.. how much for the unfiltered internet? ROTFLOL.. can you really successfully filter the bad stuff on the internet without filtering out some of the good too? I don't think anyone has done that successfully so far.
it sounds to me like an invasion of privacy. They are using tech to track where you are and what you just watched or saw. This just sounds so intrusive, I think I'm going to be sick.
without Hard drive, monitor, keyboard, mouse and OS.
Essentially there is a mini-itx motherboard with a Celeron CPU for $79. CPU included, add 1G memory for $24 and case for $60, and it came to about $160. I can get a hard drive from newegg for dirt cheap and have a Linux PC for under $200.
Yeah, the mini-itx celeron system will not be the fastest and it is certainly not a gaming machine, but for a desktop pc to surf the web and all that, it is pretty cheap. I'm guessing if you include a monitor and mouse / keyboard it would be more, but I have that so, this is a realy cheap deal.
.. and apple is wrong, take it from an ex-patent examiner.
The way that patent examiners work is by number of actions on a case. Each patent application is a case and there are only at most 2 actions on a case: first action, usually a rejection for something; final action, either the patent is allowed or denied. Allowing a patent on the first round only gives you one action. The patent examiners are expected to complete a certain number of actions each week. As the patent examiner stays there longer they need to complete more actions. A new patent examiner, GS-5 or GS-7 would have to do about 4 patents every 2 weeks, where a GS-11 would have to do about 7 every two weeks. This never ever ever takes into account the complexity of the patent either. A 10 page patent application gets the same attention as a 150 page application. It does not take into consideration that the job is boring as hell unless you like dealing with lawyers.
Many patent examiners are not from the technical fields that they are working in and some are fresh out of college. Patent examiners are government employees and thus have the same lazy attitude that most government employees do.
Anyone who has been on/. for the past 5 years and seen some of the stupid issues that have come up because of patents would know that the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) is completely jacked up and not working.
Take it from me, I worked there, and to reject a patent I would have come up with any f***ed up logic just to get it out the door on time, and usually allow them the second time around, unless I really did come up with some good BS
I would have to agree. In the bay area the FastTrak uses this when you run the tolls and don't have a transponder. I got a ticket because my partner borrowed my car. He then paid it.
It is not like you are driving on private property when they do this, you are on a public highway and expected to have a license and valid registration. What is the difference between a police officer looking at each license plate and calling it in vs this? I'll tell you, a computer can do this faster.
1) US regulations, like copyright and patents prevent certain things from coming into the US. There are actually a slew of other phones that are like the iPhone or as capable but not allowed in the US.
2) capitalism! I know it sounds strange, but many phones that are cheap are actually to cheap for companies to want to sell in the US. The US companies need to make certain profit margins and cheap cell phones do not help them make that. There are lots of 2 and 3 mega pixel camera phones out there that they do not want to release into the US all at ones. They want to trickle them in, so that they can make a profit. I know this sounds weird, but it is true.
Yeah, I have been worried about countries that start passing laws on terrorism ( like the US ) and what the affect of those laws will be when they get 'twisted'. I'm glad to see that some people here on slashdot get the fact that what a law says and how it gets 'interpreted' is two different things.
I wonder how many people understand that in the US we have a different situation. Our government changes every 42 years. Congressional elections are held every 2 year, and presidential every 4 years. So the laws that Bush is putting out right now, may have a different meaning next year when we have our presidential election and Bush is not in office. How do we know that the next president, whoever it is, will not twist the laws and executive orders that Bush has implemented. We don't! Be afraid, be very very afraid!
does he like sweaters and pullovers instead? I guess he does not wear button fly jeans then either.. I always thought he was kind of a zipper man... rotflol..
No, I think he has it correct in saying political official.
I got a degree in Electrical Engineering, but I have been doing computer programming ever since. So 'technically' I am an electrical engineer, but in reality I am a computer programmer.
