If you looked outside your borders you might find cases where those formats "caught on".
Laserdisc and MiniDisc where huge in Japan.
The entire graphic design industry seemed to love the Zip drives. Zip was great because it needed little attention and one could drag files without thinking. To do that with CD-R and writeable DVDs requires a bad hack to be installed into the OS and the disc to be specially re-formatted.
Why even give people the illusion that they might be able to vote without having logged on first? It should have put up the login check before serving up the voting screen. In short, the web site "jumped the gun".
It's not as if they aren't architecturally significant, but then if this is so, then then CN tower (mostly one tall spire) really is the tallest building and all of the other buildings are just has-beens before they are completed. If one argues that the CN tower doesn't count then there will have to be a lot of fancy wordplay to explain why the spire on another skyscraper does count.
One problem is that the people exposing fraudsters often end up with anti-defamation lawsuits like the Amazing Randi (or some similar guy). He exposed possible tricks used by alleged psychics and had to defend himself in court.
If you make a show on how to protect yourself against even certifiably criminal type telephone con artists, you might get slammed with a lawsuit from a big telemarketing association.
If users can't time shift then that's going to kill the market right there. One of the reasons I own a VCR is so I don't have to rearrange my schedule to fit the broadcaster's time slot whims.
At least the PC HDTV tuner cards have time shift options but I wonder if that will go away if these broadcaster weenies start throwing around frivolous SLAPP-type lawsuits.
BTW: why should anyone give a d@mn whether CBS will show HD? Their average audience is literally 50+ years old, most of those people probably won't care. If they shoot themselves in the foot then that may as well increase their average age yet again, although maybe slightly. I'd call their bluff.
Agreed. Just about every new system had USB ports for maybe three years. It wasn't until Steve Jobs gave it a strong push by making a strong market for USB - it was one of the few ways to add-on to the iMac, and lacking a floppy sure gave peripheral makers a new market.
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I see a few Bluetooth items, such as keyboards and mice.
What I would like to see is some sort of *good* wireless headphones that operate on a standard. The closest I see is for the headsets for phones, I doubt they'd be great audio-wise.
I already have a wireless keyboard, but I wouldn't mind a new one for a different computer and maybe I should investigate that set I saw. The biggest problem is that they would be replacing parts that are still very usable and not broken.
The mind can play games, and audiophiles are not an exclusive group in this regard. A double blind test would help rule this out, particularly because some of this stuff is at the edges of perception. In one psych test, the researchers put the _same_ detergent in a yellow box and a blue box. The people that tried washing with both believed that the stuff in the blue box is harsher than the stuff in the yellow box.
A double blind test would prove that they are not making stuff up when they say that putting a wooden mBendo disk on the back of their amp really does make a difference.
In short, it is a bullshit detector. If a reviewer sneers at such a simple test, then I can safely ignore the review because for all I know, they are using the superlatives to make their advertising accounts happy.
Applie didn't try claiming the iMac to be a supercomputer that I remember. They did claim that for the PowerMac G4 at 500MHz, their claim was a super computer was > 1GFLOP. That performance rating was not too unrealistic as Alpha chips two years before that clocked around 0.95 GFlops without SIMD, it isn't hard to exceed that with SIMD.
I wouldn't count on lower RPM necessarily being more reliable. The technology may be more mature but there's the chance that Maxtor cheaped out somewhere in parts or testing to be first to kick the this capacity product out to market.
Lower RPM does generally produce less heat but then the Tom's article mentioned heat concerns with this drive. To be honest, I'd put either one of my 15k RPM drive against this any day in terms of reliability, the problem is that the drive is 20MB unformatted.
Really, your money is better spent getting two drives at two thirds capacity each. This is not considering the cost of powering two drives vs. one, that is dependent on the drive.
I don't see the point, it is a rarity that two drives fail at the same time or close enough that the second would fail before the first's replacement arrives, even if they are from the same run.
I'd say having more than one drive is best. You might want the system drive to be pretty quick for good boot and app startup, another huge storage device just to keep things, and if you need performance, then get a small 10k RPM drive as a scratch disk. The scratch disc and system disc can be different partitions on the same drive.
That said, I have plenty of space on my network so I don't need this yet, but it's nice to know the option is there. Then there's the concern of being able to back up this drive, failing being able to backup, then one would want to RAID mirror it, meaning having two drives. Ugh.
Well, the DMCA doesn't apply to Laserdiscs (it never had any copy control mechanism) or any VHS tapes that don't happen to have Macrovision. The video resolution of even VHS might be good enough for a portable's small screen.
The problem is that this might cause yet more internal issues in a company such as Sony, one division makes movies and another makes hardware to play them.
