Street dates is to protect the retailer, not the consumer, it levels the playing field in the event of random distribution.
Street dates are heavily enforced in the music and movie industry. One Target store was fined over $1k for selling one copy of one CD one day early. They take it seriously.
Keep in mind that the DHS has repeatedly gotten "D" report card marks for security. The US government as a while averages at "C" I think, and IIRC, only the NSF got a solid "A". There are rules, but if they aren't enforced or enforcement is hindered, the rules are worthless.
This guy has a political problem and that's why he resigned. Everyone wants to make a big splash when they don't get along with their cohorts. Only the classy ones keep their mouths shut. This guy isn't one of those, apparently.
I agree that this can and does happen. The problem I have with a summary statement like that is that it leaves no room for the possibility for whistleblowers.
That does sound like a bad idea, but in some ways, it looks like IT security is such a non-concern such that a security position isn't taken seriously. Why ask someone's opinion if you know you will reject it?
It looked to me that it is like asking a janitor to sweep up before hours but not allowing him/her a way into the building.
It may be possible, but has it been achieved outside a lab yet? A prototype is often an experimental model to see if it will work right and to test market interest. There is the practicality aspect, like whether it works, is reasonably affordable to the target market and whether it is reliable.
The link you gave is partly for a concept design only introduced a couple months ago, I think it is too much to expect it to be available to a retailer in the next year, never mind in several months or now. There is that jacket with a built-in audio player but 600 Euros for a jacket is a bit much, I'd rather a $100-$200 jacket with a $300 iPod - a device I can use with other jackets or without a jacket at all.
Reusing the drive would be a trick. Except for a few of the old Apex models, I don't know of any that used an IDE connector, so you'd have to have an adaptor if you are lucky enough that it is a computer compatible drive.
The power supplies in those things barely seem capable of powering the DVD player, I don't think they can even take a VIA board + hard drive.
The display panel might be reusable but I expect that you'd need to be able to reverse engineer electronics signalling.
Maintainability? Looks? The VFD displays look nice. A PC behind the entertainment center means that the center is away from the wall more than necessary. I know one person that stores his HTPC in a closet with the relevant cables running out.
Do game consoles do HD? PCs do, at least with certain Radeon models with a component video adapter.
I have an HTPC, but I use it as a deinterlacer for a video projector. The projector's deinterlacer and scaler sucks, so I feed a video signal to a hardware deinterlacing board and the projector gets fed an RGB signal. A standalone deinterlacer + scaler costs twice as much as I paid for the PC and the hardware interlacer. There are some cheaper DVD players (around $150?) that have a hardware deinterlacer / scaler chip, but that ignores other video signals.
The small m means millibits, so you get 0.9 bits per second?:)
I suspect your rate is 900kbps. 900 Megabits per second is close to gigabit speeds and that seems unlikely for an internet service.
I also suspect that a ten minute download of 500 megabytes is inflated. On a 1.5Mbps T1, it takes an hour to download a typical Linux ISO. That is quite a lot of data. Last I checked, the service was limited to 200 megabytes, but either is considerably limiting in view of Linux ISOs.
I do agree about the satellite systems being non-options because of the way satellite systems set up their TOS. I had done my research and decided against it.
Abusive humor isn't necessarily a recent phenomenon, and it isn't necessarily an American phenomenon.
Ricer isn't necessarily racist, it is poking fun at people that add "fast looking" things to a car without making it faster. Often, they are people that think they are cool for having non-functional hood scoops or ugly kite rear spoilers on a front drive car. I see it done to American cars too.
Who was getting offended? It looked more like Gentoo users were getting offended by that site than the site maintainer getting offended by the ignorant section of the Gentoo community.
I do agree the site goes too far to lump the whole community as one group.
I think it is funny that a lot of the other posts seem to qualify as entries in funroll-loops.
I gave Gentoo a shot from stage 1, the problem I ran into was that a couple packages were somehow missing from pretty much all the mirrors. I asked an experienced Gentoo user and he said it does happen from time to time.
Gentoo is an interesting concept, but I'm not sure it is worth wasting hours of meat-bag time to save seconds of silicon time here or there on a single machine. Even worse is wasting meat-bag time only to be rebuffed by a missing file, so I have to choose between just letting the computer sit there powered on for hours and hope the mirrors catch up or do something better with my time.
