You should be so lucky... If Facebook stops having luck with the ad sales, they can just set up a new HQ somewhere in Langley and provide bespoke social-mapping solutions to a shadowy array of government and corporate customers(assuming that they don't already).
A song chronicling the disillusionment of Vietnam veterans is probably not what the people who wrote that code are going for.
(Of course, a lot of people, including some politicians, seem to think that it's a pro-government patriotic song. Patriotic, maybe, but I'm guessing they never listened to anything but the chorus. Or perhaps the title.)
I'd like to think that 'Born in the USA' is considered patriotic because people are idiots; but I can never quite shake the nagging feeling that some of its proponents understand, and approve of, its celebration of America as a country where you can cynically throw away the human resources when they are no longer useful...
Inertia might prevent this; but (if the virus has access to PLCs) rocking some unlistenable ambient industrial exclusively using PLC-controlled hardware being operated in a manner egregiously beyond its design specs would be fairly entertaining.
A computer attempting the DJ-style turntable 'scratching' effect on a bank of ultracentrifuges would be fun while it lasted...
Given that it is already de-facto-proven-even-for-official-purposes that the US has no qualms about fucking with Iran's computer systems, what would Iran have to gain by some sort of false-flag style thing?
If there were actually some lingering doubt about the US's willingness, I could see trying to score some points; but there really isn't. The explanations that it was either an attack pulled off by a much less sophisticated actor(hacking isn't totally newb stuff; but the list of people who can make trouble with metasploit is a whole hell of a lot longer than that of people who could pull off stuxnet or flame....) or by a sophisticated actor who found a relatively easy attack and thus has no reason to risk exposing any really cool exploits until the low-hanging fruit has been picked...
The WSJ's editorial pages have long been a... special... zone untrammeled by any shreds of 'journalism' that might cling to other sections of the paper.
Honestly, the only thing that vaguely surprised me about the mindbogglingly stupid article we examined yesterday was that(per his CV) the author should have been smart enough to know better...
Here we go: Microsoft is a major multinational corporation, with a substantial base, substantial assets, most of their higher-ups, and a fat load of juicy contracts within the jurisdiction of the United States(and a number of other countries that have less clout; but are no more savory)...
Now, according to the feds"CALEA Compliance for Packet Equipment, And Equipment for Facilities-Based Broadband Internet Access Providers and Providers of Interconnected VoIP
All facilities-based broadband Internet access providers and providers of interconnected[with the POTS legacy telephone system] VoIP service have until May 14, 2007 to come into compliance with CALEA."
So, how lucky do you feel? Skype in and Skype out are definitely 'interconnected VoIP service', but it isn't entirely clear whether PC-PC skype connections would be treated as part of that 'interconnected VoIP service' or whether, because they aren't directly interconnected, they are treated separately. Do you fancy hoping that Microsoft feels like belaboring that decision in court to no obvious benefit for themselves?
C'mon, the storyline of Robocop postulates that somebody would bother rebuilding Detroit... How can you possibly take anything from that movie seriously?
Perhaps because prior to Ethernet, most communications were either serial, or proprietary. They were the first standard and widely adopted interconnect protocol.
Not really relevant to the 'internet', though. Yes, there were some slow, and/or expensive, and/or dreadful networking mechanisms that were pushed out of the local network scene by ethernet; but the internet's interesting characteristics are all at higher layers in the network model, and can be run on top of all sorts of interfaces without any operationally visible differences. Ethernet pretty much dominates on the LAN side at this point; but large chunks of the internet on a wider area still run on non-ethernet interfaces of various flavors, and IP packets don't give a damn...
You know, of course, that mankind's lazy desire for truly self-cleaning surfaces will be what leads us to destruction at the teeny, tiny, hands of the nanite plague...
Just a minor nanite-layer replication error and the next user to touch that self-cleaning toilet seat will be converted directly into a lemony-fresh slurry. It'll be all downhill from there.
Reports are 'no' on HDMI, VGA, or MHL. Since people already have them supporting USB slave devices in the wild, I assume that somebody will get a displaylink USB-video dongle hanging off one sooner or later.
Wifi is on the low end of possible for video purposes(for some reason, Android is far more dysfunctional than iOS or Intel's PC-based video-over-wifi-to-compatible-box; but that's a software thing, not some fundamental limit of the given wifi chipset) and Bluetooth would be painfully useless(you could run an RDP/ICA/X11/VNC session over a bluetooth link, it'd be as fast or faster than the WAN links that all those are capable of; but that demands a full client device on the other end, not just a monitor, and would break down pretty badly for any video/3d type stuff).
