I keep thinking the Amazon Echo and Google Home should be free because Amazon and Google are getting far more benefit from the devices than the purchasing consumers are. As it is, they're building Trojan horse devices for our living rooms *and* they're getting consumers to pay for them.
If the devices were free, however, I suspect fewer people would want them because they would have less perceived value. By charging a substantial price for them, Amazon and Google make consumers think they're getting something valuable while also making more money. Making them free would effectively be admitting what they really are.
Smartphones are complex. A few examples of any given model will have problems. iPhone, Galaxy, Pixel, all of them. Does anyone know what typical problem rates are? Are the problem rates for Pixel phones close to typical? If so, there's nothing notable to see here.
Any chance LG could be trying to force Apple to build an 8K iMac and use LG as the panel supplier by leaking this? Maybe LG is hoping the rumor will force Apple to deliver in order to avoid disappointing analysts and shareholders.
You don't understand ESX licensing. The $5000 ESX license is for a VMWare host, not for a virtual machine inside. So you pay a total of $13000 for an ESX server that can host as many virtual servers as the hardware will handle.
Also, blades are generally a bad idea as ESX hosts because you're putting all of your eggs in the one blade center basket. One of the main reasons to go with ESX is to get the ability to VMotion virtual servers to different ESX hosts in the cluster if one ESX server dies. You lose some fault tolerance if multiple ESX servers are in the same blade center.
I don't think so. It's almost a homophone... at least it's close enough that I'm betting the post's writer actually thought that was a correct phrase. Perhaps he's never paid attention while reading "might as well" in print. Appalling, I know.
Actually, they probably wouldn't even knock. The Supreme Court recently ruled (5-4, I think) that if the police have a warrant, evidence collected during an unannounced search is still admissable in court.
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it shows macs meet the minumum specs for Vista, so one need not hesitate about buying a mac now if one was worried about running vista.
Not exactly. It actually shows that the "virtual PC" presented by VirtualPC meets Vista's minimum requirements. An OS (Vista, in this case) running inside VirtualPC can't see the bare hardware at all. That a VirtualPC VM meets Vista's minimum requirements is much less newsworthy.
You seem awfully quick to blame video games for the lack of spatial understanding in these children. How do you know video games are the cause? While developing children probably should do something other than playing video games occasionally, I have trouble making the connection here. 2D video games contain many geometric objects... seems like something else mgiht be involved.
Does anyone else think MS changed the UI more to differentiate Office from OpenOffice or StarOffice than to increase usability. I'm not convinced the new UI is more intuitive or easier for new users, but it definitely looks different from other competing (mainly free) office suites. It almost makes me think that's the primary purpose of the new version.
I'll play "grammar Nazi" because it would be nice to see things like this done correctly on the front page of Slashdot. The plural of "Mark" is NOT "Mark's". At least the submitter was anonymous and won't look like an idiot.
I've used a variety of distros (SuSE, Gentoo, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian) in addition to Fedora both at work and at home. Fedora remains my favorite for a wide range of reasons. Most of them are somehow related to, "it just works".
I like the ability to build things from source in a correctly configured and working build environment. Yes, the Fedora guys patch the kernel, but at least I can easily obtain source and expect it to build too.
The user interface is usable for multiple tasks and for extended periods. It isn't trying to be Enlightenment.
Package management is standardized, usable (there's that word again), and packages are readily available.
I enjoy using Linux, and I use it to do real work. Unfortunately there aren't many distros that lend themselves to this type of use. Fedora is at the top of my very short list.
I noticed a similar thing while "buying" an episode of Lost from iTunes recently. This does streamline checkout and decrease wait time in a physical store (not sure about the same benefits for iTunes). I don't think that's Apple's primary reason for doing it, however. I think the main benefit for Apple is elimination of the buyer's chance to reconsider the purchase.
Customers are buying expensive toys they don't really need. The last thing Apple wants is a bunch of customers deciding against the purchases while standing in line or while providing credit card info.
Saying the article's writers "probably downloaded the dvd img from bittorrent" is not correct. BitTorrent is an application that allows users to transfer files. No one downloads the files "from BitTorrent". Someone might use BitTorrent to download something, but the downloaded file is not coming from BitTorrent. It's coming from a user who elected to (possibly illegally) share it.
This is a dangerous misconception because it makes BitTorrent, a legitimately useful application, appear evil when it is not.
I disagree with those who say he's "missing the point" of Linux by switching or he must have been running Linux simply to say he had a Linux desktop.