In a way, that is true, but what fraction of buyers is that? When you compare the dollar sales all the K-Marts, Targets and Wal-Marts to those of elite retailers, there is a significant imbalance.
The hard part is convincing a lot of people that paying twice as much gets twice as much quality, and really, rarely does one get doubling of quality on doubling of price.
As it is, the market for better products is much smaller than the stuff that is literally a commodity.
Grove is being kind of hypocritical as well as Intel has chip packaging plants and possibly fabs all over the world.
I agree, market protectionism can only backfire. It screwed up the US steel trade, it will probably sink the US IT industry if carried out. Countries that we put up barriers against generally put up reciprocal barriers against the US.
Does Microsoft really have much of a market in vehicle systems? I know they wanted to go there but in order to be there someone has to buy it and put it in their systems.
I think legally automobile components have to be available for a decade. This means that MS has to allow licence sales ten years after replacing the product, and support the product through whatever fixes may be needed, not just support and sell for maybe five years as they does now.
I can't say Visa is at fault, because there are dozens if not thousands of card issuers that use Visa, and they can't track all their practices all the time. Maybe the person getting commission might have forged a signature.
It does sound scary, and it is a good case in making sure you know where your paperwork is.
It really depends on whether they need to allow off-site access.
What the US Navy does is keeps two separate networks on its ships. One network has the non-critical stuff and has internet access, the other network is supposed to be secure and does not have internet access. Some desktops have two computers on it to keep this sort of separation so that sensitive systems are less likely to be hacked.
Another problem is that it sounds like they used Outlook and without fixing its security settings. Outlook can be set to not execute code on reading a message.
It's not like it hasn't happened, the PIII chips were rumored to have Jackson technology (Intel's internal code name for Hyperthreading) in it somewhere, simply not enabled. If it is there, they aren't saying anything.
It wasn't until the Northwood P4 that it was really put in, and only enabled later except for the Xeons. So there's a section of the die of a lot of P4s that was deliberately not used, for marketing and possibly legal reasons.
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If you looked outside your borders you might find cases where those formats "caught on".
Laserdisc and MiniDisc where huge in Japan.
The entire graphic design industry seemed to love the Zip drives. Zip was great because it needed little attention and one could drag files without thinking. To do that with CD-R and writeable DVDs requires a bad hack to be installed into the OS and the disc to be specially re-formatted.
Why even give people the illusion that they might be able to vote without having logged on first? It should have put up the login check before serving up the voting screen. In short, the web site "jumped the gun".
It's not as if they aren't architecturally significant, but then if this is so, then then CN tower (mostly one tall spire) really is the tallest building and all of the other buildings are just has-beens before they are completed. If one argues that the CN tower doesn't count then there will have to be a lot of fancy wordplay to explain why the spire on another skyscraper does count.
This isnt all that great of a security measure, however its good to see slashdot posting home project kind of things again.
All that great? Be honest. The thing is a piece of CRAP! And it really isn't much of a tutorial of what is going on electrically either.
That said, I agree, at least it is an honest project.
Three of my computers include cable-lock tabs for padlocking. Add security screws and you'd at least frustrate people enough to bash your computer in.
One problem is that the people exposing fraudsters often end up with anti-defamation lawsuits like the Amazing Randi (or some similar guy). He exposed possible tricks used by alleged psychics and had to defend himself in court.
If you make a show on how to protect yourself against even certifiably criminal type telephone con artists, you might get slammed with a lawsuit from a big telemarketing association.
If users can't time shift then that's going to kill the market right there. One of the reasons I own a VCR is so I don't have to rearrange my schedule to fit the broadcaster's time slot whims.
At least the PC HDTV tuner cards have time shift options but I wonder if that will go away if these broadcaster weenies start throwing around frivolous SLAPP-type lawsuits.
BTW: why should anyone give a d@mn whether CBS will show HD? Their average audience is literally 50+ years old, most of those people probably won't care. If they shoot themselves in the foot then that may as well increase their average age yet again, although maybe slightly. I'd call their bluff.
Agreed. Just about every new system had USB ports for maybe three years. It wasn't until Steve Jobs gave it a strong push by making a strong market for USB - it was one of the few ways to add-on to the iMac, and lacking a floppy sure gave peripheral makers a new market.
I see a few Bluetooth items, such as keyboards and mice.
What I would like to see is some sort of *good* wireless headphones that operate on a standard. The closest I see is for the headsets for phones, I doubt they'd be great audio-wise.
I already have a wireless keyboard, but I wouldn't mind a new one for a different computer and maybe I should investigate that set I saw. The biggest problem is that they would be replacing parts that are still very usable and not broken.
Sorry, you do not understand basic psychology.
