...with all these gadgets and non-cell phone functions, what's the battery life on these things? i remember my old 'big' cellphone (it didn't even flip open, oh the humanity) that would last for days on one charge....my new one (yea it looks cool and all) lasts for maybe 72 hours before i gotta plug it back in. imagine having a HD sucking juice from it too...
anyone know if they just look at statistics of crashes, etc or is there a team of people that actually goes through them and sees how to 'improve' upon the system?
maybe it's just to give the users a false sense of feedback...
kinda like some recycling programs, they tell you to seperate colored glass from the regular transparent type, only to find that the same dumpster truck is used to pick them up (in the same trash compartment i might add)
From TFA: "These ripples were stretched by the expansion of the universe and extend today far beyond our cosmic horizon, that is over a region much bigger than the observable universe, a distance of about 15 billion light years..."
i'm not much of an astronomer, but am i right to understand that (theoratically) our cosmic horizon expands at the speed of light? ie, does it gain ~300,000,000 m/s?
"...Pearlman was careful to add, though, that he doesn't see his plan killing off demand for CDs."
*BLANK* CDs maybe.
i mean $.05 x 13 songs = $.65
factor in $.25 for a blank CD and voila, that's still under a dollar. Unless they plan on *severely* reducing the price of retail CDs, I don't quite see that working out.
i've noticed on SuSE that it now comes with a boot splash screen (a la Windows loading...). I know that's (somewhat) easily turned off, but really, I don't want my linux to be all fisher-price pretty. give me the rough and unadulterated command lines that are run when it boots up...make it look cool, make it intimidating, give it that matrix-esque feel...make it scare off all the n00bs that think they know everything.
anyone still have one of these? i'm sure *some* slashdot vet will have one stached away somewhere. I'm sure they'd be worth quite a bit to a collector.
it's still not really picking up in the states, but it's a big big thing in europe (and other places, japan, etc).
I'd agree that most of it is pretty repetitive, but there's also a lot of melody that goes into it. If it weren't for the lyrics, rap wouldn't be much less repetitive than techno. being a big fan of the latter myself, i understand that's it's not everyone's cup of tea, but the people to whom it is usually don't care about that aspect of it.
this plan may attract a lot of people but can it obtain (and most imporantly: hold on to) enough $$$ to keep it running? remember those car insurance companies that used the sales pitch "we will give you our quote and of 3 other competitors" ? yea, it may get you attention, but ultimately, how likely are you to break even?
not that i'm complaining, i'd love to be able to (somewhat cheaply) buy music and *keep* it.
"The Pentium V is likely to fly along at between 5GHz to 7GHz, have 2MB plus of level two cache, be built on a 90 nanometer process, and have a stackable design."(Source, and another)
does anyone know what they mean by stackable design?
is this supposed to be taken literally? stacking one CPU on top of the other?
or just some buzzwords that mean nothing that this implies?
"...a quantum computer so powerful that the only way to protect against its prodigious code-breaking capability may be to deploy quantum-cryptographic techniques."
scary stuff....however, a simpsons quote comes to mind:
Alien 1: It seems the earthlings won.
Alien 2: Did they? That board with a nail in it may have defeated us. But the humans won't stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all! [both aliens laugh evilly, for quite some time]
would you really want to put down cold hard cash for this? it seems like just another thing that parents could buy to give their kids in hope that it'll help. If you were that age and got one of those, how much time would you really dedicate to it?
"The passport official who checks your passport does not go abroad. The cop to whom you go to register a credit card misuse does not own a credit card. If a cop is in no position to own a computer, how can he fight cybercrime?"
that seems like a pretty weak argument. granted a non-computer user (read: cop) may not be able to tell a harddrive from a computer case (still synonymous to some people), that doesn't mean that he can't be given instructions on it. I doubt cops *always* know what they are dealing with but that's what makes their job interesting.
i don't know how a car works yet i still use it on a daily basis.
"What pieces of modern software do you think would be a good way to introduce today's kids to the world of computing?
i think a keen mind and a curiousity for new things is all it takes and kids seem to have plenty of both. I don't think there's anything you need 'to do' per se...like that quote "if you build it, they will come"
if nothing else works, tell them there's porn on the internet;)
I remember reading something about Rent-a-car places putting GPS systems in their cars so they can tell if someone has been speeding (x amounts of mph over the limit times y amount of minutes, etc). If the customer did, he would be charged more. (sorry, don't have the article URL).
Much like with the system mentioned in the article, it's supposed to act as a deterrent but is it really more of a way for the guy 'on top' to exert more control (and hence the $$$ bottom line)? I for one do *not* welcome our eye-in-the-sky overlords.
"Now that IE is used on most of the world's computers, racing to match the features of competitors is less important than providing a stable, reliable product, Hachamovitch said."
a company doesn't survive on market share alone, it survives because it stays competitive.
A company won't go far with an attitude that reflects the quote above.
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I know what you're saying, just picking nits.
....i'm just playing, you're alright...i don't care what everone else says.
you know, i thought you'd have a great personality since you aren't all that good-looking but i guess i was wrong.
