at least at this point, its looking like its actually worse than normal magnetic drives
Two words: removable media.
This is not a hard drive replacement. Instead, it's for all those of you who don't know how to do backups from their 160GB harddrives without a DLT streamer or similar stuff.
Do you expect to integrate the FlashPlayer and the Adobe Reader?The complementary functionality of FlashPlayer and Adobe Reader will enable the deployment of a more robust cross-media, rich-client technology platform. The combined company will continue to be committed to the needs of both the FlashPlayer and Adobe Reader users.
Not only does this not mean anything, it also fails to answer the question.
Two: If you break a window of my car, take it downtown so anyone else can drive it, etc. - I don't have my car anymore. If you could take a magic COPY of my car and leave me still with my car, anyone (here - maybe americans are so brainwashed that they would act differently) would rightly consider me a complete asshole if I objected.
On the other hand, while you wouldn't complain, the car manufacturer probably would, and rightly so. Probably not even the Slashdot crowd would deny this, even more so if copying cars was substantially easier than designing and building them in the first place.
Of course, if this was the case, there would be Stallman-esque Free Car advocates claiming that All Cars Should Be Free and so on, and there would be a Free Car movement and everything, but then it would be a completely different world entirely. And as opposed to computer enthusiasts, given my personal experience with car enthusiasts I don't trust them nearly enough to have them design my car for me to copy under a Limited Warranty clause.
Three major obstacles with this approach (which has been tried BTW):
Logical problems with proofs for correctness. For example, it has been proven that no program can prove itself correct.
Correctness proofs are hard to do and incredibly tedious. Have you ever tried it? And no, you can't have a program do them, because you'd have to prove this program correct, which sends you right back to square #1.
You'd have to prove all sorts of other factors correct, including the operating system and hardware your program is running on. This leads to another set of interesting problems, including that "correct hardware" is useful only as a theoretical concept. What's a "correct computer" if there's a small probability that bits will spontaneously flip in memory, for example?
In short: while it might seem elegant to prove the prover, then have everything else proved by this prover, this approach has little value in practice.
Almost every media standard Apple had backed early has succeeded overall in the market. Ones that Apple snubbed (or where it has been snubbed e.g. MPEG4) have had real problems getting established, and have mostly failed.
Ah, that probably explains why IDE hard drives are much more ubiquitous on the desktop nowadays than the SCSI drives used by Apple. Or why RS232 became the standard serial port, as opposed to RS485. Or why every movie in the world is encoded in QuickTime now.
As if the all-in-one iMac form factor computer was something that Apple invented.
My Macintosh SE/30 says they did, and its ancestors agree, starting from the original Mac 128k. Well, maybe Apple didn't invent the form factor entirely, but they definitely were the first to deploy it on a large scale.
I distinctly remember Compaq Prolinea (sp?) 486 all-in-one computers, which crammed a CD-Rom, Floppy(!), and all the other needed parts into an oversized 14"-15" monitor.
Yes. This form factor was rather popular at the time. I don't know when the Prolineas hit the market, but the Macintosh Performa 520 appeared in 1993.
Sure, if I get slung onto some random old machine there are still wrinkles, but from what I see on the Windows support forums, that's hardly unique.
My experience is exactly the other way round. With older hardware, the chance that it's still supported under Linux is much better than under recent Windows versions. With new hardware, problems have been much more frequent. There's a reason why people choose Linux instead of Windows for older boxen.
With newer hardware, I think there's a future for driver wrapper projects. Look at FreeBSD's NDIS driver wrapper (aka "Project Evil"): that way, FreeBSD can use Windows network card drivers out of the box, it's convenient, and it's even reasonably fast.
There is an international effort to come up with a new standard extremely precise silicon spheres - the cool thing about them is it is apparently impossible to tell if it is stationary or spinning unless you have a reference point on the surface (e.g. a speck of dust.)
Should be reasonably easy. Just tilt the container. If there's precession, the sphere is spinning.
Wouldn't have gotten you very far in this case, however:
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So, sorry, no $1,000 for you;)
Note the strange grammar, however: what is a limited number of authorize licensee supposed to mean?
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So, how much does a front-page advertisement on Slashdot cost these days?
If a car MP3 player played DRM protected music I think services like Napster will take off like wildfire. The key to success is to open many ways to play this music your purchased.
Yet with a Napster/MS DRM scheme, all of these ways require the player to crosscheck that your subscription is still valid. How is your car MP3 player supposed to do that?
If you like to burn MP3 CDs for your car, what's stopping you from ripping to MP3 with iTunes, then use Nero or whatever to write the MP3 files to a CD? No one forces you to burn with iTunes.
As long as it doesn't synchronise with a PocketPC, it's pointless for me as an iPaq owner.
OK, you can blame MS on not opening the ActiveSync protocol, but it should be possible to synchronize Sunbird or Thunderbird with a small client application running on the PocketPC, similar to how IntelliSync works.
