Not that it matters to myself. I'm still running a dual-core athlon 64. Processor/memory upgrades became overrated a few years ago.
There has been nothing new worth spending money on, hardware wise, for the last 3 years at least.
Agreed, but 2011 changes that for some folks. I waited for Sandy Bridge instead of moving to AMD's six cores (or waiting for Fusion). The i5's Quick Sync decreased my video encode time for a feature length film down to just under 8 minutes at stock speeds.
MAYBE I feel sorry for the elderly or disabled who for whatever reason want an e-card from an unspecified friend, but why wouldn't they ask themselves why a FRIEND would send you a link to a site that requires you to install something to see a dumb-ass picture. My 76 yr old tech-disabled mother wouldn't buy into that crap.
Have you checked how many toolbars she has? My mom's record is five. I offer that the definition of "tech-disabled" *is* buying into that crap.
Oh, and the "fix it yourself" people need to shut the fuck up too. That's fine when it's an open-source project with fifty users hosted on sourceforge, not when it's in-production software that runs on millions and millions of phones.
Why? You can't have it both ways. Either OSS is more secure, less buggy, and fixed more quickly because there are more eyes on it or it's not. The number of users is irrelevant. You're waiting for the vendor to fix it. That's OK, but quit telling me I can do it in other conversations.
What does the shuttle 'imaging' team have to show us?
Images of the shuttle.
If JFK had the balls to make that call, and the governers of this country respect him, why have we not been back there?
If only someone whould have written the reasons down. We could call it history and stored those historical documents historical documents into places we could call libraries perhaps located in a complex called a university and people could come to look at them and learn why decisions were made.
It needs to be preserved, and expanded. Expansion is not possible while people are still fighting over things as trivial as religion, philosophy, and wealth. All three are fairly relative when you consider survival, are they not?
Sorry, I'd love to answer but after college I try to not get high before 8 AM.
Just last night I was testing something that required Yahoo messenger. After accurately deselecting all the various optional bullshit software it still installed the fucking Yahoo toolbar and who knows what else. What a scam.
I installed Yahoo! Messager last week and it did not install anything I deselected. But since you posted as AC all I can say is you did it wrong.
I have the same thing here. I always inform staff that I can and will wipe their phones. At their request, and that they should inform me at once if they lose of have their phone stolen.
My personal iphone is connected to a gmail account that I forward a copy of all my work email.
That way I get work email, but it is still my account.
I guess I'll pile on, too...
Depending on where you live and what you do, HIPAA has some exciting new personal liability built right in at no extra charge! So when that claims processor blasts PHI out to the wrong e-mail list, you, sir, have just transferred and stored it in a manner that will have you in court by yourself. Just you in the "Little Old Lady Victim vs. Evil (your name here)" By this time your employment will be a distant memory and your former company has no obligation to defend you. Depending on the company's policies and compliance they will get dinged, but that is a cost of doing business and a separate process that has nothing to do with your personal liability. Have you planned financially for that scenario?
sure,all those emails about yet ANOTHER birthday, whose turn it is to clean the fridge, who burnt the pop corn, meetings to discuss the next meeting. Jokes, bus passes.
Yeah, losing it would just ruin a company~
Where I work those emails contain your medical claims and enough personal information to keep you in court for years trying to recover your credit rating.
Headlines are supposed to be succinct summaries and that is enforced by the character limit here. Maybe a better headline would be "Internet Explorer 9 Probably Cheating On Sunspider, But Maybe Just Horribly Written In Ways That Make SunSpider Apply Poorly". Of course that is too long for the title.
True, but the title of TFA is "Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider Benchmark?". That question mark at the end changes the meaning quite a bit. The/. title can fit one more character to accurately reflect the tone of the article.
Considering the folks that drive 27 miles per hour, were the miles traveled affected by the drain on the battery of having the turn signal on the whole way?
