Re:Google Consolidating All Info For Advertising?
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Google Base Launches
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If they host everything, and it's better than all the websites that host their own info in order to run advertisements, then those websites will disappear with time.
The sites may disappear, but will the content?
Or will content creators simply move from a model where they have to run all their own infrastructure to one where Google does it for them for free?
But my guess is that it will be solely Toshiba until around - and I'm just guessing here - September 13, 2022.
US Patent No: 6,942,936
My guess is that every HDD manufacturer that it's Toshiba realizes that if they can't keep pace with Toshiba's increases in data density, they are going to go out of business, and therefore open their wallets wide and license the technology for their own products.
My guess is also that due to these licensing costs, you shouldn't expect desktop drives to drop much below 50 cents per gigabyte for the next two or three years.
And I believe that is the problem with this rootkit. Sony didn't test it properly. If they had tested it properly and kept it within its own little world on a customer's PC, I don't think the fallout would have been so excessive.
What.
It's a rootkit.
It's intended functionality is deleterious to the consumer. Better testing might have made it better, but it could never have made it Good.
I recommend that all developers and technical-types cultivate a solid understanding of the principles and practices of Project Management.
Why? Because if you demonstrate that you CAN'T manage your own projects, then the Company WILL assign some clueless business school graduate to micromanage you, and your job will suck. Don't let it happen to you.
my computer now being more than 3 feet from my main tv I'm going to pick it up for the media extender capabilities
I may be wrong, but doesn't the 360 Media Extender functionality require a host computer running Windows XP Media Center Edition? It's not exactly like Microsoft to offer a product that would work seamlessly if your media storage is an iMac, for example, or a MythTV backend.
The hardware manufacturers would love to do just that (with the possible exception of Sony, who is a 7-headed Hydra). Problem is, they have the content industries leaning on them saying "We'll be damned if we entrust our content to a device that doesn't decide how, where, and in what way people watch the media we sell them."
Sure, they've made out okay over the past 30-40 years of a marketplace that has easy home duplication of music and movies, but that isn't stopping them from reaching for the brass ring now that they think it's within grasp.
'Console games are demanding,' says Mike Snyder, a 33-year-old computer programmer in Wichita, Kan. 'With text games, you can sit there at the prompt, go make a sandwich, then come back and play more.'"
Someone should invent a gaming console with a 'pause' button. Then go back to about 1983 and market it.
likely 2 sets (of NiMH batteries) per vehicle during useful life
What are you basing this on? As far as I know, Toyota and Honda both state that except in extremely rare cases, the batteries that come with the car should last the ENTIRE useful life of the vehicle.
For 95% of your activity simply recharging your BEV overnight would be good enough.
And for the other 5%? A range of 300-350 miles between recharges means that I can't make any plans to travel any further than ~150 miles as the crow files from my home. That's not even enough to make it from New York to Boston and back. What will become of the Great American Road Trip?
It's not a big leap of faith to picture "BEV friendly" apartment complexes or worksites.
Yes it is. Hell, very few communities in the US even provide BICYCLE LANES. If an environmentally-friendly travel device that's nearly 150 years old can't make any headway, what are the odds that a brand-new, much more expensive device could? Between zero and nil.
Well there's no reason to run out of gasoline or battery power other then stupidity on the part of the owner. I've never run out of gas.
Congratulations, you're not stupid! You may have noticed, though, that many motorists ARE stupid. How do we deal with them? Pretending they're not there or not important isn't an option.
My whole point is that this technology should not have been abandoned. Why isn't it still being researched?
Oh, I'm sure it still is -- just not with plans for bringing it to market in the near-term. Even if current all-electric tech meets YOUR needs, the industry's research has convinced them that the technology isn't ready for prime time.
Not to mention for the real geek you can make your own fuel for pennies a gallon.
You mean biodiesel? Materials cost for biodiesel 'refining' is about 50 cents per gallon on the individual scale, and that doesn't include the cost of the processing and storage equipment, the property where the refinery is to be operated, or even the cost of obtaining the 'crude' vegetable oil.
Significantly cheaper than buying petroleum gasoline, yes, but not so cheap as to be near-free.
I suspect that he's afraid that the next test he takes will be positive; probably not able to cope with that.
Yes, and I suspect that now that he no longer thinks he's HIV-positive, he's going to have unprotected sex with some poor woman and end up giving her the gift that keeps on giving.
I don't much care about this guy's coping ability; he has a duty to Society and to Science to get his test results confirmed.
As a female, I take offense to this. I believe the smell is closer to tuna fish.:)
As an enthusiastically straight male, I believe I've had my nose closer to the source than the typical female has.
Assuming no foreign matter found its way into the cleanroom, I would agree that musk is a better description of the scent.
Re:Since the submitter didn't bother to explain...
