Um, they've been using copper and heat pipes in their heatsinks for years now. And the Intel heatsinks are ok, unless you're planning on overclocking, certainly not the best, but for the price (essentially free) they're better than several aftermarket heatsinks.
"SSDs...don't impact PC performance enough to justify the cost for MOST PCs"
I'll agree with that, for now (although as price goes down and capacity goes up obviously that will change, I think in the next couple of years). However, we've had good results swapping out the harddrives in some of the more 'vocal' managers' laptops, and replacing them with SSDs. It doesn't turn an ordinary machine into something ultra fast, but it goes a long way to removing complaints about speed.
Just Microsoft today is two different companies, the left hand doesn't know what the right is up to.
Part of M$ sees Samba as being something worth supporting, but it's still possible that a different part of M$ will try and sue them...
Ditto, it's what us sysadmins have been crying out for. And no need to re-invent the wheel, just pick up the same GP settings we use to configure IE (eg proxy settings, bookmarks etc.) and then we only need to configure once.
Don't forget, Microsoft is a massive company, and frequently the left hand doesn't know what the right is up to. I'm assuming that's what the case is here.
The variation in estimates of carrying capacity mainly depends on how many resources you envisage one person using. If you assume that everyone in your hypothetical New York of Texas super-city uses about as much as an average middle class American does now, then the carrying capacity of the earth would be about 2 billion.
Yup, it's a good thing there's lots of people out there with less stuff than us, otherwise we'd never even have reached this level.
Depends who you ask, carrying capacity estimates for the earth have varied between 0.5 billion and 800 billion.
Either of those estimates is equally laughable.
Dealing with other people's emails takes up your valuable time, but as a nice person, you still want to help the mial get where it's supposed to.
Solution: Take 10% of the mis-sent emails and use them for identity theft purposes, and use the resulting income to fund your work on the other 90%:)
If you buy something from the kindle store, just remove the DRM (via a simple python script or a Calibre plugin), and shazam, no more problem.
Or if you prefer your martial language; you can avoid the attack on your freedoms via some simple defensive manoeuvres.
Ditto, I like to fiddle with whatever device I'm using, and Cyanogen lets me change just about every setting avaliable. Also, it's the quickest and easiest way of running the latest versions of Android on my HTC Desire (no point in waiting for vodafone to get round to releasing timely updates).
When they re-broadcast Mythbusters in the UK, they give it a new voice over, and (I assume because it's for a European audience) they convert all of the measurements to SI units.
Think is, here in the UK we still use miles rather than km, and mph rather than kph, so I usually have to back convert to imperial in my head.
On roadsigns over here, while miles are used for long distances, some signs here use yards, and some use metres to count short distances. Buggered if I know why.
Indeed, the CLI is great for things like (as in TFA) editing a firewall config. But a GUI is much better for, say, displaying your email.
Contrarywise, need to alter one port on the firewall? GUI. Need to categorise all the email in a folder? CLI.
It's all about knowing how to use the tools you have, and knowing when to use each.
I work for a company that makes large commercial printers (Roland DG, technically a competitor of HP so pinch of salt time).
The ink for our big printers, sells for ~£90 for 440ml of ink. That's about 20p (~30c) per ml.
And given that there's third party inks for our printers out there it could be even lower I guess.
Or to put it another way, HP are charging what the market will bare.
With regard to patents, VP8 copies way too much from H.264 for anyone sane to be comfortable with it, no matter whose word is behind the claim of being patent-free.
When I was getting taught history here in the UK about 15 years ago, the emphasis seemed to be on teaching us about primary and secondary sources, and their relative merits.
(Primary sources - eyewitness accounts basically, more documentary, but less of the big picture. Secondary sources - written after the time, more skewed, but advantages of hind-sight).
Most of the questions we were asked revolved around "so-and-so said X, why is their account trustworthy, or otherwise", ie we were being trained to identify biases in media.
Personally speaking I think that's a pretty good way of teaching history, because it teaches you a skill that's useful in many circumstances, and in later life.
Here in Bristol (Banksy's hometown), the public outcry over the council painting over well loved graffiti has got to the point where they will now hold a public vote on which bits to keep, and what will be painted over.
Personally I love the different paintings which are on almost every flat surface in parts of town (eg Stokes Croft), they turn what would otherwise be a pretty crappy corner of town, into a big out-door gallery.
We have a Cisco VoIP system. To allow some users to login to a call center type app, I have to install a bit of software on their computer.
For reasons known only to themselves, who ever wrote this POS decided to make the installer download most of the component parts of the program, and to do this they leveraged some IE6 components.
