This is being promoted by Microsoft as a Release Candidate 1. By stamping this a Release Candidate product, the product team is saying "We believe this product is completely finished, polished, optimized, bug free, and ready for mass production. Unless you, our fearless users, discover something, THIS is the product we mass-produce and distribute by the millions."
Except for the inconvenient fact that everyone who has seen it knows that's simply nonsense. In reality, this is a late alpha (unoptimized, feature incomplete, substantial bugs remain) or at best an early beta (feature complete, largely optimized, some bugs remain), but based on reports calling this a Beta is being generous. But to call it a release candidate is absurd. No way! Seriously, we're STILL hearing reports of features being removed from the product.
>>Apparently the current thinking is that this gene is responsible for coding important areas of brain function. >Well, why don't they make some knockout mutants and then look at the brain function? It seems like the logical next step.
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>>patented Cardas "Golden Section," multi-gauge stranding in a symmetrical, 12 conductor helical tri-axial design of quad-axial planetary arrays of golden ratio, constant "Q" conductors.
I've often thought it would be a great Science Fair project to compare an Ultra High End component cable to an Ultra Low End cable. And by Ultra Low End, I mean two untwisted 29-cent coat hangers wrapped with duct tape as insulation.
I bet there's not one person in a hundred who can tell the difference. And for that one person, would anyone give me odds on whether they'd prefer the coat hanger?
Find, how? With a search engine. Just remember, Google and AOL (and others) are keeping a history of all your searches... which I'm sure the RIAA would love to subpoena at some point. Because everyone with this tool is obviously a criminal. Right? Right???
>>black boxes are designed to be removed, like removable hard drives. Just unplug it.
And because it will almost certainly be integrated into your car's engine management system your car will be reduced to being a fancy pushcart.
FYI, in all states that I'm aware which requre exhaust emissions tests, they require that the engine computer download it's cache of "check codes" and interacting "normally" with the test computer via the OBD (on board diagnostics) interface. Don't kjnow the format... Challenge/response? Simple handshake? who knows, but "failing to react properly" = "your car fails the test" = fix it soon or pay a fine.
I was telling an attorney friend about EDR's and his response was "really? I suppose that means I can subpoena that information and admit it for evidence. Unless it's ruled self-incrimination..." We spent about an hour discussing and it brought up a whole bunch of interesting questions: Is the information on this machine considered part of a persons "papers or effects" or is all information now property of the government court to be surrendered on demand? Is destroying this device considered tampering with evidence... do I have a right to smash up my own car (computer, books, diary, etc.)? If not, I think this intrudes on my property rights. Where does the court's right to information about me end and my rights to my own property and information begin? Is it safe to say "none of your damned business" any more?
>>there is no silver bullet or extra security measure we can take that will guarenty safty from terrorist attacks.
Guarantee? No, but prohibiting Muslims from flying (or at least giving them an extra-thorough level of scrutiny) will make a huge improvement. Religion is the single defining characteristic of modern terrorists who use aircraft as weapons or seek to destroy aircraft full of passengers. And it's not Scientologists or Mormans we're talking about here, it's Muslims.
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but nearly all terrorists are Muslims. And quite a large percentage are sympathizers as demonstrated by recent polls in London showing support for the recently foiled plot to kill a few thousand westerners in-flight UK->US. Call it flamebait if you want, but it is true. Nearly all airplane hijackings and intentional attacks on civilians have been done in the name of Islam. The world can go on pretending that's not the case, but until we are willing to at least identify the well-defined group of people responsible for most of this mayhem, increased security will be a pipe dream.
Or you moderators can just mod this 'flamebait' and go on pretending. Call me racist. Hit the cultural 'snooze' button... roll over & go back to sleep. Whatever. Maybe once an attack affects you personally, your family, or your country you'll wake up. Sleep well.
Remind anyone else of: "You're in the desert. You see a turtle on its back and it can't flip over. Unless it gets on its feet it will die. But you won't help it. You're going to let it die. Why is that?" (paraphrased.)
>>Basically, I think the Wired article is doing a Dvorak, and inciting Mac users to go to the site. It's much ado about nothing.
Not me! In proud/. tradition, I didn't bother to read the article and instead immediately jumped to a prior-held conclusion based on emotion. I sure showed them who's boss!
