That has been my thinking. I have a regular XBOX and I won't even consider the new one until it has HD-DVD support. There is no point in me owning an HD-DVD player AND a console. My First Generation DVD player was replaced by my XBOX. I prefer to minimize my components and this is an obvious one. Finally, early-adopter headaches like what most people are seeing now won't affect me if I just wait and enjoy what I currently have.
Wow, I think she did that whole video while totally stoned out of her head. Thanks for sharing. I'll point that one out next time someone tries to convince me of the superiority of Macs... hehe!
Damn, spent all my mod points yesterday modding posts as NOT FUNNY yesterday. Wish I had one point left over to mod this as funny! That by the way would be a nice gift depending on the neighbor! Merry XXXMas
Infrastructure is seen as more and more important. People here can't already have forgotten the problems when the switches in the basement of the World Trade Center were taken out 4 years ago, have they?
Cyberwarfare is happening in the current conflict in Iraq and Afganistan. Radical Islam groups uses internet technology to coordinate - but then again so does my mother's sewing club so thats not too surprising. Open Source Intelligence Gathering is useful against such efforts as is direct manipulation of the same technologies.
The war in Kosovo also involved a limited amount of cyberwarfare. That is easy enough to google up.
So, yeah, the US may have claimed to be interested in this in the 1990's and I know for a fact that Tiger Teams were in place at least as far back as 1989 but its definiately gotten much more sophisticated and important in 2005.
Harpoon? Man, I haven't seen that stuff since I left Boston. I remember back in the 80's one of their early mottos was "We drink our fill then sell the rest!" If only I could find that down here in the dirty south.
Any business student will tell you the answer to that. They would want to get rid of the cable box because they are not in the hardware business. They are provide video news and entertainment. Getting rid of all the parts of the business that only support the boxes would be a huge win for them if they could maintain the same control they have over their business. That is the trick of course. Preventing service pirates, providing functionality for their customer base and keeping their business secure are things they have some control over with their boxes. The boxes, though, aren't the business and if they could get out of having to deal with them I am sure they would.
Oddly this morning I was thinking the same thing - we need to return to a single, simple source for this kind of information that Usenet used to provide. Its great that there are many more outlets, which offers choice, but with so many different interfaces its not been fun and impossible to integrate searching and browsing. I hardly ever go to the Slashdot front page any more now that I use RSS folders in firefox.
I suppose it would the be a good baseline to compare it to the misinterpretations by the Islamist and Wahabists Mullas. Who knows, perhaps it will spawn yet another psycho sect of Islam. That's JUST what we need!
DVD Jon could file a lein against Sony. Sony would need to prove that the subcontractor comitted fraud by claiming the source code was legit. The subcontractor could counter-claim and say that Sony knew all along.
Think of it this way; you build a house and hire a contractor. That contractor hires sub-contractors. Even though you have paid the contractor in full, the sub-contractors can sue YOU if they aren't paid. It can be a messy situation. It happened to a family member who was then able to turn around and sue the contractor for fraud because part of the check list processes they initiated specifically asked if all the sub-contractors had been paid.
I would hope that Sony would publicly address this situation but I fear that if they can get away with it again on the sly they will. I can't trust them anymore.
Pah! The submitter might as well have said Linux is Good, Bill Gates is up to evil and other Slashdot phrases that are way over used. Sigh. That ok. a week from now the article will reappear as news anyway when the "editors" forget it was posted today and it will give them another chance to add those lines.;-)
Sounds good to me. You can always remote into a "real" machine when you need to do heavy duty stuff! Under windows you have Remote Desktop Connection as well as VNC. For others you have VNC and perhaps other solutions.
You know, I miss the days of the VT100. Now I can relive them!
I completely agree with that. My 17" Satellite is a bit too big for the typical cheap airplane seats I get and if the guy ahead of me reclines, forget it. As it is, I am already somewhat intruding on the other peoples space in my row. A 20" laptop... does it come with a minitower, full keyboard and what not?
Back when I was a kid I got to use an IBM that was the size of a suitcase. it had a built in CRT and fold down keyboard. It had a HUGE handle on it to carry it around. I don't think I'd want to experience taking that on a plane!
Someday in the future, a historian will come across that line and laugh at our simple mind set as he or she drives from Los Angeles to Tokyo after the re-merging of our world into a super-continent again...;-)
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Nah, was in Burlington, MA. 35 shares left, break even at $33. You must have got on board in early 1999 or last 1998?
who owns this problem? George Whitey Bush? No. The Mayor of New Orleans and, perhaps, the Governor of Louisiana. It was their city and the people there were under their charge. They were told many, many times the Levee wasn't going to stand up to CAT 3+ storms.
2.) you compare Florida to Louisiana
Two different states with different state level crisis management teams. Apples and oranges.
3.) most New Orleanians are black, most Floridians are white
Yeah, where is your proof? I want census statistics. Also, New Orleans is a city and Florida is a state. Again with the apples and oranges. Finally, was New Orleans the only place hit? What about my friends in Mississippi that are complaining bitterly about the situation there? They are white and GWB didn't show up in the Presidential Limo and hand them any MRE's.