With flash memory so cheap, why would anyone release a tablet with less than 32GB? Our CAD stations have more RAM.
Probably because everybody wants an impulse-purchase SKU for their 'ecosystem' adoption and marketing buzz purposes, and the price of just not populating the pads, or using a smaller rather than a larger eMMC or similar chip on an otherwise identical board are quite low.
I do find it a bit curious that Google didn't offer a 32GB model(since the pricing of internal flash seems marked up compared to the swappable stuff, you'd think that they'd be fine with the idea of selling one... Perhaps the OEM building the 8 and 16 GB sizes for Google gets to do the higher-margin 32, under their own brand, as a part of the deal?) but offering relatively small starting sizes isn't a big surprise, doubly so for a company with a vested interest in always-online/everything-online users.
Standard for flash embedded in tablets where the purchase is on a 'now or never' basis; but for flash-based storage devices(SD/uSD/thumbdrive) the number should be about $10. Maybe $15-$20 if you buy the fastest, name-branded-est, one you can find.
Unless the stuff in tablets is notably superior to the stuff going into SD cards, or the tablet in question is so tightly packed that the larger size requires going with higher density flash chips that are at the unpleasant edge of the price/capacity curve, it's pretty much a 'because we can' thing...
I wouldn't look to the DMCA for guidance on this one... It has, perhaps, inspired a slightly greater degree of verbosity in US takedowns; but it certainly hasn't done much for the legal quality of the genre. The effective pressure to get anything other than the 'this is a DMCA takedown notice' part of the takedown notice right is close to zero.
Given the libido-suppressive effects of caloric restriction, wouldn't it make more sense to step up their precious little moral crusade(jihad?) during all non-ramadan periods and slack off during that month?
Ah, ala carte cable pricing. In my case, with Charter Communications, it is calling up customer service and deciding which of 491 different channels I want. And then changing my mind and changing the line up in a few months. Ala carte selection will drive the billing process crazy.
A la carte pricing will 'cost too much' in roughly the same sense that cablecard suffered magically intractable interoperability problems... Because the providers really don't seem to want it, they have exceptionally minimal incentive to provide a good interface for customers to get it. Shockingly enough, businesses that sell individual items(like, oh, every retail and online store ever) have generally worked out ways to manage the terrifying complexity of offering a bunch of SKUs and charging you for the ones you want...
By way of example: Our friends at Amazon have a bit over half a million products listed in their DVD section. They manage to make, in most cases, hunting by title, hunting by genre, hunting by 'other people like', hunting by 'people who like stuff I like liked', and any number of other parameters pretty trivial. The checkout process isn't exactly rocket surgery either.
Sssh, this is slashdot where there's no such thing as "brick and mortar". The only thing that matters is the cost of sending the data down the wire, and there are no other costs that really exist (it's all regulator BS and fat CEOs trying to siphon your hard earned money). Who cares if it takes actual people to run an operation?
While a strawman is always fun, I think that people(at least the slashdot crowd) would much prefer to see a 'this is the per-location cost of keeping the system up' base charge, with the option to purchase various sorts of services(channels, data, etc.) over the wire, rather than giant opaque bundles or 'a la carte' pricing that obfuscates the fixed costs by having some byzantine sliding price for each item based on how many items you are buying, that's just intended to be confusing.
I would be... surprised... if this new model is allowed to interfere with the oh-so-precious-and-fractious English/French dickering in Canadian regulatory affairs.
I don't know exactly what they were thinking; but Intel's licensing of PowerVR GPUs somehow seemed to exclude video drivers that don't suck in any form, much less fully open. One would have thought that chipzilla could have gotten better terms, especially if they were planning a part for the embedded market...
The 'GMA500' and 'GMA600'(SGX 535, at different clock speeds) and 'GMA3600' and 'GMA3650'(SGX545, also differing in clock speed) all have tottering heaps of crap for drivers. Even if you don't care about license, they aren't exactly catching Nvidia in the 'actually works while tainting your kernel' department.
The rest of the GMAs are pretty unexciting; but are in-house designs and don't seem to have the same epic driver woes.
For reasons of fairness and/or perverse nationalism, I'd like to point out that the US was a bastion of eugenic progress and enthusiasm until those Germans ruined it for everyone... A few states were still sterilizing the unfit for a couple of decades after the war!
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So, pretty similar to the rest of the web...
You should be so lucky... If Facebook stops having luck with the ad sales, they can just set up a new HQ somewhere in Langley and provide bespoke social-mapping solutions to a shadowy array of government and corporate customers(assuming that they don't already).
It isn't so much 'clogged' as 'sucking air'...
