Definitely did not mean to start a whole debate. There was some more background info I omitted. The stores were basically across the street from each other. The area was heavily Southern-Asian (high concentration in the neighborhood), and the stores were both tiny places stuffed to the gills with inventory. If there was anyone else in the store, you could have simply turned and asked. It was that small.
Invest on the IRS. It is estimated that every dollar spent on more auditing will return four dollars. The IRS extrapolates from its audits that there are billions lost each year due to noncompliance but does not have the wherewithal to audit all the taxpayers it wants. Somehow, it is not politically feasible to fund the IRS.
Once bought a VCR some years ago. I went into one store and asked for a specific model of a VCR. I was quoted a price, then I went to another store. The clerk for the second store, after receiving my request, spoke into a walkie-talkie in his native language and then quoted me the same price. Now, perhaps it was coincidental, but both clerks appeared to be Indian. I didn't buy the VCR from either store.
Banks cannot and probably will not do this. First, banks are heavily regulated entities. Secondly, this would be a clear violation of antitrust laws: it deprives me of a choice to use my own virus-scanner. It is a bundle of antivirus services and banking services. Lastly, banks will not do this because they cannot make too much money off of it. Who's going to use this service? Customers of online banking can move easily with their feet.
Nonsense. Unbundling media player helps the market as it allows all the media players to compete on an even basis.
The problem is allowing OEMs to distribute versions of Windows without MS IE or MS MP. Microsoft used to ban OEMs from removing Internet Explorer. Expensive end-user customer support for web browsers double, obviously, and customer confusion also increases. So it is not unbundling per se that was required, but giving customers (such as the OEM) the choice to install another browser or Media Player.
Don't forget Microsoft also knowingly lied to coders about their JDK. MS claimed that their JDK would produce Sun Java compliant code when it did not. Some MS executive sent an e-mail along the lines of "we'll just be quiet about J++ making Win32-only Java."
Having a coworker in your office to run ideas off of is not a terrible thing. Of course, if you really think that all your co-workers are idiots and buffoons to be ignored unless and until you have use for them, then your mileage may vary. But I appreciated having a co-worker officemate during my summer internship. If I need time alone, I went off to an empty conference room or picked out a nice spot in the firm library.
Did you forge the signatures the same way between the second and third tests?
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Certainly Linux and MacOS users would be more protected from remote exploits and other fun IE flaws. Yet trojans and phishers will still manage to infect Linux and MacOS peeps once the marketshare goes up. People will give their admin passwords to install the latest and greatest "screensavers" of Britney Spears. Hell, remember that they would give them up for a chocolate candy bar. So once the marketshares go up, you will see exploits go up sufficiently to require antispyware programs. Not as much as Windows, but enough to cause trouble.
It depends on what you think is important. According to Anandtech, Intel has a one-year lead on shipping 65 nm processor parts because it has working Yonah parts now while AMD is not expected to have a 65 nm part until late next year. The smaller die size allows, according to that same article, for Intel to make a dual-core chip at the same die-size and cost as a regular single-core processor. Same price, higher performance, higher profit margins for Intel. AMD has always bettered Intel in chip design while Intel has always sat on its huge fab capacity and manufacturing process advantage. It will be fun to see how things shake out.
The analogy you propose is inaccurate. Intel is saying, "Look, AMD factories are going to be unable to make the next generation of cars." Intel is telling the investors (stock analysts) that the Intel future is great because AMD cannot match the 45 or 65 nm process in large quantities with sufficient yield. Chip designs obsolete quickly, but fab facilities are relatively long-term. Whenever Intel decides to stick a dual-core Pentium-M based design onto the desktop, with or without 64 bit extensions, is the day it takes over the marketshare. Let's not forget that smaller circuits mean more cache on-die.
Intel is also showcasing technology that allows for lower voltage leakages. Lower voltage leakages in their chips mean less power having to be pumped into the core, which means lower heat dissipation requirements. The heat savings are huge on laptop because excess heat requires fans, which need power and create noise. On desktops, Apple can use their water-cooling system, but on laptops, not so much.
I am not sure what GMail is doing exactly, but it does give a warning at times that a particular e-mail may not be from the claimed sender. Is this a path check or merely spam-filtering based on content?
According to this article, this solution is contested. First of all, it uses compound words. Secondly, the word "nonesevent" may be made up or a bastardized version of "noneevent". Still, it is apparently considered the best attempt anyone has made without repeating words with the same sound.
Fox purchased MySpace, and I wish it was someone else like Google.
Why would Google buy myspace? It already has Friendster. The content you see on myspace probably wouldn't fly as well on Google, which may be changing in the next few months as they fight it out.
