Cars need to be lighter and more aerodynamic. The drag on a standard automobile is just ridiculous. Rear ends today are typically vertically flat! Who are these designers that aren't familiar with the teardrop shape? Well, the teardrop shape is less space efficient than a box, and most vehicles don't go fast enough often enough to make use of quality aerodynamics. If it's just a mom driving her kids to school, and around town, she's rarely going to get over 35mph and likely not waste much fuel in wind resistance. But the fact the vehicle is boxy means she can get more kids / stuff in the back end and much easier. To have the same space but a slopey backend would required adding several feet to the overall length of the vehicle.
Sounds like a bargain to me - and a way to vote with your dollars. Wins all around.
My iTunes library has 968 songs that have been played more than 0 times (meaning played at all). The total song plays (start to finish) is 2233. $223.30 is a heck of a lot cheaper than $968, and that's playing some of the songs more than 15 times (a few over 20 times).
The more a song gets played the more the artist makes? They make songs people want to listen to more? There are more songs I enjoy listening to? Who's losing here? People who make crappy music and people who sell crappy music? How is this bad?
I realize others are replying that there were lines at the AT&T stores near them, but the day after launch I walked into my local AT&T store where there were maybe a couple people looking at Blackberries and asked if they knew when their next shipment of iPhones would be in. The sales person said, "Uh, I've got like 16 in the back.", "Oh? I'll take two. Thanks!" Gave one to my wife as a present and sold the other to my boss.
If there is technology you want that is in high demand you can probably find it in a smaller town.
$300 dollars per spam seems excessive when the average return per spam mail probably lies far below $1. The damages done to the "MySpace" name are worth the $300 per incident, especially when there are over 700,000 documented incidents. The cumulative damage of 700,000 people saying "MySpace is nothing but spam - don't go there" can completely destroy a business.
And besides, these assholes are doing the same thing and worse in a variety of places. If you hit them hard enough on the ones you catch them doing hopefully they'll stop doing it elsewhere as well.
I am so sick and tired of this crap. It is nothing less than a republican smear campaign against Al Gore that has been parroted by the puppet media and it has gone on too f*&^king long.
Al Gore never said he "invented" the internet, but he was instrumental in taking Darpa net public as the internet through legislation and the ability to articulate the vision.
So, without Al Gore, Tim Berners-Lee would not have had the foundation on which to build the web.
Al Gore did not "invent" the internet, but it was his persuasion and legislative skills that made it happen. Give the guy a break, he has done some great things and don't let the bogus lies continue to smear him. Take responsibility for your opinions. He may not have said he invented it, but his words ARE, "I took the initiative creating the internet."
So from a manager's point of view, sure, he created it. But in actuality all he did was take advice from his technology aids, sign papers, and talk a lot about it. It sounds like he's taking credit for coming up with the concept of what the internet is, and then constructing hardware, software, and protocols that are the internet. None of which is true. He merely realized that there was an existing network that could and presumably should be available to the world.
His words took more credit than he deserved. I just wish people would use the correct words when making fun of him. He didn't claim to invent anything. He claimed to create it. All he did was rename something and make it public.
You don't see people making fun of Bill Clinton for claiming to have created GPS. That's because he didn't make that claim. He just took an existing system, renamed it, and made it public. Mr Gore also had hands in GPS, improving its civilian accuracy. But he wasn't dumb enough to claim having created it.
Just poor word choice. Everyone knows he didn't create the internet. We just like making fun of the silly old man (:
Honestly as a videographer I wish they required classes before people buy a camcorder. Either that or make the camera shock the user if it is tilted or moved too fast or if zoom is used when record is pressed. Why stop at cameras - people should be licensed to use any technology. Imagine a world where you had to be licensed to operate a computer. Maybe the internet wouldn't suck so much.
Well, it's no silver bullet, but it's at least a blunt object moving in the direction of Microsoft's market share(s).