TFA mentions another city that tried similar restrictions and was overturned by a federal court. There is a proposed Wi-Max tower half a block from my house and the neighborhood is doing everything they can to stop it. The city has made it clear they have no say in the matter as tower placement is governed by the state and feds. So... IMHO Hempstead will be in court the next time a carrier proposes a new tower, and while it may delay the tower being built Hempstead spend a lot of money and lose. Also, cell towers are a source of revenue and in my part of town they are primarily on school buildings (the building itself or their chimneys), churches, watertowers, one in a graveyard, etc. We have very few stand-alone towers which may be part of the NIMBY here.
This is for the animation of screens opening and closing. This news is about two years old. It doesn't specifically call out the iPhone model so it may not apply to the newer ones with hardware encryption unless the book's been updated since 2008.
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) has done wonders for creating a standard interface on PCs. Prior to the USB port, PCs were a mishmash of various proprietary ports, often single-vendor efforts. There was no effective means for transferring files between two PCs.... USB freed us from proprietary solutions, proprietary software, and perhaps best of all, bent pins.
It really should be illegal to create proprietary connectors for anything. What a waste of time, resources, and technology.
Agreed. But back to the original quote, I've used PC's since the PCjr (actually before if you include a TRS-80 CoCo) and I remember serial, parallel, and SCSI. I was able to transfer files with no issues using flopppies (or the CoCo's cassette player). They were quite effective at transfering files, including, say installing programs. Perhaps I was just a mainstream user, but methinks someone is rewriting history.
the usual phrasing ("could care less") is an Nth-generation requote so removed from its original context that all intention of the original utterance has been lost and all that remains is an awkward phrase which few realize is stupid and backward, moron.
It's not like in the middle of A New Hope that Obi Wan decides to stop with this whole turning off the tractor beam business and start selling Amway to the storm troopers.
"These are not the phytonutrients you're looking for."
It's OK when *we* don't RTFA, but I expect more from the submitters and editors.
From TFA: Existing iPad customers who have the $29.99 per month unlimited plan can keep that plan or switch to the new $25 per month plan with 2 GB of data.
If the government was truly objective about its handling of industry, nuclear energy companies would have been required to demonstrate contingencies for all outcomes, including total catastrophic failure of equipment or processes. It's not like the industry operates on the knife's edge of profitability and can't afford to be held to account for their safety and recovery procedures; the nuclear industry has both the means and the funds necessary to keep such contingencies at the ready. However, they buy political apathy, and can put the money they would otherwise spend on safety into big bonuses for their directors and major stakeholders.
Unless I missed it I'm not seeing that Intel is "sucking up" water and is only mentioned in passing. The drought in Southwest China affects 24 million of the 1.6 billion people in China/India that rely on farming and Intel's location isn't mentioned. And from TFA: China... has contaminated 70 percent of its rivers and lakes. Those numbers indicate there are steps that can be taken that will provide more benefit than targeting Intel.
I'm not saying there's not a concern, but to paint Intel as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is a stretch.
Why wouldn't I use OpenDNS? They may be working for profit but it is free to individuals. Also, I disagree that they are the "exact same ads" when they consist of a few text links and I trust them more than Comcast. But more importantly, assuming you were correct that they are the same ads, the other benefits far outweigh this nit. The ability to whitelist/blacklist domains and block them by category is more than worth the price of admission, which again is free. Then throw in useage reports... To ignore all that because of the "exact same ads" is shortsighted. The company I work for started using this and the incidents of crapware have gone way down. I've set it up on all my family's computers and recommend it to others.
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Not that it matters to myself. I'm still running a dual-core athlon 64. Processor/memory upgrades became overrated a few years ago.
There has been nothing new worth spending money on, hardware wise, for the last 3 years at least.
Agreed, but 2011 changes that for some folks. I waited for Sandy Bridge instead of moving to AMD's six cores (or waiting for Fusion). The i5's Quick Sync decreased my video encode time for a feature length film down to just under 8 minutes at stock speeds.
It's more like an invitation to attack yourself.