The numbers it spits out would have to look realistic. A predominantly Democrate precinct would be unlikely to vote all Bush or mostly Bush.
Your scenario is a reason to go for a voter verified paper trail, because unusual or contested results have a greater chance of triggering a recount. If a lot of machines are off by one, then the results wouldn't look unusual. The thing here is that this assumes that all the machines are off by one toward the same canidate. A Republican controlled area might "accidentally" have an additional vote for its party, the same with Democrats.
Uh, tap three times? Adding unnecessary tapping just so you can get a real desktop interface? That sounds counter productive. It might be interesting though I'd say tablet computing would be more useful, and unfortunately, that really hasn't made a big impact either.
Very few $250 boards have multiple PCI busses or PCI-X. I found a Tyan Tiger i7501(S2723GNN) at Newegg for $277 and it is a Xeon board. There are other boards that cost $450 and up that have PCI-X are Xeon and Opteron - neither chip is cheap, unless you want to buy the slowest, a 1.8GHz Xeon is $90 on Pricewatch, Opteron 140 is $150, Opteron 240 (2CPU version) is $190.
Do you mean PCIe?
A lot of boards that have on-board ethernet bypass the PCI buss because many chipsets now have a direct connection for network chips.
How well does software RAID work on a dual processor system? In the past, it was basically asking for problems, so a dual CPU system pretty much needed the hardware for best reliability.
People CAN set up very powerful web sites without banners, for between $3-$10 a month, so the person keeping the web site doesn't need to keep a server maintained and powered.
Residential broadband wasn't meant to allow server level upload speeds, especially given the limitations of the infrastructure. Some ISPs do sell commercial broadband for a little more that does have higher upload. Part of the limitation is that both cable and DSL services are hacks in a way since neither the phone or cable systems were meant to transmit data bi-directionally at high speeds, so they do what they can to optimize for download speeds.
The energy cost of running an A/C system isn't that extreme. For an A/C unit to move 100W of heat from one side of the system to the other, it only neads 10W of energy to do so. Energy is still being conserved throught the thermodynamic cycle, 100W removed from the room + 10W to remove it means that 110W has been put outside.
The energy cost of manufactuing an LCD panel is high too, don't leave that out of your equation. Using an existing used display is a sunk environmental cost, and I think the monetary cost dofference of operating an old CRT is a lot less than the cost of replacing it with an LCD panel.
The thing is that the older computers exist already, so it is an effective "sunk" environmental cost in manufacture. Creating demand to build a new circuit when the old one still works is often unwise.
The newer computers can do more computes per unit power / energy but if it is wasted, then more energy is being wasted.
I don't believe that mankind is solely responsible, but you have taken all three of your articles out context. The magnetic field is 90% of what it was 100 years ago, not necessarily approaching nil. The article you linked said that the 8000-yr high shouldn't necessarily be taken as a cause of global warming- sunspots are mostly magnetic, not thermal, and the article stated a firm connection is elusive.
There are other reasons, but they don't seem to say them.
The funny thing is that someone has already done a css version of slashdot just for grins. They estimated that slashdot could easily $3kUSD or more per month if they switched to css. I have to think that payoff should be enticing.
Even with HTML 4.01 Transitional, Slashdot has about 43 validation errors. With 3.2, it shows 120+ errors. With 4.01 Strict, the validator shows about 190 errors.
The installed base of Linux v. Mac is somewhat contestable because it is difficult to measure either with an acceptable accuracy.
The last estimates I've heard was 3% or so for both and even that's not all that reliable. Another thing to be concerned about are the nuances between the Linux distributions, which can reduce inter-distribution portabilty for commercial entities, wereas OS X is... pretty much OSX.
Isn't the usage rate of Firefox greater than this?
In regards to Google toolbar, I don't know how much or little porting needs to be done between the different Mozillas, but I would think they could start with Firefox and port to Camino / Safari and be easy to port to the main Mozilla program.
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Street dates is to protect the retailer, not the consumer, it levels the playing field in the event of random distribution.
Street dates are heavily enforced in the music and movie industry. One Target store was fined over $1k for selling one copy of one CD one day early. They take it seriously.