4.) Blanco means white, doesn't it?
I mean, doesn't it? (tongue in cheek of course)
Your posting is exactly why I don't take slashdot seriously anymore and haven't for years. I find such extremist views as repelent as those of terrorists or Nazi's. Yours is just one example of what this place has become and this off-topic thread is an example of how this site can't even relish in the accomplishment of science to help the disadvangaged.
So, cheers to science for helping people in very hot places have ice and boos to people who'd rather fix the blame than the problem.
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Oh you lucky person! I had a sell order at 130 and it collapse right around 127. I lost like 3 million before I finally sold.
Sigh.
I still have 35 shares left, I wonder if I'll get a decent amount of Oracle stock in return and if it will be worth more than the couple of hundred it is currently worth.
The best thing that ever happened to me was getting laid off from that place.
Tick: Far from it, Arthur! We have them on the run!
(The Tick runs towards the Idea Men as ropes fall into view and each of them grab on to them)
Tick: Onward!
(They are then pulled up into a blimp with a large blinking light bulb on the side)
Tick: Hey cool! They've got a blimp!
(Screen shows blimp flying)
Sally: That was the scene today at the Rive Droite Bank as the mysterious gang known as the "Idea Men" struck again continuing their terrible crime wave. It was the sixth time in as many days that the baffling criminals have descended from the sky to literally lift The City's most valuable assets. But today their nefarious plot was foiled by a heroic blue stranger.
Tick (on TV): Hey cool! They've got a blimp!
Sally: Our modest blue benefactor exited the scene without comment. The Idea Men's menace is far from over. Says Mayor Blank:
Mayor Blank:...In fact we believe these criminals have just practicing for a more larger caper.
Sally: We'll have more on the story as it develops. In the meanwhile, On a lighter note... clowns
Its a pretty well known fact. Not that what National Socialism did was within the tenents of the religion - but the same can be said of terrorism and the tenets of most interpretations of Islam.
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That has been my thinking. I have a regular XBOX and I won't even consider the new one until it has HD-DVD support. There is no point in me owning an HD-DVD player AND a console. My First Generation DVD player was replaced by my XBOX. I prefer to minimize my components and this is an obvious one. Finally, early-adopter headaches like what most people are seeing now won't affect me if I just wait and enjoy what I currently have.
Wow, I think she did that whole video while totally stoned out of her head. Thanks for sharing. I'll point that one out next time someone tries to convince me of the superiority of Macs... hehe!
Damn, spent all my mod points yesterday modding posts as NOT FUNNY yesterday. Wish I had one point left over to mod this as funny! That by the way would be a nice gift depending on the neighbor! Merry XXXMas
Oh cool. We have a Harris-Teeter right next to Vanderbilt. I'll check it out!
Infrastructure is seen as more and more important. People here can't already have forgotten the problems when the switches in the basement of the World Trade Center were taken out 4 years ago, have they?
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The best defense is a good offense.
Also, there already was a Sino-American cyberwar. Here is just one link that you may find interesting: http://infosecuritymag.techtarget.com/2002/nov/ne
Cyberwarfare is happening in the current conflict in Iraq and Afganistan. Radical Islam groups uses internet technology to coordinate - but then again so does my mother's sewing club so thats not too surprising. Open Source Intelligence Gathering is useful against such efforts as is direct manipulation of the same technologies.
The war in Kosovo also involved a limited amount of cyberwarfare. That is easy enough to google up.
So, yeah, the US may have claimed to be interested in this in the 1990's and I know for a fact that Tiger Teams were in place at least as far back as 1989 but its definiately gotten much more sophisticated and important in 2005.
Harpoon? Man, I haven't seen that stuff since I left Boston. I remember back in the 80's one of their early mottos was "We drink our fill then sell the rest!" If only I could find that down here in the dirty south.
Any business student will tell you the answer to that. They would want to get rid of the cable box because they are not in the hardware business. They are provide video news and entertainment. Getting rid of all the parts of the business that only support the boxes would be a huge win for them if they could maintain the same control they have over their business. That is the trick of course. Preventing service pirates, providing functionality for their customer base and keeping their business secure are things they have some control over with their boxes. The boxes, though, aren't the business and if they could get out of having to deal with them I am sure they would.
Oddly this morning I was thinking the same thing - we need to return to a single, simple source for this kind of information that Usenet used to provide. Its great that there are many more outlets, which offers choice, but with so many different interfaces its not been fun and impossible to integrate searching and browsing. I hardly ever go to the Slashdot front page any more now that I use RSS folders in firefox.
Someone mod the parent up. His point about irony is so apropos. Bravo.
I suppose it would the be a good baseline to compare it to the misinterpretations by the Islamist and Wahabists Mullas. Who knows, perhaps it will spawn yet another psycho sect of Islam. That's JUST what we need!