MAYBE I feel sorry for the elderly or disabled who for whatever reason want an e-card from an unspecified friend, but why wouldn't they ask themselves why a FRIEND would send you a link to a site that requires you to install something to see a dumb-ass picture. My 76 yr old tech-disabled mother wouldn't buy into that crap.
Have you checked how many toolbars she has? My mom's record is five. I offer that the definition of "tech-disabled" *is* buying into that crap.
Oh, and the "fix it yourself" people need to shut the fuck up too. That's fine when it's an open-source project with fifty users hosted on sourceforge, not when it's in-production software that runs on millions and millions of phones.
Why? You can't have it both ways. Either OSS is more secure, less buggy, and fixed more quickly because there are more eyes on it or it's not. The number of users is irrelevant. You're waiting for the vendor to fix it. That's OK, but quit telling me I can do it in other conversations.
What does the shuttle 'imaging' team have to show us?
Images of the shuttle.
If JFK had the balls to make that call, and the governers of this country respect him, why have we not been back there?
If only someone whould have written the reasons down. We could call it history and stored those historical documents historical documents into places we could call libraries perhaps located in a complex called a university and people could come to look at them and learn why decisions were made.
It needs to be preserved, and expanded. Expansion is not possible while people are still fighting over things as trivial as religion, philosophy, and wealth. All three are fairly relative when you consider survival, are they not?
Sorry, I'd love to answer but after college I try to not get high before 8 AM.
If you can jailbreak the phone, you can trick the detection API. Once the system is "untrustable" it is not trustable.
My God. Someone actually RTFA.
I like reading slashdot because of all those short summaries. And now, you didn't bother to even write a summary.
It looks like someone got their twitter ~ /. accounts confused.
Just last night I was testing something that required Yahoo messenger. After accurately deselecting all the various optional bullshit software it still installed the fucking Yahoo toolbar and who knows what else. What a scam.
I installed Yahoo! Messager last week and it did not install anything I deselected. But since you posted as AC all I can say is you did it wrong.
I have the same thing here. I always inform staff that I can and will wipe their phones. At their request, and that they should inform me at once if they lose of have their phone stolen.
My personal iphone is connected to a gmail account that I forward a copy of all my work email.
That way I get work email, but it is still my account.
I guess I'll pile on, too...
Depending on where you live and what you do, HIPAA has some exciting new personal liability built right in at no extra charge! So when that claims processor blasts PHI out to the wrong e-mail list, you, sir, have just transferred and stored it in a manner that will have you in court by yourself. Just you in the "Little Old Lady Victim vs. Evil (your name here)" By this time your employment will be a distant memory and your former company has no obligation to defend you. Depending on the company's policies and compliance they will get dinged, but that is a cost of doing business and a separate process that has nothing to do with your personal liability. Have you planned financially for that scenario?
sure,all those emails about yet ANOTHER birthday, whose turn it is to clean the fridge, who burnt the pop corn, meetings to discuss the next meeting. Jokes, bus passes.
Yeah, losing it would just ruin a company~
Where I work those emails contain your medical claims and enough personal information to keep you in court for years trying to recover your credit rating.
Headlines are supposed to be succinct summaries and that is enforced by the character limit here. Maybe a better headline would be "Internet Explorer 9 Probably Cheating On Sunspider, But Maybe Just Horribly Written In Ways That Make SunSpider Apply Poorly". Of course that is too long for the title.
True, but the title of TFA is "Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider Benchmark?". That question mark at the end changes the meaning quite a bit. The /. title can fit one more character to accurately reflect the tone of the article.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/19/global-seed-vault-nationa_n_616316.html
623 miles on a charge at around 27 mph
Considering the folks that drive 27 miles per hour, were the miles traveled affected by the drain on the battery of having the turn signal on the whole way?
"Raisin Daters" is so damned stupid it's hilarious, as it is always is when someone tries to look smart and fucks it up.
