Only on Slashdot would your post get modded Insightful instead of its rightful "Flamebait" mod.
In short, don't try to pretend you know why iPhone buyers buy their phones, because you obviously don't. Trust me, fashion has very little to do with my purchasing decisions. If you met me that would be pretty easy to confirm.
Considering that the current iPod Touch has video out already (although you need to buy a cable adapter to use it), I doubt they'll remove it in the upgrade.
The iPod Touch *is* a netbook. It just doesn't have a very flexible UI for general computing tasks.
Actually, the US mainland was bombed during World War 2. Just extremely ineffectively. The Japanese launched thousands of hydrogen-filled balloons into the jetstream with tiny bombs during WWII, and a few hundred made it to North America, killing 6 people and causing a small amount of damage.
My iPhone stays plugged in at my desk most of the day at work. Not that my current company allows anything like it on the company internet, but my previous companies would have and it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to have a little test server in your pocket sometimes.
That was my thought. Once the tape was made, anyone who knew about it and had something to gain by his death had a free pass. It doesn't seem to me like it was the wisest move.
Near as I can tell, this isn't true and is a mis-reading of Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada. You are required to show ID if there is "reasonable suspicion" that you have been, are, or will be involved in criminal activity according to that decision. You are also required to show a driver's license if stopped in a car. And they've upheld the right of states to require ID of voters.
But no, you are not required to show ID to a random officer who's just curious who you are for no particular reason. And you are not required to carry ID-- giving your (accurate) name, address, and date of birth is identifying yourself.
All that being said, if you're asked for ID by a police officer, give it to them. If you think they've overstepped their authority, file a complaint. Afterwards. Anything else is just asking for trouble and is not constructive.
My guess is that Microsoft just wants to make some profit off the money itself. Interest rates are so insanely low these days that it's almost free money. Considering the recession is likely to end imminently (or maybe have ended last month according to some economists), you could probably borrow the money and invest it in an index fund and make several times your money back.
Even if it's "only" (only?!) a few billion dollars, if you've got the credit rating in this market you might as well do it. Who knows what credit rating Microsoft will have a couple years from now after inflation kicks into gear and money is expensive.
Actually, that's not what it says. By my reading, the patent is actually reasonably innovative. At least, I've never heard of any calendaring system doing it as described.
What the claims of the patent say, in essence, is that the day should be broken down into schedule-able blocks of differing sizes configured by a system administrator. So if you have a 40 minute meeting, you can reserve the 40-minute block during that day and not the 30 or 60 minute block. Instead, most people today would say, "Well, it's going to run longer than 30 minutes, so I'll reserve an hour." I actually think I'd love it if Outlook operated in the way described in the patent instead of making it easiest to reserve meetings on 30 minute boundaries.
But unlike the article's summary says, broadcast will still be free for markets less than 100,000 households, and $10,000 "per market" per year thereafter. That's hardly "millions of dollars".
From the license: * Over-the-air free broadcast - There are no royalties for over-the-air free broadcast AVC video to markets of 100,000 or fewer households. For over-the-air free broadcast AVC video to markets of greater than 100,000 households, royalties are $10,000 per year per local market service (by a transmitter or transmitter simultaneously with repeaters, e.g., multiple transmitters serving one station).
* Internet broadcast (non-subscription, not title-by-title) - Since this market is still developing, no royalties will be payable for internet broadcast services (non-subscription, not title-by-title) during the initial term of the license (which runs through December 31, 2010) and then shall not exceed the over-the-air free broadcast TV encoding fee during the renewal term.
Most flu vaccination is at best a break-even business for drug companies, as are most childhood vaccines. Many vaccines have to be cultivated in a relatively high-overhead process and are then used a few times per person, if at all. The reason the US has gone from dozens of flu vaccine producers to only 2 over the last decade (leading to severe shortages in active flu seasons) is largely because of its lack of profitability.
And Tamiflu's under-utilization in Mexico is one of the reasons cited as a possibility for its high mortality rate there, and the reasons no Americans died of H1N1.
Finally, if Obama owns a stake of Roche, I couldn't find any evidence of it in his tax filings. Do you have a primary source for that, or is it just something you read on a conspiracy blog?