In my spare cycles I think about what it would take to reconstitute civilization from scratch. I mean, what if the whole of the world was reduced to the technology of Survivor Island, basically subsistance living? What would it take to get to the point of that first iron casting? The first electronic circuit? Mining, farming, production? An electric grid? An economy? Medicine?
IT head honchos at any large corp that uses Windows have probably been factoring the XP ---> Vista upgrade path into their plans for a year or three.
These are the same worthless (so-called) Executives who fret and lose sleep over VB reaching end-of-life status. As if all their custom-built corporate applications which have run just fine for years will suddenly crash tomorrow because Microsoft no longer sells multi-thousand dollar Support Agreements. So instead of allow the apps to contine to work, unmolested, they spend millions porting them to.Net or some other "supported" technology. Huge investements w/no measurable business benefit. I blame it on two things 1)lack of understanding and 2)lack of vision. Unfortunately, there's plenty of both in the industry right now.
Keep in mind, these are the same people who rush into Offshoring because "according to Gartner group, everyone else is doing it." I just hope they're still accountable when it all collapses around them a few more years from now and THEY are outsourced because they don't understand the industry.
>>What about the great hordes of corporate Microsoft certified IT weenies >If MS drops the ball hard enough, for long enough, Apple will take these customers.
You don't know how true this is. Way back when, I was a Mac developer and my shop was also involved with the Windows 3.0 beta. The contrast was striking -- Microsoft reps treated us like gold -- they sent us free compilers, books, checked in to see how we were doing, offered assistance, etc. Apple, however, charged a small fortune for their compiler/development tools (MPW), we bought the multi-volume Inside Macintosh documentation out-of-pocket, paid for membership in their developer's groups, etc. The difference was like night and day. Apple acted like it could live without us, MSFT acted as though it COULDN'T live without us. Microsoft made it cheap and easy to port our software to Windows and made us want to develop for Windows.
Flash forward to 2006. I believe the tables have largely turned. OSX is a great environment to be productive, Apple includes their fantastic XCode development environment and developer documentation with every new Mac, etc. Meanwhile, Microsoft now charges a LOT of $$ for Visual Studio Enterprise Extreme Radical 2008.Net (and yes, I am aware it is technically possible to develop.net apps from the command line just as it's technically possible to build your own house using nothing more than an axe and a drill) and unless you wanna get screwed and pay full price next year when there's an update you'll pay to join their developer club. IMO, MSFT has gotten complacent and Apple is now wooing developers.
The Alpha geeks I know are now carrying Macbooks and writing code on Macs. Funny what a difference a couple decades makes.
It's the sound of a high-voltage capacitor bleeding current. As prior post said, very high pitched -- toward the upper end of human hearing. If you're over 40 years old or attend rock concerts/listen to loud music you probably won't be able to hear it, but children can pick it out quite easily since their hearing is typically more sensitive. Must be annoying as hell for dogs.
Electrolytic caps tend to reform incomplete insulators with use, and occasionally correct themselves. I suspect this is a polyester or metal film polarized cap so the odds of self-correcting are, well, very low to nil. That being said, the charger on my Macbook (low-end 1.83 core duo, not a MBP) makes this sound. I plan to give it a month to see if it sorts out or gets worse. Not too concerned so long as it continues to charge.
>>the end user that pays microsoft for it's software Are you sure about this? IIRC the vast majority of OS sales go to corporations (who want DRM or are at best neutral since it doesn't affect them), 3rd party vendors (Gateway, Dell, etc.), and integrators (value-added sales such as embedded systems). Sales direct to public are a minority.
It only took three days and out of fear they would expect the same speed from me for other projects I quietly played Doom for the rest of the time minus three days. Showed them the app and they loved it.
>>lets have our government go after the zombie masters as the scum that they are: invaders into our lives and our stuff.
Good luck with that. The US government can't even persue terrorists who kill American citizens without inviting substantial criticism. If they can't arrest cold-blooded killers you think they're going to be able to round up computer geeks?
Maybe the UN can take care of this. (trying to supress a chuckle)
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This is being promoted by Microsoft as a Release Candidate 1. By stamping this a Release Candidate product, the product team is saying "We believe this product is completely finished, polished, optimized, bug free, and ready for mass production. Unless you, our fearless users, discover something, THIS is the product we mass-produce and distribute by the millions."