So in the above example, he is correct in saying political official. Even though 'technically' this person may be a scientist with a degree and everything, they are a political official once they take that office. Given Bush's track record of appointees, like Harriet Ellan Miers, supreme court nominee, I'd say this is more of a tactic to shut up the scientific community.
Of course you trolling republicans, who like to mod posts down that differentiate from your political views, will probably mod this down. So I hope that the trolls that mod this down have their dicks fall, their families die, and their lives turned all f***ed up because of the bad decisions of this 'leader' they choose to follow.
There are other reasons that Linux has failed on the desktop.
1) Late to the market. Windows was on the desktop before Linux was even considered an operating system. It was not until the late 1990's that corporations started to look at Linux as a real operating system, and many did not adopt Linux until after 2000.
2) The desktop part of Linux was more of an after thought in the late 1990's. It was X windows + window manager + applications + everything looked different and hardware support was sketchy (and for some hardware today it still is). There were no inexpensive prebuilt desktop systems for Linux like there were for MS Windows and Linux had not top end software like the Apple/Mac did. ( I'm still talking about back in the late 1990's ). GNOME and KDE were around, but in their infancies back then. They are usable now, but back then there were mediocre at best.
3) You are guaranteed (almost) that if you go out and buy hardware that it will work under MS Windows or it will say what version of MS you need. Hardware rarely if ever says 'you need this version of Linux' (network cards are usually the exception). Go out and buy a web cam and then hope it works.
4) No 'central command'. MS is a big corporation and you can find support on their site for most of your problems, or you can call someone ( it may be expensive and time consuming, but you can do this ). Apple has the 'genius bar'. Linux has ??? Well if you order from RedHat, or some other vendor, then you can pay for support otherwise you are online hoping you hit the right search term or find the right message board, etc.
I could go on, as there are other reasons, and maybe someone else could come up with a few more.
Now don't get me wrong I love Linux, I use it every day as my primary workstation and it is fine for me, but until someone starts selling Linux desktops like Apple does or Dell/HP+MS, it will be tough for Linux to make the inroads.
"acts of violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people".
Is saying we should get out of Iraq "undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction"?
Is saying we could get out of Iraq threatening the peace and stability of Iraq?
What about rallies, peace marches, and so on. Some people (read trolls and idiots that moderate posts down and think freedom and liberty are the same thing) may interpret this as just what it says and assume that unless you are actually doing something over in Iraq that it fits this category. The problem is that in law, semantics plays a bigger part in how things are interpreted and this can have broad reaching authority over freedoms.
This administration is really scaring me, and I am waiting for them to say something to the affect of, we need to keep this administration in office for the security of the nation and not allow Hillary Clinton (or any one else) to be president.
I don't think that MS supports IE5.5 anymore. There website may work, but IE6 has been out for a while now, WTF!
I think comcrap, is being cheap and they don't want to spring for a web developer. That would cut to much into their bottom line. I mean how many web developers can you hire when you charge you more than $100 ( in SF ) for digital cable, HBO & Showtime a month per household.
Only trolls mod down, so they can read things under their bridge!
So far I have seen lots of projects about embedded Linux, but few about hardware. While I saw that they will be using parts of the Maemo project code, and of course the Linux kernel, there is little on what they will be doing to support hardware projects.
I'm wondering when someone is going to release the hardware for me to use. Not all bundled up in a package like the iPhone Linux wanna be that was mentioned on/. a few days ago, but a hardware component package. More like inexpensive pico-itx type devices. Something that has a processor and the surrounding hardware, and lets me either choose memory size and storage devices. I guess an embedded arm board would work for this though, but this is Intel. Where are the embedded Intel boards ( maybe I just haven't found them)? I'm looking for something as inexpensive as the arm chips or better yet as cheap as the pic micro controllers.