Your first two sentences were interesting. The rest of your post was flamebait... what does voting Democrat and going to church have to do with this, and why is it "PR brainwashing" and why is anyone who disagrees with you an "Apple fanboi". IMHO, any post that uses the word "fanboi" should instantly be auto-modded flaimbait.
So anyway, if you're modded to -1 it won't be because you spoke ill of the almightly. To the contrary, it's very popular to bash Apple on Slashdot and your post will most likely NOT be modded flamebait even though it is. Enjoy your free karma.
When I first read it the first thing I thought of was Wikipedia. I've made minor edits to a couple articles, and every time I do, Wikipedia automatically puts those pages on their watch list. When someone else edits those pages, I can quickly look at those edits. I tend to be interested in those articles, and help refine subsequent contributions. In effect, I've "adopted" a part of that article. It might be interesting if OSS projects structured their projects such that micro-contributions are easy to make and subsequent changes could be more easily monitored.
The problem is that there are different types of security-- security from passive threats and security from a targeted attack. Maybe Microsoft is best at the targeted attack, I don't know. But it's sure as heck not more secure than MacOS X at the passive threats. There are no viruses or worms in the wild for MacOS X, and a small handful of trojans that have cropped up and disappeared before infecting more than a few hundred machines.
I can leave a MacOS X machine on the internet and browse all day, clicking any site I want with no virus protection and installing all the Mac random internet software I find and, at least as of right now, I'm completely safe. Is that really true of Vista?
Of course, with iTunes you're already visiting a trusted site and they already have your credit card. It's just a matter of clicking on "Buy" and typing it your password. And getting people to click "Buy" for $10 is a lot harder than $1, assuming they've even found your app in the near-30,000 app marketplace. Thus, I think the iPhone/iTunes is a fundamentally different marketing model than putting up your own website and asking for credit card numbers yourself.
In addition, make the installation really explicit and give me options to completely skip an upgrade and not have it bugging me all the time. Seriously, this open sourcing is just a red herring. The real issues are how Google is using it, not what the tool is specifically doing.
I clicked on this story to recommend Handbrake then realized 5 other people had already done so.
It's worth noting that with Handbrake 0.93 you'll want libdvdcss around so it can still do DVD decryption, as they removed that from the core codebase.
Bobby Jindal didn't mock spending money on volcano monitoring
Here's what he said. You decide if he was suggesting that monitoring volcanoes is "wasteful spending":
"While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes... $140 million for something called "volcano monitoring." Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C."
Fanboy or not, if you are modded down it's because your post is simply full of your anti-Apple (and anti-Apple user) sentiment without a single ounce of stated fact to back up your opinion (I believe that's the definition of flamebait). Fine, we get that you're an Apple anti-fanboy. But do you have any uptime statistics, TCO values, or other facts to back up your opinion regarding MacOS X Server?
At this point I think it would be reasonable for all mail servers to start silently failing if the recipient does not exist instead of bouncing. Legit bounces are almost always filed as spam anyway, and bounces from attempted spam doubles the spam problem. The only thing more annoying than bounces are the "reply if you're authentic" systems which clog the internets. (I've started replying to them to let the spam through and put the problem back on them so they'll stop automailing me.)
The predecessor language to both Finnish and Hungarian is thought to be Mongolian, AFAIK. If Khan hadn't died when he did and everyone ran back to fight over the throne, all European languages might have had similar influences. The wonder is that Russian didn't similarly get subsumed by Mongolian lingual influences during the occupation.
Of course, the results don't exactly show a "3x speedup"... they show between a 0.08x speedup and a 7.8x speedup, with a high variability. Which is really great for such an early build, but it's not an instant panacea for everything.
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Only on Slashdot would your post get modded Insightful instead of its rightful "Flamebait" mod.
In short, don't try to pretend you know why iPhone buyers buy their phones, because you obviously don't. Trust me, fashion has very little to do with my purchasing decisions. If you met me that would be pretty easy to confirm.
Considering that the current iPod Touch has video out already (although you need to buy a cable adapter to use it), I doubt they'll remove it in the upgrade.
