Why even give his name mention? He's a pompous man and for being a self-proclaimed "leader" of open source, he hasn't contributed anything worthwhile other than hot air.
TATO? Trans-Asia Treaty Organization. Though I don't think they'd directly use English for this, I don't know any Chinese or much Russian so I don't know what they'd call it if they did form such an organization.
It would be unfortunate to see ISS go by the wayside, but even with its origina schedule and current design, I'm not sure it was boing to be scientifically useful anyway.
I agree, if they don't do a better job of capitalizing on their success, they are going to have difficulties in the future. They can't run on VC money forever. The dot com boom was in part of foolish VCs that listened to the lie about not needing the business plan, and the dot com bust was in part of VCs starting to wise up to the fact that they've been taken.
I'm not even sure if any technology investment is worthwhile given the vicious cycle of ups and downs. It looks to me to be a "hot potato" scheme, where you try to sell your share in a company before it goes bust.
That's true. The deaths on 9/11 are about the same as one month's worth of traffic fatalities in the US. In the last five years, in the US, you were 60 times more likely to die in an auto accident than in an act of terrorism.
Well, it's not often that Slashdotter doublespeak hits them in the bum.
Slashdotters want their GPL to be enforceable but then whine when media owners try to enforce their copyrights. The biggest reason that GPL enforcement works is because copyright law exists.
I will grant that it's hard to separate out the hypocrsy from different groups of people posting in the threads they are passionate about.
I had an occasional problem where the ZoneAlarm controller would not accept any clicks. I see a dialog box but eventually it does not allow me to click accept, deny or the check box to learn my setting. I end up killing it, uninstalling it and running Kerio Personal Firewall instead and that generally doesn't cause me any problems like that. It does block internet ads or site counter systems by default so some sites just don't work, but that's the extent of my issues with KPF.
While there are certainly those that don't think any punishment would have been just for this case, I think there are many here that have the idea that the punishment is excessive.
I do agree that copyright infringement* is wrong, and I do agree that violating a written or oral agreement is wrong too. I don't know if I would agree that a firing was the best option, nor do I believe that the punishment fit the crime.
[*]a bone thrown to the pedants among us. In this case, I wish they would go away because the general feeling I get from them is that they are trying to justify it.
What does this have? Phosphors hold their brightness a little bit, down a reducing curve. This sort of display would have the scan line refresh issue of CRTs without the benefit of the fade curve, the light disappears immediately, so then it's just retina response time. I would expect that this would have to have a pretty high refresh rate to not be annoying. Will this allow three-chip operation? Consumer DLPs have a "rainbow effect" because only one chip flashes out the red, green and blue parts of the image. This doesn't bother everyone but I suspect that this system will have similar laments.
A better illustration is to ask them if they want two ten dollar bills or one one hundred dollar bill? Both of them will get you two zeros, but obviously where those zeros are makes a big difference in the value of the number.
It would be less confusing if they called those small objects "planes".
Plane as in airplane/aircraft, plane as in supposedly infinite 2D structure, or is this something else?
Given that many words have different definitions, I really don't see the problem. Chemists might see a metal as a shiny element with ductile properties when solid, astrophysicists might call any solid object metal. IIRC, physics and chemistry disagree on whether the charge of a standard electron is positive or negative, and what direction charge flows. So a geologist gets uppity about the reuse of a term? Given that both uses are jargon specific to different and relatively unrelated fields, I really don't care.
So they ask that people buy the entire CD or not buy the CD, even though they do get the money, once the CD has been ripped, the listener can "violate" the artists intention and be completely unaware of this if this is really the intent.
iTunes and iPod does offer ways to shuffle albums but keep the album together (not shuffle within the album), so when you start, it plays track one of one album and plays through the entire album before going on to the next one. I'm not even sure if the competitors offer this, I had a Sansa for a while but didn't notice such a setting.
There aren't even a whole lot of albums that I've listened to where I had an impression of this "arc". I've listened to a lot of my collection straight through enough times that I can't really stand to listen "in order" anymore. Maybe some band is offended by that idea, but I think that it's likely that these bands think a little too highly of themselves.
Maybe the liquid crystals don't respond so well as they age. The backlights on LCDs, usually being flourescent bulbs do fade and eventually die.
On plasmas, I think there is a half-life on the gasses and luminant material (which I think are phosphors).
Display materials aren't the only problem, you have the power supply and control circuitry, which I think power supplies may be more succeptible than the control circuitry.
My understanding is that "n" provides longer range and better link stability. I think that might be a reason to upgrade. If you move files a lot between local computers, the speed might help too.
That said, given that there isn't a finalized standard, I think it may generally be best to hold off on upgrades. If you need speed for your local network and can't wait, then buy matched sets of network devices, then for elsewhere, you can fall back to b/g which should be a lot more than enough for Internet stuff.
The problem is that I believe that some food producers had put a label on their products stating that the food was not irradiated, and the FDA took them to court and told them that they were not allowed to say that - And the FDA won.
