Earlier than that; I have a PowerBook from around 1994 which can boot up within a couple of seconds into SCSI slave mode, where it can be used as an external SCSI disk. Same thing for the connection technology at the time.
"A roomy shelter costing just over $200, takes just a few hours to build, and has the R-value of a typical house."
Apparently longer than they spent on their website. Seriously, why does it read as a random gob of sentences about the Hexayurt, yet not answer my basic questions?
I DID contact the seller first, and he gave me some bullshit story about cheaper shipping or something. I checked the shipping sites and that was definitely not the case. I gave them a shot but they treated me like an idiot, so I left neutral feedback (which means neither positive nor negative) with a factual statement that they changed shipping company after I paid, and the item arrived in a few days and worked fine. The only conclusion I can draw is that feedback is not for characterizing my experience, that there is a certain feedback I'm supposed to leave and if I don't, I get negative feedback for it.
Just wanted to boil your good comment down more: Competitors try to make a better product so you'll choose theirs over others. Enemies (anti-competitors) try to destroy the competition so you're left with no choice but theirs.
"I mean, does reading my physiology and figuring out that i'm stressed going to make the web page load faster?" And if so, would that cause me to get stressed automatically just so the compuer would be snappier? On the other hand, this technology could be useful for Vista. Once you've seen the tenth "Allow/Deny?" dialog and are agitated, it stops bothering you. But I've seen this story several times now and it always sounds totally stupid; make computers as un-stressful as possible to use in the first place.
"He said the RIAA established that Kazaa existed for the sole purpose of file sharing." Wow, really? Next you'll tell me that FTP is for the sole purpose of transferring files over a protocol.
For my first eBay purchase ever several months ago I left neutral feedback (seller used different shipping than claimed) and STILL got negative feedback in return. And try summarizing things in 80 characters. Craigslist is so much better, and local.
So governments can claim copyrights, trademarks, and get patents? I thought the point of these was for commercial enterprises in the market, which the government is not in (since it can grant itself a monopoly on anything it wants). What's their justification, that without the protection of copyright they wouldn't be able to make a profit...er... they already get taxes by law. They wouldn't be able to finance projects like coining (ha) the phrase "one cent"? I just don't get it.
The only difference between this and a RAM cache in the PC's memory is that this is preserved across power cycles. So the only benefit might be faster rebooting. Otherwise, why not just use some of your RAM as a hard drive cache? It can be more intelligent than the one on the drive since it has access to contextual information from the OS.
It's censorship only if the sole reason for blocking access is to prevent free expression of ideas. In this case, it's a blunt solution to the (apparent) problem of something that's distracting employees from the work they're there to do. Now, if the company tried to prevent them from editing the Wiki outside of work, then it would be censorship. I fear this word is going down the same path as "steal" and "theft", being watered down to "doing something I don't like". What word will we use for the suppression of expression?
I guess you'd call it censorship if any company enforced limits on what sites employees were allowed to visit and contribute to during working hours? Abuse of the word waters down its meaning, leaving talk of real censorship more difficult.
So in other words, it's kind of like the iPhone being hacked so that anyone can write and run code? If God releases a firmware update, do NOT apply it!
Seconded. When the kids get exposed to assembly, why not have it a clean modern design rather than the ugly crap that is x86? I'm guessing that there are many more choices for x86 supplier (especially for slower chips), and the licensing cost is less if you want to fab your own.
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Earlier than that; I have a PowerBook from around 1994 which can boot up within a couple of seconds into SCSI slave mode, where it can be used as an external SCSI disk. Same thing for the connection technology at the time.
"A roomy shelter costing just over $200, takes just a few hours to build, and has the R-value of a typical house."
Apparently longer than they spent on their website. Seriously, why does it read as a random gob of sentences about the Hexayurt, yet not answer my basic questions?
I DID contact the seller first, and he gave me some bullshit story about cheaper shipping or something. I checked the shipping sites and that was definitely not the case. I gave them a shot but they treated me like an idiot, so I left neutral feedback (which means neither positive nor negative) with a factual statement that they changed shipping company after I paid, and the item arrived in a few days and worked fine. The only conclusion I can draw is that feedback is not for characterizing my experience, that there is a certain feedback I'm supposed to leave and if I don't, I get negative feedback for it.
Just wanted to boil your good comment down more: Competitors try to make a better product so you'll choose theirs over others. Enemies (anti-competitors) try to destroy the competition so you're left with no choice but theirs.
We already have enough problems driving in two dimensions. I can't even begin to imagine driving in three.
So driving in one dimension would reduce problems? I think you've got things reversed.
"I mean, does reading my physiology and figuring out that i'm stressed going to make the web page load faster?"
And if so, would that cause me to get stressed automatically just so the compuer would be snappier? On the other hand, this technology could be useful for Vista. Once you've seen the tenth "Allow/Deny?" dialog and are agitated, it stops bothering you. But I've seen this story several times now and it always sounds totally stupid; make computers as un-stressful as possible to use in the first place.
"He said the RIAA established that Kazaa existed for the sole purpose of file sharing." Wow, really? Next you'll tell me that FTP is for the sole purpose of transferring files over a protocol.
For my first eBay purchase ever several months ago I left neutral feedback (seller used different shipping than claimed) and STILL got negative feedback in return. And try summarizing things in 80 characters. Craigslist is so much better, and local.
So governments can claim copyrights, trademarks, and get patents? I thought the point of these was for commercial enterprises in the market, which the government is not in (since it can grant itself a monopoly on anything it wants). What's their justification, that without the protection of copyright they wouldn't be able to make a profit...er... they already get taxes by law. They wouldn't be able to finance projects like coining (ha) the phrase "one cent"? I just don't get it.
Of course with PDF even if it appears to be completely blacked out, it might be still readable by copying and pasting the text.
The only difference between this and a RAM cache in the PC's memory is that this is preserved across power cycles. So the only benefit might be faster rebooting. Otherwise, why not just use some of your RAM as a hard drive cache? It can be more intelligent than the one on the drive since it has access to contextual information from the OS.
Ack, we need a new acronym, NSWE: Not safe while eating
I'm a robot, and reading data IS mining to me, you insensitive clod!
It's about time they realize that those old analog CDs won't cut it anymore. Oh, wait...
Prepare for the new "War on God helmets" (a.k.a. the war on God helmet users).
Perhaps eBay shuts down the auctions of pirated items due to buyer complaints, not MAFIAA legal threats?
You do realize that e-mail is sent in cleartext the whole way, don't you?
It's censorship only if the sole reason for blocking access is to prevent free expression of ideas. In this case, it's a blunt solution to the (apparent) problem of something that's distracting employees from the work they're there to do. Now, if the company tried to prevent them from editing the Wiki outside of work, then it would be censorship. I fear this word is going down the same path as "steal" and "theft", being watered down to "doing something I don't like". What word will we use for the suppression of expression?
I guess you'd call it censorship if any company enforced limits on what sites employees were allowed to visit and contribute to during working hours? Abuse of the word waters down its meaning, leaving talk of real censorship more difficult.
Only because it can't overcome the massive stupidity that is the patent system.
So in other words, it's kind of like the iPhone being hacked so that anyone can write and run code? If God releases a firmware update, do NOT apply it!
But it'll have half the market share, which sure beats Apple!
Seconded. When the kids get exposed to assembly, why not have it a clean modern design rather than the ugly crap that is x86? I'm guessing that there are many more choices for x86 supplier (especially for slower chips), and the licensing cost is less if you want to fab your own.
Maybe your phone, but a normal laptop would take a hell of a lot of cranking.