The iPod Touch *is* a netbook. It just doesn't have a very flexible UI for general computing tasks.
Actually, the US mainland was bombed during World War 2. Just extremely ineffectively. The Japanese launched thousands of hydrogen-filled balloons into the jetstream with tiny bombs during WWII, and a few hundred made it to North America, killing 6 people and causing a small amount of damage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon
But still, yeah I'd have been amazed if the Vice-President's house hadn't had a bunker beneath it.
My iPhone stays plugged in at my desk most of the day at work. Not that my current company allows anything like it on the company internet, but my previous companies would have and it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to have a little test server in your pocket sometimes.
That was my thought. Once the tape was made, anyone who knew about it and had something to gain by his death had a free pass. It doesn't seem to me like it was the wisest move.
I bet that had an increasing number of people calling in sick in the months leading up to this incident...
Either that, or they all had their ear infections mysteriously clear up through spontaneous creation of penicillin.
Near as I can tell, this isn't true and is a mis-reading of Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada. You are required to show ID if there is "reasonable suspicion" that you have been, are, or will be involved in criminal activity according to that decision. You are also required to show a driver's license if stopped in a car. And they've upheld the right of states to require ID of voters.
But no, you are not required to show ID to a random officer who's just curious who you are for no particular reason. And you are not required to carry ID-- giving your (accurate) name, address, and date of birth is identifying yourself.
All that being said, if you're asked for ID by a police officer, give it to them. If you think they've overstepped their authority, file a complaint. Afterwards. Anything else is just asking for trouble and is not constructive.
My guess is that Microsoft just wants to make some profit off the money itself. Interest rates are so insanely low these days that it's almost free money. Considering the recession is likely to end imminently (or maybe have ended last month according to some economists), you could probably borrow the money and invest it in an index fund and make several times your money back.
Even if it's "only" (only?!) a few billion dollars, if you've got the credit rating in this market you might as well do it. Who knows what credit rating Microsoft will have a couple years from now after inflation kicks into gear and money is expensive.
Actually, that's not what it says. By my reading, the patent is actually reasonably innovative. At least, I've never heard of any calendaring system doing it as described.
What the claims of the patent say, in essence, is that the day should be broken down into schedule-able blocks of differing sizes configured by a system administrator. So if you have a 40 minute meeting, you can reserve the 40-minute block during that day and not the 30 or 60 minute block. Instead, most people today would say, "Well, it's going to run longer than 30 minutes, so I'll reserve an hour." I actually think I'd love it if Outlook operated in the way described in the patent instead of making it easiest to reserve meetings on 30 minute boundaries.
But unlike the article's summary says, broadcast will still be free for markets less than 100,000 households, and $10,000 "per market" per year thereafter. That's hardly "millions of dollars".
From the license:
* Over-the-air free broadcast - There are no royalties for over-the-air free broadcast AVC video to markets of 100,000 or fewer households. For over-the-air free broadcast AVC video to markets of greater than 100,000 households, royalties are $10,000 per year per local market service (by a transmitter or transmitter simultaneously with repeaters, e.g., multiple transmitters serving one station).
* Internet broadcast (non-subscription, not title-by-title) - Since this market is still developing, no royalties will be payable for internet broadcast services (non-subscription, not title-by-title) during the initial term of the license (which runs through December 31, 2010) and then shall not exceed the over-the-air free broadcast TV encoding fee during the renewal term.
I hear the African elephant population has tripled in the last six months.
[citation needed]
Most flu vaccination is at best a break-even business for drug companies, as are most childhood vaccines. Many vaccines have to be cultivated in a relatively high-overhead process and are then used a few times per person, if at all. The reason the US has gone from dozens of flu vaccine producers to only 2 over the last decade (leading to severe shortages in active flu seasons) is largely because of its lack of profitability.
And Tamiflu's under-utilization in Mexico is one of the reasons cited as a possibility for its high mortality rate there, and the reasons no Americans died of H1N1.
Finally, if Obama owns a stake of Roche, I couldn't find any evidence of it in his tax filings. Do you have a primary source for that, or is it just something you read on a conspiracy blog?