DVD Jon could file a lein against Sony. Sony would need to prove that the subcontractor comitted fraud by claiming the source code was legit. The subcontractor could counter-claim and say that Sony knew all along.
Think of it this way; you build a house and hire a contractor. That contractor hires sub-contractors. Even though you have paid the contractor in full, the sub-contractors can sue YOU if they aren't paid. It can be a messy situation. It happened to a family member who was then able to turn around and sue the contractor for fraud because part of the check list processes they initiated specifically asked if all the sub-contractors had been paid.
I would hope that Sony would publicly address this situation but I fear that if they can get away with it again on the sly they will. I can't trust them anymore.
Do we really have to save all of them?
Replace Neil Diamond with Billy Joel singing "We Didn't Start the Fire" and you'd have something!
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Sun Szu is still good advice. When Saddam is gone the equation changes. Sun Szu would have you re-evaluate once that happens.
Pah! The submitter might as well have said Linux is Good, Bill Gates is up to evil and other Slashdot phrases that are way over used. Sigh. That ok. a week from now the article will reappear as news anyway when the "editors" forget it was posted today and it will give them another chance to add those lines. ;-)
Sounds good to me. You can always remote into a "real" machine when you need to do heavy duty stuff! Under windows you have Remote Desktop Connection as well as VNC. For others you have VNC and perhaps other solutions.
You know, I miss the days of the VT100. Now I can relive them!
I completely agree with that. My 17" Satellite is a bit too big for the typical cheap airplane seats I get and if the guy ahead of me reclines, forget it. As it is, I am already somewhat intruding on the other peoples space in my row. A 20" laptop... does it come with a minitower, full keyboard and what not?
Back when I was a kid I got to use an IBM that was the size of a suitcase. it had a built in CRT and fold down keyboard. It had a HUGE handle on it to carry it around. I don't think I'd want to experience taking that on a plane!
>What were you going to do, drive to Tokyo?
;-)
Someday in the future, a historian will come across that line and laugh at our simple mind set as he or she drives from Los Angeles to Tokyo after the re-merging of our world into a super-continent again...
Nah, was in Burlington, MA. 35 shares left, break even at $33. You must have got on board in early 1999 or last 1998?
No.
Atari fell to the Samurai Sword.
--Pete
1.) the levees were underbuilt
who owns this problem? George Whitey Bush? No. The Mayor of New Orleans and, perhaps, the Governor of Louisiana. It was their city and the people there were under their charge. They were told many, many times the Levee wasn't going to stand up to CAT 3+ storms.
2.) you compare Florida to Louisiana
Two different states with different state level crisis management teams. Apples and oranges.
3.) most New Orleanians are black, most Floridians are white
Yeah, where is your proof? I want census statistics. Also, New Orleans is a city and Florida is a state. Again with the apples and oranges. Finally, was New Orleans the only place hit? What about my friends in Mississippi that are complaining bitterly about the situation there? They are white and GWB didn't show up in the Presidential Limo and hand them any MRE's.
4.) Blanco means white, doesn't it?
I mean, doesn't it? (tongue in cheek of course)
Your posting is exactly why I don't take slashdot seriously anymore and haven't for years. I find such extremist views as repelent as those of terrorists or Nazi's. Yours is just one example of what this place has become and this off-topic thread is an example of how this site can't even relish in the accomplishment of science to help the disadvangaged.
So, cheers to science for helping people in very hot places have ice and boos to people who'd rather fix the blame than the problem.
Oh you lucky person! I had a sell order at 130 and it collapse right around 127. I lost like 3 million before I finally sold.
Sigh.
I still have 35 shares left, I wonder if I'll get a decent amount of Oracle stock in return and if it will be worth more than the couple of hundred it is currently worth.
The best thing that ever happened to me was getting laid off from that place.
Arthur: Are we dead yet?
...In fact we believe these criminals have just practicing for a more larger caper.
Tick: Far from it, Arthur! We have them on the run!
(The Tick runs towards the Idea Men as ropes fall into view and each of them grab on to them)
Tick: Onward!
(They are then pulled up into a blimp with a large blinking light bulb on the side)
Tick: Hey cool! They've got a blimp!
(Screen shows blimp flying)
Sally: That was the scene today at the Rive Droite Bank as the mysterious gang known as the "Idea Men" struck again continuing their terrible crime wave. It was the sixth time in as many days that the baffling criminals have descended from the sky to literally lift The City's most valuable assets. But today their nefarious plot was foiled by a heroic blue stranger.
Tick (on TV): Hey cool! They've got a blimp!
Sally: Our modest blue benefactor exited the scene without comment. The Idea Men's menace is far from over. Says Mayor Blank:
Mayor Blank:
Sally: We'll have more on the story as it develops. In the meanwhile, On a lighter note... clowns
(screen shows....clowns)
That is an interesting point. The question now and then, how do you fight bad ideas? Thanks for the comment - its always good to hear other ideas.
Its a pretty well known fact. Not that what National Socialism did was within the tenents of the religion - but the same can be said of terrorism and the tenets of most interpretations of Islam.