...with all these gadgets and non-cell phone functions, what's the battery life on these things? i remember my old 'big' cellphone (it didn't even flip open, oh the humanity) that would last for days on one charge....my new one (yea it looks cool and all) lasts for maybe 72 hours before i gotta plug it back in. imagine having a HD sucking juice from it too...
anyone know if they just look at statistics of crashes, etc or is there a team of people that actually goes through them and sees how to 'improve' upon the system?
maybe it's just to give the users a false sense of feedback...
kinda like some recycling programs, they tell you to seperate colored glass from the regular transparent type, only to find that the same dumpster truck is used to pick them up (in the same trash compartment i might add)
FUD?
i read "longporn heview"
...sometimes suffering from spoonerism isn't such a bad thing
From TFA: "These ripples were stretched by the expansion of the universe and extend today far beyond our cosmic horizon, that is over a region much bigger than the observable universe, a distance of about 15 billion light years..."
i'm not much of an astronomer, but am i right to understand that (theoratically) our cosmic horizon expands at the speed of light? ie, does it gain ~300,000,000 m/s?
"...Pearlman was careful to add, though, that he doesn't see his plan killing off demand for CDs."
*BLANK* CDs maybe.
i mean $.05 x 13 songs = $.65
factor in $.25 for a blank CD and voila, that's still under a dollar. Unless they plan on *severely* reducing the price of retail CDs, I don't quite see that working out.
i've noticed on SuSE that it now comes with a boot splash screen (a la Windows loading...). I know that's (somewhat) easily turned off, but really, I don't want my linux to be all fisher-price pretty. give me the rough and unadulterated command lines that are run when it boots up...make it look cool, make it intimidating, give it that matrix-esque feel...make it scare off all the n00bs that think they know everything.
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anyone still have one of these? i'm sure *some* slashdot vet will have one stached away somewhere. I'm sure they'd be worth quite a bit to a collector.
it's still not really picking up in the states, but it's a big big thing in europe (and other places, japan, etc).
I'd agree that most of it is pretty repetitive, but there's also a lot of melody that goes into it. If it weren't for the lyrics, rap wouldn't be much less repetitive than techno. being a big fan of the latter myself, i understand that's it's not everyone's cup of tea, but the people to whom it is usually don't care about that aspect of it.
this plan may attract a lot of people but can it obtain (and most imporantly: hold on to) enough $$$ to keep it running?
remember those car insurance companies that used the sales pitch "we will give you our quote and of 3 other competitors" ? yea, it may get you attention, but ultimately, how likely are you to break even?
not that i'm complaining, i'd love to be able to (somewhat cheaply) buy music and *keep* it.
"The Pentium V is likely to fly along at between 5GHz to 7GHz, have 2MB plus of level two cache, be built on a 90 nanometer process, and have a stackable design." (Source, and another)
does anyone know what they mean by stackable design?
is this supposed to be taken literally? stacking one CPU on top of the other?
or just some buzzwords that mean nothing that this implies?
"...a quantum computer so powerful that the only way to protect against its prodigious code-breaking capability may be to deploy quantum-cryptographic techniques."
scary stuff....however, a simpsons quote comes to mind:
Alien 1: It seems the earthlings won.
Alien 2: Did they? That board with a nail in it may have defeated us. But the humans won't stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!
[both aliens laugh evilly, for quite some time]
would you really want to put down cold hard cash for this? it seems like just another thing that parents could buy to give their kids in hope that it'll help. If you were that age and got one of those, how much time would you really dedicate to it?
"...with humanoid robots jamming in a brass ensemble and performing hip-hop."
robot1: "you got e-served"
robot2: "oh, it's (ON)/OFF"
"The passport official who checks your passport does not go abroad. The cop to whom you go to register a credit card misuse does not own a credit card. If a cop is in no position to own a computer, how can he fight cybercrime?"
that seems like a pretty weak argument. granted a non-computer user (read: cop) may not be able to tell a harddrive from a computer case (still synonymous to some people), that doesn't mean that he can't be given instructions on it. I doubt cops *always* know what they are dealing with but that's what makes their job interesting.
i don't know how a car works yet i still use it on a daily basis.
"What pieces of modern software do you think would be a good way to introduce today's kids to the world of computing?
;)
i think a keen mind and a curiousity for new things is all it takes and kids seem to have plenty of both. I don't think there's anything you need 'to do' per se...like that quote "if you build it, they will come"
if nothing else works, tell them there's porn on the internet
I remember reading something about Rent-a-car places putting GPS systems in their cars so they can tell if someone has been speeding (x amounts of mph over the limit times y amount of minutes, etc). If the customer did, he would be charged more. (sorry, don't have the article URL).
Much like with the system mentioned in the article, it's supposed to act as a deterrent but is it really more of a way for the guy 'on top' to exert more control (and hence the $$$ bottom line)?
I for one do *not* welcome our eye-in-the-sky overlords.
33 million - 32.64 million = 360K, not 36K.
I meant for extremely large values of 36K of course.
"Now that IE is used on most of the world's computers, racing to match the features of competitors is less important than providing a stable, reliable product, Hachamovitch said."
a company doesn't survive on market share alone, it survives because it stays competitive.
A company won't go far with an attitude that reflects the quote above.
24 million euros * 1.36 (US dollar rate) = $32.64 million
yea, it's only off by ~1%, but still...36K is a lotta money to just be rounded off
Only on slashdot will you find people that measure heat/energy in amounts of Libraries of Congress and wi-fi security in buckets.
"Well the clock speed of ketchup..."
African or European?
"...What are you doing that you think is effective in punishing spammers or their spam-site sponsors?"
what better solution than this one found at bash.org (source)
"i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet"
"...and a gas engine mounted on the back to generate the power needed."
i hope he's got intentions to incorporate some sorta personal heating system....-40 and metal is not a good combination
so if he is his own father, then how did he....
oh, yuck!