I'm a bit interested in this Via 800Mhz CPU. It seems very strange to see a new player in the x86 CPU field, and I wonder if this chip is based on a licensed AMD or Intel design? Or is the reason they can make it because it is only 800Mhz and therefore easier to produce than a whole line including bleeding edge chips?
First generation silicon are known to be less reliable than later designs. Can a chip made by Via be trusted in terms of reliability? (I realize they make lots of chips, but generally not this kind)
This even has my college newspaper. Normally that wouldn't be much of a feature, but they do have coverage of our football team that no one else has. So I'm fairly impressed. The timestamp when the articles were spidered was really nice as well.
This is a long overdue feature....its automatic, robust, and I've often wanted to read another take on the same issue when I've read a news article. I hope that they have it set up to filter out all the repeated AP articles that are on 2 zillion different websites. But I'm guessing they did, it would just be similar to filering out similar results in general searches.
I don't know any figures offhand for Pepsi, but coke sells over 1 billion servings of its many products daily. This includes over 200 drink products, and probably some food products too.
But my point here is that nearly everyone drinks soft drinks.
The matter of constituency is important. One legislator can't really represent the whole country, but they can represent a small district (especially in the house). Also, it allows all the views of various geographies to be represented from the bible belt to Berkeley.
Why is this stupid? Most highly anticipated CDs leak out completely before they are released. I realize this is sometimes good, but marketing is a funny thing and you have to give them the chance to try to create a big buildup if they want. This is seperate from DVD region encoding, they could just release at the same time everywhere. But the initial release week is very important, and they should be allowed to do whatever they want (even if it shoots themselves in the foot.)
The CC companies do some strange checking on individual cards too. When I was in High School my parents and my brother and I all had cards on the same account. Once they froze the cards because too much was charged in one day. But another time we all happened to be charging things on the same day in 4 different countries and there was no problem at all! (Costa Rica, Spain, US, Canada). I guess it makes sense that a stolen card would be used in the same location, but it seems like it would be strange to have them going in 4 countries too...
I'm assuming he means that 3.9% have a Linux distro installed on it. Of those 3.9%, I would guess that only about 15-20% are actually using it as their primary operating system. This would make sense, since there is a lot of x86 hardware out there and maybe 4% of people are highly technical.
If he means the primary operating system is linux 3.9% of the time and only 3.1% for mac, he's crazy. I know a fair number of people who use macs, I don't know anyone specifically who is using Linux as a primary OS (and I am a CS student and work for a semiconductor company, so I have plenty of exposure to technical people).
Lots of people play with Linux, most still stick with Windows.
You can't sue the patent office for some "really big bucks"....they are immune from civil liability because they're the government.
The only thing you could do is claim that their actions are unconstitutional, but that is a bit of a crapshoot since the constitution clearly allows IP laws, but is vague on what they should be. Its basically just the opinion of a judge at this point. Here is the constitution:
The Congress shall have Power . . . To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries . ..
So the only question is whether or not a business process can be invented (it seems logical that it could be). Then, it is simply a matter of whether congress chooses to protect them (which it seems to have the broad ability to do).
Any business class service that is important should be bought with a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Basically, it just requires that 90% of the bandwidth is always available (a certain amount of the 1.544Mbps is used for internal purposes anyway). This will probably increase your costs, but if you don't have an agreement like this it shouldn't be called "business class" if you ask me.
One of the interesting things I picked up on at my last job, is that service from the LEC tends to be better than other companies. For example, an Ameritech line is often faster than Broadwing (even though Broadwing is having Ameritech install the circuit anyway...). There are two potential reasons for this....Either they are screwing with their competitors lines, which wouldn't be a surprise, or they have better peering relationships with various backbones and other providers. The quality of peering relationships is important, and not something that is easy to determine.
The other main expense is supporting customers that won't RTFM! If Joe consumer wants on-(the phone)-line training they should pay for it not me just because we use the same ISP.
There is no manual for ISP service....it should just work, you generally wont even need to change any settings from defaults.
Of course the very best thing about WP, that I have never seen any other WP do, is that the "control codes" option always lets you see exactly why a document is behaving the way it is on screen: each formatting option is just a simple code between text brackets in a text document.
Word does this too, just click the paragraph symbol. Then you can see the formatting by the style of the symbols if you don't have text.
You have linked to two sources of statistics. One is the murder rate, which is a very small portion of the total crimes committed in this country. It doesn't take a genius to know that minorities get killed more than white people.
The second source seems to give demographics on the number of people caught for crimes or in prison. That is just the problem some people are mentioning, that crime in poor areas is enforced while it isn't in richer areas.
One observation...I've noticed a lot of people point out that Windows doesn't install all the other apps you want such as office software etc. while Redhat, etc. do.
But, if Windows did do this, people would scream evil monopoly.
Anyway, the installtion competition is pointless, win2k and XP install very quickly with almost no user intervention beyond setting the time zone. I have set up fresh installs of both in the last 3 months, with no issues. One was winXP on an OS free walmart machine, the other was 2k on an oldish dual 750Mhz celeron server.
