So you don't think astronauts fully understand the risks? I think it is the public that doesn't understand the risks.
When you look at what astronauts have to do day in and day out I think they understand the risks very well. Even more so those early astronauts like the Apollo guys. These people worked alongside many of the engineers who built the damned things. I'm sure they could see what it was.
Perhaps because rodents have evolved along humans and tend to eat the things we eat? Humans make rodents lives easier. Rodents would just have to work harder without humans.
Most wifi devices do have flash. The problem is that usually not all of the companies that produced the device will spend the money on having developers go back and revise the flash on older products and test them to make sure they work properly. That comes at an expense and most companies usually would rather you buy new.
BTW, not all of the old USR modems were upgradeable via flash from 19.2 to 56k. It was mostly the higher end models that were capable of it. The low end models may have been capable but most of them never received the honor of an update.
I remember when G was finally approved and Buffalo wireless was the first to guarantee their products would be 100% compatible with the final standard once it was ratified. Most of their products just needed a simple firmware update to be spec compliant. I remember this because I bought a few of those early G units from Buffalo specifically because they guaranteed it and they worked nicely.
However it took a good 6 months or so before compatibility tests showed that the majority of new G units from different manufacturers were actually fully compatible with each other. There were all sorts of oddities (if I recall many of them having to do with timing) that caused devices to not fully cooperate with each other, even though all the manufacturers claimed to be using the same approved final spec.
I assume we'll probably see something similar happen again. Firmwares will be dolled out, odd compatibility problems will be discovered, new hardware will eventually be released that resolves these issues. And people will bitch about the hardware that can't be upgraded via firmware. I'd bet there are a fair number of laptops out there that will be in this category too.
Nah, I think Apple just does a better job with each dollar spent on marketing. Which is funny because as I understand it Apple's marketing budget is a fraction of Microsoft's.
Until fairly recently Microsoft has generally blown millions upon millions using a shotgun approach to marketing without helping their brand persuasion. It seems Vista's troubled consumer acceptance woke up their marketing department.
Name one country that isn't a third world nation that operates a true free market economy, devoid of any and all government involvement. You can't because it doesn't exist. True free market economies are like functioning Marxist governments; they sound great on paper but never work in reality.
I think you are referring to the NES Max, not the Advantage. The Advantage was an arcade style joystick. The Max was a great controller for the time, much more comfy than the stock controller. However it came out the same year as the Genesis (late 1988 in Japan) though I don't know exactly which came first.
Okay so they nailed it with Free Realms. How about doing something like this with their flagship gaming product, the PS3? For a company that produced such games like EverCrack Home for PS3 is an embarrassment. It's a boring mess with no evidence of improvement in sight. Port this thing to it.
Seems like the review process should be handled by a democratic process with a benevolent dictator overseeing it. This way people can judge the quality but if something really crap, infringing, offensive, etc. gets posted and even makes it through the users (perhaps because of a joke like the wolf t-shirts on Amazon) it can be rejected by Apple. In the same way rejections made by users would be overseen by Apple.
But how well will this same building design do when built by the lowest bidder? You know, a realistic scenario?
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I hear if it requires a third repair some middle manager in Japan is forced to commit seppuku to save face.
Well I guess that's better than smells...
Let's just declare martial law and get it over with.
So which color would that be? Red? I'm confused.
I hear they only deal in gold pressed latinum. Damned Ferengis.
So will Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start get me expelled?
So you don't think astronauts fully understand the risks? I think it is the public that doesn't understand the risks.
When you look at what astronauts have to do day in and day out I think they understand the risks very well. Even more so those early astronauts like the Apollo guys. These people worked alongside many of the engineers who built the damned things. I'm sure they could see what it was.
Perhaps because rodents have evolved along humans and tend to eat the things we eat? Humans make rodents lives easier. Rodents would just have to work harder without humans.
My G5 Mac runs RPG IV like a mofo. ;p
Most wifi devices do have flash. The problem is that usually not all of the companies that produced the device will spend the money on having developers go back and revise the flash on older products and test them to make sure they work properly. That comes at an expense and most companies usually would rather you buy new.
BTW, not all of the old USR modems were upgradeable via flash from 19.2 to 56k. It was mostly the higher end models that were capable of it. The low end models may have been capable but most of them never received the honor of an update.
Exactly. There's a TON of pre-G hardware out there that never saw a firmware update.
I remember when G was finally approved and Buffalo wireless was the first to guarantee their products would be 100% compatible with the final standard once it was ratified. Most of their products just needed a simple firmware update to be spec compliant. I remember this because I bought a few of those early G units from Buffalo specifically because they guaranteed it and they worked nicely.
However it took a good 6 months or so before compatibility tests showed that the majority of new G units from different manufacturers were actually fully compatible with each other. There were all sorts of oddities (if I recall many of them having to do with timing) that caused devices to not fully cooperate with each other, even though all the manufacturers claimed to be using the same approved final spec.
I assume we'll probably see something similar happen again. Firmwares will be dolled out, odd compatibility problems will be discovered, new hardware will eventually be released that resolves these issues. And people will bitch about the hardware that can't be upgraded via firmware. I'd bet there are a fair number of laptops out there that will be in this category too.
Nah, I think Apple just does a better job with each dollar spent on marketing. Which is funny because as I understand it Apple's marketing budget is a fraction of Microsoft's.
Until fairly recently Microsoft has generally blown millions upon millions using a shotgun approach to marketing without helping their brand persuasion. It seems Vista's troubled consumer acceptance woke up their marketing department.
Making space babies may not be easy but it will at least be fun. ;P
Name one country that isn't a third world nation that operates a true free market economy, devoid of any and all government involvement. You can't because it doesn't exist. True free market economies are like functioning Marxist governments; they sound great on paper but never work in reality.
Your point has been noted. Moderators will pluck out the bad ones.
I think you are referring to the NES Max, not the Advantage. The Advantage was an arcade style joystick. The Max was a great controller for the time, much more comfy than the stock controller. However it came out the same year as the Genesis (late 1988 in Japan) though I don't know exactly which came first.
Yeah this car is pure fantasy. Well it's pure GM's fantasy anyway (not mine).
By the time it hits showroom floors and people start buying them I doubt the media will still be fawning over it. Though I'd love to be wrong.
Wow would it suck to be in the control group on this experiment.
I wonder where Microsoft keeps their Alan Cox?
Does your average user have anything to worry about here? Or is this really only a concern for businesses that run their own DNS servers?
Okay so they nailed it with Free Realms. How about doing something like this with their flagship gaming product, the PS3? For a company that produced such games like EverCrack Home for PS3 is an embarrassment. It's a boring mess with no evidence of improvement in sight. Port this thing to it.
You'd think these guys were trying to finalize the California budget for the amount of time they've taken fooling around with this mess.
Seems like the review process should be handled by a democratic process with a benevolent dictator overseeing it. This way people can judge the quality but if something really crap, infringing, offensive, etc. gets posted and even makes it through the users (perhaps because of a joke like the wolf t-shirts on Amazon) it can be rejected by Apple. In the same way rejections made by users would be overseen by Apple.
But how well will this same building design do when built by the lowest bidder? You know, a realistic scenario?
Somewhat off topic but it may interest some of you that the book's author also created the open source project POPFile, a popular bayesian spam filter featured previously featured in a story here on Slashdot.