the bulk of business computing shifts out of private data centers and into the cloud."
You forgot to account for the "cloud." Predictions indicate the "cloud" will be all-functional, wireless, and have perfect speech recognition (not like the bank IVRs that actually slow down the process of interacting with customer service).
What's the point in replacing one symbol ("God") for, well, God, with another symbol ("G-d")? I've heard people say that you're not supposed to write his name, but whatever that is it surely isn't "God". So why the 1:1 replacement?
Because it's not spelled "God." Yes, that's all there is to it.
While remaining even more secretive and becoming even more of a monopoly than Microsoft on things that actually matter, like their search and advertising business, to say nothing of their total disregard for privacy.
And it's this, at the very bottom, that causes me to wonder. The story asks, "Microsoft's Biggest Threat - Google or Open Source?" leaving me to ask myself, "Why give them the answer?" Of course, the post does not address this at all, but it's a real question: Why help Microsoft at all? They're a monopoly, they've got guaranteed income and unlimited resources, why not let them figure it out themselves? Why help them rank and categorize their business challenges?
I'm curious why this question is even on Slashdot at all. Remember the days of "Ask Slashdot?" Back when someone would have a problem with one or another parts of the internet and computer landscape, people would come out of the woodwork to give them answers, suggestions and solutions to whatever the problem seemed to be. While "Ask Slashdot" has largely been relegated to the dustbin of archive.org, we find ourselves confronted with the same kinds of stories here, yet now being asked on behalf of one of the largest companies in the world. Is this a toe-dip into opensource, to get the population to suggest changes in your business model while not having any effect on the software?
I say leave 'em be to figure it out on their own. It's all a part of growing up.
Innovation doesn't include copying but rather creating something new
This is an unnecessarily austere definition of "innovation." There is a long history of people combining and being influenced by previous developments, and in fact it can be said that there has never been anything that was n-e-w new at the time. No man is an island, and all that.
I agree, I don't think any application should be using resources on my system without my explicit consent.
Beyond that, should it be legal for a company to commercially leverage a user's internet connection? If the company derives profit or business intelligence that increases the value of the company's products, where is the consideration for the money that the user pays to their internet provider to subsidize its operations?
Think of it this way: What if you were crossing a toll bridge or toll road, and once you pay your toll someone comes out and fills your trunk with cargo which you are required to drop off at the end of the toll area. If you contest the cargo, the toll people say, "Well, don't use the bridge/road then. Go around." I don't think that would go over very well.
It amazes me that so many people didn't understand (and now seem to forget) that Napster was the killer app!
This is really it, but it's probably too complicated to write the story if the author has to account for history. Maybe 2007 can be said to be the year that the industry cried "uncle," but the industry broke 10 years ago, and they (should) know it. In fact, I'd say this article is shill material for an industry to say, "Okay, this MP3 thing really looks like it's going places," and save face doing it. Keep in mind that their lawsuits aren't really going their way anymore, so industry lawyers and BizDev heads have to start coming up with new reasons to keep their jobs.
The music industry is possibly a new kind of business failure since even concert merchandising companies are laying off staff, so the sooner labels move to being a manufacturing and marketing service and let the technical companies do the customer work, the better off they'll be. A lot of fat and lazy people will have to lose their jobs, though.
Because you are cutting into the Network's, Radio's, and Newspaper's exclusive turf.
You're missing my point. Regular people like you and me can sit in regular seats and SMS our blog entries if we like. Or maybe we're texting our friends in France about the great turducken we're planning for Christmas. The simple fact is that there are probably a lot of people who would think nothing of texting throughout the game about things that have nothing to do with the game. How the networks/league plan to combat this remains to be seen.
I don't know why the press thinks they need credentials at all unless it's to sit in the special box or something like that, but it's not required to sit there if you just want to write about the game. Make it like food reviews, so that nobody knows who the live-blogging columnist is and can't recognize him/her in order to toss them out of the game for updating their blog more than once per inning.
maybe mathematicians can solve why old news appears on slashdot.