It would be very interesting to see something like Notes 8 specifically customized for Ubuntu 8. I theorize such a setup could drastically reduce IT costs. Suddenly hardware is "good enough" for several more years, the OS is free and the groupware and office suite are cheap, and all of it is self updating. If only the users were comparable!
(Ever tried to get data off an obsolete tape backup?)
I think the most reliable archival system is going to be an active one, where data is saved on modern storage hardware and always copied to more modern tech as it arrives. Oh man, the headaches involved here. It only takes five years and archived data is obsolete. And yes, virtualization can help, but in the past I've resorted to keeping an entire system available, off-line, to guarantee that the client be able to open their data. Sometimes you get lucky and there's either a plug-in for the old app to export to the new app, or one for the new app to import from the old app. But even on the rare chance that one is available, I've never seen a 100% conversion - even on simple stuff.
- Don't use ridiculous URLs that query stuff from a CGI with a zillion arguments just to serve up a static page. This is quite possibly one of my biggest irritations with the web. The page never changes, ever. There is no need to build it on the fly.
I'm ok with the hardware serving one purpose with one provider. I'm not ok with paying for that hardware. Maybe $200 with a $200 credit for downloads. Then the movie "rentals" should be about $2 each, last a week or more, watchable as many times as I'd like, and in high def. The television shows could also be rentals, but only cost like $0.50.
Also, in certain areas (my home town is a good example) the ISP may be willing to host a "Blockbuster server", and allow full network speed downloads from it to their own subscribers. Then Blockbuster manages and keeps the thing updated. That way when you want to watch a 1080p movie you can get the whole thing downloaded at some wicked fast rate and start watching it immediately. It also takes a strain off of the ISP's connection and the internet as a whole.
Blockbuster has a good concept, but bad execution.
I have about $140(USD) left in iTunes gift cards and I'm not even buying stuff from Apple. All told I've spent perhaps $35 buying music for my gifted iPod.
For a guy self nicknamed LoudMusic you'd think I'd be more into music technology, but I just don't get it. I own an iPod and I don't use it.
There is absolutely NO reason that Canadian/U.S. border control should be anything but a smile and a wave whether you're entering or leaving either country -- much as it was through all of the previous century. It's pretty easy to get into Canada, especially from the north, and if you can get into Canada undetected it would then be pretty easy to get into the United States through Montana, North Dakota, or Minnesota.
The security departments aren't trying to protect the United States from Canadians - they're trying to protect the US from people who enter the US through Canada.
Have you ever played Risk, the board game? Just because you have an alliance with your neighbor doesn't mean some jackass can't storm through his territory and blitz your ass.
You've identified a problem, fix it. Knowing what causes it would be nice but it is hardly necessary. You can't be serious, can you?
If you don't combat the cause fixing the problem will never last. You're just smearing putty over a crack in the wall. In another couple of months the putty will dry and fall out of the crack and the crack will grow. You have to level the foundation to make the crack stop.
Quick, everyone start carrying wads of cash instead of using credit cards!
It doesn't really matter what technology you use for monetary transactions, there are bad people who will work harder to steal it than to earn their own money. Just minimalise your risk and stop worrying about it.
I've been watching this on my company's business cable for a while too. We pay for 6 (maybe 8) mbit Comcast but when I run speed tests I see as much as 24mbit. I also watch the connections on my firewall and Window's Performance Monitor. Why the topic poster thought this was a "speed test defeater" is beyond me. It's obviously a burst feature.
I find it mildly curious that they're not using something like a bittorrent network to distribute updates. Even on my network of 30 to 35 workstations it would make a difference.
There is, however, a "Windows Update" client / server to allow administrators to distribute Windows Update material on their local network. It saves everyone a lot of bandwidth and time. The local server grabs updates from MS and the workstations look to the local server for their Windows Updates. At 100 or even 1000 mbit, you could distribute Windows Updates hugely faster than getting them over the internet for 500 workstations.