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It actually takes 3 to 7 years to come up with a drug, get it tested, through the FDA and approved. Drug companies spend lots of money on research. Getting a patent ensures that if there is a need for their drug that they make their money back. Also drugs are sold fairly cheap compared to electronics. In order for people to buy drugs they must be cheap otherwise people wont buy them ( unless they absolutely have to [ diabetics, cancer, and so on ] ).
Software and hardware does not usually take that long to come to market ( not these days at least ) and do not have to be sold as cheap ( the iPhone is an example of that [ how many college students have used arm processor for their college projects ] ).
It takes about 2 years to get a patent, maybe longer in some cases, and if you are lucky you can do it in less time. That means that it is a 2 year investment, as well as there are patent fees and so on. For a drug maker having an exclusive lock on something is a good thing, because then they can recoup their initial investment. It will usually take someone else a few years to create a drug that does the same thing, so they can make money back that way. In electronics and software, it does not make as much sense, because usually people will not take as long to create a new program or hardware device ( thing gif / jpeg vs png ).
'Once elected, a president never needs to worry about popularity contest since he will never be unseated except when he gets a Monica..."
Clinton wasn't unseated, he was impeached, but he remained president till the end of his second term.
Dem / Rep, they are both the same. They both want power and will do with it what they want. Personally, I'd rather have someone in office who couldn't keep his dick in his pants, than someone in office that could stop getting us into needless wars. Bush Jr. sucks dick! I'd rather have 4 more years of Regan or Bush Sr. than this moron we have in office now, and I'm NOT a dem!
I find it hard to swallow too. Java has an update program, that by default will check for new versions of the JRE. Also I didn't see them say what kind of security risk this is. Will someone take over the computer or potentially steal data, does it affect all OS?
This is very vague. if I came to my boss with this kind of info, he tell me to get the f*** out of his office. WTF!
I think now after Katrina, Rita, and some of the other global disasters that have occurred in the past few years, people are all more willing to accept climate change. I think the issue now is, did we cause this climate change and if so can we reverse it. Personally I think we did cause this climate change, but convincing others can sometimes be impossible.
There are also two issues that are faced, if we want to push forward the idea that we caused climate change: 1) if we want to reverse climate change, what will be the impact to businesses; 2) what would be the religious implications, if we have that much control over the environment.
These are real issues that politics plays into. The republican party has a large religious following and corporate backing. This means that anything that affects either of these views is always considered taboo or bad.
So, if we have caused a climate change, and we want to undo climate change, corporate America and other nations need to change their ways. This has a huge economic impact ( although IMHO the alternative is global death ). These changes will cause businesses to loose money and in some cases go under. That is not acceptable to corporate America (I'm ok with weeding out bad companies, that are screwing us all).
On the religious side, if we are responsible for causing the world to 'end in fire' then the whole idea of 'rapture' suddenly becomes a 'we did it to ourselves' and possibly there is no god to save anyone. No god, means no rapture, which means all these people are screwed like the rest of us.
Personally I like to say, the rapture came, your stuck here with the rest of us, now what are you going to do, because god is not coming back for you until you fix this planet!
... do you speed, do you j-walk, do you masturbate or have sex without the intent of having children? Well the first 2 are already against the law, but what if they all were to become against the law? Would you be breaking the law then? What if preying was made against the law ( and I am not talking about public schools )? What would have to become against the law, before you were breaking it, or are you already doing things that you should not be?
Apparently dogs eggs are not fully developed in the ovaries. The eggs actually develop when the dog goes into heat and the eggs move down the uterus. So while there is a company that can clone cats, (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0 324_040324_catclones.html) that company has been unsuccessful at cloning dogs. According to a show on TV about this company, they said they would need to build a fake uterus. Of course this is weird because supposedly korea already cloned dogs 2 years ago (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0 803_050803_dog_clone.html).
Why does "Terminator, Rise of the Machines" come to mind? Or is it iRobot?
This year it is robots with tazors, next year, we get Robots with AI.