I only discovered this when trying to install said app on a machine that was already upgraded to IE7, whereupon it failed with the helpful error "Component missing".
Turns out that unless IE6 is the only version of IE on a system, the app won't install (it will run after an upgrade fortunately).
We've just bought some new PCs with Win7 on, and I've had to get XP Mode working just to install this bloody application. Yes, our shiny new PCs have to run a whole XP virtual machine, because some idiot at cisco couldn't be bothered to just write a normal installer (or one that used IE in a way that was compatible with IE7-8).
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnddddddd relax. Rant over.
I terms of the basics, such as 'I'd like this colour displayed here please', then yes, it should be the same between OSX and the iPhone. Obviously there will be some differences, but isn't it more logical and better for everyone, to take the OSX version and just change the things that have to be different between the two, leaving as much as possible the same is better for the people programming the API (less work), and the programmers using the API (less new stuff to learn, or change).
Gnome and KDE are different window managers from different teams, they make no claims to be the same, where as Apple has specifically tried to make developing for OSX and iPhone as similar as possible, basically, that was a crap example.
"The gun camera film was a video burned onto a compact disc which I received from my legal advisor"
My guess (with no corroborating evidence), is that it was a copy of this video on CD that wikileaks eventually got hold of, and was probably just an encrypted zip file or similar.
Also, if you check Wikileaks twitter feed, they asked for computer time to break the encryption, so it's unlikely they had the keys (or perhaps they did have them, but needed to cover a source).
Well, I'd out a slightly different spin on it, I'd say the answer is:
Old people!
In our office, pretty much everyone under the age of 30, has grown up with computers, and they are fine with reading text on a screen.
Most of the people over 30 say that that they can't read large amounts of text off a screen, and that reading printed material is easier (actually, they say "you can't read as easily off a screen", but what they mean is: "I, can't read off a screen").
Consequently, apart from people who have to deal with paper letters as part of their jobs (a lot of our invoices still go out on paper, but that's mainly going to email now), the only people who print stuff out are the 'old' people.
Now if only I could stop them from printing out stuff that they never even pick from the printer...
(most of our users have dual screens, it just makes work much easier)
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Um, they've been using copper and heat pipes in their heatsinks for years now. And the Intel heatsinks are ok, unless you're planning on overclocking, certainly not the best, but for the price (essentially free) they're better than several aftermarket heatsinks.
"SSDs...don't impact PC performance enough to justify the cost for MOST PCs" I'll agree with that, for now (although as price goes down and capacity goes up obviously that will change, I think in the next couple of years). However, we've had good results swapping out the harddrives in some of the more 'vocal' managers' laptops, and replacing them with SSDs. It doesn't turn an ordinary machine into something ultra fast, but it goes a long way to removing complaints about speed.
Just Microsoft today is two different companies, the left hand doesn't know what the right is up to. Part of M$ sees Samba as being something worth supporting, but it's still possible that a different part of M$ will try and sue them...
Another vote for New Scientist here, imo it strikes the right balance between accessibility and depth.
Ditto, it's what us sysadmins have been crying out for. And no need to re-invent the wheel, just pick up the same GP settings we use to configure IE (eg proxy settings, bookmarks etc.) and then we only need to configure once.
Don't forget, Microsoft is a massive company, and frequently the left hand doesn't know what the right is up to. I'm assuming that's what the case is here.
Yup, it's a good thing there's lots of people out there with less stuff than us, otherwise we'd never even have reached this level.
Depends who you ask, carrying capacity estimates for the earth have varied between 0.5 billion and 800 billion. Either of those estimates is equally laughable.
Dealing with other people's emails takes up your valuable time, but as a nice person, you still want to help the mial get where it's supposed to. Solution: Take 10% of the mis-sent emails and use them for identity theft purposes, and use the resulting income to fund your work on the other 90% :)
If you buy something from the kindle store, just remove the DRM (via a simple python script or a Calibre plugin), and shazam, no more problem. Or if you prefer your martial language; you can avoid the attack on your freedoms via some simple defensive manoeuvres.
Ditto, I like to fiddle with whatever device I'm using, and Cyanogen lets me change just about every setting avaliable. Also, it's the quickest and easiest way of running the latest versions of Android on my HTC Desire (no point in waiting for vodafone to get round to releasing timely updates).
Who do you think just fired all their network staff and hired the OP?
yes, it does. I'm mainly a windoze admin and *I* managed fine with DD-WRT's web interface.