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It's great at DSP but terrible at branch prediction
With 8 or more semi-independent "Synergistic Processing Unit" pipelines, it doesn't really need to have a lot of complex branch prediction logic. It could adopt a bit of a quantum methodology and assign a different SPU to proceed for each possible outcome of a compare/branch instruction, and then once the correct outcome has been established, discard the "dead-end" pipelines.
Then again, I learned microprocessor design principles back when the PPC 601 was state-of-the-art, so my +1 Insightfulness may vary.
Look, it's what happens when a culture doesn't insist that immigrants conform.
No, actually it's what happens when a culture tries to FORCE its immigrants to conform, to such an extent that they are not allowed to freely engage in aspects of their native culture. Humans don't like being told they have to conform. They rebel.
Within American culture we have Jewish-Americans, Latin-Americans, African-Americans, and so forth. Our cultural groups don't always get along smoothly, but they all enjoy equal freedom of expression. That idea is foreign to French culture. You can't be Jewish-French, Latin-French, or African-French; unless you convert to being French-French you're still an outsider.
Odds of the string "http://www.mp3dev.org/" randomly appearing in a binary? about 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 (assuming uniform distribution)
I don't know about you, but when I think Windows, I think of those big glass things in the wall.
I don't know about you, but when I think of a SOFTWARE PRODUCT called "Windows Defender", I think that it's probably related to the SOFTWARE PRODUCT called "Windows".
Remember, trademarks do not only concern a word or phrase, but also the product or service it is used in conjunction with. It mostly doesn't matter if that same word or phrase also applies to something else in a different market, or even if it's in common unage.
If his product were "that blast retardant suff for glass", Microsoft would have been out of line to go after him. But it wasn't, and they were within their legal rights and responsibilities to pursue restitution.
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If they host everything, and it's better than all the websites that host their own info in order to run advertisements, then those websites will disappear with time.
The sites may disappear, but will the content?
Or will content creators simply move from a model where they have to run all their own infrastructure to one where Google does it for them for free?
But my guess is that it will be solely Toshiba until around - and I'm just guessing here - September 13, 2022.
US Patent No: 6,942,936
My guess is that every HDD manufacturer that it's Toshiba realizes that if they can't keep pace with Toshiba's increases in data density, they are going to go out of business, and therefore open their wallets wide and license the technology for their own products.
My guess is also that due to these licensing costs, you shouldn't expect desktop drives to drop much below 50 cents per gigabyte for the next two or three years.
Why shouldn't the product manager responsible for this pay for his crime of making the nations computers even more insecure?
Because he works for a corporation, and his liabilities for actions taken in the pursuit of corporate interests are thereby limited.
Should Sony Corp. be punished with a monster fine and business sanctions? Hell yes IMO.
And I believe that is the problem with this rootkit. Sony didn't test it properly. If they had tested it properly and kept it within its own little world on a customer's PC, I don't think the fallout would have been so excessive.
What.
It's a rootkit.
It's intended functionality is deleterious to the consumer. Better testing might have made it better, but it could never have made it Good.
I recommend that all developers and technical-types cultivate a solid understanding of the principles and practices of Project Management.
Why? Because if you demonstrate that you CAN'T manage your own projects, then the Company WILL assign some clueless business school graduate to micromanage you, and your job will suck. Don't let it happen to you.
If you want a media machine for the living room, I can really recommend a Mac Mini. It already has everything you need for multimedia.
Except a TV tuner, TV output, digital audio output, the processing power to encode or play back HD content, and a proper remote control.
On the plus side, it CAN play DVDs.
my computer now being more than 3 feet from my main tv I'm going to pick it up for the media extender capabilities
I may be wrong, but doesn't the 360 Media Extender functionality require a host computer running Windows XP Media Center Edition? It's not exactly like Microsoft to offer a product that would work seamlessly if your media storage is an iMac, for example, or a MythTV backend.
Does anyone else see what I see? All but one of these is a sequel!
Given that the console itself is nothing more than a sequel, why would this surprise anyone?
Get me a DRM-Free device and I'll rush to buy it.
The hardware manufacturers would love to do just that (with the possible exception of Sony, who is a 7-headed Hydra). Problem is, they have the content industries leaning on them saying "We'll be damned if we entrust our content to a device that doesn't decide how, where, and in what way people watch the media we sell them."
Sure, they've made out okay over the past 30-40 years of a marketplace that has easy home duplication of music and movies, but that isn't stopping them from reaching for the brass ring now that they think it's within grasp.
In a future world where oil is becoming increasingly rare, the "Great American Road Trip" is going to become a luxury that few can afford.
I guess I'll have to tell my kids that they aren't going to get to visit Grandma and Grandpa anymore. That sucks.
'Console games are demanding,' says Mike Snyder, a 33-year-old computer programmer in Wichita, Kan. 'With text games, you can sit there at the prompt, go make a sandwich, then come back and play more.'"
Someone should invent a gaming console with a 'pause' button. Then go back to about 1983 and market it.