Maybe something should just not be done. Maybe this will make people obey traffic laws. We could use a few around here to keep the bicyclists off the sidewalks, pedestrians from j-walking, and red-light runners, as these are against the law.
I usually set my apps up to work with 132 columnsx 40-45 rows. It works much better than 80, but at times I go over and find 132 can be limiting. 132 does allow me to have 2 windows side by side to look at the two windows and compare things or look at 2 windows at the same time.
As long as I can resize the window the initial size is less of a problem. The only thing it does not work well with is my console, which expects 80x25. I need to fix that, to be 132x45.
I don't code for 80 columns anymore because it was a standard that was set at a time when 80x24 was as big. Now we can do much larger, so I push for 132x40-45. If my screen would fit it nicely I'd probably do 200-250x100 or so.
I figure it would have made it to the Supreme Court before it got quashed. I'm not surprised about this, but I am surprised about the people who don't see anything wrong with this. This year it is looking for terrorists, next year it is looking for anyone who opposes the government in any way shape of form.
What's a techie without his/her phone? It is not so inconvenient for apple, but it would be inconvenient for someone who starts to reply on that (or any) device and then has to go without it for a few days. Just you wait till your without your devices and have to go through withdrawal!
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.. how much for the unfiltered internet? ROTFLOL.. can you really successfully filter the bad stuff on the internet without filtering out some of the good too? I don't think anyone has done that successfully so far.
it sounds to me like an invasion of privacy. They are using tech to track where you are and what you just watched or saw. This just sounds so intrusive, I think I'm going to be sick.
Essentially there is a mini-itx motherboard with a Celeron CPU for $79. CPU included, add 1G memory for $24 and case for $60, and it came to about $160. I can get a hard drive from newegg for dirt cheap and have a Linux PC for under $200.
Yeah, the mini-itx celeron system will not be the fastest and it is certainly not a gaming machine, but for a desktop pc to surf the web and all that, it is pretty cheap. I'm guessing if you include a monitor and mouse / keyboard it would be more, but I have that so, this is a realy cheap deal.
The way that patent examiners work is by number of actions on a case. Each patent application is a case and there are only at most 2 actions on a case: first action, usually a rejection for something; final action, either the patent is allowed or denied. Allowing a patent on the first round only gives you one action. The patent examiners are expected to complete a certain number of actions each week. As the patent examiner stays there longer they need to complete more actions. A new patent examiner, GS-5 or GS-7 would have to do about 4 patents every 2 weeks, where a GS-11 would have to do about 7 every two weeks. This never ever ever takes into account the complexity of the patent either. A 10 page patent application gets the same attention as a 150 page application. It does not take into consideration that the job is boring as hell unless you like dealing with lawyers.
Many patent examiners are not from the technical fields that they are working in and some are fresh out of college. Patent examiners are government employees and thus have the same lazy attitude that most government employees do.
Anyone who has been on /. for the past 5 years and seen some of the stupid issues that have come up because of patents would know that the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) is completely jacked up and not working.
Take it from me, I worked there, and to reject a patent I would have come up with any f***ed up logic just to get it out the door on time, and usually allow them the second time around, unless I really did come up with some good BS
It is not like you are driving on private property when they do this, you are on a public highway and expected to have a license and valid registration. What is the difference between a police officer looking at each license plate and calling it in vs this? I'll tell you, a computer can do this faster.
2) capitalism! I know it sounds strange, but many phones that are cheap are actually to cheap for companies to want to sell in the US. The US companies need to make certain profit margins and cheap cell phones do not help them make that. There are lots of 2 and 3 mega pixel camera phones out there that they do not want to release into the US all at ones. They want to trickle them in, so that they can make a profit. I know this sounds weird, but it is true.