The crashes when you find the porn may be exploits posted on the sites meant to exploit IE flaws. The porn really isn't free; someone's trying to build a botnet. At times, Firefox will not suffer from the exploit per se, but it will crash. For an example, look at astalavista.box.sk. It gives out warez, sure, but it also tries to infect your computer with spyware.
Sounds like a great way to prank-call someone at all hours of the day. Heck, you could even prank-call people from your desk at work all without picking up the phone.
But... Google says do no evil! Stop.. doing.. evil..
I guess if Google tracked the IPs as a precondition to allowing this feature to be used this would simplify concerns. The average user would get scared off from abuse by a message box that says "You agree to let us track you down in exchange for this feature." Nonabusers may not be scared off because they are thinking of really buying something.
I think (and hope) they mean secured so that the honeypot computers will not spread the infection. The researchers probably do not want to stick 800,000 zombies onto the Internet. How they would achieve this one-wayness is beyond me, but that's what I think they mean.
What I really want is a way to sync my Bluetooth Palm PDA over Bluetooth or even USB without having to hope that it shows up. I'm not flaming or trolling. It's one of the big things that stops me from using open source software for business productivity.
Quite interestingly, e-mail users with "safe" operating systems may still contribute to the spread of viruses by forwarding them. As in, "Oooh, my friend would love to see Natalie Portman naked!" You might not do it (the forwarding, not Portman) but I would not put anything past the average user.
Exactly. I don't program, I've just read Slashdot for the last few years or so (UID war?) but even I know that software is so interrelated, especially something with a codebase as large as Windows, that if you change one area, there will be effects somewhere else. You cannot change many things at the same time because you will never be able to figure out which did what. You have to do things serially. That's why you cannot fix Windows all at once.
Customers who buy the car with this device benefit from lower interest rates because the risk of default with it is lower and companies will pass some of the benefit on to encourage uptake rates. (Split the difference fifty-fifty.) People are adults and if they default knowing the car is going to be useless on a certain date then it's no different from the car being physically repossessed on that date right before someone has to be sent to the hospital.
Again, you're right. Just don't buy expensive cars because they're depreciating assets that have a negative return rate in addition to the loan expenses. Investing in bonds or blue chips instead not only not allows you to avoid these losses but makes a fair return as well.
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That link is to an image of the Mozilla Firefox dragon icon. Pretty funny.
Definitely did not mean to start a whole debate. There was some more background info I omitted. The stores were basically across the street from each other. The area was heavily Southern-Asian (high concentration in the neighborhood), and the stores were both tiny places stuffed to the gills with inventory. If there was anyone else in the store, you could have simply turned and asked. It was that small.
Invest on the IRS. It is estimated that every dollar spent on more auditing will return four dollars. The IRS extrapolates from its audits that there are billions lost each year due to noncompliance but does not have the wherewithal to audit all the taxpayers it wants. Somehow, it is not politically feasible to fund the IRS.
Once bought a VCR some years ago. I went into one store and asked for a specific model of a VCR. I was quoted a price, then I went to another store. The clerk for the second store, after receiving my request, spoke into a walkie-talkie in his native language and then quoted me the same price. Now, perhaps it was coincidental, but both clerks appeared to be Indian. I didn't buy the VCR from either store.
The FTA didn't make up it's mind until after the story was in the story queue for a while.
It was a correction.
Let's make history and mod someone down after he asked for it.
"BUT MY 0.25% of the market share browser doesn't work flawlessly, waaaaaaah"
Wait. Which browser is the only one to pass Acid2? Oh, that's right, Safari!
Banks cannot and probably will not do this. First, banks are heavily regulated entities. Secondly, this would be a clear violation of antitrust laws: it deprives me of a choice to use my own virus-scanner. It is a bundle of antivirus services and banking services. Lastly, banks will not do this because they cannot make too much money off of it. Who's going to use this service? Customers of online banking can move easily with their feet.
Nonsense. Unbundling media player helps the market as it allows all the media players to compete on an even basis.
The problem is allowing OEMs to distribute versions of Windows without MS IE or MS MP. Microsoft used to ban OEMs from removing Internet Explorer. Expensive end-user customer support for web browsers double, obviously, and customer confusion also increases. So it is not unbundling per se that was required, but giving customers (such as the OEM) the choice to install another browser or Media Player.
Don't forget Microsoft also knowingly lied to coders about their JDK. MS claimed that their JDK would produce Sun Java compliant code when it did not. Some MS executive sent an e-mail along the lines of "we'll just be quiet about J++ making Win32-only Java."
Having a coworker in your office to run ideas off of is not a terrible thing. Of course, if you really think that all your co-workers are idiots and buffoons to be ignored unless and until you have use for them, then your mileage may vary. But I appreciated having a co-worker officemate during my summer internship. If I need time alone, I went off to an empty conference room or picked out a nice spot in the firm library.