Except for the inconvenient fact that everyone who has seen it knows that's simply nonsense. In reality, this is a late alpha (unoptimized, feature incomplete, substantial bugs remain) or at best an early beta (feature complete, largely optimized, some bugs remain), but based on reports calling this a Beta is being generous. But to call it a release candidate is absurd. No way! Seriously, we're STILL hearing reports of features being removed from the product.
I believe you're referring to the MIRACLE piano system. IIRC, it had cartridges for the Nintendo, and software for Win and Mac systems, too.
Your description of it as "the musical equivalent of Mavis Beacon touch typing" is excellent!
>>Apparently the current thinking is that this gene is responsible for coding important areas of brain function.
>Well, why don't they make some knockout mutants and then look at the brain function? It seems like the logical next step.
Three words: Jerry Springer Show
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>>If I buy say 25 acres of land, and I sell 1 acre parcels of this land ... counting on the fact that no one will try to use thier full acre?
Sorry, but I think a certain TV preacher can claim prior art!
>>patented Cardas "Golden Section," multi-gauge stranding in a symmetrical, 12 conductor helical tri-axial design of quad-axial planetary arrays of golden ratio, constant "Q" conductors.
I've often thought it would be a great Science Fair project to compare an Ultra High End component cable to an Ultra Low End cable. And by Ultra Low End, I mean two untwisted 29-cent coat hangers wrapped with duct tape as insulation.
I bet there's not one person in a hundred who can tell the difference. And for that one person, would anyone give me odds on whether they'd prefer the coat hanger?
>>If everyone did this, as you suggest, Napster would go out of business.
What? If everyone did this, Napster would have a lot of customers and recurring income.
And JHymn hasn't worked since, like, 18 months ago. Certainly hasn't worked in iTunes 6 nor do I think iTunes 5 either......
Which is precisly why many people have not upgraded their iTunes install.
Find, how? With a search engine. Just remember, Google and AOL (and others) are keeping a history of all your searches... which I'm sure the RIAA would love to subpoena at some point. Because everyone with this tool is obviously a criminal. Right? Right???
>>black boxes are designed to be removed, like removable hard drives. Just unplug it.
And because it will almost certainly be integrated into your car's engine management system your car will be reduced to being a fancy pushcart.
FYI, in all states that I'm aware which requre exhaust emissions tests, they require that the engine computer download it's cache of "check codes" and interacting "normally" with the test computer via the OBD (on board diagnostics) interface. Don't kjnow the format... Challenge/response? Simple handshake? who knows, but "failing to react properly" = "your car fails the test" = fix it soon or pay a fine.
I was telling an attorney friend about EDR's and his response was "really? I suppose that means I can subpoena that information and admit it for evidence. Unless it's ruled self-incrimination..." We spent about an hour discussing and it brought up a whole bunch of interesting questions: Is the information on this machine considered part of a persons "papers or effects" or is all information now property of the government court to be surrendered on demand? Is destroying this device considered tampering with evidence... do I have a right to smash up my own car (computer, books, diary, etc.)? If not, I think this intrudes on my property rights. Where does the court's right to information about me end and my rights to my own property and information begin? Is it safe to say "none of your damned business" any more?
>>there is no silver bullet or extra security measure we can take that will guarenty safty from terrorist attacks.
Guarantee? No, but prohibiting Muslims from flying (or at least giving them an extra-thorough level of scrutiny) will make a huge improvement. Religion is the single defining characteristic of modern terrorists who use aircraft as weapons or seek to destroy aircraft full of passengers. And it's not Scientologists or Mormans we're talking about here, it's Muslims.
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but nearly all terrorists are Muslims. And quite a large percentage are sympathizers as demonstrated by recent polls in London showing support for the recently foiled plot to kill a few thousand westerners in-flight UK->US. Call it flamebait if you want, but it is true. Nearly all airplane hijackings and intentional attacks on civilians have been done in the name of Islam. The world can go on pretending that's not the case, but until we are willing to at least identify the well-defined group of people responsible for most of this mayhem, increased security will be a pipe dream.