I wonder how many people understand that in the US we have a different situation. Our government changes every 42 years. Congressional elections are held every 2 year, and presidential every 4 years. So the laws that Bush is putting out right now, may have a different meaning next year when we have our presidential election and Bush is not in office. How do we know that the next president, whoever it is, will not twist the laws and executive orders that Bush has implemented. We don't! Be afraid, be very very afraid!
does he like sweaters and pullovers instead? I guess he does not wear button fly jeans then either.. I always thought he was kind of a zipper man ... rotflol..
I got a degree in Electrical Engineering, but I have been doing computer programming ever since. So 'technically' I am an electrical engineer, but in reality I am a computer programmer.
So in the above example, he is correct in saying political official. Even though 'technically' this person may be a scientist with a degree and everything, they are a political official once they take that office. Given Bush's track record of appointees, like Harriet Ellan Miers, supreme court nominee, I'd say this is more of a tactic to shut up the scientific community.
Of course you trolling republicans, who like to mod posts down that differentiate from your political views, will probably mod this down. So I hope that the trolls that mod this down have their dicks fall, their families die, and their lives turned all f***ed up because of the bad decisions of this 'leader' they choose to follow.
1) Late to the market. Windows was on the desktop before Linux was even considered an operating system. It was not until the late 1990's that corporations started to look at Linux as a real operating system, and many did not adopt Linux until after 2000.
2) The desktop part of Linux was more of an after thought in the late 1990's. It was X windows + window manager + applications + everything looked different and hardware support was sketchy (and for some hardware today it still is). There were no inexpensive prebuilt desktop systems for Linux like there were for MS Windows and Linux had not top end software like the Apple/Mac did. ( I'm still talking about back in the late 1990's ). GNOME and KDE were around, but in their infancies back then. They are usable now, but back then there were mediocre at best.
3) You are guaranteed (almost) that if you go out and buy hardware that it will work under MS Windows or it will say what version of MS you need. Hardware rarely if ever says 'you need this version of Linux' (network cards are usually the exception). Go out and buy a web cam and then hope it works.
4) No 'central command'. MS is a big corporation and you can find support on their site for most of your problems, or you can call someone ( it may be expensive and time consuming, but you can do this ). Apple has the 'genius bar'. Linux has ??? Well if you order from RedHat, or some other vendor, then you can pay for support otherwise you are online hoping you hit the right search term or find the right message board, etc.
I could go on, as there are other reasons, and maybe someone else could come up with a few more.
Now don't get me wrong I love Linux, I use it every day as my primary workstation and it is fine for me, but until someone starts selling Linux desktops like Apple does or Dell/HP+MS, it will be tough for Linux to make the inroads.
Is saying we should get out of Iraq "undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction"?
Is saying we could get out of Iraq threatening the peace and stability of Iraq?
What about rallies, peace marches, and so on. Some people (read trolls and idiots that moderate posts down and think freedom and liberty are the same thing) may interpret this as just what it says and assume that unless you are actually doing something over in Iraq that it fits this category. The problem is that in law, semantics plays a bigger part in how things are interpreted and this can have broad reaching authority over freedoms.
This administration is really scaring me, and I am waiting for them to say something to the affect of, we need to keep this administration in office for the security of the nation and not allow Hillary Clinton (or any one else) to be president.
I think comcrap, is being cheap and they don't want to spring for a web developer. That would cut to much into their bottom line. I mean how many web developers can you hire when you charge you more than $100 ( in SF ) for digital cable, HBO & Showtime a month per household.
Only trolls mod down, so they can read things under their bridge!
Since when is democracy a left wing idea in America? Wasn't that what we were trying to do in Iraq, bring democracy to Iraq?
WTF!
I'm wondering when someone is going to release the hardware for me to use. Not all bundled up in a package like the iPhone Linux wanna be that was mentioned on /. a few days ago, but a hardware component package. More like inexpensive pico-itx type devices. Something that has a processor and the surrounding hardware, and lets me either choose memory size and storage devices. I guess an embedded arm board would work for this though, but this is Intel. Where are the embedded Intel boards ( maybe I just haven't found them)? I'm looking for something as inexpensive as the arm chips or better yet as cheap as the pic micro controllers.