Red Hat is just about as easy, and consumers almost never install OSes anyway. So who cares???!
Indeed, not to mention the laws of economics. The day that CG gets cheaper than actors is the day that actor's cut their rates. Human actors will ALWAYS be cheaper than CG.
And also, real actors will always be more interesting than CG ones. There is a reason that the industry for covering celebrities is so huge. The gossip columns, the awards shows, the parties, autographs, etc. People don't want some made up star to follow, they want a real person. And the personalities of the real people are more interesting than writers could ever come up with for fake ones. Think of Cameron Diaz's personality, or Robert Downy Jr's problems. You could make it up I guess, but it wouldn't be as intersting as a real person.
Well, I didn't read your story because I didn't know what the content of the story was going to be. News items generally start with a paragraph summarizing the content of the whole article. After reading this, I can tell whether I am interested in reading it and whether it is worth my time. Since you didn't provide that, I chose not to read it. But I guess you got what you wanted: One more hit, one more banner impression.
The only flaw in this argument is that another tire company such as goodyear would offer a tire that would be equal to or more satisfactory to the customer than Firestone's tire. As much as you wish it weren't so, most people would find Linux to be an unsatisfactory replacement for Windows.
What the hell is wrong with Slashdot's editing? The description of this story gives absolutely no indication of what it is about...and when you click on the link, you find that the person just ripped off a line from the Register's story anyway. In these cases, can the editors please write their own summary, or look for a better submission?
$250 a day is still over $62k per year in income. If he comes up with some newer methods of increasing income, this will still be enough to keep doing it. So there is still a lot more pain that needs to be inflicted.
I wish I could read the indictment, because I can't figure the arguments out. If the DVD player decodes the encrypted data on the disk, HOW can DECSS be an aid to piracy?
I mean, a piracy tool that does not do anything doesn't make sense. I realize that the real issue is that the MPAA wants to control the format of distribution, but I'm interested in how the prosecution is arguing this case.
The only thing I can think of, is that you could better compress the decoded disk and then make it viable for download? Is this true? Does norweigan law specify exactly what a piracy tool is? Obviously a CD burner could be a piracy tool too, so how do they make the distinction in the law between a device that can be used for many things including piracy, and a piracy device? I hope it isn't exclusively prosecutorial discretion.
Portuguese laws forbid different entities from cross-referencing their databases, without explicit approval of the citizens.
And there is the problem. In America, government doesn't look out for the interests of its citizens. Instead, once a database is created businesses would begin to lobby, and shortly thereafter they would have complete access to this.
Let me give you one example. In my state of Michigan, when you apply for a drivers license your information is put into a database. The state then immediately sells this data to telemarketers and junk mail people. You can opt out, but it is a pain in the ass (you have to submit a paper form at the local secretary of states office, and a visit to this office is similar to a visit to hell) so no one does it.
It is a shame that the SSN has been used for so many things. Only now are people beginning to realize that it is better not to use this number due to identity theft. Another example, my university now assigns real student ID numbers instead of using the SSN for privacy reasons. Businesses should start using phone numbers exclusively for looking up accounts (many already do this).
I know there will be lots of bitching about the original three star wars movies not being released yet. And I agree with that, but I want to bitch a little about the indiana jones trilogy not being released on DVD. Its really dissapointing not to be able to get those, and it seems like it wont be on Lucas' radar for quite a while.
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First generation silicon are known to be less reliable than later designs. Can a chip made by Via be trusted in terms of reliability? (I realize they make lots of chips, but generally not this kind)
Oh well, just general questions...
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This is a long overdue feature....its automatic, robust, and I've often wanted to read another take on the same issue when I've read a news article. I hope that they have it set up to filter out all the repeated AP articles that are on 2 zillion different websites. But I'm guessing they did, it would just be similar to filering out similar results in general searches.
But my point here is that nearly everyone drinks soft drinks.
The matter of constituency is important. One legislator can't really represent the whole country, but they can represent a small district (especially in the house). Also, it allows all the views of various geographies to be represented from the bible belt to Berkeley.
Well you don't have to. Only the reviewers who signed binding NDAs have to.
Why is this stupid? Most highly anticipated CDs leak out completely before they are released. I realize this is sometimes good, but marketing is a funny thing and you have to give them the chance to try to create a big buildup if they want. This is seperate from DVD region encoding, they could just release at the same time everywhere. But the initial release week is very important, and they should be allowed to do whatever they want (even if it shoots themselves in the foot.)
The CC companies do some strange checking on individual cards too. When I was in High School my parents and my brother and I all had cards on the same account. Once they froze the cards because too much was charged in one day. But another time we all happened to be charging things on the same day in 4 different countries and there was no problem at all! (Costa Rica, Spain, US, Canada). I guess it makes sense that a stolen card would be used in the same location, but it seems like it would be strange to have them going in 4 countries too...