Your first two sentences were interesting. The rest of your post was flamebait... what does voting Democrat and going to church have to do with this, and why is it "PR brainwashing" and why is anyone who disagrees with you an "Apple fanboi". IMHO, any post that uses the word "fanboi" should instantly be auto-modded flaimbait.
So anyway, if you're modded to -1 it won't be because you spoke ill of the almightly. To the contrary, it's very popular to bash Apple on Slashdot and your post will most likely NOT be modded flamebait even though it is. Enjoy your free karma.
When I first read it the first thing I thought of was Wikipedia. I've made minor edits to a couple articles, and every time I do, Wikipedia automatically puts those pages on their watch list. When someone else edits those pages, I can quickly look at those edits. I tend to be interested in those articles, and help refine subsequent contributions. In effect, I've "adopted" a part of that article. It might be interesting if OSS projects structured their projects such that micro-contributions are easy to make and subsequent changes could be more easily monitored.
The GNU/Cinder system, based on GNU/HiStar, right?
Aren't we supposed to add "GNU/" to the beginning of all OS project names that use gcc to compile or release under the GPL?
The problem is that there are different types of security-- security from passive threats and security from a targeted attack. Maybe Microsoft is best at the targeted attack, I don't know. But it's sure as heck not more secure than MacOS X at the passive threats. There are no viruses or worms in the wild for MacOS X, and a small handful of trojans that have cropped up and disappeared before infecting more than a few hundred machines.
I can leave a MacOS X machine on the internet and browse all day, clicking any site I want with no virus protection and installing all the Mac random internet software I find and, at least as of right now, I'm completely safe. Is that really true of Vista?
Yeah, you're right. All GNU/Linux users use command-line interfaces and manipulate strings with sed and awk.
Yup! And don't forget gcc!
It's the MIT/Linux folks that use X Windows...
Of course, with iTunes you're already visiting a trusted site and they already have your credit card. It's just a matter of clicking on "Buy" and typing it your password. And getting people to click "Buy" for $10 is a lot harder than $1, assuming they've even found your app in the near-30,000 app marketplace. Thus, I think the iPhone/iTunes is a fundamentally different marketing model than putting up your own website and asking for credit card numbers yourself.
In addition, make the installation really explicit and give me options to completely skip an upgrade and not have it bugging me all the time. Seriously, this open sourcing is just a red herring. The real issues are how Google is using it, not what the tool is specifically doing.
I clicked on this story to recommend Handbrake then realized 5 other people had already done so.
It's worth noting that with Handbrake 0.93 you'll want libdvdcss around so it can still do DVD decryption, as they removed that from the core codebase.
Bobby Jindal didn't mock spending money on volcano monitoring
Here's what he said. You decide if he was suggesting that monitoring volcanoes is "wasteful spending":
"While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes ... $140 million for something called "volcano monitoring." Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C."
Go ahead and mod me down fanboy. :P
Fanboy or not, if you are modded down it's because your post is simply full of your anti-Apple (and anti-Apple user) sentiment without a single ounce of stated fact to back up your opinion (I believe that's the definition of flamebait). Fine, we get that you're an Apple anti-fanboy. But do you have any uptime statistics, TCO values, or other facts to back up your opinion regarding MacOS X Server?
At this point I think it would be reasonable for all mail servers to start silently failing if the recipient does not exist instead of bouncing. Legit bounces are almost always filed as spam anyway, and bounces from attempted spam doubles the spam problem. The only thing more annoying than bounces are the "reply if you're authentic" systems which clog the internets. (I've started replying to them to let the spam through and put the problem back on them so they'll stop automailing me.)
The predecessor language to both Finnish and Hungarian is thought to be Mongolian, AFAIK. If Khan hadn't died when he did and everyone ran back to fight over the throne, all European languages might have had similar influences. The wonder is that Russian didn't similarly get subsumed by Mongolian lingual influences during the occupation.
Of course, the results don't exactly show a "3x speedup"... they show between a 0.08x speedup and a 7.8x speedup, with a high variability. Which is really great for such an early build, but it's not an instant panacea for everything.