According to the report I read, the Sony rootkit doesn't contain any of the code from the LAME libraries, just a couple of tables.
And how are these tables distributed in the LAME source package? As code?
I can't tell you how many times I've helped kids with their C++ and Java questions, found good game competitors, and reconnected with old friends.
How did a P2P file transfer system help you accomplish any of these?
Actually, the analysis is based on MSRP, but I doubt anyone pays MSRP anymore.
For hybrids, I would wager most buyers still do. Toyota still can't build Priii fast enough to meet demand.
likely 2 sets (of NiMH batteries) per vehicle during useful life
What are you basing this on? As far as I know, Toyota and Honda both state that except in extremely rare cases, the batteries that come with the car should last the ENTIRE useful life of the vehicle.
For 95% of your activity simply recharging your BEV overnight would be good enough.
And for the other 5%? A range of 300-350 miles between recharges means that I can't make any plans to travel any further than ~150 miles as the crow files from my home. That's not even enough to make it from New York to Boston and back. What will become of the Great American Road Trip?
It's not a big leap of faith to picture "BEV friendly" apartment complexes or worksites.
Yes it is. Hell, very few communities in the US even provide BICYCLE LANES. If an environmentally-friendly travel device that's nearly 150 years old can't make any headway, what are the odds that a brand-new, much more expensive device could? Between zero and nil.
Well there's no reason to run out of gasoline or battery power other then stupidity on the part of the owner. I've never run out of gas.
Congratulations, you're not stupid! You may have noticed, though, that many motorists ARE stupid. How do we deal with them? Pretending they're not there or not important isn't an option.
My whole point is that this technology should not have been abandoned. Why isn't it still being researched?
Oh, I'm sure it still is -- just not with plans for bringing it to market in the near-term. Even if current all-electric tech meets YOUR needs, the industry's research has convinced them that the technology isn't ready for prime time.
Maybe in 10-15 years.
Not to mention for the real geek you can make your own fuel for pennies a gallon.
You mean biodiesel? Materials cost for biodiesel 'refining' is about 50 cents per gallon on the individual scale, and that doesn't include the cost of the processing and storage equipment, the property where the refinery is to be operated, or even the cost of obtaining the 'crude' vegetable oil.
Significantly cheaper than buying petroleum gasoline, yes, but not so cheap as to be near-free.
I suspect that he's afraid that the next test he takes will be positive; probably not able to cope with that.
Yes, and I suspect that now that he no longer thinks he's HIV-positive, he's going to have unprotected sex with some poor woman and end up giving her the gift that keeps on giving.
I don't much care about this guy's coping ability; he has a duty to Society and to Science to get his test results confirmed.
As a female, I take offense to this. I believe the smell is closer to tuna fish. :)
As an enthusiastically straight male, I believe I've had my nose closer to the source than the typical female has.
Assuming no foreign matter found its way into the cleanroom, I would agree that musk is a better description of the scent.
It's great at DSP but terrible at branch prediction
With 8 or more semi-independent "Synergistic Processing Unit" pipelines, it doesn't really need to have a lot of complex branch prediction logic. It could adopt a bit of a quantum methodology and assign a different SPU to proceed for each possible outcome of a compare/branch instruction, and then once the correct outcome has been established, discard the "dead-end" pipelines.
Then again, I learned microprocessor design principles back when the PPC 601 was state-of-the-art, so my +1 Insightfulness may vary.
Look, it's what happens when a culture doesn't insist that immigrants conform.
No, actually it's what happens when a culture tries to FORCE its immigrants to conform, to such an extent that they are not allowed to freely engage in aspects of their native culture. Humans don't like being told they have to conform. They rebel.
Within American culture we have Jewish-Americans, Latin-Americans, African-Americans, and so forth. Our cultural groups don't always get along smoothly, but they all enjoy equal freedom of expression. That idea is foreign to French culture. You can't be Jewish-French, Latin-French, or African-French; unless you convert to being French-French you're still an outsider.
Odds of the string "http://www.mp3dev.org/" randomly appearing in a binary? about 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 (assuming uniform distribution)
it seems to me that WiFi plus some nice software should make a mesh. Doesn't seem like a hardware thing to me.
Doesn't have to be a hardware thing, but when you're Cisco, everything should be solved with hardware.
All the red ants running on tiny treadmills inside the cell will be able to escape and will probably bite you!
I don't know about you, but when I think Windows, I think of those big glass things in the wall.
I don't know about you, but when I think of a SOFTWARE PRODUCT called "Windows Defender", I think that it's probably related to the SOFTWARE PRODUCT called "Windows".
Remember, trademarks do not only concern a word or phrase, but also the product or service it is used in conjunction with. It mostly doesn't matter if that same word or phrase also applies to something else in a different market, or even if it's in common unage.
If his product were "that blast retardant suff for glass", Microsoft would have been out of line to go after him. But it wasn't, and they were within their legal rights and responsibilities to pursue restitution.