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An AK47 assault rifle is more reliable than an M16 because it was designed to be simple and mass-produced, not designed to be cheap.
And because it's designed to be reliable. Development and testing of the AK47 and derived models usually involved dropping it from helicopters, dragging the same gun around in the mud and drenching it underwater. If the Russians are really intent on producing something reliable, they can.
(Unfortunately, they don't always stick to these principles; as the owner of a Kiev 88 medium format camera, I know;))
A customer of my shop decided his computer was too infected with crap and tried to reformat and reinstall using the convenient recovery CDs he got with his computer. This was an older computer, and the recovery CDs came with basic Windows XP, with no service packs. The recovery was successful, but as soon as he installed his cable modem software, he was infected with Blaster, Sasser, and Nachi worms all before he finished downloading Service Pack 2.
Having a firewall would have most definitely stopped those infections.
Great! A firewall that is not perfect, but enoughto stop these infections has been built into Windows XP right from the beginning. Him being a customer of your shop, I suggest you tell him about it. The procedure is the following:
Install Windows XP.
Activate built-in firewall.
Install cable modem software. Note that this shouldn't really be necessary; Windows supports PPPoE and PPTP connections out of the box. Don't download anything.
Man, what I wouldn't give to be "Special Agent Lazarus." Everything you do sounds cool -- I mean, it might be an utterly boring document about e-mail usage, but you still get to call it "the Lazarus Report."
Even better: when you die, you're brought back to life by Special Agent Jesus!
The limitations of word are not so much due to the model (what you see is *only* what you get) than the implementation.
I've personally never seen a good wysiwyg equation editor.
LyX's is pretty decent, due to the work by André Pönitz. However, as with everything LyX, it's pretty LaTeX-centric. You can use LaTeX shortcuts, generate LaTeX output, and you can even generate an inline LaTeX preview for your equations. I regularly use LyX for generating equations and tables; I paste them into my LaTeX source afterwards.
I once had a similar experience myself when I went to an art exhibition where an artist had bolted several multicolored urinals to a wall, no frills just standard issue urinals fromt he hardware store bolted to a wall, that's it. No paint no sculpting just urinals on a wall. The thing had a six figure price tag and a 'SOLD" sign on it.
I guess the price tag and SOLD sign were part of the installation:)
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This is not a hard drive replacement. Instead, it's for all those of you who don't know how to do backups from their 160GB harddrives without a DLT streamer or similar stuff.
Of course, if this was the case, there would be Stallman-esque Free Car advocates claiming that All Cars Should Be Free and so on, and there would be a Free Car movement and everything, but then it would be a completely different world entirely. And as opposed to computer enthusiasts, given my personal experience with car enthusiasts I don't trust them nearly enough to have them design my car for me to copy under a Limited Warranty clause.
- Logical problems with proofs for correctness. For example, it has been proven that no program can prove itself correct.
- Correctness proofs are hard to do and incredibly tedious. Have you ever tried it? And no, you can't have a program do them, because you'd have to prove this program correct, which sends you right back to square #1.
- You'd have to prove all sorts of other factors correct, including the operating system and hardware your program is running on. This leads to another set of interesting problems, including that "correct hardware" is useful only as a theoretical concept. What's a "correct computer" if there's a small probability that bits will spontaneously flip in memory, for example?
In short: while it might seem elegant to prove the prover, then have everything else proved by this prover, this approach has little value in practice.With newer hardware, I think there's a future for driver wrapper projects. Look at FreeBSD's NDIS driver wrapper (aka "Project Evil"): that way, FreeBSD can use Windows network card drivers out of the box, it's convenient, and it's even reasonably fast.
Note the strange grammar, however: what is a limited number of authorize licensee supposed to mean?
No, I think the best beer in the world is still Czech. As a German, I think I'm qualified to say that
If you like to burn MP3 CDs for your car, what's stopping you from ripping to MP3 with iTunes, then use Nero or whatever to write the MP3 files to a CD? No one forces you to burn with iTunes.
Here you are.
They might have been better of using IPv6. Seeing they're tunneling it over IPv4 anyway, this would rid them of all addressing problems.
As long as it doesn't synchronise with a PocketPC, it's pointless for me as an iPaq owner.
OK, you can blame MS on not opening the ActiveSync protocol, but it should be possible to synchronize Sunbird or Thunderbird with a small client application running on the PocketPC, similar to how IntelliSync works.
(Unfortunately, they don't always stick to these principles; as the owner of a Kiev 88 medium format camera, I know ;))
- Install Windows XP.
- Activate built-in firewall.
- Install cable modem software. Note that this shouldn't really be necessary; Windows supports PPPoE and PPTP connections out of the box. Don't download anything.
- Recheck that built-in firewall is activated.
- Download SP2.
How exactly is this a problem?