My girlfriend and I had the opportunity to use this onboard Lufhansa flights between the US and Germany a couple of times, and it's really a nice way to pass the time. Well worth the 30 bucks, for us anyway.
Plus freaking out the other business class passengers when we set up a live stream and demonstrated the various positions you can put the seat into live from 30,000 feet to our friends back home:-) Considering that the connection is via geo-sync satellite and double-NATed, I was surprised at how well the streaming worked; only about 2 secs rtt, and we managed to push 200 kbit/s.
Hogwash. Either you posted the wrong link, or Microsoft isn't doing any of the things you're accusing them of. I've briefly read through a couple of the articles, and Microsoft seems to just follow recent RFCs for various performance improvements, as well as redoing their APIs one more time. Nothing really spectacular.
And you seem to be a real expert on networks? TCP/IP has nothing to do with OSI, and it wasn't designed or specified by IEEE...
Second, I recently read that English is, or soon will be, the first language in the history of the world where more people speak it as a second language than speak it as their first language. This is expected to have an impact on the evolution of English. I think it will have an effect of "dumbing down" the language on the Net.
To paraphrase Douglas Adams, the British would say that that has already happened.
The software is rather performance intensive and so virtualization is not a viable solution.
I think you're confusing virtualization with emulation (Virtual PC). If you feel VMware is too slow, then that's the lack of real virtualization technology in all x86 processors so far. Yonah is the first one to include VT. VMware has to work around those missing pieces with quite a bit of emulation, so that's slowing it down.
I don't remember where exactly I read the numbers, but I believe one of the Xen people said that with VT, the overhead for a virtual machine is less than 3 percent. If you can figure out a nice way to share the hardware (esp. video card), there should be no noticable lag in running Windows inside Mac OS X, or both under Xen.
What places do you go to where you are limited to analog dial-up? Most places I happen to end up at have cheap/free wireless, or I use my mobile for those moments where I need something immediatly.
I, and most people I know, carry a USB mouse with me (in fact, my Crumpler bag as a lot more chargers, cables, whatnot in it). Adding a USB modem "dongle" for about 10 bucks won't be a back breaker...
Because noone will want to use it if only a handful of browsers can support it.
You mean every full-feature browser execpt for IE? Last time I checked, Opera, Safari, Gecko-based, and KHTML-based browser already support it, or will do so shortly.
If you actually wanted to say "it won't be adopted unless IE supports it", then I'd agree in principle, considering the market penetration IE has. But we'll see how that develops...
I'm a bit too paranoid to type my Amazon user name and password into a site that isn't on the main amazon.com domain
The whois info looks a bit dodgy. I would have expected Amazon knew how to properly register domains...
Registrant:
MTAI, Inc.
P.O. Box 80626
Seattle, Washington 98108
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: MTURK.COM
Created on: 22-Oct-01
Expires on: 22-Oct-06
Last Updated on: 11-Oct-05
Administrative Contact:
Hostmaster, MTAI mechturk1@hotmail.com
MTAI, Inc.
P.O. Box 80626
Seattle, Washington 98108
United States
2065794562 Fax --
Technical Contact:
Hostmaster, MTAI mechturk1@hotmail.com
MTAI, Inc.
P.O. Box 80626
Seattle, Washington 98108
United States
2065794562 Fax --
The reason is that the Tablet can sense pressure, and a brush stroke is adjusted accordingly on the screen. The Waacom stuff can do drawing, but isn't pressure sensitive to this degree.
Troll.
While Wacom has competition, it's still the leader performance wise; it's tablets have (depending on model) 512 to 2048 pressure levels. Unless you're trying to emulate a real brush on canvas, this is as good as it gets.
Yes, the driver is available on both Mac OS X and Windows, so all your bantering about Vista is completly pointless, because you can use the same tablet with PhotoShop or Painter right now, not having to wait for Vista.
The designers I know that have tried the combined display/tablet devices found them lacking for their clumsiness, and I doubt that such a tablet would change much.
And I don't know when you have last dealt with Windows font management, but for all practical purposes, managing large collections isn't much different on Mac OS X either.
And finally: the designers I know still prefer Mac OS X over Windows, because they like it better. There:-)
Heh, I worked with someone who thought it was a pain to edit too. His solution - he erased every single comment from httpd.conf. (He thought it was a pain because it was too long. Needless to say, tempers flared.)
This is exactly what I do. The default httpd.conf has *way* too much crap in it. Just commenting out or removing everything that just reiterates the default anyway cuts it down considerably, and makes it *much* easier to understand.
I discovered that most power companies guarantee 113 to 127 volts of power. Going outside of this range leads to premature failure of components and appliances, especially ones that have motors in them (like hard drives).