Either that or the state of Utah is more inbred than one would have expected.
Keep in mind that the DHS has repeatedly gotten "D" report card marks for security. The US government as a while averages at "C" I think, and IIRC, only the NSF got a solid "A". There are rules, but if they aren't enforced or enforcement is hindered, the rules are worthless.
This guy has a political problem and that's why he resigned. Everyone wants to make a big splash when they don't get along with their cohorts. Only the classy ones keep their mouths shut. This guy isn't one of those, apparently.
I agree that this can and does happen. The problem I have with a summary statement like that is that it leaves no room for the possibility for whistleblowers.
That does sound like a bad idea, but in some ways, it looks like IT security is such a non-concern such that a security position isn't taken seriously. Why ask someone's opinion if you know you will reject it?
It looked to me that it is like asking a janitor to sweep up before hours but not allowing him/her a way into the building.
It may be possible, but has it been achieved outside a lab yet? A prototype is often an experimental model to see if it will work right and to test market interest. There is the practicality aspect, like whether it works, is reasonably affordable to the target market and whether it is reliable.
The link you gave is partly for a concept design only introduced a couple months ago, I think it is too much to expect it to be available to a retailer in the next year, never mind in several months or now. There is that jacket with a built-in audio player but 600 Euros for a jacket is a bit much, I'd rather a $100-$200 jacket with a $300 iPod - a device I can use with other jackets or without a jacket at all.
Reusing the drive would be a trick. Except for a few of the old Apex models, I don't know of any that used an IDE connector, so you'd have to have an adaptor if you are lucky enough that it is a computer compatible drive.
The power supplies in those things barely seem capable of powering the DVD player, I don't think they can even take a VIA board + hard drive.
The display panel might be reusable but I expect that you'd need to be able to reverse engineer electronics signalling.
The price is very good considering it is an all-aluminum case that includes a power supply.
Maintainability? Looks? The VFD displays look nice. A PC behind the entertainment center means that the center is away from the wall more than necessary. I know one person that stores his HTPC in a closet with the relevant cables running out.
Do game consoles do HD? PCs do, at least with certain Radeon models with a component video adapter.
I have an HTPC, but I use it as a deinterlacer for a video projector. The projector's deinterlacer and scaler sucks, so I feed a video signal to a hardware deinterlacing board and the projector gets fed an RGB signal. A standalone deinterlacer + scaler costs twice as much as I paid for the PC and the hardware interlacer. There are some cheaper DVD players (around $150?) that have a hardware deinterlacer / scaler chip, but that ignores other video signals.
900mbps?
:)
The small m means millibits, so you get 0.9 bits per second?
I suspect your rate is 900kbps. 900 Megabits per second is close to gigabit speeds and that seems unlikely for an internet service.
I also suspect that a ten minute download of 500 megabytes is inflated. On a 1.5Mbps T1, it takes an hour to download a typical Linux ISO. That is quite a lot of data. Last I checked, the service was limited to 200 megabytes, but either is considerably limiting in view of Linux ISOs.
I do agree about the satellite systems being non-options because of the way satellite systems set up their TOS. I had done my research and decided against it.
Abusive humor isn't necessarily a recent phenomenon, and it isn't necessarily an American phenomenon.
Ricer isn't necessarily racist, it is poking fun at people that add "fast looking" things to a car without making it faster. Often, they are people that think they are cool for having non-functional hood scoops or ugly kite rear spoilers on a front drive car. I see it done to American cars too.
Who was getting offended? It looked more like Gentoo users were getting offended by that site than the site maintainer getting offended by the ignorant section of the Gentoo community.
I do agree the site goes too far to lump the whole community as one group.
I think it is funny that a lot of the other posts seem to qualify as entries in funroll-loops.
I gave Gentoo a shot from stage 1, the problem I ran into was that a couple packages were somehow missing from pretty much all the mirrors. I asked an experienced Gentoo user and he said it does happen from time to time.
Gentoo is an interesting concept, but I'm not sure it is worth wasting hours of meat-bag time to save seconds of silicon time here or there on a single machine. Even worse is wasting meat-bag time only to be rebuffed by a missing file, so I have to choose between just letting the computer sit there powered on for hours and hope the mirrors catch up or do something better with my time.
