People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices....
Then why do people keep using TVs, DVD players, stereos, watches, telephones,...? Most of these devices are still selling very very well, despite the fact that PCs can do all they do and much more.
Admitedly, some devices show a lot of feature-convergence, like cellphones or PDA, but people want to keep separate devices, be it because they're less of a pain to set up and use (no boot time, no crashes, dedicated remotes, no windowing environment to detract from the real use) or because people just don't want complex devices with menus, settings and double or triple-function buttons all over the place.
And I'm sure you're gonna be modded up for saying something as silly as this. Never underestimate a good conspiracy theory to get karma here...
NASA won't "outsource" anything, they'll partner with India perhaps, like they partnered with Russia to have access to Baikonur. That means the US would have access to more space facilities at comparatively little extra cost, and on the political scale, India would become a closer US ally.
But does it mean people in Houston or Cape Canaveral would get sacked because their jobs would be taken over by some Indian workers? of course not, silly. Especially since these guys are highly skilled, and because they're paid with tax dollars, which means they're kind of protected against the forces of free market. Not to mention the sensitive aspect of NASA politically.
So stop your karma-whoring and go back into your troll box...
The sound output trick is clever, yes... and also really quite old and (until not so long ago) part of any embedded system programmer's bag of debugging trick, along with flashing LEDs, bit toggling on ports and other niceties. Hell, even the Linux kernel can oops in morse code through the PC speaker or the keyboard LEDs (iirc).
I've always wanted a vehicle I could put in a backpack and stow on the bus when travelling.
Try this: Brompton bicycle. Admitedly, it makes for a large backpack (one exists for it though) but I hardly ever need it. And it's lighter and faster than those stupid 1- or 2-wheel contraption, by virtue of you being the power source.
Or, if you feel like looking like an idiot and riding something somewhat unstable, you can try this: this thing is truly small, yet ridable.
Out of curiosity, how often are you asked for your ID when using your card? 1 in 5? 1 in 10? 1 in 100? Less? Never?
Most cashiers just look at me with a stupid grin, and barf out something like "oh, you do that for protection then? Pretty wise eh, I should do that too" and let me go without checking my ID. When I ask them to check it anyway, they usually turn red and tell me only the real card owner would ask that, and so therefore they don't need to now.
Anyway, most cashiers are dumb as bricks, "ASK FOR ID" sign or not.
I don't think he meant he signs them on the writable strip, I think he meant he writes that with a felt tip marker under his regular signature or something. That's what I do anyway;)
I worked in retail for awhile, I learned a trick for myself. I write "ASK FOR ID" on the back of all my credit/debit cards. RARELY do i have someone ask to see my identification, no matter where I go. it amazes me how easily it is to get away with small things like this.
Personally, I write "THIS CARD IS STOLEN!" on the back of mine. That way, I'm extra sure it'll be reported the very minute it's used after it's stolen.
SpaceEx was founded by Elon Musk from the proceeds of the 2002 sale of his prior start-up, Paypal, to Ebay.
Now here's one person who hasn't left the proceeds of his sale into his PayPal account. I mean, imagine that, buying rocket and space stuff like that, they'd have frozen his account immediately, for no reason, without any explanation besides "what goes on looks strange".
Well done Elon! (and when you have time, please tell your former employees to f*)(*&@$ing give me back my $150 in my account they locked up about, oh, 5 years ago...)
Not at all. It's a strategic choice. Look at the reasons given in the text: Regardless of the progress on native porting (or lack thereof), continued X11 development is crucial for the ongoing viability of OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X. There are a number of critical factors that make X11 more relevant then native porting:
X11 Will Always be Faster to Market.....
X11 Will Always be More Stable.....
X11 Will Always Look like Other Platforms.....
X11 is the Ultimate Testing Tool.....
So essentially, what they're saying is, X is their basic graphical platform, they want it to stay that way, and they don't want to divert efforts to do a native port for a machine that they consider a niche market.
They're just focusing on what they think will make the most users happy. Simple as that.
Why-ever not? A start up has to start up somewhere, and if the company does not require a fixed premises as such, these guys are free to meet in the park, in the high street, in coffee shops. It's really just an extreme example of how decentralised business is becoming these days.
Don't you worry, as soon as they have serious money in the bank, they'll feel compelled to set up shop in a regular office building, with a flashy street sign, they'll start wearing suits, and they'll start hiring overhead such as "managers", "VP of sales" or "HR manager".
And every now and then, they'll gather up in the meeting room to reminisce "how cool and crazy we were in the beginning, dude".
That's how every start-up I worked for ended up turning into when they had the chance to develop into something...
It shouldn't be illegal to transmit bits and bytes over a wire. It is not tantamount to theft in any way.
disingenuity at its best!
Look, it's illegal to photocopy books. Everybody understands why, and yet I'm only capturing photons with a photocopier. Right? Well, same with bytes that encode a movie.