When they re-broadcast Mythbusters in the UK, they give it a new voice over, and (I assume because it's for a European audience) they convert all of the measurements to SI units. Think is, here in the UK we still use miles rather than km, and mph rather than kph, so I usually have to back convert to imperial in my head. On roadsigns over here, while miles are used for long distances, some signs here use yards, and some use metres to count short distances. Buggered if I know why.
Indeed, the CLI is great for things like (as in TFA) editing a firewall config. But a GUI is much better for, say, displaying your email. Contrarywise, need to alter one port on the firewall? GUI. Need to categorise all the email in a folder? CLI. It's all about knowing how to use the tools you have, and knowing when to use each.
I work for a company that makes large commercial printers (Roland DG, technically a competitor of HP so pinch of salt time). The ink for our big printers, sells for ~£90 for 440ml of ink. That's about 20p (~30c) per ml. And given that there's third party inks for our printers out there it could be even lower I guess. Or to put it another way, HP are charging what the market will bare.
With regard to patents, VP8 copies way too much from H.264 for anyone sane to be comfortable with it, no matter whose word is behind the claim of being patent-free.
So, no, probably not.
When I was getting taught history here in the UK about 15 years ago, the emphasis seemed to be on teaching us about primary and secondary sources, and their relative merits. (Primary sources - eyewitness accounts basically, more documentary, but less of the big picture. Secondary sources - written after the time, more skewed, but advantages of hind-sight). Most of the questions we were asked revolved around "so-and-so said X, why is their account trustworthy, or otherwise", ie we were being trained to identify biases in media. Personally speaking I think that's a pretty good way of teaching history, because it teaches you a skill that's useful in many circumstances, and in later life.
...why do people declare things so confidently when it's quite clear they don't have even the vaguest comprehension?
Ah my friend, welcome to slashdot, where geeks have been making authoritative statements on subjects they know next to nothing about since 1997.
Here in Bristol (Banksy's hometown), the public outcry over the council painting over well loved graffiti has got to the point where they will now hold a public vote on which bits to keep, and what will be painted over. Personally I love the different paintings which are on almost every flat surface in parts of town (eg Stokes Croft), they turn what would otherwise be a pretty crappy corner of town, into a big out-door gallery.
We have a Cisco VoIP system. To allow some users to login to a call center type app, I have to install a bit of software on their computer. For reasons known only to themselves, who ever wrote this POS decided to make the installer download most of the component parts of the program, and to do this they leveraged some IE6 components. I only discovered this when trying to install said app on a machine that was already upgraded to IE7, whereupon it failed with the helpful error "Component missing". Turns out that unless IE6 is the only version of IE on a system, the app won't install (it will run after an upgrade fortunately). We've just bought some new PCs with Win7 on, and I've had to get XP Mode working just to install this bloody application. Yes, our shiny new PCs have to run a whole XP virtual machine, because some idiot at cisco couldn't be bothered to just write a normal installer (or one that used IE in a way that was compatible with IE7-8). aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnddddddd relax. Rant over.
I terms of the basics, such as 'I'd like this colour displayed here please', then yes, it should be the same between OSX and the iPhone. Obviously there will be some differences, but isn't it more logical and better for everyone, to take the OSX version and just change the things that have to be different between the two, leaving as much as possible the same is better for the people programming the API (less work), and the programmers using the API (less new stuff to learn, or change). Gnome and KDE are different window managers from different teams, they make no claims to be the same, where as Apple has specifically tried to make developing for OSX and iPhone as similar as possible, basically, that was a crap example.
"The gun camera film was a video burned onto a compact disc which I received from my legal advisor"
My guess (with no corroborating evidence), is that it was a copy of this video on CD that wikileaks eventually got hold of, and was probably just an encrypted zip file or similar.
Also, if you check Wikileaks twitter feed, they asked for computer time to break the encryption, so it's unlikely they had the keys (or perhaps they did have them, but needed to cover a source).
"# Have encrypted videos of US bomb strikes on civilians http://bit.ly/wlafghan2 we need super computer time http://ljsf.org/ 12:10 PM Jan 8th via bit.ly "
Thanks for the idea about the flash uninistaller, I found a link to it here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html
Old people!
In our office, pretty much everyone under the age of 30, has grown up with computers, and they are fine with reading text on a screen.
Most of the people over 30 say that that they can't read large amounts of text off a screen, and that reading printed material is easier (actually, they say "you can't read as easily off a screen", but what they mean is: "I, can't read off a screen").
Consequently, apart from people who have to deal with paper letters as part of their jobs (a lot of our invoices still go out on paper, but that's mainly going to email now), the only people who print stuff out are the 'old' people.
Now if only I could stop them from printing out stuff that they never even pick from the printer...
(most of our users have dual screens, it just makes work much easier)