I would have gone for "Born in the USA"
A song chronicling the disillusionment of Vietnam veterans is probably not what the people who wrote that code are going for.
(Of course, a lot of people, including some politicians, seem to think that it's a pro-government patriotic song. Patriotic, maybe, but I'm guessing they never listened to anything but the chorus. Or perhaps the title.)
I'd like to think that 'Born in the USA' is considered patriotic because people are idiots; but I can never quite shake the nagging feeling that some of its proponents understand, and approve of, its celebration of America as a country where you can cynically throw away the human resources when they are no longer useful...
Inertia might prevent this; but (if the virus has access to PLCs) rocking some unlistenable ambient industrial exclusively using PLC-controlled hardware being operated in a manner egregiously beyond its design specs would be fairly entertaining.
A computer attempting the DJ-style turntable 'scratching' effect on a bank of ultracentrifuges would be fun while it lasted...
Given that it is already de-facto-proven-even-for-official-purposes that the US has no qualms about fucking with Iran's computer systems, what would Iran have to gain by some sort of false-flag style thing?
If there were actually some lingering doubt about the US's willingness, I could see trying to score some points; but there really isn't. The explanations that it was either an attack pulled off by a much less sophisticated actor(hacking isn't totally newb stuff; but the list of people who can make trouble with metasploit is a whole hell of a lot longer than that of people who could pull off stuxnet or flame....) or by a sophisticated actor who found a relatively easy attack and thus has no reason to risk exposing any really cool exploits until the low-hanging fruit has been picked...
The WSJ's editorial pages have long been a... special... zone untrammeled by any shreds of 'journalism' that might cling to other sections of the paper.
Honestly, the only thing that vaguely surprised me about the mindbogglingly stupid article we examined yesterday was that(per his CV) the author should have been smart enough to know better...
Oh you crazy kids...
We weren't pulling the ladder up after ourselves, we were incentivizing you to inherit your own damn ladder, just like we did!
Here we go: Microsoft is a major multinational corporation, with a substantial base, substantial assets, most of their higher-ups, and a fat load of juicy contracts within the jurisdiction of the United States(and a number of other countries that have less clout; but are no more savory)...
Now, according to the feds"CALEA Compliance for Packet Equipment, And Equipment for Facilities-Based Broadband Internet Access Providers and Providers of Interconnected VoIP
All facilities-based broadband Internet access providers and providers of interconnected[with the POTS legacy telephone system] VoIP service have until May 14, 2007 to come into compliance with CALEA."
So, how lucky do you feel? Skype in and Skype out are definitely 'interconnected VoIP service', but it isn't entirely clear whether PC-PC skype connections would be treated as part of that 'interconnected VoIP service' or whether, because they aren't directly interconnected, they are treated separately. Do you fancy hoping that Microsoft feels like belaboring that decision in court to no obvious benefit for themselves?
C'mon, the storyline of Robocop postulates that somebody would bother rebuilding Detroit... How can you possibly take anything from that movie seriously?
Perhaps because prior to Ethernet, most communications were either serial, or proprietary. They were the first standard and widely adopted interconnect protocol.
Not really relevant to the 'internet', though. Yes, there were some slow, and/or expensive, and/or dreadful networking mechanisms that were pushed out of the local network scene by ethernet; but the internet's interesting characteristics are all at higher layers in the network model, and can be run on top of all sorts of interfaces without any operationally visible differences. Ethernet pretty much dominates on the LAN side at this point; but large chunks of the internet on a wider area still run on non-ethernet interfaces of various flavors, and IP packets don't give a damn...
Shipping costs and time-to-market/revision turnaround times, I would imagine.
But what is the cost of a large unemployed population ?
Historically, this has led to political instability and social unrest.
Conveniently, we are currently beta-testing robots to deal with those pesky problems...
You know, of course, that mankind's lazy desire for truly self-cleaning surfaces will be what leads us to destruction at the teeny, tiny, hands of the nanite plague...
Just a minor nanite-layer replication error and the next user to touch that self-cleaning toilet seat will be converted directly into a lemony-fresh slurry. It'll be all downhill from there.
Luckily they are only a journalist for a major financial news publication, so competence isn't really too important...
Reports are 'no' on HDMI, VGA, or MHL. Since people already have them supporting USB slave devices in the wild, I assume that somebody will get a displaylink USB-video dongle hanging off one sooner or later.
