This issue has been an ongoing problem in Russia. Some years ago, rotten.com posted gruesome pictures of a guy who barbecued himself while trying to take down some power lines. He was found weeks after the fact (it was a rural location) still hanging from a pole, one half of his body charred the other half bloated.
I'd bet that Google is looking to target embedded platforms that will need a lightweight browser in ROM. This would include things like cell phones/PDAs, netbooks, notebooks with a pre-boot environment, etc. This is what Chrome was designed for from the start.
The biggest killer app of them all is television. Over the next few years, The US has an impending mass uptake of new, higher resolution televisions that are suitable for web browsing and other text dominant internet activities. We already have a selection of set-top boxes and game consoles to provide usable internet functions on TV. Internet enabled televisions will become commonplace in the not too distant future. These will be the products of choice for aging, wealthy, and (relatively) technologically illiterate boomers.
If Google can get its foot in the door to that and other embedded markets then they can compete without having to face MS directly. I expect that MS will not be able to revamp Pocket IE to make it capable enough to be a viable competitor to Chrome on a platform where a web browser has to have all the bells and whistles to satisfy users.
Firefox was just mentioned in an Answer on the Jeopardy Teen Tournament. It is safe to say that FF has begun to enter into the general cultural consciousness.
The GP is referring to a talking Barbie from the early 90's that would say "Math is Hard" among other things. It was recalled after causing a stir and is now a valuable collector's item.
So now the potential defendant has to pay for the privilege of having the antagonizing party produce legal documents to build their case. That sounds a lot like a distorted form of extortion and constitutes a barratrous action on the part of the lawyers involved.
Tcl is already the closest thing to a rational, usable lisp without the parentheses. It's grammar is only slightly more complicated. Most lisp goodies that aren't there by default can be easily added if one desires.
The difference is that there is much more incentive for organized crime to develop trojans that can amass credentials to hundreds of thousands of accounts than there is in trying to intercept a check. Card skimming is a bigger problem and even that is difficult due to the likelihood of getting caught once the fraud detection is set off and they track down the source. The scope of what can be accomplished through fraud on the internet is much greater and therefore the risk is higher.
I'm using a P1510 and I love it. I don't consider it underpowered at all as long as your goal isn't to run cutting edge games. It runs XP and Linux great. Fujitsu got the netbook concept right 3 years ago when everyone else was still making SUV notebooks. I transport it in a convenient, portable DVD player case.
The best feature is the ULV Pentium M which can be heavily undervolted to conserve battery life and reduce heat output. With the extended battery I can get 6+ hours running at 600MHz, 0.7V. For XP, set up NHC to configure the lower voltages. For Linux, use the PHCkernel patch to override the BIOS voltage settings and configure cpufreq for ondemand at all times.
This machine is quite usable with 512MB if you keep Windows lean on active processes. It gets better with the 1GB upgrade if you can find the memory. The only big problem with this machine is the obsolete connector for the 1.8" HD limits you to an 80GB max drive. If you're lucky you can snag a replacement cable for the newer P1620 (find a broken one cheap) that supports the newer ZIF connector.
I once had to take a flight out from the Fort Wayne airport. This is a very small facility and and it was almost completely empty when I arrived, checked in, and went through the security screening. At this point there were less than ten travelers waiting for flights out of the whole airport. After a cancellation announcement due to an approaching storm I went back to the ticket counter and got rebooked on another plane. The second time through the security checkpoint I got "randomly selected" for the extra check for explosives residue. The checkpoint was manned by three TSA agents and there is no way they could have forgotten me from my first trip through. I accept that they had no choice in the matter and I had nothing better to do but the whole scene was a bit absurd.
and doesn't transfer in the realtime mode needed by DV cams.
That's not true. USB 2 has support for Isochronous transfers just like FW. How well it's supported by hosts and peripherals is another thing but that isn't a limitation of the implementation not the interface.
It looks like there aren't any floppy installation images for Lenny i386 . This is a real sore point for me since the Etch floppies wouldn't properly boot from a USB drive on my laptop and I had to fall back to Sarge to bootstrap a fresh installation. I was hoping they'd have this fixed but apparently they just decided to lazily drop support altogether.
It's really frustrating that Debian is letting floppy installation support slip. This is a big deal for those of us with old or unusual hardware that can't boot from a CD or memory stick or through netbios/PXE.
The real problem is that is is next to impossible to get a successful barratry conviction against the corporate lawyers that embark on their scorched earth lawsuit campaigns. If the courts would lower the bar for establishing abusive behavior the sharks would think twice about using lawsuits as a weapon against harmless people.
Windows has always had superior accessibility because it was designed to support full keyboard navigation from its inception. It's impossible to create an application using standard controls that doesn't support the keyboard. Why Apple didn't make their OS work right in this regard with the move to OSX escapes me to this day.
As much as I don't care for his poor leadership. It is important to point out that the NSA's version of carnivore was in development before Bush took office.
Lo. Witness the gears of the great Republican machine in action.
This is just another stunt by the Bush administration to pay back McCain for being a good lapdog the last eight years. I'm looking forward to the dramatic drop in gas prices coming soon in October.
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This issue has been an ongoing problem in Russia. Some years ago, rotten.com posted gruesome pictures of a guy who barbecued himself while trying to take down some power lines. He was found weeks after the fact (it was a rural location) still hanging from a pole, one half of his body charred the other half bloated.
I'd bet that Google is looking to target embedded platforms that will need a lightweight browser in ROM. This would include things like cell phones/PDAs, netbooks, notebooks with a pre-boot environment, etc. This is what Chrome was designed for from the start.