You're free to encode and send anything that you yourself created and decided to distribute for free explicitely however...
They'll defend any piece of shit in their catalog just as well as blockbusters, so there's no need to think you're less visible if you download crap
It puts the names of the aforementioned shite flicks back into the limelight, which might actually entice a few more people to rent out the DVDs, just to check them out
I think it's quite a subtle way of sueing a P2Per from the movie industry, and it has nothing to do with chance.
Because I am not the real Roland Piquepaille, I just use his name to draw attention to his scam. But apparently, even posting normally as I do (check my posting histoyy), my/. nick is enough to mark me as a permanent troll.
Exactly. I'd gladly pay a copyright tax if it gave me rights to legally download and copy whatever I want.
I wouldn't! Part of my interest in P2P is sticking it to the man, in this case the *AA. They've treated people (sorry, consumers) like cash cows, and like shit, for decades, so I download whatever I can and store it, and distribute anything widely and freely, as a giant finger to them. So if they started benefitting from the sales of blank CDs somehow, I'd get removable hard-disks and I'd stop using CDs at once.
And at the same time the power consumption for the 3.6GHz has increased more than the performance.
What you see here is just a proven technology that's being pushed to its limits: the perf gains will become smaller and smaller, while the drawbacks become bigger and bigger, until finally some other new technology replaces the current one (optical chips, massively parallel bio processors,...)
Just look at calculators: I have a 1973 HP-45 here on my desk that sucks almost 500mW from its battery pack. That's half a watt man, to perform maybe 50 operations slowly, with a lot of rounding errors, and display the results on a red 12-digit LED display. You don't see that kind of crazy power consumption in calculators today, even though the technology is fundamentally the same.
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People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices....
...? Most of these devices are still selling very very well, despite the fact that PCs can do all they do and much more.
Then why do people keep using TVs, DVD players, stereos, watches, telephones,
Admitedly, some devices show a lot of feature-convergence, like cellphones or PDA, but people want to keep separate devices, be it because they're less of a pain to set up and use (no boot time, no crashes, dedicated remotes, no windowing environment to detract from the real use) or because people just don't want complex devices with menus, settings and double or triple-function buttons all over the place.
And I'm sure you're gonna be modded up for saying something as silly as this. Never underestimate a good conspiracy theory to get karma here...
NASA won't "outsource" anything, they'll partner with India perhaps, like they partnered with Russia to have access to Baikonur. That means the US would have access to more space facilities at comparatively little extra cost, and on the political scale, India would become a closer US ally.
But does it mean people in Houston or Cape Canaveral would get sacked because their jobs would be taken over by some Indian workers? of course not, silly. Especially since these guys are highly skilled, and because they're paid with tax dollars, which means they're kind of protected against the forces of free market. Not to mention the sensitive aspect of NASA politically.
So stop your karma-whoring and go back into your troll box...
Why do people engrave the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin? Sometimes doing something difficult but pointless is extremely satisfying.
The head of a pin is not pointless...
Now Positive Technologies has released an article describing one way that protection could be bypassed.
A security problem in Windows? no way...
The sound output trick is clever, yes... and also really quite old and (until not so long ago) part of any embedded system programmer's bag of debugging trick, along with flashing LEDs, bit toggling on ports and other niceties. Hell, even the Linux kernel can oops in morse code through the PC speaker or the keyboard LEDs (iirc).
This is a truely clever hack, I'm glad I donated money to these guys for a new 4G ipod.. now my ipod can run linux !
:-)
Hey, if you donate an ipod to me, I'll even make it play music
Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, has been named the Greatest Briton of 2004
Prince Harry was taken out of the running for Greatest Briton recently for some reason...
I've always wanted a vehicle I could put in a backpack and stow on the bus when travelling.
Try this: Brompton bicycle. Admitedly, it makes for a large backpack (one exists for it though) but I hardly ever need it. And it's lighter and faster than those stupid 1- or 2-wheel contraption, by virtue of you being the power source.
Or, if you feel like looking like an idiot and riding something somewhat unstable, you can try this: this thing is truly small, yet ridable.
Out of curiosity, how often are you asked for your ID when using your card? 1 in 5? 1 in 10? 1 in 100? Less? Never?
Most cashiers just look at me with a stupid grin, and barf out something like "oh, you do that for protection then? Pretty wise eh, I should do that too" and let me go without checking my ID. When I ask them to check it anyway, they usually turn red and tell me only the real card owner would ask that, and so therefore they don't need to now.
Anyway, most cashiers are dumb as bricks, "ASK FOR ID" sign or not.
I don't think he meant he signs them on the writable strip, I think he meant he writes that with a felt tip marker under his regular signature or something. That's what I do anyway ;)
I worked in retail for awhile, I learned a trick for myself. I write "ASK FOR ID" on the back of all my credit/debit cards. RARELY do i have someone ask to see my identification, no matter where I go. it amazes me how easily it is to get away with small things like this.