Wifi is on the low end of possible for video purposes(for some reason, Android is far more dysfunctional than iOS or Intel's PC-based video-over-wifi-to-compatible-box; but that's a software thing, not some fundamental limit of the given wifi chipset) and Bluetooth would be painfully useless(you could run an RDP/ICA/X11/VNC session over a bluetooth link, it'd be as fast or faster than the WAN links that all those are capable of; but that demands a full client device on the other end, not just a monitor, and would break down pretty badly for any video/3d type stuff).
With flash memory so cheap, why would anyone release a tablet with less than 32GB? Our CAD stations have more RAM.
Probably because everybody wants an impulse-purchase SKU for their 'ecosystem' adoption and marketing buzz purposes, and the price of just not populating the pads, or using a smaller rather than a larger eMMC or similar chip on an otherwise identical board are quite low.
I do find it a bit curious that Google didn't offer a 32GB model(since the pricing of internal flash seems marked up compared to the swappable stuff, you'd think that they'd be fine with the idea of selling one... Perhaps the OEM building the 8 and 16 GB sizes for Google gets to do the higher-margin 32, under their own brand, as a part of the deal?) but offering relatively small starting sizes isn't a big surprise, doubly so for a company with a vested interest in always-online/everything-online users.
Standard for flash embedded in tablets where the purchase is on a 'now or never' basis; but for flash-based storage devices(SD/uSD/thumbdrive) the number should be about $10. Maybe $15-$20 if you buy the fastest, name-branded-est, one you can find.
Unless the stuff in tablets is notably superior to the stuff going into SD cards, or the tablet in question is so tightly packed that the larger size requires going with higher density flash chips that are at the unpleasant edge of the price/capacity curve, it's pretty much a 'because we can' thing...
I wouldn't look to the DMCA for guidance on this one... It has, perhaps, inspired a slightly greater degree of verbosity in US takedowns; but it certainly hasn't done much for the legal quality of the genre. The effective pressure to get anything other than the 'this is a DMCA takedown notice' part of the takedown notice right is close to zero.
Given the libido-suppressive effects of caloric restriction, wouldn't it make more sense to step up their precious little moral crusade(jihad?) during all non-ramadan periods and slack off during that month?
Ah, ala carte cable pricing. In my case, with Charter Communications, it is calling up customer service and deciding which of 491 different channels I want. And then changing my mind and changing the line up in a few months. Ala carte selection will drive the billing process crazy.
A la carte pricing will 'cost too much' in roughly the same sense that cablecard suffered magically intractable interoperability problems... Because the providers really don't seem to want it, they have exceptionally minimal incentive to provide a good interface for customers to get it. Shockingly enough, businesses that sell individual items(like, oh, every retail and online store ever) have generally worked out ways to manage the terrifying complexity of offering a bunch of SKUs and charging you for the ones you want...
By way of example: Our friends at Amazon have a bit over half a million products listed in their DVD section. They manage to make, in most cases, hunting by title, hunting by genre, hunting by 'other people like', hunting by 'people who like stuff I like liked', and any number of other parameters pretty trivial. The checkout process isn't exactly rocket surgery either.
Sssh, this is slashdot where there's no such thing as "brick and mortar". The only thing that matters is the cost of sending the data down the wire, and there are no other costs that really exist (it's all regulator BS and fat CEOs trying to siphon your hard earned money). Who cares if it takes actual people to run an operation?
While a strawman is always fun, I think that people(at least the slashdot crowd) would much prefer to see a 'this is the per-location cost of keeping the system up' base charge, with the option to purchase various sorts of services(channels, data, etc.) over the wire, rather than giant opaque bundles or 'a la carte' pricing that obfuscates the fixed costs by having some byzantine sliding price for each item based on how many items you are buying, that's just intended to be confusing.
I would be... surprised... if this new model is allowed to interfere with the oh-so-precious-and-fractious English/French dickering in Canadian regulatory affairs.
I don't know exactly what they were thinking; but Intel's licensing of PowerVR GPUs somehow seemed to exclude video drivers that don't suck in any form, much less fully open. One would have thought that chipzilla could have gotten better terms, especially if they were planning a part for the embedded market...
The 'GMA500' and 'GMA600'(SGX 535, at different clock speeds) and 'GMA3600' and 'GMA3650'(SGX545, also differing in clock speed) all have tottering heaps of crap for drivers. Even if you don't care about license, they aren't exactly catching Nvidia in the 'actually works while tainting your kernel' department.
The rest of the GMAs are pretty unexciting; but are in-house designs and don't seem to have the same epic driver woes.
For reasons of fairness and/or perverse nationalism, I'd like to point out that the US was a bastion of eugenic progress and enthusiasm until those Germans ruined it for everyone... A few states were still sterilizing the unfit for a couple of decades after the war!