Agreed, but look at his name: BadAnalogyGuy
TFA mentions another city that tried similar restrictions and was overturned by a federal court. There is a proposed Wi-Max tower half a block from my house and the neighborhood is doing everything they can to stop it. The city has made it clear they have no say in the matter as tower placement is governed by the state and feds. So... IMHO Hempstead will be in court the next time a carrier proposes a new tower, and while it may delay the tower being built Hempstead spend a lot of money and lose. Also, cell towers are a source of revenue and in my part of town they are primarily on school buildings (the building itself or their chimneys), churches, watertowers, one in a graveyard, etc. We have very few stand-alone towers which may be part of the NIMBY here.
This is for the animation of screens opening and closing. This news is about two years old. It doesn't specifically call out the iPhone model so it may not apply to the newer ones with hardware encryption unless the book's been updated since 2008.
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) has done wonders for creating a standard interface on PCs. Prior to the USB port, PCs were a mishmash of various proprietary ports, often single-vendor efforts. There was no effective means for transferring files between two PCs. ... USB freed us from proprietary solutions, proprietary software, and perhaps best of all, bent pins.
It really should be illegal to create proprietary connectors for anything. What a waste of time, resources, and technology.
Agreed. But back to the original quote, I've used PC's since the PCjr (actually before if you include a TRS-80 CoCo) and I remember serial, parallel, and SCSI. I was able to transfer files with no issues using flopppies (or the CoCo's cassette player). They were quite effective at transfering files, including, say installing programs. Perhaps I was just a mainstream user, but methinks someone is rewriting history.
Last minute burst of acceleration...
They (Toyota) already have that covered.
the usual phrasing ("could care less") is an Nth-generation requote so removed from its original context that all intention of the original utterance has been lost and all that remains is an awkward phrase which few realize is stupid and backward, moron.
Yeah, but I remember when it was the bee's knees.
It's not like in the middle of A New Hope that Obi Wan decides to stop with this whole turning off the tractor beam business and start selling Amway to the storm troopers.
"These are not the phytonutrients you're looking for."
A USB cable is a specialist tool when it comes to mobiles...
The Jitterbug isn't the only phone out there.
It's OK when *we* don't RTFA, but I expect more from the submitters and editors.
From TFA: Existing iPad customers who have the $29.99 per month unlimited plan can keep that plan or switch to the new $25 per month plan with 2 GB of data.
If the government was truly objective about its handling of industry, nuclear energy companies would have been required to demonstrate contingencies for all outcomes, including total catastrophic failure of equipment or processes. It's not like the industry operates on the knife's edge of profitability and can't afford to be held to account for their safety and recovery procedures; the nuclear industry has both the means and the funds necessary to keep such contingencies at the ready. However, they buy political apathy, and can put the money they would otherwise spend on safety into big bonuses for their directors and major stakeholders.
There, I fixed that for 'ya.
I suspect that cleaning up BP's mess won't be particularly cheap.
It depends on whether they pay what they are legally required to or if they pay what they've promised to.
Unless I missed it I'm not seeing that Intel is "sucking up" water and is only mentioned in passing. The drought in Southwest China affects 24 million of the 1.6 billion people in China/India that rely on farming and Intel's location isn't mentioned. And from TFA: China ... has contaminated 70 percent of its rivers and lakes. Those numbers indicate there are steps that can be taken that will provide more benefit than targeting Intel.
I'm not saying there's not a concern, but to paint Intel as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is a stretch.
Why wouldn't I use OpenDNS? They may be working for profit but it is free to individuals. Also, I disagree that they are the "exact same ads" when they consist of a few text links and I trust them more than Comcast. But more importantly, assuming you were correct that they are the same ads, the other benefits far outweigh this nit. The ability to whitelist/blacklist domains and block them by category is more than worth the price of admission, which again is free. Then throw in useage reports... To ignore all that because of the "exact same ads" is shortsighted. The company I work for started using this and the incidents of crapware have gone way down. I've set it up on all my family's computers and recommend it to others.