Makes me wonder if anyone is working to build BT distributed updates into a Linux distro like Ubuntu. There are schools now that are running hundreds of Ubuntu workstations. Though I imagine Ubuntu Server has a similar updating feature that MS employs for Windows Update.
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I know it's not a Rubik's cube, but I can solve any Mastermind puzzle in seven moves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)
So what the article says is that they think handhelds are dangerous because they're not bothering to secure them? Seems like an easy fix ...
Is it your fault if the only options are lame tools? You can't help but vote for one.
Sounds like a bargain to me - and a way to vote with your dollars. Wins all around.
My iTunes library has 968 songs that have been played more than 0 times (meaning played at all). The total song plays (start to finish) is 2233. $223.30 is a heck of a lot cheaper than $968, and that's playing some of the songs more than 15 times (a few over 20 times).
The more a song gets played the more the artist makes? They make songs people want to listen to more? There are more songs I enjoy listening to? Who's losing here? People who make crappy music and people who sell crappy music? How is this bad?
I realize others are replying that there were lines at the AT&T stores near them, but the day after launch I walked into my local AT&T store where there were maybe a couple people looking at Blackberries and asked if they knew when their next shipment of iPhones would be in. The sales person said, "Uh, I've got like 16 in the back.", "Oh? I'll take two. Thanks!" Gave one to my wife as a present and sold the other to my boss.
If there is technology you want that is in high demand you can probably find it in a smaller town.
$300 dollars per spam seems excessive when the average return per spam mail probably lies far below $1. The damages done to the "MySpace" name are worth the $300 per incident, especially when there are over 700,000 documented incidents. The cumulative damage of 700,000 people saying "MySpace is nothing but spam - don't go there" can completely destroy a business.
And besides, these assholes are doing the same thing and worse in a variety of places. If you hit them hard enough on the ones you catch them doing hopefully they'll stop doing it elsewhere as well.
No, not dot-pitch. That's the space between the pixels. What matters is how many pixels there are per inch.
My data center has 24 hour surveillance and theft deterrent. So far no one has stolen my servers.
I am so sick and tired of this crap. It is nothing less than a republican smear campaign against Al Gore that has been parroted by the puppet media and it has gone on too f*&^king long.
Al Gore never said he "invented" the internet, but he was instrumental in taking Darpa net public as the internet through legislation and the ability to articulate the vision.
So, without Al Gore, Tim Berners-Lee would not have had the foundation on which to build the web.
Al Gore did not "invent" the internet, but it was his persuasion and legislative skills that made it happen. Give the guy a break, he has done some great things and don't let the bogus lies continue to smear him. Take responsibility for your opinions. He may not have said he invented it, but his words ARE, "I took the initiative creating the internet."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpxtKcLSFWw
So from a manager's point of view, sure, he created it. But in actuality all he did was take advice from his technology aids, sign papers, and talk a lot about it. It sounds like he's taking credit for coming up with the concept of what the internet is, and then constructing hardware, software, and protocols that are the internet. None of which is true. He merely realized that there was an existing network that could and presumably should be available to the world.
His words took more credit than he deserved. I just wish people would use the correct words when making fun of him. He didn't claim to invent anything. He claimed to create it. All he did was rename something and make it public.
You don't see people making fun of Bill Clinton for claiming to have created GPS. That's because he didn't make that claim. He just took an existing system, renamed it, and made it public. Mr Gore also had hands in GPS, improving its civilian accuracy. But he wasn't dumb enough to claim having created it.
Just poor word choice. Everyone knows he didn't create the internet. We just like making fun of the silly old man (:
Well, it's no silver bullet , but it's at least a blunt object moving in the direction of Microsoft's market share(s).
It would be very interesting to see something like Notes 8 specifically customized for Ubuntu 8. I theorize such a setup could drastically reduce IT costs. Suddenly hardware is "good enough" for several more years, the OS is free and the groupware and office suite are cheap, and all of it is self updating. If only the users were comparable!