I'd never heard of that, if that's true, that's pretty sad. I'm surprised that the FDA could legally deny that though, they seem to have an odd system of regulations that Congress has established. Products that are considered drugs must go through a rigorous system that proves it does work and establishes that it's reasonably safe to use. Products that are considered supplements (vitamins) don't have to be tested and the FDA can't touch them until there is proof that it hurts people.
Even stuff like that Vioxx case is absurd. If the NPR Science Friday program was right, the company promoted off-label prescriptions. Off-label prescriptions means that the drug was prescribed for situations for which the drug wasn't proven safe or effective. There were people that greatly benefited from using the drug and now they can't use it. My impression was that they would have taken the risks because the risks from NOT using it were actually greater. Now, because the company and physicians got out of hand, those people are now hurting.
I don't know if it has changed, but previous Intel desktop chipsets have offered ECC capability, but I think enabling it is a board specific capability, maybe they fail to wire up extra lines.
Domain names cost something like $8/yr., if you don't get a subsidized rate for buying some other service.
Setting up a web site isn't that hard to do or that expensive compared to the cost of a million batteries which they weren't sure had a real risk of problems.
If they thought they had a risk of fires, which would have been a MASSIVE PR blow, I think they would have just done the recall right then.
but for Apple this kind of publicity just puts it among other greedy multinationals
Uh, no.
Apple has guidelines which a contractor violated in certain places. Apple doesn't own the contractor and they don't have direct management but the contracts do require a specific minimum standards of treatment which the contractor violated. I'm not sure any other tech company any such guidelines for their contractors.
That, and 100k people sending a few emails is hard to prosecute. I seem to recall some people arguing that it's not harrasment as no given person is organizing or controlling it.
Apple likes to quote market share of the higher-penetration countries, but their worldwide market share of dedicated music player devices is closer to 25%, though it's probably higher if you specify units with mechanical drives.
Raptors are more or less enterprise drive mechanisms with a SATA connection, which doesn't help the cost. With proper use and some air flow, they are probably going to be more reliable than consumer drives. The platters are smaller on 10k+ drives, so that helps the seek times. There are supposedly issues with "wobbling" on drive platters when spinning so fast, what I've heard is that this is why the 10k and 15k drives use small platters.
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Why even give his name mention? He's a pompous man and for being a self-proclaimed "leader" of open source, he hasn't contributed anything worthwhile other than hot air.
"NATO of the East"
TATO? Trans-Asia Treaty Organization. Though I don't think they'd directly use English for this, I don't know any Chinese or much Russian so I don't know what they'd call it if they did form such an organization.
It would be unfortunate to see ISS go by the wayside, but even with its origina schedule and current design, I'm not sure it was boing to be scientifically useful anyway.
I agree, if they don't do a better job of capitalizing on their success, they are going to have difficulties in the future. They can't run on VC money forever. The dot com boom was in part of foolish VCs that listened to the lie about not needing the business plan, and the dot com bust was in part of VCs starting to wise up to the fact that they've been taken.
I'm not even sure if any technology investment is worthwhile given the vicious cycle of ups and downs. It looks to me to be a "hot potato" scheme, where you try to sell your share in a company before it goes bust.
It might have been shorthand for Windows "Plays-For-Sure" player market.
That's true. The deaths on 9/11 are about the same as one month's worth of traffic fatalities in the US. In the last five years, in the US, you were 60 times more likely to die in an auto accident than in an act of terrorism.
Well, it's not often that Slashdotter doublespeak hits them in the bum.
Slashdotters want their GPL to be enforceable but then whine when media owners try to enforce their copyrights. The biggest reason that GPL enforcement works is because copyright law exists.
I will grant that it's hard to separate out the hypocrsy from different groups of people posting in the threads they are passionate about.
I forgot to mention that turning off ad blocking in KPF fixed the site blocking issue, there's a setting in the control panel.
I had an occasional problem where the ZoneAlarm controller would not accept any clicks. I see a dialog box but eventually it does not allow me to click accept, deny or the check box to learn my setting. I end up killing it, uninstalling it and running Kerio Personal Firewall instead and that generally doesn't cause me any problems like that. It does block internet ads or site counter systems by default so some sites just don't work, but that's the extent of my issues with KPF.
While there are certainly those that don't think any punishment would have been just for this case, I think there are many here that have the idea that the punishment is excessive.
I do agree that copyright infringement* is wrong, and I do agree that violating a written or oral agreement is wrong too. I don't know if I would agree that a firing was the best option, nor do I believe that the punishment fit the crime.
[*]a bone thrown to the pedants among us. In this case, I wish they would go away because the general feeling I get from them is that they are trying to justify it.
What does this have? Phosphors hold their brightness a little bit, down a reducing curve. This sort of display would have the scan line refresh issue of CRTs without the benefit of the fade curve, the light disappears immediately, so then it's just retina response time. I would expect that this would have to have a pretty high refresh rate to not be annoying. Will this allow three-chip operation? Consumer DLPs have a "rainbow effect" because only one chip flashes out the red, green and blue parts of the image. This doesn't bother everyone but I suspect that this system will have similar laments.