Software and hardware does not usually take that long to come to market ( not these days at least ) and do not have to be sold as cheap ( the iPhone is an example of that [ how many college students have used arm processor for their college projects ] ).
It takes about 2 years to get a patent, maybe longer in some cases, and if you are lucky you can do it in less time. That means that it is a 2 year investment, as well as there are patent fees and so on. For a drug maker having an exclusive lock on something is a good thing, because then they can recoup their initial investment. It will usually take someone else a few years to create a drug that does the same thing, so they can make money back that way. In electronics and software, it does not make as much sense, because usually people will not take as long to create a new program or hardware device ( thing gif / jpeg vs png ).
Clinton wasn't unseated, he was impeached, but he remained president till the end of his second term.
Dem / Rep, they are both the same. They both want power and will do with it what they want. Personally, I'd rather have someone in office who couldn't keep his dick in his pants, than someone in office that could stop getting us into needless wars. Bush Jr. sucks dick! I'd rather have 4 more years of Regan or Bush Sr. than this moron we have in office now, and I'm NOT a dem!
This is very vague. if I came to my boss with this kind of info, he tell me to get the f*** out of his office. WTF!
There are also two issues that are faced, if we want to push forward the idea that we caused climate change: 1) if we want to reverse climate change, what will be the impact to businesses; 2) what would be the religious implications, if we have that much control over the environment.
These are real issues that politics plays into. The republican party has a large religious following and corporate backing. This means that anything that affects either of these views is always considered taboo or bad.
So, if we have caused a climate change, and we want to undo climate change, corporate America and other nations need to change their ways. This has a huge economic impact ( although IMHO the alternative is global death ). These changes will cause businesses to loose money and in some cases go under. That is not acceptable to corporate America (I'm ok with weeding out bad companies, that are screwing us all).
On the religious side, if we are responsible for causing the world to 'end in fire' then the whole idea of 'rapture' suddenly becomes a 'we did it to ourselves' and possibly there is no god to save anyone. No god, means no rapture, which means all these people are screwed like the rest of us.
Personally I like to say, the rapture came, your stuck here with the rest of us, now what are you going to do, because god is not coming back for you until you fix this planet!
I guess then people would value their privacy.
Apparently dogs eggs are not fully developed in the ovaries. The eggs actually develop when the dog goes into heat and the eggs move down the uterus. So while there is a company that can clone cats, (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0 324_040324_catclones.html) that company has been unsuccessful at cloning dogs. According to a show on TV about this company, they said they would need to build a fake uterus. Of course this is weird because supposedly korea already cloned dogs 2 years ago (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0 803_050803_dog_clone.html).
This year it is robots with tazors, next year, we get Robots with AI.
Maybe something should just not be done. Maybe this will make people obey traffic laws. We could use a few around here to keep the bicyclists off the sidewalks, pedestrians from j-walking, and red-light runners, as these are against the law.
What font do you use and what size? Can you get 2 windows side by side? Lastly, how big is your monitor?
As long as I can resize the window the initial size is less of a problem. The only thing it does not work well with is my console, which expects 80x25. I need to fix that, to be 132x45.
I don't code for 80 columns anymore because it was a standard that was set at a time when 80x24 was as big. Now we can do much larger, so I push for 132x40-45. If my screen would fit it nicely I'd probably do 200-250x100 or so.
I figure it would have made it to the Supreme Court before it got quashed. I'm not surprised about this, but I am surprised about the people who don't see anything wrong with this. This year it is looking for terrorists, next year it is looking for anyone who opposes the government in any way shape of form.
What's a techie without his/her phone? It is not so inconvenient for apple, but it would be inconvenient for someone who starts to reply on that (or any) device and then has to go without it for a few days. Just you wait till your without your devices and have to go through withdrawal!