Seriously. I originally found this information when reading a story on traffic in the San Jose Mercury News exactly 20 years ago. This is not news, but I guess Slashdot being Slashdot there's no way to un-digg the story. Web1.0 in the hizz.
If it were the other way around there'd be a problem (i.e., prohibiting non-credentialed people from phoning/blogging in scores).
Do you really think they're unprepared for this? Once the press figures out that you don't need credentials to sit in your seat and tap out blog entries from your phone they're going to start ejecting people for that, too. It'll be the fan-attacking RIAA mess all over again.
How many people who are dying to get the Wii (but can't) will still go and buy it in Jan., Feb., Mar.?
We already know the answer from our experience over the past year: all of them will wait and buy it later. Anybody who doesn't is just noise in the system. Nintendo was losing a billion (or some other made up number) last year, too.
The standard for such advances are NON-REFUNDABLE advances. The music industry can't be so fucked these advances are refundable; it's the entire basis of that kind of publishing.
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but how much kit is REALLY esata compliant rather than just being ordinary sata devices with ESATA plug adaptors built into it's case.
You are, of course, right! However, you're merely putting an even sharper point on the stick that the original poster was using to clean their ears. USB and FW are going to be here for quite awhile, and frankly I'd prefer the one to survive that uses the least amount of CPU.
Read their only other (non-AC) comment.
I see sata taking over for external hard drives.
If you're talking about eSATA, I wouldn't be posting that prediction in this thread. It's got a long way to go.
good luck making sata work over 3 feet.
The eSATA spec is 2m max cable length.
astronomers are typically more interested in the light-gathering power
Isn't this just a fancy way of saying they're interested in capturing fainter objects?
am I going to "Control the processing of information directly"? I could, but in fact: Fuck No.
FTA:
"...once the bulk of business computing shifts out of private data centers and into the cloud."
You forgot to account for the "cloud." Predictions indicate the "cloud" will be all-functional, wireless, and have perfect speech recognition (not like the bank IVRs that actually slow down the process of interacting with customer service).
Industrialists say smog isn't a pollution problem, it's an air problem.
What's the point in replacing one symbol ("God") for, well, God, with another symbol ("G-d")? I've heard people say that you're not supposed to write his name, but whatever that is it surely isn't "God". So why the 1:1 replacement?
Because it's not spelled "God." Yes, that's all there is to it.
I resolve to teach slashdotters how to spell "lose".
People probably won't pay much attention until you start spelling "loose" properly.
While remaining even more secretive and becoming even more of a monopoly than Microsoft on things that actually matter, like their search and advertising business, to say nothing of their total disregard for privacy.
And it's this, at the very bottom, that causes me to wonder. The story asks, "Microsoft's Biggest Threat - Google or Open Source?" leaving me to ask myself, "Why give them the answer?" Of course, the post does not address this at all, but it's a real question: Why help Microsoft at all? They're a monopoly, they've got guaranteed income and unlimited resources, why not let them figure it out themselves? Why help them rank and categorize their business challenges?
I'm curious why this question is even on Slashdot at all. Remember the days of "Ask Slashdot?" Back when someone would have a problem with one or another parts of the internet and computer landscape, people would come out of the woodwork to give them answers, suggestions and solutions to whatever the problem seemed to be. While "Ask Slashdot" has largely been relegated to the dustbin of archive.org, we find ourselves confronted with the same kinds of stories here, yet now being asked on behalf of one of the largest companies in the world. Is this a toe-dip into opensource, to get the population to suggest changes in your business model while not having any effect on the software?
I say leave 'em be to figure it out on their own. It's all a part of growing up.
Innovation doesn't include copying but rather creating something new
This is an unnecessarily austere definition of "innovation." There is a long history of people combining and being influenced by previous developments, and in fact it can be said that there has never been anything that was n-e-w new at the time. No man is an island, and all that.
I agree, this story is useless and lame.
It's not "user", it's "consumer".
Equivalent in this context, or in other words, "you know what I mean."