Personally, I write "THIS CARD IS STOLEN!" on the back of mine. That way, I'm extra sure it'll be reported the very minute it's used after it's stolen.
The best purchase you can make is a paper shredder, preferably a cross-cut model. When you get your mail, either shred it, or file it right away.
You're so right! I do that with email too: print them, then shred them thin. No more spam or viruses, nosiree.
Now, if slashdot could fix their servers, so we wouldnt get thoose annoying 503 sites..
You get 503 sites? I only reach one at slashdot.org
Then again, you're a subscriber. Who knows what goodies you lucky few get here...
Apparently someone "accidentally" pushed the emergency power off
They had to power back on when they realized deadjournal.com was already taken...
$1.5 B won't even by a B2 plane these days...
Because owning a B2 bomber is your childhood fantasy?
Frankly, mine involves bras and suspenders and don't cost remotely as much.
SpaceEx was founded by Elon Musk from the proceeds of the 2002 sale of his prior start-up, Paypal, to Ebay.
Now here's one person who hasn't left the proceeds of his sale into his PayPal account. I mean, imagine that, buying rocket and space stuff like that, they'd have frozen his account immediately, for no reason, without any explanation besides "what goes on looks strange".
Well done Elon! (and when you have time, please tell your former employees to f*)(*&@$ing give me back my $150 in my account they locked up about, oh, 5 years ago...)
Regardless of the progress on native porting (or lack thereof), continued X11 development is crucial for the ongoing viability of OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X. There are a number of critical factors that make X11 more relevant then native porting:
X11 Will Always be Faster to Market.....
X11 Will Always be More Stable.....
X11 Will Always Look like Other Platforms.....
X11 is the Ultimate Testing Tool.....
So essentially, what they're saying is, X is their basic graphical platform, they want it to stay that way, and they don't want to divert efforts to do a native port for a machine that they consider a niche market.
They're just focusing on what they think will make the most users happy. Simple as that.
Why-ever not? A start up has to start up somewhere, and if the company does not require a fixed premises as such, these guys are free to meet in the park, in the high street, in coffee shops. It's really just an extreme example of how decentralised business is becoming these days.
Don't you worry, as soon as they have serious money in the bank, they'll feel compelled to set up shop in a regular office building, with a flashy street sign, they'll start wearing suits, and they'll start hiring overhead such as "managers", "VP of sales" or "HR manager".
And every now and then, they'll gather up in the meeting room to reminisce "how cool and crazy we were in the beginning, dude".
That's how every start-up I worked for ended up turning into when they had the chance to develop into something...
It shouldn't be illegal to transmit bits and bytes over a wire. It is not tantamount to theft in any way.
disingenuity at its best!
Look, it's illegal to photocopy books. Everybody understands why, and yet I'm only capturing photons with a photocopier. Right? Well, same with bytes that encode a movie.
You're free to encode and send anything that you yourself created and decided to distribute for free explicitely however...
Actually, I have a feeling that the choice of arrestee by HK's flavor of the **AA was not random.
Think about it: by sueing this man who uploads phenomenally shitty flicks, they achieve three goals:
We're-after-you-so-you-better-stop! deterrent message
They'll defend any piece of shit in their catalog just as well as blockbusters, so there's no need to think you're less visible if you download crap
It puts the names of the aforementioned shite flicks back into the limelight, which might actually entice a few more people to rent out the DVDs, just to check them out
I think it's quite a subtle way of sueing a P2Per from the movie industry, and it has nothing to do with chance.
Because I am not the real Roland Piquepaille, I just use his name to draw attention to his scam. But apparently, even posting normally as I do (check my posting histoyy), my /. nick is enough to mark me as a permanent troll.
Lovely isn't it?
"Nokia Admits Taco-Shaped Handheld Not Selling"
and you repost that on Slashdot? you're a troll magnet baby...
Let's just float CowbuoyNeal and see what he detects...
Exactly. I'd gladly pay a copyright tax if it gave me rights to legally download and copy whatever I want.
I wouldn't! Part of my interest in P2P is sticking it to the man, in this case the *AA. They've treated people (sorry, consumers) like cash cows, and like shit, for decades, so I download whatever I can and store it, and distribute anything widely and freely, as a giant finger to them. So if they started benefitting from the sales of blank CDs somehow, I'd get removable hard-disks and I'd stop using CDs at once.
And at the same time the power consumption for the 3.6GHz has increased more than the performance.
What you see here is just a proven technology that's being pushed to its limits: the perf gains will become smaller and smaller, while the drawbacks become bigger and bigger, until finally some other new technology replaces the current one (optical chips, massively parallel bio processors,...)
Just look at calculators: I have a 1973 HP-45 here on my desk that sucks almost 500mW from its battery pack. That's half a watt man, to perform maybe 50 operations slowly, with a lot of rounding errors, and display the results on a red 12-digit LED display. You don't see that kind of crazy power consumption in calculators today, even though the technology is fundamentally the same.