"To encourage adoption of the new card format, it has been designed to be compatible with the existing SD/MMC format at reduced speeds."
Seems pretty good to me. Not exactly one single standard (there's still Sony's MemoryStick and I think CF might still be in use somewhere), but nice to see it would still work with at least two existing memory standards.
There's a very limited number of articles posted in a day. I've had articles rejected, where a dupe of some old article gets posted instead. Not that I'm suggesting what I have to say is interesting, exactly, but I'm sure others have had the same thing happen, others who *are* interesting.:)
Not that I'm pro-Intuit on this issue, but $6/month for 4 years is $288. The new version of Quicken, even without rebates or upgrade credits, is WAY less than that.
Hmm. How about pulling the stems out of the valves? Something that would still require "significant" work to identify and fix, but not total replacement?
"But, truly, this is just like 14 year old kids who drop rocks off of bridges onto the highway, just to see if they can hit a windshield."
Not even close. This is more like egging someone's car, parked on the street instead of in a garage. That's not entirely accurate, either, but at least it wouldn't involve people actually dying (like chucking rocks at cars on the highway could).
He'll get some jail time, he'll won't be able to play video games or use a computer for anything but education/work for 3 years after his jail term is up (or he'll probably go back to jail), plus, he'll have to pay money to the victims and Microsoft.
What part of this is a slap on the wrist? It sounds like this teenager will have a very rough time for the next 5 years of his life.
When did Slashdot math change it so 18 months in jail is like getting no jail at all?
"He will still have to pay restitution to Microsoft and to people whose commuters were affected in an amount to be determined at a hearing set for Feb. 10."
"The judge imposed three years of supervised release following his prison term, during which Parson can only use computers for business and education - not video games or file-sharing or hacking."
Come on. He's not getting off easy. He didn't do anything irrepairable, why would more jail time change things?
Slightly OT, but since servers were brought up: We bought a bunch of Dells recently, the 1750 model. Very slick box. Comes with cable management arms and rails that let you add CPU or RAM without having to derail it. Doesn't use much power (1A under load). Easy to add or remove ethernet cables, PS/2 keyboard, monitor, etc. Dual Xeon 2.8-3.0's.
Then came the 1850s. That will probably be the last Dell model we purchase. All of the above? Scrapped. You have to remove the server from the rails to update it. It uses 2.5A under moderate load. The ethernet cables, VGA, PS/2 sockets, and rear USB sockets are all under a lip that protrudes about 2" out. They have weird blue "arms" that you have to push to get ethernet cables out (you might have to see these, I don't know if I can explain them properly) -- they push the little tab up because you can't get your finger in there. They barely work. It actually came with 2" extensions for the ethernet cables -- I can't imagine anyone using these in production, they look like they cost a penny to make.
The only positive difference, it uses Xeons with a 800Mhz FSB vs. 533 FSB. Intel's specs say that would account for a 12% increase in power consumption.
"Why can't the better (from an engineering point of view) instruction set architecture (i.e. PowerPC) win in the desktop market?"
Because the desktop market would not be best served by having Apple take the lead. Half of everything Apple does would be considered "anticompetitive" if they were in Microsoft's position. And talk about vendor lock-in! Apple doesn't even allow clones any more.
Apple would need to make a *lot* of changes to become dominant, and would need to take some big chances.
BSG doesn't shove as much bullshit ("Let's transport the deflector dish into holodeck 3 and reverse its tachyon pulse to the 4th power!") into its lines as TNG, which I find refreshing.
Friday nights are pretty packed for SciFi stuff, IMO. Two Stargates (SG-1, Atlantis) with compelling storylines, plus Battlestar Galactica, plus Enterprise -- 4 hours already (OK, more like 3 hours on the TiVo).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining that there's "too much" entertaining TV, but I could easily see where one would feel they'd want to have limits.
Speaking of Groups, anyone here found a way to use the old groups interface still? The new one is missing half of the results (ie you click it and it says it doesn't have it after all) it gives when I do a search.
It simply does not scale like that, not into the millions of dollars. It would be irresponsible of Gates to give away all of his money to one charity, and all at once. A charity that would get that much money instantly could quickly turn in to a Red Cross behemoth where you never know what's happening with the money (except that a large bulk of it is going into the pockets of the executives). Nobody wants that.
In that case, it's not so much a matter of people not paying attention as it is that we're pretty good at interpreting what's written in to what it probably should be.
"Another RTFA. There is basically a common understanding thing among EULA's. We all know that what the EULA is going to say and can assume it is going to be in there. Therefor, we knew for the most part what the terms of the EULA was before we bought the game."
No, "we" don't. "We" don't know whether or not a EULA is going to state that we cannot write up negative reviews about the software, for instance.
Bogus crap? It matches up with everything I've read in the news lately, pretty much. Especially the driver's license thing. Amazing that the state allows _that_.
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"To encourage adoption of the new card format, it has been designed to be compatible with the existing SD/MMC format at reduced speeds."
Seems pretty good to me. Not exactly one single standard (there's still Sony's MemoryStick and I think CF might still be in use somewhere), but nice to see it would still work with at least two existing memory standards.
There's a very limited number of articles posted in a day. I've had articles rejected, where a dupe of some old article gets posted instead. Not that I'm suggesting what I have to say is interesting, exactly, but I'm sure others have had the same thing happen, others who *are* interesting. :)
"Cost: About $6 a month."
Not that I'm pro-Intuit on this issue, but $6/month for 4 years is $288. The new version of Quicken, even without rebates or upgrade credits, is WAY less than that.
Hmm. How about pulling the stems out of the valves? Something that would still require "significant" work to identify and fix, but not total replacement?