At some point, most people become tired of jacking with something that doesn't work correctly... even if that thing is otherwise enjoyable. For example, I'd love to drive an old Ferrari to work every day. Eventually, though, I'd need to adjust valves, synchronize carbs, play with the ignition, etc. That would suck. The constant maintenance would get in the way of the enjoyment. I might enjoy working on a Ferrari as a hobby, but doing it to keep my primary method of transportation workable would become tiresome.
Same thing here... stupid, niggling problems tend to bother users until they get fed up and switch.
Many of the jobs IBM will add in 2004 are simply employees from other companies being "rebadged" to IBM in outsourcing deals. Sprint is an example of this. Approximately 1100 Sprint IT workers will become IBM employees in the next few months in a billion dollar outsourcing deal. IBM adds 1100 employees, but they're not previously unemployed tech workers.
I'm not usually inclined to make "correct your spelling" posts on Slashdot, but I'm making an exception here. Your otherwise well written post combined with your humorous misuse of "kneaded" makes me think you actually intended to use "kneaded" here rather than "needed". You *need* a soda. You don't *knead* a soda... well, you might, but it would be just as odd as the usage in your post.
Right. My original post never used the word "virus". That's exactly the point.
Given the huge number of really nasty things a malicious person could do with this exploit, why would that person simply reboot boxes? It forces users to apply the patch, and it eliminates the possiblity of exploiting the same hole later.
If I were interested in exploiting a security hole, why would I waste my time and the opportunity with a worm that basically does nothing?
This sounds more like someone who simply wants to force users to patch.
...this worm was created by some group like the US Government's Department of Homeland Security to avoid a nastier exploit later? Nothing forces people to install a patch like forced reboots after 60 seconds. Aside from the reboot, the worm is harmless... the lack of damage done seems suspicious.
Actually, the regulation required some sort of "passive restraint". Cars could either include the motorized seatbelts or airbags. In 1990 and 1991, most manufacturers hadn't added airbags to all cars, so many cars were sold with the motorized seatbelts as a temporary solution to meet the requirement. A few 1990 and 1991 cars actually have airbags. Ferrari is a fairly small manufacturer, so developing a working airbag system probably required some time.
Where did you get that quote? That's not what the original post said. It said "The PS2 is a superior console, since it was designed (hardware-wise) specifically as a gaming system", NOT something about Xbox being designed as a gaming system.
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Difficult to define, but you generally know it when you see it. If this looks like an ad, it probably is.
I keep thinking the Amazon Echo and Google Home should be free because Amazon and Google are getting far more benefit from the devices than the purchasing consumers are. As it is, they're building Trojan horse devices for our living rooms *and* they're getting consumers to pay for them. If the devices were free, however, I suspect fewer people would want them because they would have less perceived value. By charging a substantial price for them, Amazon and Google make consumers think they're getting something valuable while also making more money. Making them free would effectively be admitting what they really are.
Smartphones are complex. A few examples of any given model will have problems. iPhone, Galaxy, Pixel, all of them. Does anyone know what typical problem rates are? Are the problem rates for Pixel phones close to typical? If so, there's nothing notable to see here.
Any chance LG could be trying to force Apple to build an 8K iMac and use LG as the panel supplier by leaking this? Maybe LG is hoping the rumor will force Apple to deliver in order to avoid disappointing analysts and shareholders.
You don't understand ESX licensing. The $5000 ESX license is for a VMWare host, not for a virtual machine inside. So you pay a total of $13000 for an ESX server that can host as many virtual servers as the hardware will handle. Also, blades are generally a bad idea as ESX hosts because you're putting all of your eggs in the one blade center basket. One of the main reasons to go with ESX is to get the ability to VMotion virtual servers to different ESX hosts in the cluster if one ESX server dies. You lose some fault tolerance if multiple ESX servers are in the same blade center.
I don't think so. It's almost a homophone... at least it's close enough that I'm betting the post's writer actually thought that was a correct phrase. Perhaps he's never paid attention while reading "might as well" in print. Appalling, I know.
Actually, they probably wouldn't even knock. The Supreme Court recently ruled (5-4, I think) that if the police have a warrant, evidence collected during an unannounced search is still admissable in court.
You seem awfully quick to blame video games for the lack of spatial understanding in these children. How do you know video games are the cause? While developing children probably should do something other than playing video games occasionally, I have trouble making the connection here. 2D video games contain many geometric objects... seems like something else mgiht be involved.
Does anyone else think MS changed the UI more to differentiate Office from OpenOffice or StarOffice than to increase usability. I'm not convinced the new UI is more intuitive or easier for new users, but it definitely looks different from other competing (mainly free) office suites. It almost makes me think that's the primary purpose of the new version.
I'll play "grammar Nazi" because it would be nice to see things like this done correctly on the front page of Slashdot. The plural of "Mark" is NOT "Mark's". At least the submitter was anonymous and won't look like an idiot.