I've had several ATI cards and haven't had any problems with any of them.
Trust is something that naive people have.
A better illustration is to ask them if they want two ten dollar bills or one one hundred dollar bill? Both of them will get you two zeros, but obviously where those zeros are makes a big difference in the value of the number.
It would be less confusing if they called those small objects "planes".
Plane as in airplane/aircraft, plane as in supposedly infinite 2D structure, or is this something else?
Given that many words have different definitions, I really don't see the problem. Chemists might see a metal as a shiny element with ductile properties when solid, astrophysicists might call any solid object metal. IIRC, physics and chemistry disagree on whether the charge of a standard electron is positive or negative, and what direction charge flows. So a geologist gets uppity about the reuse of a term? Given that both uses are jargon specific to different and relatively unrelated fields, I really don't care.
I don't think that will solve anything.
So they ask that people buy the entire CD or not buy the CD, even though they do get the money, once the CD has been ripped, the listener can "violate" the artists intention and be completely unaware of this if this is really the intent.
iTunes and iPod does offer ways to shuffle albums but keep the album together (not shuffle within the album), so when you start, it plays track one of one album and plays through the entire album before going on to the next one. I'm not even sure if the competitors offer this, I had a Sansa for a while but didn't notice such a setting.
There aren't even a whole lot of albums that I've listened to where I had an impression of this "arc". I've listened to a lot of my collection straight through enough times that I can't really stand to listen "in order" anymore. Maybe some band is offended by that idea, but I think that it's likely that these bands think a little too highly of themselves.
Maybe the liquid crystals don't respond so well as they age. The backlights on LCDs, usually being flourescent bulbs do fade and eventually die.
On plasmas, I think there is a half-life on the gasses and luminant material (which I think are phosphors).
Display materials aren't the only problem, you have the power supply and control circuitry, which I think power supplies may be more succeptible than the control circuitry.
My understanding is that "n" provides longer range and better link stability. I think that might be a reason to upgrade. If you move files a lot between local computers, the speed might help too.
That said, given that there isn't a finalized standard, I think it may generally be best to hold off on upgrades. If you need speed for your local network and can't wait, then buy matched sets of network devices, then for elsewhere, you can fall back to b/g which should be a lot more than enough for Internet stuff.
The problem is that I believe that some food producers had put a label on their products stating that the food was not irradiated, and the FDA took them to court and told them that they were not allowed to say that - And the FDA won.
I'd never heard of that, if that's true, that's pretty sad. I'm surprised that the FDA could legally deny that though, they seem to have an odd system of regulations that Congress has established. Products that are considered drugs must go through a rigorous system that proves it does work and establishes that it's reasonably safe to use. Products that are considered supplements (vitamins) don't have to be tested and the FDA can't touch them until there is proof that it hurts people.
Even stuff like that Vioxx case is absurd. If the NPR Science Friday program was right, the company promoted off-label prescriptions. Off-label prescriptions means that the drug was prescribed for situations for which the drug wasn't proven safe or effective. There were people that greatly benefited from using the drug and now they can't use it. My impression was that they would have taken the risks because the risks from NOT using it were actually greater. Now, because the company and physicians got out of hand, those people are now hurting.
I don't know if it has changed, but previous Intel desktop chipsets have offered ECC capability, but I think enabling it is a board specific capability, maybe they fail to wire up extra lines.
Domain names cost something like $8/yr., if you don't get a subsidized rate for buying some other service.
Setting up a web site isn't that hard to do or that expensive compared to the cost of a million batteries which they weren't sure had a real risk of problems.
If they thought they had a risk of fires, which would have been a MASSIVE PR blow, I think they would have just done the recall right then.
but for Apple this kind of publicity just puts it among other greedy multinationals
Uh, no.
Apple has guidelines which a contractor violated in certain places. Apple doesn't own the contractor and they don't have direct management but the contracts do require a specific minimum standards of treatment which the contractor violated. I'm not sure any other tech company any such guidelines for their contractors.
That, and 100k people sending a few emails is hard to prosecute. I seem to recall some people arguing that it's not harrasment as no given person is organizing or controlling it.
Apple likes to quote market share of the higher-penetration countries, but their worldwide market share of dedicated music player devices is closer to 25%, though it's probably higher if you specify units with mechanical drives.
Maybe the main channel doesn't but there are several MTV-brand channels that seem to play a lot of music videos.
Basically, it's a niche product.
Raptors are more or less enterprise drive mechanisms with a SATA connection, which doesn't help the cost. With proper use and some air flow, they are probably going to be more reliable than consumer drives. The platters are smaller on 10k+ drives, so that helps the seek times. There are supposedly issues with "wobbling" on drive platters when spinning so fast, what I've heard is that this is why the 10k and 15k drives use small platters.