Heh. Analogies are fun.
That's why judges are involved. He doesn't need to trick a computer into thinking he's following the order. He needs to convince a human being.
"But, truly, this is just like 14 year old kids who drop rocks off of bridges onto the highway, just to see if they can hit a windshield."
Not even close. This is more like egging someone's car, parked on the street instead of in a garage. That's not entirely accurate, either, but at least it wouldn't involve people actually dying (like chucking rocks at cars on the highway could).
"It sets a bad example for other script kiddies."
He'll get some jail time, he'll won't be able to play video games or use a computer for anything but education/work for 3 years after his jail term is up (or he'll probably go back to jail), plus, he'll have to pay money to the victims and Microsoft.
What part of this is a slap on the wrist? It sounds like this teenager will have a very rough time for the next 5 years of his life.
When did Slashdot math change it so 18 months in jail is like getting no jail at all?
"He will still have to pay restitution to Microsoft and to people whose commuters were affected in an amount to be determined at a hearing set for Feb. 10."
"The judge imposed three years of supervised release following his prison term, during which Parson can only use computers for business and education - not video games or file-sharing or hacking."
Come on. He's not getting off easy. He didn't do anything irrepairable, why would more jail time change things?
Slightly OT, but since servers were brought up: We bought a bunch of Dells recently, the 1750 model. Very slick box. Comes with cable management arms and rails that let you add CPU or RAM without having to derail it. Doesn't use much power (1A under load). Easy to add or remove ethernet cables, PS/2 keyboard, monitor, etc. Dual Xeon 2.8-3.0's.
Then came the 1850s. That will probably be the last Dell model we purchase. All of the above? Scrapped. You have to remove the server from the rails to update it. It uses 2.5A under moderate load. The ethernet cables, VGA, PS/2 sockets, and rear USB sockets are all under a lip that protrudes about 2" out. They have weird blue "arms" that you have to push to get ethernet cables out (you might have to see these, I don't know if I can explain them properly) -- they push the little tab up because you can't get your finger in there. They barely work. It actually came with 2" extensions for the ethernet cables -- I can't imagine anyone using these in production, they look like they cost a penny to make.
The only positive difference, it uses Xeons with a 800Mhz FSB vs. 533 FSB. Intel's specs say that would account for a 12% increase in power consumption.
Well, there you have it. It's up to the user, not the MPAA or the courts! That sure makes things easier.
It's not disinformation. It's just out of date. Originally, the MPEG-4 licensing was to be based on the duration of the video.
Group revises MPEG-4 licensing terms
Neither does Microsoft. If they can can do anything to stop a clone, they will. (Lindows).
Not really comparable. Apple makes computer hardware, Microsoft doesn't (except mice/keyboard type things).
Microsoft hasn't stopped Linux (of course, they try to do so via marketing, but that's inevitable) or Apple software.
IBM did nothing to stop clones of their original PC design of course, and look what happened to their PC business.
IBM is doing pretty well. If Apple could expand into the markets IBM is in, I would think their shareholders would be pretty happy.
"Why can't the better (from an engineering point of view) instruction set architecture (i.e. PowerPC) win in the desktop market?"
Because the desktop market would not be best served by having Apple take the lead. Half of everything Apple does would be considered "anticompetitive" if they were in Microsoft's position. And talk about vendor lock-in! Apple doesn't even allow clones any more.
Apple would need to make a *lot* of changes to become dominant, and would need to take some big chances.
"They should sell their IP and disolve themselves to avoid losing their stockholders any more money."
All they have is IP. They don't make anything.
If they were to sell their IP, chances are it would end up in some larger mega-IP house, which would ram the stick up even further.
BSG doesn't shove as much bullshit ("Let's transport the deflector dish into holodeck 3 and reverse its tachyon pulse to the 4th power!") into its lines as TNG, which I find refreshing.
Friday nights are pretty packed for SciFi stuff, IMO. Two Stargates (SG-1, Atlantis) with compelling storylines, plus Battlestar Galactica, plus Enterprise -- 4 hours already (OK, more like 3 hours on the TiVo).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining that there's "too much" entertaining TV, but I could easily see where one would feel they'd want to have limits.
Speaking of Groups, anyone here found a way to use the old groups interface still? The new one is missing half of the results (ie you click it and it says it doesn't have it after all) it gives when I do a search.
It simply does not scale like that, not into the millions of dollars. It would be irresponsible of Gates to give away all of his money to one charity, and all at once. A charity that would get that much money instantly could quickly turn in to a Red Cross behemoth where you never know what's happening with the money (except that a large bulk of it is going into the pockets of the executives). Nobody wants that.
In that case, it's not so much a matter of people not paying attention as it is that we're pretty good at interpreting what's written in to what it probably should be.
"That leaves 84 servers that are working ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY that Tycho and Gabe could be playing on but won't."
Won't? Can you move your characters from server to server at any time?
"a lot of colleges ... use Calc 101 as their "weed out" class"
Remember, kids: Life isn't fair -- the educators are against you, too.
FSP doesn't seem to have as much warez as in years past.
Hemisphere?! No! You're one of THEM, aren't you? You were educated evil and stupid! Do you enjoy being stupid?
"Another RTFA. There is basically a common understanding thing among EULA's. We all know that what the EULA is going to say and can assume it is going to be in there. Therefor, we knew for the most part what the terms of the EULA was before we bought the game."
No, "we" don't. "We" don't know whether or not a EULA is going to state that we cannot write up negative reviews about the software, for instance.
Bogus crap? It matches up with everything I've read in the news lately, pretty much. Especially the driver's license thing. Amazing that the state allows _that_.