The mind can play games, and audiophiles are not an exclusive group in this regard. A double blind test would help rule this out, particularly because some of this stuff is at the edges of perception. In one psych test, the researchers put the _same_ detergent in a yellow box and a blue box. The people that tried washing with both believed that the stuff in the blue box is harsher than the stuff in the yellow box.
A double blind test would prove that they are not making stuff up when they say that putting a wooden mBendo disk on the back of their amp really does make a difference.
In short, it is a bullshit detector. If a reviewer sneers at such a simple test, then I can safely ignore the review because for all I know, they are using the superlatives to make their advertising accounts happy.
Applie didn't try claiming the iMac to be a supercomputer that I remember. They did claim that for the PowerMac G4 at 500MHz, their claim was a super computer was > 1GFLOP. That performance rating was not too unrealistic as Alpha chips two years before that clocked around 0.95 GFlops without SIMD, it isn't hard to exceed that with SIMD.
I wouldn't count on lower RPM necessarily being more reliable. The technology may be more mature but there's the chance that Maxtor cheaped out somewhere in parts or testing to be first to kick the this capacity product out to market.
Lower RPM does generally produce less heat but then the Tom's article mentioned heat concerns with this drive. To be honest, I'd put either one of my 15k RPM drive against this any day in terms of reliability, the problem is that the drive is 20MB unformatted.
Really, your money is better spent getting two drives at two thirds capacity each. This is not considering the cost of powering two drives vs. one, that is dependent on the drive.
I don't see the point, it is a rarity that two drives fail at the same time or close enough that the second would fail before the first's replacement arrives, even if they are from the same run.
I'd say having more than one drive is best. You might want the system drive to be pretty quick for good boot and app startup, another huge storage device just to keep things, and if you need performance, then get a small 10k RPM drive as a scratch disk. The scratch disc and system disc can be different partitions on the same drive.
That said, I have plenty of space on my network so I don't need this yet, but it's nice to know the option is there. Then there's the concern of being able to back up this drive, failing being able to backup, then one would want to RAID mirror it, meaning having two drives. Ugh.
I agree. Linux still have the "hackish" feel which isn't acceptable to the average user.
Well, the DMCA doesn't apply to Laserdiscs (it never had any copy control mechanism) or any VHS tapes that don't happen to have Macrovision. The video resolution of even VHS might be good enough for a portable's small screen.
The problem is that this might cause yet more internal issues in a company such as Sony, one division makes movies and another makes hardware to play them.
Does a Toshiba Libretto fit that requirement? I think it might, although it might not have the CPU or space to cut video.
In a way, that is true, but what fraction of buyers is that? When you compare the dollar sales all the K-Marts, Targets and Wal-Marts to those of elite retailers, there is a significant imbalance.
The hard part is convincing a lot of people that paying twice as much gets twice as much quality, and really, rarely does one get doubling of quality on doubling of price.
As it is, the market for better products is much smaller than the stuff that is literally a commodity.
Grove is being kind of hypocritical as well as Intel has chip packaging plants and possibly fabs all over the world.
I agree, market protectionism can only backfire. It screwed up the US steel trade, it will probably sink the US IT industry if carried out. Countries that we put up barriers against generally put up reciprocal barriers against the US.
Does Microsoft really have much of a market in vehicle systems? I know they wanted to go there but in order to be there someone has to buy it and put it in their systems.
I think legally automobile components have to be available for a decade. This means that MS has to allow licence sales ten years after replacing the product, and support the product through whatever fixes may be needed, not just support and sell for maybe five years as they does now.
I can't say Visa is at fault, because there are dozens if not thousands of card issuers that use Visa, and they can't track all their practices all the time. Maybe the person getting commission might have forged a signature.
It does sound scary, and it is a good case in making sure you know where your paperwork is.
I think it might have more to do with selection, inventory, pricing and pushy sales people on commision.
Uh, like what do these bar owners think you guys would do, hijack the bar and crash it into the capitol building?
I think it is overkill to use this to allegedly prevent fights. Is it really so hard to just press charges on the people that cause problems?
It really depends on whether they need to allow off-site access.
What the US Navy does is keeps two separate networks on its ships. One network has the non-critical stuff and has internet access, the other network is supposed to be secure and does not have internet access. Some desktops have two computers on it to keep this sort of separation so that sensitive systems are less likely to be hacked.
Another problem is that it sounds like they used Outlook and without fixing its security settings. Outlook can be set to not execute code on reading a message.
It's not like it hasn't happened, the PIII chips were rumored to have Jackson technology (Intel's internal code name for Hyperthreading) in it somewhere, simply not enabled. If it is there, they aren't saying anything.
It wasn't until the Northwood P4 that it was really put in, and only enabled later except for the Xeons. So there's a section of the die of a lot of P4s that was deliberately not used, for marketing and possibly legal reasons.