If he means the primary operating system is linux 3.9% of the time and only 3.1% for mac, he's crazy. I know a fair number of people who use macs, I don't know anyone specifically who is using Linux as a primary OS (and I am a CS student and work for a semiconductor company, so I have plenty of exposure to technical people).
Lots of people play with Linux, most still stick with Windows.
The only thing you could do is claim that their actions are unconstitutional, but that is a bit of a crapshoot since the constitution clearly allows IP laws, but is vague on what they should be. Its basically just the opinion of a judge at this point. Here is the constitution:
The Congress shall have Power . . . To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries . .
So the only question is whether or not a business process can be invented (it seems logical that it could be). Then, it is simply a matter of whether congress chooses to protect them (which it seems to have the broad ability to do).
Any business class service that is important should be bought with a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Basically, it just requires that 90% of the bandwidth is always available (a certain amount of the 1.544Mbps is used for internal purposes anyway). This will probably increase your costs, but if you don't have an agreement like this it shouldn't be called "business class" if you ask me.
One of the interesting things I picked up on at my last job, is that service from the LEC tends to be better than other companies. For example, an Ameritech line is often faster than Broadwing (even though Broadwing is having Ameritech install the circuit anyway...). There are two potential reasons for this....Either they are screwing with their competitors lines, which wouldn't be a surprise, or they have better peering relationships with various backbones and other providers. The quality of peering relationships is important, and not something that is easy to determine.
There is no manual for ISP service....it should just work, you generally wont even need to change any settings from defaults.
Word does this too, just click the paragraph symbol. Then you can see the formatting by the style of the symbols if you don't have text.
The second source seems to give demographics on the number of people caught for crimes or in prison. That is just the problem some people are mentioning, that crime in poor areas is enforced while it isn't in richer areas.
But, if Windows did do this, people would scream evil monopoly.
Anyway, the installtion competition is pointless, win2k and XP install very quickly with almost no user intervention beyond setting the time zone. I have set up fresh installs of both in the last 3 months, with no issues. One was winXP on an OS free walmart machine, the other was 2k on an oldish dual 750Mhz celeron server.
Red Hat is just about as easy, and consumers almost never install OSes anyway. So who cares???!
And also, real actors will always be more interesting than CG ones. There is a reason that the industry for covering celebrities is so huge. The gossip columns, the awards shows, the parties, autographs, etc. People don't want some made up star to follow, they want a real person. And the personalities of the real people are more interesting than writers could ever come up with for fake ones. Think of Cameron Diaz's personality, or Robert Downy Jr's problems. You could make it up I guess, but it wouldn't be as intersting as a real person.
Well, I didn't read your story because I didn't know what the content of the story was going to be. News items generally start with a paragraph summarizing the content of the whole article. After reading this, I can tell whether I am interested in reading it and whether it is worth my time. Since you didn't provide that, I chose not to read it. But I guess you got what you wanted: One more hit, one more banner impression.
The only flaw in this argument is that another tire company such as goodyear would offer a tire that would be equal to or more satisfactory to the customer than Firestone's tire. As much as you wish it weren't so, most people would find Linux to be an unsatisfactory replacement for Windows.
What the hell is wrong with Slashdot's editing? The description of this story gives absolutely no indication of what it is about...and when you click on the link, you find that the person just ripped off a line from the Register's story anyway. In these cases, can the editors please write their own summary, or look for a better submission?
$250 a day is still over $62k per year in income. If he comes up with some newer methods of increasing income, this will still be enough to keep doing it. So there is still a lot more pain that needs to be inflicted.
I mean, a piracy tool that does not do anything doesn't make sense. I realize that the real issue is that the MPAA wants to control the format of distribution, but I'm interested in how the prosecution is arguing this case.
The only thing I can think of, is that you could better compress the decoded disk and then make it viable for download? Is this true? Does norweigan law specify exactly what a piracy tool is? Obviously a CD burner could be a piracy tool too, so how do they make the distinction in the law between a device that can be used for many things including piracy, and a piracy device? I hope it isn't exclusively prosecutorial discretion.
And there is the problem. In America, government doesn't look out for the interests of its citizens. Instead, once a database is created businesses would begin to lobby, and shortly thereafter they would have complete access to this.
Let me give you one example. In my state of Michigan, when you apply for a drivers license your information is put into a database. The state then immediately sells this data to telemarketers and junk mail people. You can opt out, but it is a pain in the ass (you have to submit a paper form at the local secretary of states office, and a visit to this office is similar to a visit to hell) so no one does it.
It is a shame that the SSN has been used for so many things. Only now are people beginning to realize that it is better not to use this number due to identity theft. Another example, my university now assigns real student ID numbers instead of using the SSN for privacy reasons. Businesses should start using phone numbers exclusively for looking up accounts (many already do this).
I know there will be lots of bitching about the original three star wars movies not being released yet. And I agree with that, but I want to bitch a little about the indiana jones trilogy not being released on DVD. Its really dissapointing not to be able to get those, and it seems like it wont be on Lucas' radar for quite a while.
My bad, that should be .09.