I've used a variety of distros (SuSE, Gentoo, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian) in addition to Fedora both at work and at home. Fedora remains my favorite for a wide range of reasons. Most of them are somehow related to, "it just works".
I like the ability to build things from source in a correctly configured and working build environment. Yes, the Fedora guys patch the kernel, but at least I can easily obtain source and expect it to build too.
The user interface is usable for multiple tasks and for extended periods. It isn't trying to be Enlightenment.
Package management is standardized, usable (there's that word again), and packages are readily available.
I enjoy using Linux, and I use it to do real work. Unfortunately there aren't many distros that lend themselves to this type of use. Fedora is at the top of my very short list.
I noticed a similar thing while "buying" an episode of Lost from iTunes recently. This does streamline checkout and decrease wait time in a physical store (not sure about the same benefits for iTunes). I don't think that's Apple's primary reason for doing it, however. I think the main benefit for Apple is elimination of the buyer's chance to reconsider the purchase.
Customers are buying expensive toys they don't really need. The last thing Apple wants is a bunch of customers deciding against the purchases while standing in line or while providing credit card info.
Add the following to your /etc/hosts file (or wherever "hosts" resides on a Windows box) to get to www.arstechnica.com correctly:
205.234.175.175 media.arstechnica.com
66.225.202.210 www.arstechnica.com
Yes, you could simply point your browser to 66.225.202.210, but it tries to resolve the other host also, and this makes that work easily.
Saying the article's writers "probably downloaded the dvd img from bittorrent" is not correct. BitTorrent is an application that allows users to transfer files. No one downloads the files "from BitTorrent". Someone might use BitTorrent to download something, but the downloaded file is not coming from BitTorrent. It's coming from a user who elected to (possibly illegally) share it. This is a dangerous misconception because it makes BitTorrent, a legitimately useful application, appear evil when it is not.
Dude... "gigahertz" is not the plural of "gigahertz".
I disagree with those who say he's "missing the point" of Linux by switching or he must have been running Linux simply to say he had a Linux desktop.
At some point, most people become tired of jacking with something that doesn't work correctly... even if that thing is otherwise enjoyable. For example, I'd love to drive an old Ferrari to work every day. Eventually, though, I'd need to adjust valves, synchronize carbs, play with the ignition, etc. That would suck. The constant maintenance would get in the way of the enjoyment. I might enjoy working on a Ferrari as a hobby, but doing it to keep my primary method of transportation workable would become tiresome.
Same thing here... stupid, niggling problems tend to bother users until they get fed up and switch.
Many of the jobs IBM will add in 2004 are simply employees from other companies being "rebadged" to IBM in outsourcing deals. Sprint is an example of this. Approximately 1100 Sprint IT workers will become IBM employees in the next few months in a billion dollar outsourcing deal. IBM adds 1100 employees, but they're not previously unemployed tech workers.
Apparently you didn't read the article. The whole point of the thing is its ability to filter bacteria and dirt from otherwise bad water.
I'm not usually inclined to make "correct your spelling" posts on Slashdot, but I'm making an exception here. Your otherwise well written post combined with your humorous misuse of "kneaded" makes me think you actually intended to use "kneaded" here rather than "needed". You *need* a soda. You don't *knead* a soda... well, you might, but it would be just as odd as the usage in your post.
Right. My original post never used the word "virus". That's exactly the point.
Given the huge number of really nasty things a malicious person could do with this exploit, why would that person simply reboot boxes? It forces users to apply the patch, and it eliminates the possiblity of exploiting the same hole later.
If I were interested in exploiting a security hole, why would I waste my time and the opportunity with a worm that basically does nothing?
This sounds more like someone who simply wants to force users to patch.
...this worm was created by some group like the US Government's Department of Homeland Security to avoid a nastier exploit later? Nothing forces people to install a patch like forced reboots after 60 seconds. Aside from the reboot, the worm is harmless... the lack of damage done seems suspicious.
Not exactly... the dual system is only available as the $2999 "high end". That's the system the article's covering.
Actually, the regulation required some sort of "passive restraint". Cars could either include the motorized seatbelts or airbags. In 1990 and 1991, most manufacturers hadn't added airbags to all cars, so many cars were sold with the motorized seatbelts as a temporary solution to meet the requirement. A few 1990 and 1991 cars actually have airbags. Ferrari is a fairly small manufacturer, so developing a working airbag system probably required some time.
Where did you get that quote? That's not what the original post said. It said "The PS2 is a superior console, since it was designed (hardware-wise) specifically as a gaming system", NOT something about Xbox being designed as a gaming system.