I agree, I don't think any application should be using resources on my system without my explicit consent.
Beyond that, should it be legal for a company to commercially leverage a user's internet connection? If the company derives profit or business intelligence that increases the value of the company's products, where is the consideration for the money that the user pays to their internet provider to subsidize its operations?
Think of it this way: What if you were crossing a toll bridge or toll road, and once you pay your toll someone comes out and fills your trunk with cargo which you are required to drop off at the end of the toll area. If you contest the cargo, the toll people say, "Well, don't use the bridge/road then. Go around." I don't think that would go over very well.
> Someone could buy the Netscape brand name and donate it to the Mozilla foundation.
Does it really matter any more?
No, not really, but it would still be kind of cool.
It amazes me that so many people didn't understand (and now seem to forget) that Napster was the killer app!
This is really it, but it's probably too complicated to write the story if the author has to account for history. Maybe 2007 can be said to be the year that the industry cried "uncle," but the industry broke 10 years ago, and they (should) know it. In fact, I'd say this article is shill material for an industry to say, "Okay, this MP3 thing really looks like it's going places," and save face doing it. Keep in mind that their lawsuits aren't really going their way anymore, so industry lawyers and BizDev heads have to start coming up with new reasons to keep their jobs.
The music industry is possibly a new kind of business failure since even concert merchandising companies are laying off staff, so the sooner labels move to being a manufacturing and marketing service and let the technical companies do the customer work, the better off they'll be. A lot of fat and lazy people will have to lose their jobs, though.
It made the front page of Slashdot because a corporate user shouldn't be stupid enough to use Microsoft Explorer over a real browser.
So what does that make people who are stupid enough to mistake Internet Explorer for Windows Explorer?
Here's another question for ya-- why didn't you use FileVault?
Here's a question right back at you: what good does advice given after the fact do?
Lesson learned?
Hard to say right now, but it does seem the author jumped the gun on the story. Whether it rises to legally-actionable defamation is another question.
Because you are cutting into the Network's, Radio's, and Newspaper's exclusive turf.
You're missing my point. Regular people like you and me can sit in regular seats and SMS our blog entries if we like. Or maybe we're texting our friends in France about the great turducken we're planning for Christmas. The simple fact is that there are probably a lot of people who would think nothing of texting throughout the game about things that have nothing to do with the game. How the networks/league plan to combat this remains to be seen.
I don't know why the press thinks they need credentials at all unless it's to sit in the special box or something like that, but it's not required to sit there if you just want to write about the game. Make it like food reviews, so that nobody knows who the live-blogging columnist is and can't recognize him/her in order to toss them out of the game for updating their blog more than once per inning.
maybe mathematicians can solve why old news appears on slashdot.
Seriously. I originally found this information when reading a story on traffic in the San Jose Mercury News exactly 20 years ago. This is not news, but I guess Slashdot being Slashdot there's no way to un-digg the story. Web1.0 in the hizz.
If it were the other way around there'd be a problem (i.e., prohibiting non-credentialed people from phoning/blogging in scores).
Do you really think they're unprepared for this? Once the press figures out that you don't need credentials to sit in your seat and tap out blog entries from your phone they're going to start ejecting people for that, too. It'll be the fan-attacking RIAA mess all over again.
You can run HTTP/HTTPS over a closed network you know.
Exactly. This subthread confuses me.
How many people who are dying to get the Wii (but can't) will still go and buy it in Jan., Feb., Mar.?
We already know the answer from our experience over the past year: all of them will wait and buy it later. Anybody who doesn't is just noise in the system. Nintendo was losing a billion (or some other made up number) last year, too.
The standard for such advances are NON-REFUNDABLE advances. The music industry can't be so fucked these advances are refundable; it's the entire basis of that kind of publishing.
But are they NON-RECOUPABLE as well?
The entire point of fair use is to allow you to decide yourself what to do, irrespective of the copyright holder's wishes
I think you're mixing up the concepts of Fair Use with The Right of First Sale, but neither apply in your example anyway.