Or you moderators can just mod this 'flamebait' and go on pretending. Call me racist. Hit the cultural 'snooze' button... roll over & go back to sleep. Whatever. Maybe once an attack affects you personally, your family, or your country you'll wake up. Sleep well.
Here's a good link the rest of the Replicant questions... asked of San Francisco Mayoral candidates.e id=24031
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Remind anyone else of: "You're in the desert. You see a turtle on its back and it can't flip over. Unless it gets on its feet it will die. But you won't help it. You're going to let it die. Why is that?" (paraphrased.)
>>Basically, I think the Wired article is doing a Dvorak, and inciting Mac users to go to the site. It's much ado about nothing.
/. tradition, I didn't bother to read the article and instead immediately jumped to a prior-held conclusion based on emotion. I sure showed them who's boss!
Not me! In proud
That's pretty funny.
In my spare cycles I think about what it would take to reconstitute civilization from scratch. I mean, what if the whole of the world was reduced to the technology of Survivor Island, basically subsistance living? What would it take to get to the point of that first iron casting? The first electronic circuit? Mining, farming, production? An electric grid? An economy? Medicine?
Keep in mind, these are the same people who rush into Offshoring because "according to Gartner group, everyone else is doing it." I just hope they're still accountable when it all collapses around them a few more years from now and THEY are outsourced because they don't understand the industry.
>>What about the great hordes of corporate Microsoft certified IT weenies
.Net (and yes, I am aware it is technically possible to develop .net apps from the command line just as it's technically possible to build your own house using nothing more than an axe and a drill) and unless you wanna get screwed and pay full price next year when there's an update you'll pay to join their developer club. IMO, MSFT has gotten complacent and Apple is now wooing developers.
>If MS drops the ball hard enough, for long enough, Apple will take these customers.
You don't know how true this is. Way back when, I was a Mac developer and my shop was also involved with the Windows 3.0 beta. The contrast was striking -- Microsoft reps treated us like gold -- they sent us free compilers, books, checked in to see how we were doing, offered assistance, etc. Apple, however, charged a small fortune for their compiler/development tools (MPW), we bought the multi-volume Inside Macintosh documentation out-of-pocket, paid for membership in their developer's groups, etc. The difference was like night and day. Apple acted like it could live without us, MSFT acted as though it COULDN'T live without us. Microsoft made it cheap and easy to port our software to Windows and made us want to develop for Windows.
Flash forward to 2006. I believe the tables have largely turned. OSX is a great environment to be productive, Apple includes their fantastic XCode development environment and developer documentation with every new Mac, etc. Meanwhile, Microsoft now charges a LOT of $$ for Visual Studio Enterprise Extreme Radical 2008
The Alpha geeks I know are now carrying Macbooks and writing code on Macs. Funny what a difference a couple decades makes.
It's the sound of a high-voltage capacitor bleeding current. As prior post said, very high pitched -- toward the upper end of human hearing. If you're over 40 years old or attend rock concerts/listen to loud music you probably won't be able to hear it, but children can pick it out quite easily since their hearing is typically more sensitive. Must be annoying as hell for dogs.
Electrolytic caps tend to reform incomplete insulators with use, and occasionally correct themselves. I suspect this is a polyester or metal film polarized cap so the odds of self-correcting are, well, very low to nil. That being said, the charger on my Macbook (low-end 1.83 core duo, not a MBP) makes this sound. I plan to give it a month to see if it sorts out or gets worse. Not too concerned so long as it continues to charge.
>>the end user that pays microsoft for it's software
Are you sure about this? IIRC the vast majority of OS sales go to corporations (who want DRM or are at best neutral since it doesn't affect them), 3rd party vendors (Gateway, Dell, etc.), and integrators (value-added sales such as embedded systems). Sales direct to public are a minority.
Originally, there were 15 design principles... but they had to drop a few in order to meet the ship date.
>>Testing at Compaq? Compaq tests things!?
They test their customer's patience. Does that count?
And in related news, Microsoft announced today that CorporateSearch(tm) was being dropped from Vista.
>>lets have our government go after the zombie masters as the scum that they are: invaders into our lives and our stuff.
Good luck with that. The US government can't even persue terrorists who kill American citizens without inviting substantial criticism. If they can't arrest cold-blooded killers you think they're going to be able to round up computer geeks?
Maybe the UN can take care of this. (trying to supress a chuckle)