Did you forge the signatures the same way between the second and third tests?
Certainly Linux and MacOS users would be more protected from remote exploits and other fun IE flaws. Yet trojans and phishers will still manage to infect Linux and MacOS peeps once the marketshare goes up. People will give their admin passwords to install the latest and greatest "screensavers" of Britney Spears. Hell, remember that they would give them up for a chocolate candy bar. So once the marketshares go up, you will see exploits go up sufficiently to require antispyware programs. Not as much as Windows, but enough to cause trouble.
It depends on what you think is important. According to Anandtech, Intel has a one-year lead on shipping 65 nm processor parts because it has working Yonah parts now while AMD is not expected to have a 65 nm part until late next year. The smaller die size allows, according to that same article, for Intel to make a dual-core chip at the same die-size and cost as a regular single-core processor. Same price, higher performance, higher profit margins for Intel. AMD has always bettered Intel in chip design while Intel has always sat on its huge fab capacity and manufacturing process advantage. It will be fun to see how things shake out.
The analogy you propose is inaccurate. Intel is saying, "Look, AMD factories are going to be unable to make the next generation of cars." Intel is telling the investors (stock analysts) that the Intel future is great because AMD cannot match the 45 or 65 nm process in large quantities with sufficient yield. Chip designs obsolete quickly, but fab facilities are relatively long-term. Whenever Intel decides to stick a dual-core Pentium-M based design onto the desktop, with or without 64 bit extensions, is the day it takes over the marketshare. Let's not forget that smaller circuits mean more cache on-die.
Intel is also showcasing technology that allows for lower voltage leakages. Lower voltage leakages in their chips mean less power having to be pumped into the core, which means lower heat dissipation requirements. The heat savings are huge on laptop because excess heat requires fans, which need power and create noise. On desktops, Apple can use their water-cooling system, but on laptops, not so much.
I am not sure what GMail is doing exactly, but it does give a warning at times that a particular e-mail may not be from the claimed sender. Is this a path check or merely spam-filtering based on content?
...earthquake causes building.
According to this article, this solution is contested. First of all, it uses compound words. Secondly, the word "nonesevent" may be made up or a bastardized version of "noneevent". Still, it is apparently considered the best attempt anyone has made without repeating words with the same sound.
Fox purchased MySpace, and I wish it was someone else like Google.
Why would Google buy myspace? It already has Friendster. The content you see on myspace probably wouldn't fly as well on Google, which may be changing in the next few months as they fight it out.
The crashes when you find the porn may be exploits posted on the sites meant to exploit IE flaws. The porn really isn't free; someone's trying to build a botnet. At times, Firefox will not suffer from the exploit per se, but it will crash. For an example, look at astalavista.box.sk. It gives out warez, sure, but it also tries to infect your computer with spyware.
Sounds like a great way to prank-call someone at all hours of the day. Heck, you could even prank-call people from your desk at work all without picking up the phone.
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But... Google says do no evil! Stop.. doing.. evil
I guess if Google tracked the IPs as a precondition to allowing this feature to be used this would simplify concerns. The average user would get scared off from abuse by a message box that says "You agree to let us track you down in exchange for this feature." Nonabusers may not be scared off because they are thinking of really buying something.
I think (and hope) they mean secured so that the honeypot computers will not spread the infection. The researchers probably do not want to stick 800,000 zombies onto the Internet. How they would achieve this one-wayness is beyond me, but that's what I think they mean.
What I really want is a way to sync my Bluetooth Palm PDA over Bluetooth or even USB without having to hope that it shows up. I'm not flaming or trolling. It's one of the big things that stops me from using open source software for business productivity.
Quite interestingly, e-mail users with "safe" operating systems may still contribute to the spread of viruses by forwarding them. As in, "Oooh, my friend would love to see Natalie Portman naked!" You might not do it (the forwarding, not Portman) but I would not put anything past the average user.
Exactly. I don't program, I've just read Slashdot for the last few years or so (UID war?) but even I know that software is so interrelated, especially something with a codebase as large as Windows, that if you change one area, there will be effects somewhere else. You cannot change many things at the same time because you will never be able to figure out which did what. You have to do things serially. That's why you cannot fix Windows all at once.
Customers who buy the car with this device benefit from lower interest rates because the risk of default with it is lower and companies will pass some of the benefit on to encourage uptake rates. (Split the difference fifty-fifty.) People are adults and if they default knowing the car is going to be useless on a certain date then it's no different from the car being physically repossessed on that date right before someone has to be sent to the hospital.
Again, you're right. Just don't buy expensive cars because they're depreciating assets that have a negative return rate in addition to the loan expenses. Investing in bonds or blue chips instead not only not allows you to avoid these losses but makes a fair return as well.