The biggest killer app of them all is television. Over the next few years, The US has an impending mass uptake of new, higher resolution televisions that are suitable for web browsing and other text dominant internet activities. We already have a selection of set-top boxes and game consoles to provide usable internet functions on TV. Internet enabled televisions will become commonplace in the not too distant future. These will be the products of choice for aging, wealthy, and (relatively) technologically illiterate boomers.
If Google can get its foot in the door to that and other embedded markets then they can compete without having to face MS directly. I expect that MS will not be able to revamp Pocket IE to make it capable enough to be a viable competitor to Chrome on a platform where a web browser has to have all the bells and whistles to satisfy users.
Firefox was just mentioned in an Answer on the Jeopardy Teen Tournament. It is safe to say that FF has begun to enter into the general cultural consciousness.
The GP is referring to a talking Barbie from the early 90's that would say "Math is Hard" among other things. It was recalled after causing a stir and is now a valuable collector's item.
So now the potential defendant has to pay for the privilege of having the antagonizing party produce legal documents to build their case. That sounds a lot like a distorted form of extortion and constitutes a barratrous action on the part of the lawyers involved.
Last time I checked, Google and Babelfish were both using Systran and produced identical results. At least for Japanese.
Tcl is already the closest thing to a rational, usable lisp without the parentheses. It's grammar is only slightly more complicated. Most lisp goodies that aren't there by default can be easily added if one desires.
The difference is that there is much more incentive for organized crime to develop trojans that can amass credentials to hundreds of thousands of accounts than there is in trying to intercept a check. Card skimming is a bigger problem and even that is difficult due to the likelihood of getting caught once the fraud detection is set off and they track down the source. The scope of what can be accomplished through fraud on the internet is much greater and therefore the risk is higher.
Oh yeah, I forgot. Having a built-in three-button mouse rocks for select/paste in X.
I'm using a P1510 and I love it. I don't consider it underpowered at all as long as your goal isn't to run cutting edge games. It runs XP and Linux great. Fujitsu got the netbook concept right 3 years ago when everyone else was still making SUV notebooks. I transport it in a convenient, portable DVD player case.
The best feature is the ULV Pentium M which can be heavily undervolted to conserve battery life and reduce heat output. With the extended battery I can get 6+ hours running at 600MHz, 0.7V. For XP, set up NHC to configure the lower voltages. For Linux, use the PHCkernel patch to override the BIOS voltage settings and configure cpufreq for ondemand at all times.
This machine is quite usable with 512MB if you keep Windows lean on active processes. It gets better with the 1GB upgrade if you can find the memory. The only big problem with this machine is the obsolete connector for the 1.8" HD limits you to an 80GB max drive. If you're lucky you can snag a replacement cable for the newer P1620 (find a broken one cheap) that supports the newer ZIF connector.
I once had to take a flight out from the Fort Wayne airport. This is a very small facility and and it was almost completely empty when I arrived, checked in, and went through the security screening. At this point there were less than ten travelers waiting for flights out of the whole airport. After a cancellation announcement due to an approaching storm I went back to the ticket counter and got rebooked on another plane. The second time through the security checkpoint I got "randomly selected" for the extra check for explosives residue. The checkpoint was manned by three TSA agents and there is no way they could have forgotten me from my first trip through. I accept that they had no choice in the matter and I had nothing better to do but the whole scene was a bit absurd.
and doesn't transfer in the realtime mode needed by DV cams.
That's not true. USB 2 has support for Isochronous transfers just like FW. How well it's supported by hosts and peripherals is another thing but that isn't a limitation of the implementation not the interface.
It looks like there aren't any floppy installation images for Lenny i386 . This is a real sore point for me since the Etch floppies wouldn't properly boot from a USB drive on my laptop and I had to fall back to Sarge to bootstrap a fresh installation. I was hoping they'd have this fixed but apparently they just decided to lazily drop support altogether.
It's really frustrating that Debian is letting floppy installation support slip. This is a big deal for those of us with old or unusual hardware that can't boot from a CD or memory stick or through netbios/PXE.
The real problem is that is is next to impossible to get a successful barratry conviction against the corporate lawyers that embark on their scorched earth lawsuit campaigns. If the courts would lower the bar for establishing abusive behavior the sharks would think twice about using lawsuits as a weapon against harmless people.
We might as well apply the monkey-typewriter theorem and have the hardest setting require a successful proof of a Millennium Prize problem.
Excellent, Minitrue is working as planned. We can now commence with phase three or our diabolical plan.
FYI in case you didn't know, in Japan, WS is actually used as a thickening agent for soups and the like. Mm, mm good.
Windows has always had superior accessibility because it was designed to support full keyboard navigation from its inception. It's impossible to create an application using standard controls that doesn't support the keyboard. Why Apple didn't make their OS work right in this regard with the move to OSX escapes me to this day.
In fact, the English Wikipedia does appear to be just past it's growth peak right now.
You forgot the killer feature... the inclusion of a kitchen sink, at least for that abominable forked version.
As much as I don't care for his poor leadership. It is important to point out that the NSA's version of carnivore was in development before Bush took office.
Must... justify... high priced... lawyers...
Lo. Witness the gears of the great Republican machine in action.
This is just another stunt by the Bush administration to pay back McCain for being a good lapdog the last eight years. I'm looking forward to the dramatic drop in gas prices coming soon in October.
This is a simpler solution shown on /. before. Not as good for running though.
http://www.virtusphere.net/product.htm
IOW. Learn how to be a con artist using this fictional philosophy as a framework.