Roy, "Hello, IT. Yes, have you tried turning it off and then on again? Well, is it plugged in?"
Tape is so last millennium. Anybody who's anybody backs up to hard drives across the internet.
I think the most reliable archival system is going to be an active one, where data is saved on modern storage hardware and always copied to more modern tech as it arrives. Oh man, the headaches involved here. It only takes five years and archived data is obsolete. And yes, virtualization can help, but in the past I've resorted to keeping an entire system available, off-line, to guarantee that the client be able to open their data. Sometimes you get lucky and there's either a plug-in for the old app to export to the new app, or one for the new app to import from the old app. But even on the rare chance that one is available, I've never seen a 100% conversion - even on simple stuff.
Maybe old data was meant to die.
Send more patent clerks
That is so over priced it's not even humorous.
I'm ok with the hardware serving one purpose with one provider. I'm not ok with paying for that hardware. Maybe $200 with a $200 credit for downloads. Then the movie "rentals" should be about $2 each, last a week or more, watchable as many times as I'd like, and in high def. The television shows could also be rentals, but only cost like $0.50.
Also, in certain areas (my home town is a good example) the ISP may be willing to host a "Blockbuster server", and allow full network speed downloads from it to their own subscribers. Then Blockbuster manages and keeps the thing updated. That way when you want to watch a 1080p movie you can get the whole thing downloaded at some wicked fast rate and start watching it immediately. It also takes a strain off of the ISP's connection and the internet as a whole.
Blockbuster has a good concept, but bad execution.
I have about $140(USD) left in iTunes gift cards and I'm not even buying stuff from Apple. All told I've spent perhaps $35 buying music for my gifted iPod.
For a guy self nicknamed LoudMusic you'd think I'd be more into music technology, but I just don't get it. I own an iPod and I don't use it.
The security departments aren't trying to protect the United States from Canadians - they're trying to protect the US from people who enter the US through Canada.
Have you ever played Risk, the board game? Just because you have an alliance with your neighbor doesn't mean some jackass can't storm through his territory and blitz your ass.
If you don't combat the cause fixing the problem will never last. You're just smearing putty over a crack in the wall. In another couple of months the putty will dry and fall out of the crack and the crack will grow. You have to level the foundation to make the crack stop.
Quick, everyone start carrying wads of cash instead of using credit cards!
It doesn't really matter what technology you use for monetary transactions, there are bad people who will work harder to steal it than to earn their own money. Just minimalise your risk and stop worrying about it.
Mainstream media is the worst terrorist.
"I couldn't care less."
I don't have mod points, but if I did I throw one your way simply for the proper use of this phrase. (:
So they've taken the concept of a wind up or grandfather clock and turned it into a lamp? Damn it! Why didn't I do that?
I've been watching this on my company's business cable for a while too. We pay for 6 (maybe 8) mbit Comcast but when I run speed tests I see as much as 24mbit. I also watch the connections on my firewall and Window's Performance Monitor. Why the topic poster thought this was a "speed test defeater" is beyond me. It's obviously a burst feature.
I find it mildly curious that they're not using something like a bittorrent network to distribute updates. Even on my network of 30 to 35 workstations it would make a difference.
There is, however, a "Windows Update" client / server to allow administrators to distribute Windows Update material on their local network. It saves everyone a lot of bandwidth and time. The local server grabs updates from MS and the workstations look to the local server for their Windows Updates. At 100 or even 1000 mbit, you could distribute Windows Updates hugely faster than getting them over the internet for 500 workstations.
Makes me wonder if anyone is working to build BT distributed updates into a Linux distro like Ubuntu. There are schools now that are running hundreds of Ubuntu workstations. Though I imagine Ubuntu Server has a similar updating feature that MS employs for Windows Update.