The numbers it spits out would have to look realistic. A predominantly Democrate precinct would be unlikely to vote all Bush or mostly Bush.
Your scenario is a reason to go for a voter verified paper trail, because unusual or contested results have a greater chance of triggering a recount. If a lot of machines are off by one, then the results wouldn't look unusual. The thing here is that this assumes that all the machines are off by one toward the same canidate. A Republican controlled area might "accidentally" have an additional vote for its party, the same with Democrats.
Uh, tap three times? Adding unnecessary tapping just so you can get a real desktop interface? That sounds counter productive. It might be interesting though I'd say tablet computing would be more useful, and unfortunately, that really hasn't made a big impact either.
Very few $250 boards have multiple PCI busses or PCI-X. I found a Tyan Tiger i7501(S2723GNN) at Newegg for $277 and it is a Xeon board. There are other boards that cost $450 and up that have PCI-X are Xeon and Opteron - neither chip is cheap, unless you want to buy the slowest, a 1.8GHz Xeon is $90 on Pricewatch, Opteron 140 is $150, Opteron 240 (2CPU version) is $190.
Do you mean PCIe?
A lot of boards that have on-board ethernet bypass the PCI buss because many chipsets now have a direct connection for network chips.
How well does software RAID work on a dual processor system? In the past, it was basically asking for problems, so a dual CPU system pretty much needed the hardware for best reliability.
What I find is that often old RAID cards are available pretty cheaply on eBay. I get most of my computer hardware via eBay and I've done pretty well.
still extremely desirable features of lifestyle living
What is lifestyle living?
People CAN set up very powerful web sites without banners, for between $3-$10 a month, so the person keeping the web site doesn't need to keep a server maintained and powered.
Residential broadband wasn't meant to allow server level upload speeds, especially given the limitations of the infrastructure. Some ISPs do sell commercial broadband for a little more that does have higher upload. Part of the limitation is that both cable and DSL services are hacks in a way since neither the phone or cable systems were meant to transmit data bi-directionally at high speeds, so they do what they can to optimize for download speeds.
The energy cost of running an A/C system isn't that extreme. For an A/C unit to move 100W of heat from one side of the system to the other, it only neads 10W of energy to do so. Energy is still being conserved throught the thermodynamic cycle, 100W removed from the room + 10W to remove it means that 110W has been put outside.
The energy cost of manufactuing an LCD panel is high too, don't leave that out of your equation. Using an existing used display is a sunk environmental cost, and I think the monetary cost dofference of operating an old CRT is a lot less than the cost of replacing it with an LCD panel.
The thing is that the older computers exist already, so it is an effective "sunk" environmental cost in manufacture. Creating demand to build a new circuit when the old one still works is often unwise.
The newer computers can do more computes per unit power / energy but if it is wasted, then more energy is being wasted.
I don't believe that mankind is solely responsible, but you have taken all three of your articles out context. The magnetic field is 90% of what it was 100 years ago, not necessarily approaching nil. The article you linked said that the 8000-yr high shouldn't necessarily be taken as a cause of global warming- sunspots are mostly magnetic, not thermal, and the article stated a firm connection is elusive.
Some could say that one should update to service pack 2, but IIRC, there are just as many W2k installations as there are XP installations.
There are other reasons, but they don't seem to say them.
The funny thing is that someone has already done a css version of slashdot just for grins. They estimated that slashdot could easily $3kUSD or more per month if they switched to css. I have to think that payoff should be enticing.
It is both.
Even with HTML 4.01 Transitional, Slashdot has about 43 validation errors. With 3.2, it shows 120+ errors. With 4.01 Strict, the validator shows about 190 errors.
The installed base of Linux v. Mac is somewhat contestable because it is difficult to measure either with an acceptable accuracy.
The last estimates I've heard was 3% or so for both and even that's not all that reliable. Another thing to be concerned about are the nuances between the Linux distributions, which can reduce inter-distribution portabilty for commercial entities, wereas OS X is... pretty much OSX.
Isn't the usage rate of Firefox greater than this?
In regards to Google toolbar, I don't know how much or little porting needs to be done between the different Mozillas, but I would think they could start with Firefox and port to Camino / Safari and be easy to port to the main Mozilla program.