As many others have pointed out, running your own GSM network is pretty much out of the question, since you wanted to save some money, not brun through a couple million.
Unsurprisingly, some vendors have already trialled products that allow a GSM handset to be used as a local wireless phone, too. I remember Sagem having one that would double as a DECT handset if in range of the DECT base station, but continue to be booked into the GSM network. More recently, people have put SIP and Skype software on smart phones that communicate with a host PC via Bluetooth or 802.11b/g. I'm too lazy right now to google them.
As usual, the network operators are not thrilled by technology that drives revenue away from them, so don't expect such things to be easily available from or be possible on handsets from those operators.
Am I the only one that hates seeing different times on the combination oven and microwave that has two separate displays within two feet?
I don't understand. My clocks always show the same number. On the other hand, I get really annoyed by the flashing being out of sync between all the kitchen applicances...
They won't have the ubiquitous spinning wheels of today's machines.
Boy, when's the last time TFA's reporter has been to Las Vegas? My girlfriend and I had real trouble to find a machine that even took quarters, let alone being mechanical.
"For instance, if on a Saturday night, they decide they'd like to change from a 94 percent pay table to a 90 percent table...right now it would take hours and hours to make that change. And now they'd be able to do that much more expeditiously."
Ah, there we go! Just quickly change the odds behind the backs of the players so you can reek in more... and market it as "personalized" playing experience. There is no step two...
I won't comment on the moronic reference to DoD encryption "to make it safe"...
As a company, we strongly believe in and encourage responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities. The practice of reporting vulnerabilities directly to a vendor is beneficial to everyone. It helps to ensure that customers receive high-quality software updates for security vulnerabilities, without exposure to malicious attackers while the update is being developed.
Ah, nice party line!
Vulnerabilities exist and are exploited even if the white hat researcher does not publish about them. If I, as an admin, do not know about a vulnerability, I cannot take counter-measures. On many occasions, white-hat researchers have found vulnerabilities only weeks and months after they were actively exploited by malicious attackers.
Once published, you get the additional effect of script kiddies pounding on it, so you as an admin have to definitly do something about it, but this is still better than not knowing anything about a problem.
What big vendors really want is control over their customers, not control over their customers' exposure to vulnerabilities, so they can spin their own non-action properly.
Yes, "responsible" disclosure is sensible; the only problem about that is what one would consider "responsible". I personally consider Theo's warning about OpenSSH quite well conceived: he warned people that there was a problem, and that enabling priviledge separation would protect them (which for most people required an upgrade, but still). After a couple of days, people identified the problem from the commit logs. If you (as an admin) had heeded Theo's warning, you could manage to minimize your exposure as quickly as possible.
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My girlfriend and I had the opportunity to use this onboard Lufhansa flights between the US and Germany a couple of times, and it's really a nice way to pass the time. Well worth the 30 bucks, for us anyway.
Plus freaking out the other business class passengers when we set up a live stream and demonstrated the various positions you can put the seat into live from 30,000 feet to our friends back home :-) Considering that the connection is via geo-sync satellite and double-NATed, I was surprised at how well the streaming worked; only about 2 secs rtt, and we managed to push 200 kbit/s.
Oh man, the next time you're going to promote your grandiose personal site in a thinly concealed frist psot, make sure it holds up at least...
since the one in the summary has stopped working already...
http://www.lassitu.de/notacon06_hajjinet.mp4
Hogwash. Either you posted the wrong link, or Microsoft isn't doing any of the things you're accusing them of. I've briefly read through a couple of the articles, and Microsoft seems to just follow recent RFCs for various performance improvements, as well as redoing their APIs one more time. Nothing really spectacular.
And you seem to be a real expert on networks? TCP/IP has nothing to do with OSI, and it wasn't designed or specified by IEEE...
What makes you think there is a substantial difference?
To paraphrase Douglas Adams, the British would say that that has already happened.
Before you wake up, please tell us how you managed to leave it. Please?
Germany's BND might not be a match for the intelligence capabilities, but they're ahead in the merchandizing section :-)
I think you're confusing virtualization with emulation (Virtual PC). If you feel VMware is too slow, then that's the lack of real virtualization technology in all x86 processors so far. Yonah is the first one to include VT. VMware has to work around those missing pieces with quite a bit of emulation, so that's slowing it down.
I don't remember where exactly I read the numbers, but I believe one of the Xen people said that with VT, the overhead for a virtual machine is less than 3 percent. If you can figure out a nice way to share the hardware (esp. video card), there should be no noticable lag in running Windows inside Mac OS X, or both under Xen.
Two things:
What places do you go to where you are limited to analog dial-up? Most places I happen to end up at have cheap/free wireless, or I use my mobile for those moments where I need something immediatly.
I, and most people I know, carry a USB mouse with me (in fact, my Crumpler bag as a lot more chargers, cables, whatnot in it). Adding a USB modem "dongle" for about 10 bucks won't be a back breaker...
You mean every full-feature browser execpt for IE? Last time I checked, Opera, Safari, Gecko-based, and KHTML-based browser already support it, or will do so shortly.
If you actually wanted to say "it won't be adopted unless IE supports it", then I'd agree in principle, considering the market penetration IE has. But we'll see how that develops...
Not just Germany: Stiebel-Eltron product page.
Maybe. But how much more profitable is it to sell snake oil if you don't have to scientifically prove the effectiveness of a drug?
The Spanish, er... Italians, er... Danish, er... Swedish, er... Greek will not take lightly to that!
The whois info looks a bit dodgy. I would have expected Amazon knew how to properly register domains...
Registrant:
MTAI, Inc.
P.O. Box 80626
Seattle, Washington 98108
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: MTURK.COM
Created on: 22-Oct-01
Expires on: 22-Oct-06
Last Updated on: 11-Oct-05
Administrative Contact:
Hostmaster, MTAI mechturk1@hotmail.com
MTAI, Inc.
P.O. Box 80626
Seattle, Washington 98108
United States
2065794562 Fax --
Technical Contact:
Hostmaster, MTAI mechturk1@hotmail.com
MTAI, Inc.
P.O. Box 80626
Seattle, Washington 98108
United States
2065794562 Fax --
Troll.
While Wacom has competition, it's still the leader performance wise; it's tablets have (depending on model) 512 to 2048 pressure levels. Unless you're trying to emulate a real brush on canvas, this is as good as it gets.
Yes, the driver is available on both Mac OS X and Windows, so all your bantering about Vista is completly pointless, because you can use the same tablet with PhotoShop or Painter right now, not having to wait for Vista.
The designers I know that have tried the combined display/tablet devices found them lacking for their clumsiness, and I doubt that such a tablet would change much.
And I don't know when you have last dealt with Windows font management, but for all practical purposes, managing large collections isn't much different on Mac OS X either.
And finally: the designers I know still prefer Mac OS X over Windows, because they like it better. There :-)
Since their FTP server seems to be /.ed, here's a mirror of what I managed to pull down so far.
You run your hard drives on line power?
As many others have pointed out, running your own GSM network is pretty much out of the question, since you wanted to save some money, not brun through a couple million.
Unsurprisingly, some vendors have already trialled products that allow a GSM handset to be used as a local wireless phone, too. I remember Sagem having one that would double as a DECT handset if in range of the DECT base station, but continue to be booked into the GSM network. More recently, people have put SIP and Skype software on smart phones that communicate with a host PC via Bluetooth or 802.11b/g. I'm too lazy right now to google them.
As usual, the network operators are not thrilled by technology that drives revenue away from them, so don't expect such things to be easily available from or be possible on handsets from those operators.
I don't understand. My clocks always show the same number. On the other hand, I get really annoyed by the flashing being out of sync between all the kitchen applicances...
Boy, when's the last time TFA's reporter has been to Las Vegas? My girlfriend and I had real trouble to find a machine that even took quarters, let alone being mechanical.
Ah, there we go! Just quickly change the odds behind the backs of the players so you can reek in more... and market it as "personalized" playing experience. There is no step two...
I won't comment on the moronic reference to DoD encryption "to make it safe"...
Also, today TI demonstrated a prototype phone using the chip to make an actual call; back in January, they just announced the chip.
Ah, nice party line!
Vulnerabilities exist and are exploited even if the white hat researcher does not publish about them. If I, as an admin, do not know about a vulnerability, I cannot take counter-measures. On many occasions, white-hat researchers have found vulnerabilities only weeks and months after they were actively exploited by malicious attackers.
Once published, you get the additional effect of script kiddies pounding on it, so you as an admin have to definitly do something about it, but this is still better than not knowing anything about a problem.
What big vendors really want is control over their customers, not control over their customers' exposure to vulnerabilities, so they can spin their own non-action properly.
Yes, "responsible" disclosure is sensible; the only problem about that is what one would consider "responsible". I personally consider Theo's warning about OpenSSH quite well conceived: he warned people that there was a problem, and that enabling priviledge separation would protect them (which for most people required an upgrade, but still). After a couple of days, people identified the problem from the commit logs. If you (as an admin) had heeded Theo's warning, you could manage to minimize your exposure as quickly as possible.
I believe Douglas Adams quipped: